New York is the
most populous city in the
United StatesThe United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
, and the center of the
New York metropolitan areaThe New York metropolitan area, also known as Metropolitan New York, Greater New York, or the Tri-State Region, is the most populous metropolitan area in the United States and is also one of the most populous in the world. The metropolitan area is defined by the U.S...
, which is among the
most populous urban areas in the world. A leading
global cityA global city is a city deemed to be an important node point in the global economic system. The concept comes from geography and urban studies and rests on the idea that globalization can be understood as largely created, facilitated and enacted in strategic geographic locales according to a...
, New York exerts a powerful influence over worldwide
commerceCommerce is a division of trade or production which deals with the exchange of goods and services from producer to final consumer. It comprises the trading of something of economic value such as goods, services, information, or money between two or more entities...
,
financeFinance is the science of funds management. The general areas of finance are business finance, personal finance, and public finance. Finance includes saving money and often includes lending money. The field of finance deals with the concepts of time, money and risk and how they are interrelated...
,
cultureCulture is a term that has different meanings. For example, in 1952, Alfred Kroeber and Clyde Kluckhohn compiled a list of 164 definitions of "culture" in Culture: A Critical Review of Concepts and Definitions...
,
fashionFashion is the style and custom prevalent at a given time. In its most common usage however, "fashion" describes the popular clothing style. Many fashions are popular in many cultures at any given time. Important is the idea that the course of design and fashion will change more rapidly than the...
and
entertainmentAn entertainment is any activity which provides a diversion or permits people to amuse themselves in their leisure time.Entertainment is typically passive - as in watching opera or a movie. Activities which involve participating in games or sports are more often considered to be recreation...
. As host of the
United NationsThe United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are facilitating cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, social progress, human rights, and the achieving of world peace...
headquarters, it is also an important center for international affairs.
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1524 Giovanni da Verrazzano is the first European to sight the island of Manhattan, the future New York City.
1626 The Dutch settle Manhattan, founding the town of New Amsterdam. The town would transform into a piece of what is now New York City.
1653 New Amsterdam (later renamed New York City) is incorporated.
1654 Twenty-three Jewish refugees from Brazil settle in New Amsterdam, forming the nucleus of what would be the largest urban Jewish community in history, the Jewish community of New York City.
1657 Jews of New Amsterdam (later New York City) granted freedom of religion.
1665 England installs a municipal government in New York City. This was the former Dutch settlement of New Amsterdam.
1686 New York City and Albany, New York are granted city charters by the colonial governor.
1688 Peter Delanoy succeeds Stephanus Van Cortlandt as mayor of New York City.
1709 Trinity School is founded as the Charity School of Trinity Church in New York City.
1756 St. Patrick's Day is celebrated in New York City for the first time (at the Crown and Thistle Tavern).
"Traffic signals in New York are just rough guidelines." - Late Show with David Letterman
"A town so nice they named it twice." - Late show with David Letterman
"The last time anybody made a list of the top hundred character attributes of New Yorkers, common sense snuck in at number 79." - "Mostly Harmless"
"When you leave New York, you are astonished at how clean the rest of the world is. Clean is not enough." - Source: Rand Lindsly's Quotations.
"Sometimes I get bored riding down the beautiful streets of L.A. I know it sounds crazy, but I just want to go to New York and see people suffer." - Source: Rand Lindsly's Quotations.
"There are two million interesting people in New York and only seventy-eight in Los Angles." - Playboy Feb. 1979
"New York is the only city in the world where you can get deliberately run down on the sidewalk by a pedestrian." - Source: Rand Lindsly's Quotations.
"New York: A third-rate Babylon." - Source: Rand Lindsly's Quotations.
"New York: where everyone mutinies but no one deserts." - Source: Rand Lindsly's Quotations.
"Living in California adds ten years to a man's life. And those extra ten years I'd like to spent in New York." - Source: Rand Lindsly's Quotations.
New York is the
most populous city in the
United StatesThe United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
, and the center of the
New York metropolitan areaThe New York metropolitan area, also known as Metropolitan New York, Greater New York, or the Tri-State Region, is the most populous metropolitan area in the United States and is also one of the most populous in the world. The metropolitan area is defined by the U.S...
, which is among the
most populous urban areas in the world. A leading
global cityA global city is a city deemed to be an important node point in the global economic system. The concept comes from geography and urban studies and rests on the idea that globalization can be understood as largely created, facilitated and enacted in strategic geographic locales according to a...
, New York exerts a powerful influence over worldwide
commerceCommerce is a division of trade or production which deals with the exchange of goods and services from producer to final consumer. It comprises the trading of something of economic value such as goods, services, information, or money between two or more entities...
,
financeFinance is the science of funds management. The general areas of finance are business finance, personal finance, and public finance. Finance includes saving money and often includes lending money. The field of finance deals with the concepts of time, money and risk and how they are interrelated...
,
cultureCulture is a term that has different meanings. For example, in 1952, Alfred Kroeber and Clyde Kluckhohn compiled a list of 164 definitions of "culture" in Culture: A Critical Review of Concepts and Definitions...
,
fashionFashion is the style and custom prevalent at a given time. In its most common usage however, "fashion" describes the popular clothing style. Many fashions are popular in many cultures at any given time. Important is the idea that the course of design and fashion will change more rapidly than the...
and
entertainmentAn entertainment is any activity which provides a diversion or permits people to amuse themselves in their leisure time.Entertainment is typically passive - as in watching opera or a movie. Activities which involve participating in games or sports are more often considered to be recreation...
. As host of the
United NationsThe United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are facilitating cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, social progress, human rights, and the achieving of world peace...
headquarters, it is also an important center for international affairs. The city is often referred to as
New York City to differentiate it from the
state of New YorkNew York is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions of the United States and is the nation's third most populous. The state is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...
, of which it is a part.
Located on a large natural
harborNew York Harbor, a geographic term, refers collectively to the rivers, bays, and tidal estuaries near the mouth of the Hudson River in the vicinity of New York City. This is sometimes construed in the sense "the ports of New York and New Jersey"...
on the Atlantic coast of the
Northeastern United StatesThe Northeastern United States is a region of the United States. According to the definition used by the United States Census Bureau, the Northeast region consists of nine states: the New England states of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut; and the...
, the city consists of five
boroughsNew York City, one of the largest cities in the world, is segmented into five boroughs. A borough is a unique form of government that administers the five fundamental constituent parts of the consolidated city...
:
The Bronx