History Main / NewYorkIsOnlyManhattan

* PlayedWith in ''[[{{VideoGame/SpiderManPS4}} Marvel's Spider-Man]]'': While the other four boroughs (and [[{{Joisey}} Jersey City]] are acknowledged, gameplay is strictly limited to Manhattan.

UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity is made up of five boroughs: Queens, Brooklyn, The Bronx, Manhattan, and Staten Island. Of them however [[BigApplesauce Manhattan]] is the one that by far gets the most attention in fiction. New York ''State'' has it even worse. Despite what fiction may lead you to think, Manhattan is actually the smallest of the boroughs, and "New York City" is only a relatively small part of New York as a whole. In video games, this is often due to New York City's sheer size making it hard to fit everything in.

* Downplayed in the films within the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse. While Manhattan gets the majority of the focus, a sizable amount of the action does take place within the other boroughs.

** ''Film/SpiderManHomecoming'' takes place mostly in Queens, while the climactic battle is fought in Coney Island, Brooklyn.

* Averted in an episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}'' where the characters visit NYC. They go to different boroughs and take real-world footage.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'' MusicalEpisode "[[Recap/StevenUniverseS3E8MrGreg Mr. Greg]]" Steven, his dad Greg, and Pearl visit Empire City (their universes name for NYC). They specifically visit Manhattan.

* For a good 250 years, New York ''was'' only Manhattan. The original Dutch settlement of New Amsterdam (founded 1624), renamed New York when the English captured it in 1664, was on the southern tip of Manhattan Island. The communities of the Bronx, Staten Island, Brooklyn, and Queens were independent municipalities separate from New York City. Between 1874 and 1898 those outlying boroughs were merged with the old New York City to create what was then informally called "Greater New York".

* Averted in ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIV'', where every borough except Staten Island and even part of New Jersey (In the form of Alderney), is represented in its Liberty City.

* ''Series/LukeCage2016'' strictly limits itself to Harlem and the upper part of Manhattan, although reference is made to activities in the other parts of Manhattan and the other boroughs.

* In ''VideoGame/NeedForSpeed'' The Run, the final leg of the transcontinental street race takes place in New York, though because the linear style of the game we only see whats between the Holland Tunnel to the harbor where the finish line is.

UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity is made up of five boroughs: Queens, Brooklyn, The Bronx, Manhattan, and Staten Island. Of them however [[BigApplesauce Manhattan]] is the one that by far gets the most attention in fiction. New York ''State'' has it even worse. Despite what fiction may lead you to think, "New York City" is only a relatively small part of New York as a whole. In video games, this is often due to New York City's sheer size making it hard to fit everything in.

* For a good 250 years, New York ''was'' only Manhattan. The original Dutch settlement of New Amsterdam (founded 1624), renamed New York when the English captured it in 1664, was on the southern tip of Manhattan Island. The communities of the Bronx, Staten Island, Brooklyn, and Queens were independent municipalities separate from New York City. Between 1895 and 1898 those outlying boroughs were merged with the old New York City to create what was then informally called "Greater New York".

* The region of Unova from ''VideoGame/PokemonBlackAndWhite'' and ''VideoGame/PokemonBlack2AndWhite2'' is based off of NYC, especially Manhattan.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'' MusicalEpisode "[[Recap/StevenUniverseS3E8MrGreg Mr. Greg]]" Steven, his dad Greg, and Pearl visit Empire City (their universes name for NYC). They specifically visit Manhattan.

Related to BritainIsOnlyLondon, which is a similar situation in a different country. Compare TokyoIsTheCenterOfTheUniverse. FultonStreetFolly deals with concentrating on Lower Manhattan in particular.

* ''Comic/{{Deadpool}}'': The main stories in the comic of ''Deadpool'' all take place not only on Manhattan, but within a 5 or 10 block Midtown area.

* ''VideoGame/TrueCrime: New York City'' takes place in New York City (as you can tell from the title). Once again, the city seems to be relegated to Manhattan. Debug mode reveals other areas of New York. They have named streets, vehicles and pedestrians, but no buildings. It's possible they were DummiedOut due to NYC being too large.

New York City is made up of five boroughs: Queens, Brooklyn, The Bronx, Manhattan, and Staten Island. Of them however [[BigApplesauce Manhattan]] is the one that by far gets the most attention in fiction. New York ''State'' has it even worse. Despite what fiction may lead you to think, "New York City" is only a relatively small part of New York as a whole. In video games, this is often due to New York City's sheer size making it hard to fit everything in.

Sub-trope of BigApplesauce. Related to BritainIsOnlyLondon, which is a similar situation in a different country. Compare TokyoIsTheCenterOfTheUniverse. FultonStreetFolly deals with concentrating on Lower Manhattan in particular.

New York City is made of five boroughs: Queens, Brooklyn, The Bronx, Manhattan, and Staten Island. Of them however [[BigApplesauce Manhattan]] is the one that by far gets the most attention in fiction. New York ''State'' has it even worse. "New York City" is only a relatively small part of New York as a whole. In video games, this is often due to New York City's sheer size making it hard to fit everything in.

New York City is made of five boroughs: Queens, Brooklyn, The Bronx, Manhattan, and Staten Island. Of them however [[BigApplesauce Manhattan]] is the one that gets the most attention in fiction. New York ''State'' has it even worse. "New York City" is only a relatively small part of New York as a whole. In videogames, this is often due to New York City's sheer size making it hard to fit everything in.

If a character comes from New York they'll usually come from some portion of Manhattan, unless they come from a troubled background because then [[BrooklynRage Brooklyn]] and the Bronx are fair game.

* The Franchise/MarvelUniverse has this as a ZigZaggedTrope: While ''the majority'' of events that occur on New York visibly occur only on Manhattan, there are many heroes who live in other boroughs and thus occasionally had to deal with situations closer to home (example: ''Franchise/SpiderMan'' being a Queens native).

* Subverted in ''Film/TheSnakePit''. When the mentally ill protagonist is tested on whether she's well enough to leave the mental institution:
-->'''Man''': Where were you living when you became ill?
-->'''Virginia''': New York.
-->'''Man''': Where in New York?
-->'''Virginia''': New York City.
-->'''Man''': I mean, where in New York City?
-->'''Virginia''': Manhattan.

* In ''VideoGame/LegoMarvelSuperHeroes'' the island of Manhattan is used as a conveniently well-defined location for everything to happen on. For this to work, the game's designers have moved some things to Manhattan that are normally situated in greater New York (such is the X-Mansion, which in the comics is upstate in Salem Center).