In central Staten Island, the Staten Island Greenbelt spans approximately 2,500 acres (10 km2), including 28 miles (45 km) of walking trails and one of the last undisturbed forests in the city. New York City as the U.S. capital hosted several events of national scope in 1789—the first President of the United States, George Washington, was inaugurated; the first United States Congress and the Supreme Court of the United States each assembled for the first time; and the United States Bill of Rights was drafted, all at Federal Hall on Wall Street. This is often misperceived by speakers of other accents as a reversal of the er and oy sounds, so that girl is pronounced "goil" and oil is pronounced "erl"; this leads to the caricature of New Yorkers saying things like "Joizey" (Jersey), "Toidy-Toid Street" (33rd St.) and "terlet" (toilet). The New York City Subway is also the busiest metropolitan rail transit system in the Western Hemisphere, with 1.76 billion passenger rides in 2015,[562] while Grand Central Terminal, also referred to as "Grand Central Station", is the world's largest railway station by number of train platforms. [331] As of 2017, New York City was home to the highest number of billionaires of any city in the world at 103,[332] including former Mayor Michael Bloomberg. [316] Roman Catholicism is the largest Christian denomination (33%), followed by Protestantism (23%), and other Christians (3%). The Port of New York and New Jersey is also a major economic engine, handling record cargo volume in 2017, over 6.7 million TEUs. [535] As a result of the watershed's integrity and undisturbed natural water filtration system, New York is one of only four major cities in the United States the majority of whose drinking water is pure enough not to require purification by water treatment plants. [567], New York City's commuter rail network is the largest in North America. [606] As of 2019, there are 126 miles (203 km) of segregated or "protected" bike lanes citywide. Manhattan hosts the First Department of the Supreme Court, Appellate Division while Brooklyn hosts the Second Department. New York City itself is the subject or background of many plays and musicals. NYC homeless people reveal which items they value the most", "Port of New York and New Jersey Sets New Cargo Volume Record for 2017", "Beijing Breaks into Top Ten in Rankings by A.T. Kearney", "New York City Tops Global Competitiveness Rankings, Economist Report Says", "Mayor de Blasio announces $3M in grants for New York City's fashion industry", "New York Tries to Revive Garment Industry, Outside the Garment District", "Godiva Chocolatier Inc. Company Information", "The NYSE Makes Stock Exchanges Around The World Look Tiny", "Is the New York Stock Exchange the Largest Stock Market in the World? [136], The area was rebuilt with a new One World Trade Center, a 9/11 memorial and museum, and other new buildings and infrastructure. The three major American broadcast networks are all headquartered in New York: ABC, CBS, and NBC. 3: Times Square, New York City", "The Most Jivin' Streetscapes in the World", "New York Architecture Images—Midtown Times Square", Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat, "Manhattan, New York—Some of the Most Expensive Real Estate in the World Overlooks Central Park", "The World's Most Expensive Billionaire Cities", "City University of New York | Agency Appropriations | FY 2020 Executive Budget", "The 25 cities with the most economic power on earth", "What Is the World's Most Economically Powerful City? [165] Since 2010, Brooklyn has evolved into a thriving hub of entrepreneurship and high technology startup firms,[166][167] and of postmodern art and design.[167][168]. [170][171], The Chinese population constitutes the fastest-growing nationality in New York State; multiple satellites of the original Manhattan Chinatown, in Brooklyn, and around Flushing, Queens, are thriving as traditionally urban enclaves—while also expanding rapidly eastward into suburban Nassau County[269] on Long Island,[270] as the New York metropolitan region and New York State have become the top destinations for new Chinese immigrants, respectively, and large-scale Chinese immigration continues into New York City and surrounding areas,[271][272][273][274][275][276] with the largest metropolitan Chinese diaspora outside Asia,[20][277] including an estimated 812,410 individuals in 2015.[278]. Several investment banks and investment managers headquartered in Manhattan are important participants in other global financial centers. Queens (Queens County), on Long Island north and east of Brooklyn, is geographically the largest borough, the most ethnically diverse county in the United States,[169] and the most ethnically diverse urban area in the world. The Manhattan Bridge, opened in 1909, is considered to be the forerunner of modern suspension bridges, and its design served as the model for many of the long-span suspension bridges around the world; the Manhattan Bridge, Throgs Neck Bridge, Triborough Bridge, and Verrazano-Narrows Bridge are all examples of Structural Expressionism.