New York City

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In 1664, New York was named in honor of the Duke of York (later King James II of England).{{cite web |url=https://www.qchron.com/editions/queenswide/new-amsterdam-becomes-new-york/article_dd6e910f-a882-5b2e-9771-a2caa1574e07.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170201120328/https://www.qchron.com/editions/queenswide/new-amsterdam-becomes-new-york/article_dd6e910f-a882-5b2e-9771-a2caa1574e07.html |title=1664 New Amsterdam becomes New York Dutch rulers surrender to England |first=Etta |last=Badoe |publisher=Queens Chronicle |date=November 11, 2015 |archive-date=February 1, 2017 |access-date=March 13, 2021 |url-status=dead }} James's elder brother, King Charles II, appointed him proprietor of the former territory of New Netherland, including the city of New Amsterdam, when the Kingdom of England seized it from Dutch control.{{cite book |first=Thomas J. |last=Archdeacon |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9bTxAAAAQBAJ&pg=PT19 |title=New York City, 1664–1710: Conquest and Change |publisher=Cornell University Press |year=2013 |isbn=978-0-8014-6891-9 |page=19 |author-link1=Thomas J. Archdeacon }}

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{{Main|History of New York City (prehistory–1664)}}

In the pre-Columbian era, the area of present-day New York City was inhabited by Algonquians, including the Lenape. Their homeland, known as Lenapehoking, included the present-day areas of Staten Island, Manhattan, the Bronx, the western portion of Long Island (including Brooklyn and Queens), and the Lower Hudson Valley.{{cite book |first=Evan T. |last=Pritchard |year=2002 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=c5hky9f5PgoC&pg=PA27 |title=Native New Yorkers: The Legacy of the Algonquin people of New York |page=27 |publisher=Council Oak Books |isbn=1-57178-107-2 }}

The first documented visit into New York Harbor by a European was in 1524 by explorer Giovanni da Verrazzano.{{cite book |first=Angie |last=Debo |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pLjYpwiuN_wC&pg=PT28 |title=A History of the Indians of the United States |publisher=University of Oklahoma Press |year=2013 |isbn=978-0-8061-8965-9 |page=28 }} He claimed the area for France and named it Nouvelle Angoulême (New Angoulême).{{cite book |last1=Rankin |first1=Rebecca B. |url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.226262 |title=New York: The World's Capital City, Its Development and Contributions to Progress |last2=Rodgers |first2=Cleveland |publisher=Harper |year=1948 }} A Spanish expedition, led by the Portuguese captain Estêvão Gomes sailing for Emperor Charles V, arrived in New York Harbor in January 1525 and charted the mouth of the Hudson River, which he named {{lang|es|Río de San Antonio}} ('Saint Anthony's River').{{cite book |author=WPA Writer's Project |title=A Maritime History of New York |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=o08K8jlMI-IC |page=246 |publisher=Going Coastal Productions |year=2004 |isbn=0-9729803-1-8 }}

In 1609, the English explorer Henry Hudson rediscovered New York Harbor while searching for the Northwest Passage to the Orient for the Dutch East India Company.{{cite book |first=George J. |last=Lankevich |url=https://archive.org/details/newyorkcity00geor |title=New York City: A Short History |publisher=NYU Press |year=2002 |isbn=978-0-8147-5186-2 |page=[https://archive.org/details/newyorkcity00geor/page/2 2] |url-access=registration }} He sailed up what the Dutch called North River (now the Hudson River), named first by Hudson as the Mauritius after Maurice, Prince of Orange.{{cite web |title=The Hudson River |url=http://www.newnetherlandinstitute.org/history-and-heritage/digital-exhibitions/a-tour-of-new-netherland/hudson-river/ |access-date=July 10, 2016 |publisher=New Netherland Institute }}

Hudson claimed the region for the Dutch East India Company. In 1614, the area between Cape Cod and Delaware Bay was claimed by the Netherlands and called {{lang|nl|Nieuw-Nederland}} ('New Netherland'). The first non–Native American inhabitant of what became New York City was Juan Rodriguez, a merchant from Santo Domingo who arrived in Manhattan during the winter of 1613–14, trapping for pelts and trading with the local population as a representative of the Dutch.{{cite news |last=Roberts |first=Sam |date=October 2, 2012 |title=Honoring a Very Early New Yorker |newspaper=The New York Times |url=http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/10/02/honoring-a-very-early-new-yorker/ |access-date=October 28, 2021 }}{{cite web |date=May 14, 2013 |title=CUNY DSI Publishes Monograph on New York's First Immigrant |url=https://www.ccny.cuny.edu/news/juan-rodriguez-monograph |access-date=May 16, 2020 |publisher=The City College of New York }}

