Because NYC has dedicated resources to building and maintaining parks within all five of its boroughs with nearly 30% of its total land, the city is known as the Greenest Big City in America. Manhattan is a large borough that is home to the famous Central Park with its Cental Park Zoo and acres of trees, grasses, and flowers.

Manhattan is a densely populated borough of New York City with a vital waterfront sector as weel as its extensive parks. The West Side of Manhattan jas undertaken "going green" in a much larger way than the remainder of the borough, resulting in the creation of many green collar jobs in that region. If you lick on the map to the right, you will see that the western portion of the borough contains the Upper West Side as well a portion of Midtown, Chelsea, West Greenwich Village, Soho, Tribeca and Battery Park City. All of these areas front the water of the Hudson river and offer city parks.

Green contruction - energy efficient - will continue to offer high demnd jobs in the commerical and resdential secotrs as lands are developed and older buildings rehabiltiated or replaced.

Several organizations that are interested in the waterfront of Manhattan work toward conservation of resources in the area and the promotion of green businesses and sustainable resources that include clean energy. Some of these organizations include:

• The River Project
• The Metropolitan Waterfront Alliance
• Working Waterfront

Employment in Green Businesses and Sustainable Energy concerns can be located at CRAIGSLIST MANHATTAN for sustainable energy jobs and CRAIGSLIST MANHATTAN2 for enironmental jobs. Other positions are available online at Manhattan green jobs at TREE HUGGER.

Read this link to the Gotham Gazette for online newspapers for all of Manhattan's neighborhoods.

Manhattan maintains the Manhattan Waterfront Greenway as part of the larger NYC waterways, open spaces, and greenways initiative and encourages cycling as a means of transportation in Manhattan and other boroughs.

An anchor point for the greenways initiative in NYC is Central Park in Manhattan with over 840 acres, along with many small neighborhood parks.

Jobs are increasing in all the business related to this green living project throughout this borough. Manhattan is improving the waterfront with energy efficient construction and moving in new green businesses, establishing additional public piers and recreation areas, expanding existing commerical and residential areas, and continuing its urban renewal projects with a new greener approach.

The Top 10 Jobs available in Manhattan are included in the following list. Most are constrution jobs that will increase by 1000s of openings through 2020, based on $20 million invested in the West Side of Manhattan across to Ground Zero of the former World Trade Center site. This includes the construction of buildings, parks, and subways. Safety conditions in construction in Manhattan has been improved and enhanced in 2008 and filling empoty construction jobs will increase safety factors further by eliminating unduly heavy work schedules.

1. Construction Supervisors
2. Project Managers
3. Construction Contractors
4. Contractor Supervisors
5. Crane Operators
6. Construction and Civil Engineers
7. Construction & Landscape Designers and Architects
8. General Laborers
9. & .10 - Transit Workers of various titles

Note:

• Computer Engineers are also in high demand in Manhattan.
• Find apprenticeship programs and a long list of projects at Lower Manhattan Development Corproation at http://www.renewnyc.com/

Outside of Construction and Transit, another Top 10 Jobs needing to be filled long-term include:

1. Retail Sales
2. Cashiers
3. Registered Nurses [RNs] - Including high-paid Travel Nurses - see Hub Pages Travel Nursing
4. Home Health Aides
5. Child Care Workers
6. Janitors and Cleaners, Except Maids
7. Office Clerks,
8. Sales Reps, Wholesale and Manufacturing
9. Food Preparation Workers
10. Teacher's Assistants

The following are some additional agencies that provide current job listings for high demand jobs in Manhattan:

• MTA Manhattan Transit Authority - Employment

• Department for Aging - Senior Employment

• Veterans Employment Service

• VESID:Manhattan District Office - Employment for the disabled.

• New York Job Exchange - NYC/NJ - Search for New York City and use 5 miles radius.

Baruch College

Berkeley College

Barnard College

Boricua College

Borough of Manhattan Community College

Columbia University

Fordham University

General Theological Seminary

Hebrew Union College

Hunter College

John Jay College

Manhattan Area Technical College

Mannes College the New School for Music

Marymount Manhattan College

Metropolitan College of NY

New School of General Studies

New York Bartending School

New York Law School

New York University Medical Center

New York University Law School

Pace University New York Campus

TCI College

The City College of New York :: Home Page

Yeshiva University

• New York Rangers Hockey Club

• New Jersey Nets Basketball

• New York Knicks Basketball - Madison Square Garden

• New York Liberty - WNBA

• New York Titan - Lacrosse

SOME LOCAL TOURIST ATTRACTIONS

• Central Park Zoo

• Intrepid Sea Air Space Museum

• Lower East Side Tenement Musuem

• Metropolitan Opera House

• Museum of Modern Art

Dozens of adventures avaiable at:

NYC - Manhattan Tourism & Visitor Information