New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and entertainment. The home of the United Nations Headquarters, New York is an important center for international affairs and is widely deemed the cultural capital of the world. The city is also referred to as New York City or the City of New York to distinguish it from the state of New York, of which it is a part.
Located on one of the world's largest natural harbors, New York City consists of five boroughs which were consolidated in 1898: The Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens, and Staten Island. With a 2010 United States Census population of 8,175,133 distributed over a land area of just 305 square miles (790 km), New York is the most densely populated major city in the United States. As many as 800...
Structures Owned: Manhattan House of Detention for Men - 1930; Loew's Kings Theatre;
Awards Won: 2001 - Top Intelligent Community of the Year;
Musical compositions about this topic: Time New York, New York (So Good They Named It Twice) Works Written About This Topic: Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time: A Memoir Elements of Style Super in the City Graffiti Lives: Beyond the Tag in New York’s Urban Underground Gastropolis: Food and New York City The Sun and the Moon: The Remarkable True Account of Hoaxers, Showmen, Dueling Journalists, and Lunar Man-Bats in Nineteenth-Century New York; The City's End: Two Centuries of Fantasies, Fears, and Premonitions of New York's Destruction;
The Other Half: The Life of Jacob Riis and the World of Immigrant America The Skyscraper and the City: The Woolworth Building and the Making of Modern New York;
Central Park in the Dark: More Mysteries of Urban Wildlife Employees and other personnel: William Thompson - Comptroller - Jan 1, 2002;
Exhibitions created about this subject: State of the Art: New York Songs of My People Fictional Characters Created: Donny Characters that have lived here: Cime Mason Greyback Stevie Nichols Claire Bennet Daphne Millbrook Kaito Nakamura Ishi Nakamura Emma Coolidge Batman Events: Askelon follows Cime to the 20th Century Fictional Characters Born Here: Tom Hagen Philip J. Fry Val Toriello Clear Rivers Joseph Stabler Ken Randall Teresa Randall Darius Parker John Munch Donald Cragen Setting type: island fortress Lemurian windows into any place or time Universe: The Sacred Band of Stepsons universe Tempus Unbound Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Law & Order Fictional Works Set Here: City Hall 13 Going on 30 A Death in the Family, Part Four The Great Gatsby Who Dares Defy...the Demi-Men The Wail of the Banshee! Featured In Films: The Way We Were Ghostbusters Cloverfield You've Got Mail When Harry Met Sally... Independence Day The Namesake Endless Love Taxi Driver The French Connection Films On This Subject: Midnight Cowboy Deluge The Warriors Agencies: New York City Department of Correction New York City Metropolitan Board of Health New York City Police Department Governing officials: Rudy Giuliani - Mayor - Mayor of New York City - Jan 1, 1994 - Dec 31, 2001; John Lindsay - Mayor - Mayor of New York City - 1966 - 1973; Deborah Wright - New York City Housing Authority - 1990 - 1992; Commissioner - Deborah Wright - New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development - 1994 - 1996; Deborah Wright - New York City Planning Commission - 1992 - 1994; Frank G. Zarb - Chairman of Long Island Power Authority; Frank G. Zarb - Chair of Commission on Education Reform - Commission on Education Reform; President and Chief Executive Officer of the Upper Manhattan Empowerment Zone Development Corporation - Upper Manhattan Empowerment Zone Development Corporation - 1996 - 1998; Deborah Wright - Member of New York City Housing Board - New York City Housing Authority - 1990 - 1992; Deborah Wright - Member of the New York City Planning Commission - New York City Planning Commission - 1992 - 1994;
Government bodies: New York City Housing Authority New York City Council Representatives: Michael Bloomberg - Mayor - Mayor of New York City - Jan 1, 2002 - 2005; Michael Bloomberg - Mayor - Mayor of New York City - 2005 - 2010; Michael Bloomberg - Mayor - Mayor of New York City - Jan 1, 2010;