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A permanent European presence near New York Harbor was established in 1624, making New York the 12th-oldest continuously occupied European-established settlement in the continental United States, with the founding of a Dutch fur trading settlement on Governors Island. In 1625, construction was started on a citadel and Fort Amsterdam, later called Nieuw Amsterdam (New Amsterdam), on present-day Manhattan Island.[http://www.nps.gov/history/nr/travel/kingston/colonization.htm Dutch Colonies], National Park Service. Retrieved May 19, 2007. "Sponsored by the West India Company, 30 families arrived in North America in 1624, establishing a settlement on present-day Manhattan."[http://www.tolerancepark.org/id2.html GovIsland Park-to-Tolerance: through Broad Awareness and Conscious Vigilance], Tolerance Park. Retrieved February 9, 2017. See Legislative Resolutions Senate No. 5476 and Assembly No. 2708.

The colony of New Amsterdam extended from the southern tip of Manhattan to modern-day Wall Street, where a {{Convert|12|ft|adj=on}} wooden stockade was built in 1653 to protect against Native American and English raids.{{cite web |url=http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/crash-selected-wall-street-chronology/ |title=Timeline: A selected Wall Street chronology |publisher=PBS |access-date=October 28, 2021 }} In 1626, the Dutch colonial Director-General Peter Minuit, as charged by the Dutch West India Company, purchased the island of Manhattan from the Canarsie, a small Lenape band,{{cite book |first1=Frederick M. |last1=Binder |first2=David M. |last2=Reimers |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=o08K8jlMI-IC |title=All the Nations Under Heaven: An Ethnic and Racial History of New York City |page=4 |year=1996 |isbn=0-231-07879-X |publisher=Columbia University Press }} for "the value of 60 guilders"{{cite web |url=http://www.s4ulanguages.com/laet2.html |title=Pieter Schaghen Letter |year=1626 |quote="... hebben t'eylant Manhattes van de wilde gekocht, voor de waerde van 60 gulden: is groot 11000 morgen. ..." ("... They have purchased the Island Manhattes from the Indians for the value of 60 guilders. It is 11,000 morgens in size ...) |access-date=October 28, 2021 |website=S4ulanguages.com }} (about $900 in 2018).{{cite web |title=Value of the Guilder versus Euro |url=http://www.iisg.nl/hpw/calculate.php |access-date=July 25, 2019 |publisher=International Institute of Social History }} A frequently told but disproved legend claims that Manhattan was purchased for $24 worth of glass beads.{{cite web |title=Peter Schaghen Letter |url=http://www.nnp.org/nnp/documents/schagen_main.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101023083225/http://www.nnp.org/nnp/documents/schagen_main.html |archive-date=October 23, 2010 |access-date=October 28, 2010 |publisher=Nnp.org }}{{cite journal |last1=Miller |first1=Christopher L. |last2=Hamell |first2=George R. |date=September 1986 |title=A New Perspective on Indian-White Contact: Cultural Symbols and Colonial Trade |journal=The Journal of American History |volume=73 |issue=2 |pages=311–328 |doi=10.2307/1908224 |jstor=1908224 |issn=0021-8723 }}

Following the purchase, New Amsterdam grew slowly.{{cite web |title=Dutch Colonies |url=https://www.nps.gov/nr/travel/kingston/colonization.htm |access-date=July 10, 2016 |publisher=National Park Service }} To attract settlers, the Dutch instituted the patroon system in 1628, whereby wealthy Dutchmen (patroons, or patrons) who brought 50 colonists to New Netherland would be awarded land, local political autonomy, and rights to participate in the lucrative fur trade. This program had little success.{{cite web |title=The Patroon System |url=http://frontiers.loc.gov/intldl/awkbhtml/kb-1/kb-1-2-2.html |access-date=July 10, 2016 |publisher=Library of Congress |archive-date=March 19, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220319082007/http://frontiers.loc.gov/intldl/awkbhtml/kb-1/kb-1-2-2.html |url-status=dead }}

Since 1621, the Dutch West India Company had operated as a monopoly in New Netherland, on authority granted by the Dutch States General. In 1639–1640, in an effort to bolster economic growth, the Dutch West India Company relinquished its monopoly over the fur trade, leading to growth in the production and trade of food, timber, tobacco, and slaves (particularly with the Dutch West Indies).{{cite web |title=The Story of New Amsterdam |url=http://www.newamsterdamhistorycenter.org/bios/origins.html |access-date=July 10, 2016 |publisher=New Amsterdam History Center }}