[597][598]. [416] According to Academic Ranking of World Universities, New York City has, on average, the best higher education institutions of any global city. The New York Police Department (NYPD) has been the largest police force in the United States by a significant margin, with more than 35,000 sworn officers. [402] Two of the three national daily newspapers with the largest circulations in the United States are published in New York: The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times, which has won the most Pulitzer Prizes for journalism. [119] The difficult years of the Great Depression saw the election of reformer Fiorello La Guardia as mayor and the fall of Tammany Hall after eighty years of political dominance. [473] Wealthy business magnates in the 19th century built a network of major cultural institutions, such as Carnegie Hall and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, which have become internationally renowned. Kerry Washington was born on January 31, 1977 in The Bronx, New York City, New York, USA as Kerry Marisa Washington. [564] According to the New York City Comptroller, workers in the New York City area spend an average of 6 hours and 18 minutes getting to work each week, the longest commute time in the nation among large cities. [47], In the precolonial era, the area of present-day New York City was inhabited by Algonquian Native Americans, including the Lenape. [17] The city and its metropolitan area constitute the premier gateway for legal immigration to the United States. [81] New York experienced several yellow fever epidemics in the 18th century, losing ten percent of its population to the disease in 1702 alone. The New York Rangers, the traditional representative of the city itself and one of the league's Original Six, play at Madison Square Garden in Manhattan. The majority of parades are held in Manhattan. [154] The summit of the ridge is mostly covered in woodlands as part of the Staten Island Greenbelt. Strongly influenced by the city's immigrants, productions such as those of Harrigan and Hart, George M. Cohan, and others used song in narratives that often reflected themes of hope and ambition. [239], Approximately 37% of the city's population is foreign born, and more than half of all children are born to mothers who are immigrants as of 2013. The East River—a tidal strait—flows from Long Island Sound and separates the Bronx and Manhattan from Long Island. The iconic New York City Subway system is the largest rapid transit system in the world when measured by stations in operation, with 472, and by length of routes. The Staten Island Ferry is the world's busiest ferry route, carrying more than 23 million passengers from July 2015 through June 2016 on the 5.2-mile (8.4 km) route between Staten Island and Lower Manhattan and running 24 hours a day. New York City suffered the bulk of the economic damage and largest loss of human life in the aftermath of the September 11, 2001 attacks. The Hudson River flows through the Hudson Valley into New York Bay. [110], In 1898, the modern City of New York was formed with the consolidation of Brooklyn (until then a separate city), the County of New York (which then included parts of the Bronx), the County of Richmond, and the western portion of the County of Queens. New York & Online. A public benefit corporation with $6.7 billion in annual revenues, HHC is the largest municipal healthcare system in the United States serving 1.4 million patients, including more than 475,000 uninsured city residents. The city is home to "nearly one thousand of the finest and most diverse haute cuisine restaurants in the world", according to Michelin. Hurricanes and tropical storms are rare in the New York area. Agents, managers and casting directors are invited to review student performances. New York became the most populous urbanized area in the world in the early-1920s, overtaking London. Most of the borough is situated on Manhattan Island, at the mouth of the Hudson River. [397] In the first five months of 2014 alone, location filming for television pilots in New York City exceeded the record production levels for all of 2013,[398] with New York surpassing Los Angeles as the top North American city for the same distinction during the 2013–2014 cycle.[399]. Evangelical Protestantism is the largest branch of Protestantism in the city (9%), followed by Mainline Protestantism (8%), while the converse is usually true for other cities and metropolitan areas. [424] HHC was created in 1969 by the New York State Legislature as a public benefit corporation (Chapter 1016 of the Laws 1969). I Love New York (stylized I ❤ NY) is both a logo and a song that are the basis of an advertising campaign and have been used since 1977 to promote tourism in New York City,[386] and later to promote New York State as well. Manufacturing accounts for a significant but declining share of employment. In another feature called the low back chain shift, the [ɔ] vowel sound of words like talk, law, cross, chocolate, and coffee and the often homophonous [ɔr] in core and more are tensed and usually raised more than in General American English. "More New Yorkers Opting for Life in the Bike Lane." [25][26] New York City was the capital of the United States from 1785 until 1790,[27] and has been the largest U.S. city since 1790. [604] Cycling is increasingly popular in New York City; in 2017 there were approximately 450,000 daily bike trips, compared with 170,000 daily bike trips in 2005. [35], Many districts and landmarks in New York City are well known, including three of the world's ten most visited tourist attractions in 2013. [223] The largest municipal park in the city is Pelham Bay Park in the Bronx, with 2,772 acres (1,122 ha).