Manhattan is a center of activity for nearly every business in the world, but it is also the center of activity for enhanced individuals. As many as half the super heroes and super-villains in the world live and/or work here. Manhattan routinely pays the price for housing such persons, and as such it has become the most rebuilt city on Earth.

Location: New York City

Profile: Manhattan is one of New York City's five boroughs; the other four are Queens, Staten Island, Brooklyn, and the Bronx. Manhattan Island itself is 13 miles long, with nearly 1.5 million people crammed into its 22.6 square miles. The Borough of Manhattan encompasses Marble Hill on the Bronx mainland, several islands in the East River, and Governor's Island in Upper New York Bay.

1. The Cloisters: Once a walled friary, this site is now an English botanical garden and medieval museum. A favored site for clandestine mettings of super-villains with a taste for high society (such as the Wizard and Diablo), it also sometimes attracts plant-based superpowered menaces such as Plant Man.
2. Kraven's Mansion: Once home to Kraven the Hunter, this estate includes an elegant house and a walled-in private preserve that was once (and may still be) home to a collection of unconfined wild beasts.
3. Riker's Island: This island hosts the Riker's Island Correctional Facility, one of New York's largest prisons. Riker's Island lies in the East River between the Bronnx and Queens, separated from laGuardia Airport by 200 yards of polluted water at the nearest point. A heavily guarded bridge links the island to Bowery Bay and the Steinway neighborhood of Queens. Corrrectinal officers have occasionally had to restrain super-powered criminals here until they could be transferred to a fedral penal facility build especially for enhanced individuals.
4. Avengers Mansion: America's most powerful super heroes reside in this mansion, which was donated to them by industrialist Tony Stark. Right next to the Mansion is Central Park. This area is often the site of battles between super heroes and their foes. Most recently, an epic confilict between the Elements of Doom and the hero/criminal team called the Thunderbolts caused significant damage there.
5. Morlock Tunnels: Beneath New York City is a series of tunnels build druing the Cold War era. A group of outcast nutants called the Morlocks made their home here until an evil mutant group (code designate the marauders) slew them.
6. Wakandan Embassy: This new building has a brownstone manor facade, with an attached steel and glass biosphere housing exotic plants and animals native to the African nation of Wakanda. Though tied to old-world traditions and culture, Wakanda has become a highly sophisticated, technological society because of its wealth of natural vibranium deposits. T'Challa (code designate Black Panther) ruled this small country until he was deposed in a coup. S.H.I.E.L.D. information indicates that the embassy's security measures included state-of-the-art defenses while T'Challa was ambassador, but the current status of security there is unclear.
7. The Rose's Penthouse: The Rose is a financial wizard and investor, as well as a suspected crime boss. he wears a mask and employs an enhanced individual called Delilah as his bodyguard. The Rose raises hybrid roses, orchids and lilies in a hothouse attached to his penthouse. Superpowered individuals often visit his abode for unknown purposes.
8. Nightwing Restorations: A third-story walkup office in this building houses the insurance investigation and recovery firm of Colleen Wing and Misty Knight. Colleen is an associate of Daniel Rand (code designate Iron Fist). Their associate, Jessica Drew, was once Spider-Woman; she possesses enhanced strength.
9. Matthew Murdock's Townhouse: This was the site of Matthew Murdock's previous residence. After his town house here was destroyed (allegedly by the Kingpin), he moved in with karen Page. Murdock is one of the best trial attorneys in New York, but he is also the vigilante Daredevil, which explains the unusual level of superpowered activity near any site where he makes his home.
10. Latverian Embassy: This tone building resembles a small castle-a suitable place for Doctor Doom, The monarch of Latveria to transact his international business. As this is sovereign territory, all eccess has been denied. Reports indicate, however, that the embassy has a full array of automated anti-invasion weaponry, as well as many robotic servitors to maintain the grounds and act as security.
11. Hellfire Club Brownstone: This private club for millionaires has ties to a secret Illuminati whose goal is control of the world's finances. The hellfire Club is an international organization with headquarters in many countries. Its members seem to delight in various hedonistic pleasures of the rich and famous.
12. Four Freedoms Plaza: The top four floors of this 45-story building once housed the Fantastic Four's headquarters and private labs, but the renegade team called the Thunderbolts destryed these during the FF's absence. Fortunately S.H.I.E.L.D. agents had the foresight to seize all equipment, weaponry, and computer files before the Thunderbolts' occupation of the premises.