In 1647, Peter Stuyvesant began his tenure as the last Director-General of New Netherland. During his tenure, the population of New Netherland grew from 2,000 to 8,000.{{cite book |last=Jacobs |first=Jaap |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vgnh3E5Mm0cC |title=The Colony of New Netherland: A Dutch Settlement in Seventeenth-Century America |publisher=Cornell University Press |year=2009 |page=32 |isbn=978-0801475160 }}{{cite book |last1=Eisenstadt |first1=Peter |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tmHEm5ohoCUC&q=New+Amsterdam+grew+from+under+2,000+to+8,000&pg=PA1051 |title=The Encyclopedia of New York State |last2=Moss |first2=Laura-Eve |last3=Huxley |first3=Carole F. |publisher=Syracuse University Press |year=2005 |isbn=978-0-8156-0808-0 |page=1051 }} Stuyvesant has been credited with improving law and order; however, he earned a reputation as a despotic leader. He instituted regulations on liquor sales, attempted to assert control over the Dutch Reformed Church, and blocked other religious groups from establishing houses of worship.{{cite web |title=Peter Stuyvesant |url=http://www.nyhistory.org/peter-stuyvesant |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160624011523/http://www.nyhistory.org/peter-stuyvesant |archive-date=June 24, 2016 |access-date=July 11, 2016 |publisher=New-York Historical Society |url-status=dead }}

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In 1664, unable to summon any significant resistance, Stuyvesant surrendered New Amsterdam to English troops, led by Colonel Richard Nicolls, without bloodshed.{{cite web |title=Peter Stuyvesant |url=http://www.newnetherlandinstitute.org/history-and-heritage/dutch_americans/peter-stuyvesant/ |access-date=July 11, 2016 |publisher=New Netherland Institute }} The terms of the surrender permitted Dutch residents to remain in the colony and allowed for religious freedom.{{cite web |title=The surrender of New Netherland, 1664 |url=http://www.gilderlehrman.org/history-by-era/early-settlements/resources/surrender-new-netherland-1664 |access-date=July 11, 2016 |publisher=Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History }}

In 1667, during negotiations leading to the Treaty of Breda after the Second Anglo-Dutch War, the victorious Dutch decided to keep the nascent plantation colony of what is now Suriname, which they had gained from the English,{{cite encyclopedia |url=https://www.britannica.com/event/Treaty-of-Breda |title=Treaty of Breda |encyclopedia=Encyclopædia Britannica |access-date=July 10, 2016 }} and in return the English kept New Amsterdam. The settlement was promptly renamed "New York" after the Duke of York (the future King James II and VII).{{cite book |last=Homberger |first=Eric |title=The Historical Atlas of New York City: A Visual Celebration of 400 Years of New York City's History |publisher=Owl Books |year=2005 |isbn=978-0-8050-7842-8 |page=34 }} The duke gave part of the colony to proprietors George Carteret and John Berkeley.{{cite book |last=Miller |first=John |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=McEJCAAAQBAJ |title=James II (The English Monarchs Series) |publisher=Yale University Press |year=2000 |isbn=978-0-300-08728-4 |pages=44–45 }}

On August 24, 1673, during the Third Anglo-Dutch War, Anthony Colve of the Dutch navy seized New York at the behest of Cornelis Evertsen the Youngest and rechristened it "New Orange" after William III, the Prince of Orange.{{cite book |first=L. H. |last=Roper |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=i8wnDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA215 |title=Advancing Empire |publisher=Cambridge University Press |year=2017 |isbn=978-1-107-11891-1 |page=215 }} The Dutch soon returned the island to England under the Treaty of Westminster of November 1674.{{cite news |last=Van Luling |first=Todd |date=April 17, 2014 |title=8 Things Even New Yorkers Don't Know About New York City |work=HuffPost |url=https://huffingtonpost.com/2014/04/17/new-york-history-facts_n_5107337.html |access-date=September 13, 2014 }}{{cite web |first=Peter |last=Douglas |title=The Man Who Took Back New Netherland |url=http://www.newnetherlandinstitute.org/files/2813/5680/0659/Man_Who_Took_Back_NN.pdf |access-date=July 11, 2016 |publisher=New Netherland Institute |archive-date=July 8, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220708102432/http://www.newnetherlandinstitute.org/files/2813/5680/0659/Man_Who_Took_Back_NN.pdf |url-status=dead }}

Several intertribal wars among the Native Americans and epidemics brought on by contact with the Europeans caused sizeable population losses for the Lenape between 1660 and 1670.{{cite web |url=http://www.penntreatymuseum.org/americans.php |title=Native Americans |publisher=Penn Treaty Museum |access-date=October 29, 2021 }} By 1700, the Lenape population had diminished to 200.[http://www.gothamcenter.org/ "Gotham Center for New York City History"] Timeline 1700–1800 New York experienced several yellow fever epidemics in the 18th century, losing ten percent of its population in 1702 alone.{{cite web |first=Pedro |last=Nogueira |url=http://jdc.jefferson.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1004&context=yellow_fever_symposium |title=The Early History of Yellow Fever (PDF) |publisher=Thomas Jefferson University |year=2009 }}{{cite web |url=https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/fever-timeline-yellow-fever-america/ |title=Timeline – Yellow Fever in America |publisher=Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) |access-date=October 30, 2021 }}

