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The '''Manhattan Prong''' of the [[New England Uplands]] is a smaller belt of ancient rock in southern [[New York (state)|New York]] (including [[Manhattan]], [[the Bronx]], and segments of [[Brooklyn]] and [[Staten Island]]), parts of [[Westchester County, New York|Westchester County]], and upland portions of southwestern [[Connecticut]].
The Manhattan Prong and the [[Reading Prong]] are separated by the [[Newark Basin]] in the south, but the two features merge at the northern terminus of the Newark Basin in the vicinity of [[Peekskill, New York]]. A band of mountains that rise nearly one thousand feet along the northwestern margin of the Newark Basin in New York and New Jersey are called the [[Ramapo Mountains]]. Another belt of ancient
This region includes [[Manhattan#Geology|Manhattan schist]] and [[Tuckahoe marble]].
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