[176][224]. The classic version of the New York City dialect is generally centered on middle and working-class New Yorkers. The wettest year was 1983, with 80.56 inches (2,046 mm) of rainfall. [284] The non-Hispanic white population was 6.6 million in 1940. John F. Kennedy Airport in Queens, the busiest international air passenger gateway to the United States. New York City is home to the headquarters of the National Football League,[501] Major League Baseball,[502] the National Basketball Association,[503] the National Hockey League,[504] and Major League Soccer. [542] The New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, in partnership with Queens College, conducts the New York Community Air Survey to measure pollutants at about 150 locations.[543]. [104] Local politics became dominated by Tammany Hall, a political machine supported by Irish and German immigrants.[105]. [467][468] New York has also frequently been ranked the top fashion capital of the world on the annual list compiled by the Global Language Monitor. city. [572], New York's airspace is the busiest in the United States and one of the world's busiest air transportation corridors. In Brooklyn and Queens, the park contains over 9,000 acres (36 km2) of salt marsh, wetlands, islands, and water, including most of Jamaica Bay. [312][131] Brooklyn Liberation March, the largest transgender-rights demonstration in LGBTQ history, took place on June 14, 2020 stretching from Grand Army Plaza to Fort Greene, Brooklyn, focused on supporting Black transgender lives, drawing an estimated 15,000 to 20,000 participants.[314][315]. The fire department faces multifaceted firefighting challenges in many ways unique to New York. The city has played host to more than forty major professional teams in the five sports and their respective competing league. 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Both teams moved to California in 1958. The public State University of New York (SUNY) system includes campuses in New York City, including: Downstate Health Sciences University, Fashion Institute of Technology, Maritime College, and the College of Optometry. [360]:34–35 New York is also the principal commercial banking center of the United States. [566] Due to their high usage of mass transit, New Yorkers spend less of their household income on transportation than the national average, saving $19 billion annually on transportation compared to other urban Americans. [106] There was also extensive immigration from the German provinces, where revolutions had disrupted societies, and Germans comprised another 25% of New York's population by 1860. Following a New York upbringing, Bleecker married John James Bleecker, a New Rochelle lawyer, in 1769. [401] Two of the top three record labels' headquarters are in New York: Sony Music Entertainment and Warner Music Group. The New York City Subway is the world's largest rapid transit system by number of stations. [607], In 2006, the Sister City Program of the City of New York, Inc. was restructured and renamed New York City Global Partners. [199], Winters are chilly and damp, and prevailing wind patterns that blow sea breezes offshore temper the moderating effects of the Atlantic Ocean; yet the Atlantic and the partial shielding from colder air by the Appalachian Mountains keep the city warmer in the winter than inland North American cities at similar or lesser latitudes such as Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, and Indianapolis. New York City gained more residents between April 2010 and July 2014 (316,000) than any other U.S. [380] Fifth Avenue in Midtown Manhattan commands the highest retail rents in the world, at $3,000 per square foot ($32,000/m2) in 2017. [133] By the mid 1990s, crime rates started to drop dramatically due to revised police strategies, improving economic opportunities, gentrification, and new residents, both American transplants and new immigrants from Asia and Latin America. The city and its surroundings came under English control in 1664 and were renamed New York after King Charles II of England granted the lands to his brother, the Duke of York. The core of the New York City metropolitan area, with Manhattan Island at its center. Four of the ten most expensive stadiums ever built worldwide (MetLife Stadium, the new Yankee Stadium, Madison Square Garden, and Citi Field) are located in the New York metropolitan area. [528] In both its 2011 and 2015 rankings, Walk Score named New York City the most walkable large city in the United States,[529][530][531] and in 2018, Stacker ranked New York the most walkable U.S. The Stephen A. Schwarzman Headquarters Building of the New York Public Library, at 5th Avenue and 42nd Street. [267] New York contains the highest total Asian population of any U.S. city proper. [438] By 2002, New York City was ranked 197th in crime among the 216 U.S. cities with populations greater than 100,000. [362], Many of the world's largest media conglomerates are also based in the city. The city government pays the Pelham Public Schools to educate a very small, detached section of the Bronx. [578] Other ferry systems shuttle commuters between Manhattan and other locales within the city and the metropolitan area. California sea lions play at the Bronx Zoo, the world's largest metropolitan zoo. Yellow medallion taxicabs are widely recognized icons of the city, Manhattan Skyline seen from John F. Kennedy Airport. Queens is the site of Citi Field, the baseball stadium of the New York Mets, and hosts the annual U.S. Open tennis tournament at Flushing Meadows-Corona Park. We have now placed Twitpic in an archived state. The Church of God in Christ is one of the largest predominantly-black Pentecostal denominations in the area. In New York City, therefore, all turns at red lights are illegal unless a sign permitting such maneuvers is present.