In the early 18th century, New York grew in importance as a trading port while as a part of the colony of New York.{{cite book |first=Thelma Wills |last=Foote |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Cu4VfJPRsl4C&pg=PA68 |title=Black and White Manhattan: The History of Racial Formation in Colonial New York City |publisher=Oxford University Press, US |year=2004 |isbn=978-0-19-508809-0 |page=68 }} It became a center of slavery, with 42% of households enslaving Africans by 1730.{{Cite journal |last=Oltman |first=Adele |date=October 24, 2005 |title=The Hidden History of Slavery in New York |url=http://www.thenation.com/article/hidden-history-slavery-new-york# |journal=The Nation |access-date=July 9, 2013 |archive-date=November 30, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191130043006/https://www.thenation.com/article/hidden-history-slavery-new-york/ |url-status=dead }} Most were domestic slaves; others were hired out as labor. Slavery became integrally tied to New York's economy through the labor of slaves throughout the port, and the banking and shipping industries trading with the American South. During construction in Foley Square in the 1990s, the African Burying Ground was discovered; the cemetery included 10,000 to 20,000 graves of colonial-era Africans, some enslaved and some free.{{cite book |first1=Molefi Kete |last1=Asante |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RcBkDlJ7qjwC&pg=PA33 |title=Encyclopedia of Black Studies |first2=Ama |last2=Mazama |first3=Marie-José |last3=Cérol |publisher=SAGE |year=2005 |isbn=978-0-7619-2762-4 |page=33 }}

The 1735 trial and acquittal in Manhattan of John Peter Zenger, who had been accused of seditious libel after criticizing colonial governor William Cosby, helped to establish freedom of the press in North America.{{cite web |last=Linder |first=Doug |year=2001 |title=The Trial of John Peter Zenger: An Account |url=http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/zenger/zengeraccount.html |publisher=University of Missouri–Kansas City |access-date=October 30, 2021 }} In 1754, Columbia University was founded.{{cite book |last=Moore |first=Nathaniel Fish |url=https://archive.org/details/anhistoricalske00univgoog |title=An Historical Sketch of Columbia College, in the City of New York, 1754–1876 |publisher=Columbia University |year=1876 |page=[https://archive.org/details/anhistoricalske00univgoog/page/n14 8] }}

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The Stamp Act Congress met in New York in October 1765, as the Sons of Liberty organization emerged in the city and skirmished over the next ten years with British troops stationed there.{{cite book |first1=Paul |last1=Boyer |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=O7NsCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA100 |title=The Enduring Vision: A History of the American People, Volume 1: To 1877, Concise |first2=Clifford |last2=Clark |first3=Sandra |last3=Hawley |first4=Joseph |last4=Kett |first5=Andrew |last5=Rieser |publisher=Cengage Learning |year=2009 |isbn=978-1-111-78553-6 |page=100 }} The Battle of Long Island, the largest battle of the American Revolutionary War, was fought in August 1776 within modern-day Brooklyn.{{cite book |first=Linda Davis |last=Reno |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KvhogpG5154C&pg=PA3 |title=The Maryland 400 in the Battle of Long Island, 1776 |publisher=McFarland |year=2008 |isbn=978-0-7864-5184-5 |page=3 }} A British rout of the Continental Army at the Battle of Fort Washington in November 1776 eliminated the last American stronghold in Manhattan, causing George Washington and his forces to retreat across the Hudson River to New Jersey, pursued by British forces.[https://www.battlefields.org/learn/revolutionary-war/battles/fort-washington Fort Washington], American Battlefield Trust. Accessed December 31, 2023. "Fought on November 16, 1776 on the island of Manhattan, the Battle of Fort Washington was the final devastating chapter in General Washington's disastrous New York Campaign.... Seeing how precarious the American position was, Howe launched a three-pronged assault on Fort Washington and its outer defensive works. The combined British-Hessian assault force of 8,000 men grossly outnumbered the fort's 3,000 defenders.... At 3:00 P.M., after a fruitless attempt to gain gentler surrender terms for his men, Magaw surrendered Fort Washington and its 2,800 surviving defenders to the British."Schenawolf, Harry. [https://revolutionarywarjournal.com/washingtons-retreat-across-new-jersey-a-british-fox-chase/ "Washington's Retreat Across New Jersey: A British Fox Chase"], Revolutionary War Journal, August 5, 2019. Accessed December 31, 2023.