13. Oracle: This 99-story skyscraper hosts the philantropist organization called Oracle, whose offices are located on the top three floors. Oracle brokers information and has oneo f the most sophisticated computer systems in Manhattan proper. The organization underwrites various special projects, including research to combat world hunger and grants for the study of antiquities. In addition, Oracle provides hired security specialists to assist corporations and local law enforcement agencies with special needs or projects. Recently, Oracle restarted the Heroes for Hire organization and named Jim Hammond, the androied Human Torch of the 1940's as its chief operating officer.
14. Gem Theater: This small west side Broadway cinema shows a variety of classic films. Owned by Luke Cage, the building once served as the headquarters of Heroes for Hire. Ithis group later moved to Rand International ans was recently revivied by Oracle.) The Gem Theater remains Cage's home and thus may again become a center of superpowered activity.
15. Roxxon Cororate Offices: These are the national offices of the energy megacorp Roxxon. This business holds several lucrative defense contracts requiring high-level clearance and security. However, recent information has linked several of its branches with unlicensed research and development in the fields of neobionics and xenogenetics. This has stresulted in incidients inviliving unsanctioned war technology and out-of-control enhanced individuals.
16. Sharpe, Nelson & Murdock: On the 37th floor of the Citicorp Center are the offices of Rosanne "Razor" Sharpe her son Frederick "Foggy" Nelson, and Matthew Murdock (code designate Daredevil), whose corporate and criminal law firm is known as one of the city's best. Murdock has defended many enhanced individuals, both criminals and vigilante heroes.
17. S.H.I.E.L.D. Public Headquarters: On the 10th through the 12th floors of the Citicorp Center at 53rd and Lexington, just blocks northwest of the United Nations, are S.H.I.E.L.D.'s pubilc offices. This facility houses administrative and invbestigatieve research, as well as S.H.I.E.L.D.'srecruitment and public relations departments.
18. Times Square: The center of New York's nightlife, this district contains more theaters than any other part of Manhattan. All of these are a considerable step up from the kinds of theaters that used to be there. Perhaps because of its fame, Times Square is a frequent site of super-conflict, most notably when a portal to some nether dimension opened up over it, flooding teh island with so-called demons and goblins.
19. United Nations Building: The U.N., formed by 51 countries after World War II, has 159 member nations today. The organization's international profile ensures that the building is a site of constant interest for villainous organizations with world dominations agendas, such as HYDRA and ULTIMATUM.
20. Holy Ghost Church: A prevalent rumor once maintained that this burned-out Catholic church just north of 9th Avenue and 43rd Street was haunted by a champion of the street people. This "champion" turned out to be an amnesiac Frank Castle (code designate the Punisher).
21. Fisk Tower: Wilson Fisk, a.k.a. the Kingpin, was the head of organized crime until his downfall at the hands of Daredevil. The top five floors of this building house FISK corporate headquarters and Wilson Fisk's residence. Various enhanced criminals, such as Hammerhead and Tombstone, have visited here.
22. Symkarian Embassy: Symkaria's major trade commodity seems to be the services of a professional Delta-Force-level mercenary group (code designate Wild Pack) led by Silver Sable of Silver Sable International. Reports indicate that this brick building has state-of-the-art anti-invasion technology.
23. Daily Bugle: A nationally distributed paper, the Daily Bugle has a h istroy of campaigning against super hero vigilantes, particularly Spider-Man. Evidence suggests that the paper's leaders, J.Jonah Jameson and Norman Osborn, regularly finance covert operations designed to bring vigilantes to justice. This practice may have contributed materially to the creation of such superpowered criminal threats as the Scorpion and the Spider-Slayers. The paper's constant editorial attacks on enhanced indviduals make this building a frequent scene of superpowered conflict.
24. Hell's Kitchen: This is the dirtiest, sleaziest, most crime-ridden neighborhood in the city. Hell's Kitchen consists of 110 blocks of tenements, factories, warehouses, and docks. Daredevil, Elektra, Luke Cage, and the Punisher have all frequented this area.
25. Code: BLUE's Metro Holding Facility: Code: BLUE is a division of the NYPD assigned to protect the public from superpowered activity. This facility holds super-villains while the authorities arrange for their transfer to speicial penal institutions designed to house enhanced individuals.
26. Daily Globe: This newspaper styles itself as a major competitor of the Daily Bugle, but it is really little more than a tabloid selling sensationalism. Of important note Eddie Brock (code designate Venom), was employed here as a featured photojournalist until his prize story revealing the identity of the Scourge proved false.