[591]. It also has one of the highest annual attendance rates of any tourist attraction in the world, estimated at 50 million. [343][344] New York City's role as the top global center for the advertising industry is metonymously reflected as "Madison Avenue". [317] In Evangelicalism, Baptists are the largest group; in Mainline Protestantism, Reformed Protestants are the largest. [379], In 2014, Manhattan was home to six of the top ten ZIP codes in the United States by median housing price. “New York City is not New York without Broadway,” Governor Cuomo stated. 8th Avenue, looking northward ("uptown"). [135] Two of the four airliners highjacked that day were flown into the twin towers of the World Trade Center, destroying them and killing 2,192 civilians, 343 firefighters, and 71 law enforcement officers. [448], Organized crime has long been associated with New York City, beginning with the Forty Thieves and the Roach Guards in the Five Points in the 1820s. [58][59] The colony of New Amsterdam was centered on what would later be known as Lower Manhattan. 450 Park Avenue was sold on July 2, 2007 for $510 million, about $1,589 per square foot ($17,104/m2), breaking the barely month-old record for an American office building of $1,476 per square foot ($15,887/m2) set in the June 2007 sale of 660 Madison Avenue. The New York Islanders, traditionally representing Nassau and Suffolk Counties of Long Island, play at Barclays Center in Brooklyn and are planning a return to Nassau County by way of a new arena just outside the border with Queens at Belmont Park. Since 2010, a Little Australia has emerged and is growing rapidly representing the Australasian presence in Nolita, Manhattan. Manhattan's real estate market is among the most expensive in the world. [285] The non-Hispanic white population has begun to increase since 2010. Mean monthly maxima and minima (i.e. At 2.7 million in 2012, New York's non-Hispanic white population is larger than the non-Hispanic white populations of Los Angeles (1.1 million), Chicago (865,000), and Houston (550,000) combined. [73] In 1667, during negotiations leading to the Treaty of Breda after the Second Anglo-Dutch War, the Dutch decided to keep the nascent plantation colony of what is now Suriname (on the northern South America coast) they had gained from the English; and in return the English kept New Amsterdam. [69][70] Stuyvesant has been credited with improving law and order in the colony; however, he also earned a reputation as a despotic leader. Staten Island (Richmond County) is the most suburban in character of the five boroughs. Major tourist destinations in Manhattan include Times Square; Broadway theater productions; the Empire State Building; the Statue of Liberty; Ellis Island; the United Nations Headquarters; the World Trade Center (including the National September 11 Museum and One World Trade Center); museums such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art; green spaces such as Central Park and Washington Square Park; the Stonewall Inn; Rockefeller Center; ethnic enclaves including the Manhattan Chinatown, Koreatown, Curry Hill, Harlem, Spanish Harlem, Little Italy, and Little Australia; luxury shopping along Fifth and Madison Avenues; and events such as the Halloween Parade in Greenwich Village; the Brooklyn Bridge (shared with Brooklyn); the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade; the lighting of the Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree; the St. Patrick's Day parade; seasonal activities such as ice skating in Central Park in the wintertime; the Tribeca Film Festival; and free performances in Central Park at Summerstage. The Bronx (Bronx County) is New York City's northernmost borough and the only New York City borough that lies mainly on the mainland United States. There are hundreds of distinct neighborhoods throughout the boroughs, many with a definable history and character. [378] New York City is home to some of the nation's—and the world's—most valuable real estate. WBAI, with news and information programming, is one of the few socialist radio stations operating in the United States. [263] The ten largest sources of foreign-born individuals in the city as of 2011[update] were the Dominican Republic, China, Mexico, Guyana, Jamaica, Ecuador, Haiti, India, Russia, and Trinidad and Tobago,[265] while the Bangladeshi-born immigrant population has become one of the fastest growing in the city, counting over 74,000 by 2011. [456] A book containing a series of essays titled New York, Culture Capital of the World, 1940–1965 has also been published as showcased by the National Library of Australia. New York City's remaining four boroughs are collectively referred to as the Outer Boroughs. 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[544] One of the most heavily used bodies of water in the Port of New York and New Jersey, it had been one of the most contaminated industrial sites in the country,[545] containing years of discarded toxins, an estimated 30 million US gallons (110,000 m3) of spilled oil, including the Greenpoint oil spill, raw sewage from New York City's sewer system,[545] and other accumulation. Home to the headquarters of the United Nations,[14] New York is an important center for international diplomacy. The 20th century saw a rise in the Mafia, dominated by the Five Families, as well as in gangs, including the Black Spades. The wettest month was August 2011, with 18.95 inches (481 mm) of rainfall. [280] Koreans made up 1.2% of the city's population, and Japanese 0.3%. [360]:31–32[361] New York also leads in hedge fund management; private equity; and the monetary volume of mergers and acquisitions. 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