After the battle, in which the Americans were defeated, the British made the city their military and political base of operations in North America.Aggarwala, Rohit T. [https://www.jstor.org/stable/90018770 "'I want a Packet to arrive': Making New York City the headquarters of British North America 1696-1783"], New York History, Winter 2017. Accessed December 29, 2023. "One of New York City's key distinctions in the late colonial period was its role as the headquarters of the British Army in North America, almost continuously from 1755 to 1783." The city was a haven for Loyalist refugees and escaped slaves who joined the British lines for freedom promised by the Crown, with as many as 10,000 escaped slaves crowded into the city during the British occupation, the largest such community on the continent.[https://www.amrevmuseum.org/revolution-stories/finding-freedom-deborah "Finding Freedom: Deborah"], Museum of the American Revolution, May 4, 2018. Accessed December 31, 2023. "They ran to the British Army which offered freedom to enslaved people owned by rebel masters based on the 1779 Philipsburg Proclamation issued by British General Henry Clinton. Historians estimate that 10,000 enslaved people sought freedom by escaping to the British during the Revolutionary War."Goulet, L.; and Tsaltas-Otoomanelli, Mary. [https://www.gothamcenter.org/blog/black-loyalists-evaculation-zy4la "Black Loyalists In The Evacuation Of New York City, 1783"], The Gotham Center for New York City History, November 15, 2023. Accessed December 31, 2023. "By 1783, New York City had become the largest fugitive slave community in North America.... Free and self-emancipated Black people entered New York City during the British occupation seeking protection." When the British forces evacuated New York at the close of the war in 1783, they transported thousands of freedmen for resettlement in Nova Scotia, England, and the Caribbean.{{cite book |first=Peter P. |last=Hinks |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3UXQs0uO0VMC&pg=PA508 |title=Encyclopedia of Antislavery and Abolition |publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group |year=2007 |isbn=978-0-313-33144-2 |page=508 }}

The attempt at a peaceful solution to the war took place at the Conference House on Staten Island between American delegates, including Benjamin Franklin, and British general Lord Howe on September 11, 1776.Mattera, John. [https://www.nycgovparks.org/parks/conference-house-park/dailyplant/19934 Conference House Park The Daily Plant : Thursday, September 7, 2006], New York City Department of Parks and Recreation. Accessed December 29, 2023. Shortly after the British occupation began, the Great Fire of New York destroyed nearly 500 buildings, about a quarter of the structures in the city, including Trinity Church.Trinity Church bicentennial celebration, May 5, 1897, By Trinity Church (New York, N.Y.) p. 37, ISBN 978-1-356-90825-7[https://baruch.cuny.edu/nycdata/disasters/fires-1776.html New York City (NYC) The Great Fire of 1776], Baruch College. Accessed December 29, 2023. "The fire started in a wooden building near White Hall Slip, called the Fighting Cocks Tavern, a fun house visited by the city's most disreputable residents. It was fanned by winds south west of the city and spread rapidly into the night, demolishing 493 buildings and houses in the process."

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In January 1785, the assembly of the Congress of the Confederation made New York City the national capital.[https://declaration.fas.harvard.edu/blog/january-superintending-1 "January Highlight: Superintending Independence, Part 1"], Harvard University Declaration Resources Project, January 4, 2017. Accessed December 29, 2023. "From January 11, 1785 through 1789, the Congress of the Confederation met in New York City, at City Hall (which later became Federal Hall) and at Fraunces Tavern." New York was the last capital of the United States under the Articles of Confederation and the first under the Constitution. As the capital, New York City hosted the inauguration of the first President, George Washington, and the first Congress, at Federal Hall on Wall Street. Congress drafted the Bill of Rights there.{{cite magazine |title=The People's Vote: President George Washington's First Inaugural Speech (1789) |url=https://www.usnews.com/usnews/documents/docpages/document_page11.htm |magazine=U.S. News & World Report |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080925045133/http://www.usnews.com/usnews/documents/docpages/document_page11.htm |archive-date=September 25, 2008 |access-date=September 1, 2008 |url-status=dead }} The Supreme Court held its first organizational sessions in New York in 1790.

In 1790, for the first time, New York City surpassed Philadelphia as the nation's largest city. At the end of 1790, the national capital was moved to Philadelphia, where it remained while the new capital in Washington, D.C. was being constructed.{{cite web |title=Residence Act |url=https://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/ourdocs/Residence.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170222110855/https://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/ourdocs/Residence.html |archive-date=February 22, 2017 |access-date=April 23, 2017 |work=Web Guides: Primary Documents in American History |publisher=Library of Congress }}{{Cite web |first=Robert |last=Fortenbaugh |url=https://www.senate.gov/reference/reference_item/Nine_Capitals_of_the_United_States.htm |access-date=October 30, 2021 |title=The Nine Capitals of the United States |year=1948 |pages=9 |publisher=United States Senate }}