27. Empire State Building: This world-famous structure stands 1,250 feet tall and sports an antenna that reaches an additional 204 feet skyward. The building, which eccupies an entire city block, has 86 floors of office space and two sub-basements. two million tourist, including many enhanced individuals, visit its observation deck each year.
28. Marvel Comics Offices: Marvel got its start by negotiating official licenses to produce graphic stories detailing the exploits of the Big Apple's first super hero teams (the Fantastic Four and the Avengers). Accordingly, the building is exceedingly dangerous because of constant visits from enhanced individuals.
29. Stark Solutions: Upon returning from his self-professed sabbatical, Tony Stark discovered that Fujikawa Corporation of japan had purchased controlling interest in his original business empire, Stark International. Instead of engaging in costly boardroom battleto regain control, he used his personal fortune to start a new business called Stark Solutions. A not-for-profit research house, Stark Solutions charges its clients astronomical fees to address today's technological problems, then donates the porceeds to charity. This building boasts state-of-the-art security, including an AI unit and the services of a bonafide hero (code designate Iron Man).
30. S.H.I.E.L.D. Covert Headquarters: This facility is built into the foundation of the old Theodore Burton Building. Various hologram facades are used to hide the secruity checkpoints. Electronic key codes, voice and body imprintws, and armed covert personnel with plasma guns maintain security at the facility. S.H.I.E.L.D. covert HQ has at times been mothballed. It was most recently reactivated as a back up against the possible loss of the helicarrier. There is a pneumatic shuttle between here and S.H.I.E.L.D. Public Headquarters.
31. Daily Grind: Reports indicate that both Spider-Man and the now missing Scarlet Spider have visited this trendy coffee bistro. The madman Kane once destroyed the Grind, but the owner used insurance settlements and loans to rebuild it.
32. Doctor Strange's Brownstone: Doctor Stephen Strange, a retired surgeon and expert on ancient history, mythology, and the occult, makes his home hrer. S.H.I.E.L.D. and other law enforcement agencies have occasionally sought his counsel when dealing with paranormal phenomena, but Doctor Strange is reclusive and often uncooperative. Surveillance equipment and electronic scanners have recorded super powered individuals entering and leaving his home, but such devices cannot penetrate the structure itself. Unconfirmed reports indicate that the building houses a vast library on the paranormal as well as a large collection of parapsychology files.
33. Chinatown: Tong acitivity in this area has increased in recent years due to the criminal enterprises of the Kingpin.
34. Yancy Street: Ben Grimm (code designate the Thing) grew up in this minor "bad" neighborhood on the lower east side and has been known to frequent the area. Graffiti slurring the Ting's reputation abounds here, and on at least two occasions mobs of local street toughs ("The Yancy Street Gang") have harrassed this hero. Preliminary reports indicate that the vigilante Rage and the Wild Pack's Sandman are also Yancy Street natives. Rumor has it that somewhere in this neighborhood is a hangout for superpowered criminals, though it has not been found.
35. Alicia Masters' Studio: Sculptor Alicia Masters, daughter of the Puppet Master and girlfriend of the Fantastic Four's Thing (Ben Grimm), lives alone in a fourth-floor studio loft. She has also been a close associate of the alien codenamed the Silver Surfer.
36. New Warriors' Crash Pad: This warehouse locatedin the shadow of the Brooklyn Bridge is home to the teenage hero group called the New Warriors, which was founded by Night Thrasher and later led by Justice and Firestar. This site features extensive anti-invasion systems, including security fire doors, cameras, audio recorders and electroshock deterrents.
37. World Trade Center:((Ground Zero - R.I.P.))
38. Chase Manhattan Plaza: The 50th floor of this 65-story bank building is home to the Manhattan branch of Frost International, a megacorporation specializing in transportation and electronics. Its owner, Emma Frost, was once the Hellfire Club's White Queen, but she now leads the vigilante team called Generation X.
39. Pier 4: With the destruction of their headquarters in Four Freedoms Plaza, the Fantastic Four have relocated to this auxilliary site. Reed Richards has agreed to prepare a catalog of all valuable equipment and master schematics housed here, so as to avoid their loss in the future should the team again be absent for an exteneded period.
40. Statue of Liberty: The statue is the grandest symbol of America, but its island is a perpetual battleground for enhanced individiuals. Most recently, the statue's arm was severed in a conflict between the Thunderbolts and the Wrecking Crew, though the former did repair the damage afterward.