manhattanite

Etymology

From Manhattan + -ite.

adj

  1. Of, or from, Manhattan.“This does not take into account the tens of thousands of New Yorkers who are harmlessly and charmingly insane in a peculiarly Manhattanite manner.”

noun

  1. Someone from Manhattan.“Walter Gaskell was a tall, silver-haired Manhattanite with a narrow waist and broad shoulders, and his blue eyes had the luminous, emptied-out look of a reformed alcoholic's.”