During the 19th century, New York City's population grew from 60,000 to 3.43 million.{{Cite book |last=Smil |first=Vaclav |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=52yuDwAAQBAJ |title=Growth: From Microorganisms to Megacities |publisher=The MIT Press |year=2019 |isbn=978-0-262-04283-3 |page=336 |author-link=Vaclav Smil }} Under New York State's gradual emancipation act of 1799, children of slave mothers were to be eventually liberated but to be held in indentured servitude until their mid-to-late twenties."An Act for the Gradual Abolition of Negro Slavery in New York" (L. 1799, Ch. 62){{cite web |last=Harper |first=Douglas |year=2003 |title=Emancipation in New York |url=http://www.slavenorth.com/nyemancip.htm |work=Slave North |access-date=February 6, 2013 }} Together with slaves freed by their masters after the Revolutionary War and escaped slaves, a significant free-Black population gradually developed in Manhattan. The New York Manumission Society worked for abolition and established the African Free School to educate Black children.{{cite web |url=http://www.nydivided.org/VirtualExhibit/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120414223102/http://www.nydivided.org/VirtualExhibit/ |title=New York Divided: Slavery and the Civil War Online Exhibit |publisher=New-York Historical Society (physical exhibit) |date=September 3, 2007 |access-date=May 10, 2012 |archive-date=April 14, 2012 |url-status=dead }} It was not until 1827 that slavery was completely abolished in the state.[https://www.nyhistory.org/community/slavery-end-new-york-state When Did Slavery End in New York State?], New-York Historical Society. Accessed January 16, 2024. "In 1799, New York passed a Gradual Emancipation act that freed slave children born after July 4, 1799, but indentured them until they were young adults. In 1817 a new law passed that would free slaves born before 1799 but not until 1827." Free Blacks struggled with discrimination and interracial abolitionist activism continued. New York City's population jumped from 123,706 in 1820 (10,886 of whom were Black and of which 518 were enslaved) to 312,710 by 1840 (16,358 of whom were Black).

File:Hippolyte_Sebron_-_Rue_De_New-York_En_1840.jpg, which follows the Native American Wecquaesgeek Trail through Manhattan, 1840{{cite news |last=Shorto |first=Russell |date=February 9, 2004 |title=The Streets Where History Lives |newspaper=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/09/opinion/the-streets-where-history-lives.html |access-date=June 19, 2013 }}]]

Also in the 19th century, the city was transformed by both commercial and residential development relating to its status as a national and international trading center, as well as by European immigration, respectively.{{cite book |last=Rosenwaike |first=Ira |url=https://archive.org/details/populationhistor00irar |title=Population History of New York City |date=1972 |publisher=Syracuse University Press |isbn=978-0-8156-2155-3 |page=[https://archive.org/details/populationhistor00irar/page/55 55] |url-access=registration }} The city adopted the Commissioners' Plan of 1811, which expanded the city street grid to encompass almost all of Manhattan. The 1825 completion of the Erie Canal through central New York connected the Atlantic port to the agricultural markets and commodities of the North American interior via the Hudson River and the Great Lakes.{{cite book |last=Bridges |first=William |title=Map of the City Of New York And Island Of Manhattan With Explanatory Remarks And References |year=1811}}; Lankevich (1998), pp. 67–68. Local politics became dominated by Tammany Hall, a political machine supported by Irish and German immigrants.{{cite book |last=Mushkat |first=Jerome |url=https://archive.org/details/fernandowoodpoli0000mush |title=Fernando Wood: A Political Biography |publisher=Kent State University Press |year=1990 |isbn=978-0-87338-413-1 |page=[https://archive.org/details/fernandowoodpoli0000mush/page/36 36] |url-access=registration }} In 1831, New York University was founded.{{Cite web |last=Communications |first=NYU Web |title=A Brief History of New York University |url=http://www.nyu.edu/content/nyu/en/faculty/governance-policies-and-procedures/faculty-handbook/the-university/history-and-traditions-of-new-york-university/a-brief-history-of-new-york-university |access-date=March 8, 2024 |website=nyu.edu |language=en }}

Several prominent American literary figures lived in New York during the 1830s and 1840s, including William Cullen Bryant, Washington Irving, Herman Melville, Rufus Wilmot Griswold, John Keese, Nathaniel Parker Willis, and Edgar Allan Poe. Members of the business elite lobbied for the establishment of Central Park, which in 1857 became the first landscaped park in an American city.Waxman, Sarah. [https://www.ny.com/articles/centralpark.html "History of Central Park, New York"], NY.com. Accessed January 16, 2024. "New York's Central Park is the first urban landscaped park in the United States."