Country: United States of America Postal codes: 10001 10002 10003 10004 10005 10006 10007 10009 10010 10011 Date founded: 1624;
County: Staten Island Place: New York City BLS Unemployment Rate (%): 0.0527 - 2008;
Estimated Number of Foreclosures: 33,560 - 2008;
Estimated Number of Mortgages: 880,620 - 2008;
Household Count: 3,022,477 - 2008;
OFHEO Price Change (%): -0.0165 - 2008;
90-Day Vacant Residential Addresses: 44,615 - 2008;
Total Residential Addresses: 2,944,315 - 2008;
Adjoins: New Jersey; Pennsylvania; Long Island;
Area: 1,214.4 km²;
Contained by: New York United States of America Contains: Manhattan Crown Heights Great Neck Hell's Kitchen Columbia University Queensboro Bridge Lower East Side Apollo Theater Brooklyn Bridge Manhattan Bridge Events: Spring 2008 New York Fashion Week New York Fashion Week 2008 Tribeca Film Festival 2008 New York Film Festival Castellammarese War September 11, 2001 attacks 1980 New York City transit strike George Washington 1789 presidential inauguration Chester A. Arthur 1881 presidential inauguration New York City blackout of 1977 Geolocation: 40.7142, -74.0064;
Nearby airports: John F. Kennedy International Airport Downtown Manhattan Heliport LaGuardia Airport Mitchel Air Force Base Flushing Airport East 34th Street Heliport New York Skyports Inc. Seaplane Base Partially Contains: East River Time zone(s): North American Eastern Time Zone Neighborhoods: Arrochar Annadale Arden Heights Bay Terrace Bloomfield Brighton Heights Bulls Head Castleton Corners Charleston Clifton Population: 7,894,862 - 1980; 8,363,710 - 2008; 7,781,984 - 1960; 7,894,862 - 1970; 5,620,048 - 1920; 7,454,995 - 1940; 7,891,957 - 1950; 4,766,883 - 1910; 6,930,446 - 1930; 3,437,202 - 1900;
Quotations About This Subject: “September 11, 2001: Citizens of the U.S., besieged by terror’s sting, rose up, weeping glory, as if on eagles’ wings.--from the poem Angel of Remembrance: Candles for September 11, 2001 ;
"History dressed up in the glow of love’s kiss turned grief into beauty." Organizations with this scope: New York Perl Mongers Radical Homosexual Agenda Union League Club of New York New York City Audubon One Brick 92nd Street Y Shreve, Lamb and Harmon Marymount Theatre School Delancey School Atlantic Theater Company Acting School People interred here: Sonya Paxton Harrison Gray Dyar Richard Montgomery Joe Dutton Jayden Odom Daniel Ross Serena Benson Joseph Stabler Thomas Eckert Thomas Ewing, Jr. Newspapers: Staten Island Advance New York Post The New York Times The Wall Street Journal New York Daily News Manhattan West Side Spirit The Forward The A.V. Club New York Sun The Village Voice Teams: New York Knicks New York Rangers New York Mets New York Raiders CCNY Beavers men's basketball New York Giants New York Yankees Climate: February, 4 °C, -3 °C, 97 mm; July, 29 °C, 20 °C, 107 mm; October, 18 °C, 9 °C, 89 mm; May, 21 °C, 12 °C, 81 mm; January, 3 °C, -4 °C, 94 mm; June, 26 °C, 17 °C, 84 mm; December, 5 °C, -1 °C, 91 mm; November, 11 °C, 4 °C, 76 mm; September, 24 °C, 15 °C, 86 mm; March, 9 °C, 0 °C, 91 mm;
How to get here: Train - Pennsylvania Station - Amtrak; Air travel - Newark Liberty International Airport/LaGuardia Airport/John F. Kennedy International Airport; Bus - Port Authority Bus Terminal - Greyhound Lines/Peter Pan Bus Lines;
Local transportation: New York City Subway MTA New York City Transit buses Staten Island Ferry Tourist attractions: Times Square Empire State Building Metropolitan Museum of Art The Cloisters Central Park Brooklyn Bridge United Nations Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum The Broadway Theatre Museum of Modern Art TV shows filmed here: Flight of the Conchords The Stand Artwork on the Subject: Old-timer, keeping up with the boys Flags on Fifty-Seventh Street The Soul of the Soulless City ('New York - an Abstraction') End of 14th Street Crosstown Line Wines: Ice wine Related Web Pages: Geonames New York City Videos Ranker Lists nycvisit.com Official New York City web site Visitor Information
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