In general, New York City is composed of five boroughs that include Manhattan, Staten Island, Brooklyn, Queens and the Bronx. Manhattan is a little over 13 miles long and 2 miles wide. This borough's avenues run north and south with streets running east and west. Thoroughfares that are one way are common here. Fifth Avenue has the island divided into east and west sides. This borough is mentioned in Lindner's Jane, when Jane travels to her sister's home in Manhattan (pgs.181-182, Lindner). This borough is also mentioned in when Jane Re in Patrcia Park's Re Jane says that "We were, after all, Bridge & Tunnel: all all our roads led to Manhattan. It was the borough that blazed in its own violet light and threw scrapes of shadows on the rest of us."(p.17, Park). These two different works intersect when it comes to setting as both characters travel through Manhattan. Jane Re in Park's work even acknowledges indirectly that all roads lead to Manhattan, making it the epicenter on New York City life, where all who live in the nearby boroughs eventually converge.

Bibliography

Lindner, April. Jane. Poppy: Hachette Book Group, 2010.

Park, Patricia. Re Jane. Penguin Books, 2015.

Information Source: "Basic Information on New York City."www.nycgo.com. NYCgo. Web. Date Accessed, 12 Nov. 2019, https://www.nycgo.com/plan-your-trip/basic-information