The Great Irish Famine brought a large influx of Irish immigrants, of whom more than 200,000 were living in New York by 1860, representing over a quarter of the city's population.{{cite web |title=Cholera in Nineteenth Century New York |url=http://www.virtualny.cuny.edu/cholera/1866/cholera_1866_set.html |website=Virtual New York |publisher=City University of New York |access-date=October 31, 2021 }} Extensive immigration from the German provinces meant that Germans comprised another 25% of New York's population by 1860.{{cite book |first=Leslie M. |last=Harris |author-link=Leslie M. Harris |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TZx6A_M0yjQC |title=In the Shadow of Slavery: African Americans in New York City, 1626–1863 |date=2003 |publisher=University of Chicago Press |isbn=9780226317755 |at=Excerpted from pages 279–288 |section=The New York City Draft Riots |section-url=http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/317749.html }}{{cite web |author1=M.G. Leonard |title=H. Doc. 29-54 - Paupers and criminals. Memorial of the Corporation of the City of New York, relative to the exportation from abroad of paupers and criminals. January 25, 1847. Read, and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary |url=https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/SERIALSET-00499_00_00-043-0054-0000 |website=GovInfo.gov |publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office |access-date=June 22, 2023 |pages=8–9 |date=January 20, 1847 |quote='Leaving their homes,' [immigrants] say, 'with the brightest prospects,' alluring representations presented to them of the blessed state of American life, a few scanty coins in their pockets, though feeling in the enjoyment of rugged health, and surrounded by their young and innocent offspring, little did they imagine the trials to which they would be exposed; but at length they discover to their sorrow, and very natural discontent, that the foul steerage of some ocean-tossed ship is to form the filthy receptacle of persons, crowded too with hordes of human beings, with scarcely space enough to contain the half of them—certainly not more than the quarter of them comfortably; and thus huddled together en masse, they become the "emigrant passengers" destined to this country. }}

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Democratic Party candidates were consistently elected to local office, increasing the city's ties to the South and its dominant party. In 1861, Mayor Fernando Wood called on the aldermen to declare independence from Albany and the United States after the South seceded, but his proposal was not acted on. Anger at new military conscription laws during the American Civil War (1861–1865), which spared wealthier men who could afford to hire a substitute, led to the Draft Riots of 1863, whose most visible participants were ethnic Irish working class.

The draft riots deteriorated into attacks on New York's elite, followed by attacks on Black New Yorkers after fierce competition for a decade between Irish immigrants and Black people for work. Rioters burned the Colored Orphan Asylum to the ground. At least 120 people were killed.{{cite book |last1=McPherson |first1=James M. |last2=Hogue |first2=James Keith |url=https://books.google.com/books?isbn=0077430352 |title=Ordeal by Fire: The Civil War and Reconstruction |publisher=McGraw-Hill Education |year=2001 |isbn=978-0-07-743035-1 |page=399 }} Eleven Black men were lynched over five days, and the riots forced hundreds of Blacks to flee. The Black population in Manhattan fell below 10,000 by 1865. The White working class had established dominance. It was one of the worst incidents of civil unrest in American history.{{cite book |last=Cook |first=Adrian |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QNkeBgAAQBAJ |title=The Armies of the Streets: The New York City Draft Riots of 1863 |year=1974 |pages=193–195 |publisher=University Press of Kentucky |isbn=9780813162553 }}

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In 1886, the Statue of Liberty, a gift from France, was dedicated in New York Harbor. The statue welcomed 14 million immigrants as they arrived via Ellis Island by ship in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and is a symbol of the United States and American ideals of liberty and peace.[https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/307 Statue of Liberty], UNESCO. Accessed December 28, 2023. "Inaugurated in 1886, the sculpture stands at the entrance to New York Harbour and has welcomed millions of immigrants to the United States ever since."[https://www.nps.gov/stli/learn/historyculture/the-immigrants-statue.htm The Immigrant's Statue], Statue of Liberty National Monument. Accessed December 28, 2023. "Between 1886 and 1924, almost 14 million immigrants entered the United States through New York. The Statue of Liberty was a reassuring sign that they had arrived in the land of their dreams."

In 1898, the 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.{{cite web |title=The 100 Year Anniversary of the Consolidation of the 5 Boroughs into New York City |url=http://nyc.gov/html/nyc100/html/classroom/hist_info/100aniv.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071011221627/http://nyc.gov/html/nyc100/html/classroom/hist_info/100aniv.html |archive-date=October 11, 2007 |access-date=October 28, 2010 |website=NYC100 Centennial Celebration }} The opening of the New York City Subway in 1904, first built as separate private systems, helped bind the new city together.{{cite book |first=Brian J. |last=Cudahy |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UfodzizzrfQC&pg=PA2 |title=The New York Subway: Its Construction and Equipment : Interborough Rapid Transit, 1904 |publisher=Fordham University Press |year=2004 |isbn=978-0-8232-2401-2 |page=2 }} Throughout the first half of the 20th century, the city became a world center for industry, commerce, and communication.{{cite book |first=Angela M. |last=Blake |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=v36fyM6qswYC&pg=PT63 |title=How New York Became American, 1890–1924 |publisher=Johns Hopkins University Press |year=2009 |isbn=978-0-8018-8874-8 |pages=63–66 }}

In 1904, the steamship General Slocum caught fire in the East River, killing 1,021 people.{{cite book |first=Bradley |last=Sheard |url=https://archive.org/details/lostvoyagestwoce0000shea |title=Lost Voyages: Two Centuries of Shipwrecks in the Approaches to New York |publisher=Aqua Quest Publications, Inc. |year=1998 |isbn=978-1-881652-17-5 |page=[https://archive.org/details/lostvoyagestwoce0000shea/page/67 67] |url-access=registration }} In 1911, the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, the city's worst industrial disaster, killed 146 garment workers and spurred the growth of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union and major improvements in factory safety standards.{{cite web |title=The 1911 Triangle Factory Fire |url=https://trianglefire.ilr.cornell.edu/ |access-date=February 9, 2017 |publisher=Kheel Center, Cornell University }}

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New York's non-White population was 36,620 in 1890.{{cite book |last=Rosenwaike |first=Ira |url=https://archive.org/details/populationhistor00irar |title=Population History of New York City |date=1972 |publisher=Syracuse University Press |isbn=978-0-8156-2155-3 |at=Table 30 |url-access=registration }} New York City was a prime destination in the early 20th century for Blacks during the Great Migration from the American South, and by 1916, New York City had the largest urban African diaspora in North America.{{cite book |first1=Henry Louis Jr. |last1=Gates |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=E_vRLcgEdGoC&pg=PR7 |title=Harlem Renaissance Lives from the African American National Biography |first2=Evelyn Brooks |last2=Higginbotham |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=2009 |isbn=978-0-19-538795-7 |page=7 }} The Harlem Renaissance of literary and cultural life flourished during the era of Prohibition.{{cite book |first=Linda De |last=Roche |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cOGOCgAAQBAJ&pg=PR18 |title=The Jazz Age: A Historical Exploration of Literature: A Historical Exploration of Literature |publisher=ABC-CLIO |year=2015 |isbn=978-1-61069-668-5 |pages=18–19 }} The larger economic boom generated construction of skyscrapers competing in height.{{cite book |last1=Willis |first1=Carol |title=Form Follows Finance: Skyscrapers and Skylines in New York and Chicago |date=1995 |publisher=Princeton Architectural Press |location=New York |isbn=9781568980447 |pages=41, 85, 165 }}

New York City became the most populous urbanized area in the world in the early 1920s, overtaking London. The metropolitan area surpassed 10 million in the early 1930s, becoming the first megacity.{{cite web |title=New York Urbanized Area: Population & Density from 1800 (Provisional) |url=http://www.demographia.com/db-nyuza1800.htm |access-date=July 8, 2009 |publisher=Demographia }} 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.{{cite book |last=Allen |first=Oliver E. |title=The Tiger—The Rise and Fall of Tammany Hall |publisher=Addison-Wesley Publishing Company |year=1993 |isbn=978-0-201-62463-2 |chapter=Chapter 9: The Decline |chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/tigerrisefalloft00alle }}

Returning World War II veterans created a post-war economic boom and the development of large housing tracts in eastern Queens and Nassau County, with Wall Street leading America's place as the world's dominant economic power. The United Nations headquarters was completed in 1952, solidifying New York's global geopolitical influence, and the rise of abstract expressionism in the city precipitated New York's displacement of Paris as the center of the art world.{{cite web |last=Burns |first=Ric |date=August 22, 2003 |title=The Center of the World—New York: A Documentary Film (Transcript) |url=https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/newyork/filmmore/pt.html |access-date=September 1, 2008 |publisher=PBS |archive-date=June 23, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110623065806/http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/newyork/filmmore/pt.html |url-status=dead }}

{{Main|History of New York City (1978–present)|September 11 attacks}}

File:Stonewall_Inn_5_pride_weekend_2016.jpg in Greenwich Village, the site of the June 1969 Stonewall riots and the cradle of the modern LGBTQ+ rights movement{{cite web |first=Julia |last=Goicichea |date=August 16, 2017 |title=Why New York City Is a Major Destination for LGBT Travelers |url=https://theculturetrip.com/north-america/usa/new-york/articles/why-new-york-city-is-a-major-destination-for-lgbt-travelers/ |access-date=February 2, 2019 |publisher=The Culture Trip }}{{cite web |title=Workforce Diversity The Stonewall Inn, National Historic Landmark National Register Number: 99000562 |url=http://www.nps.gov/diversity/stonewall.htm |access-date=May 1, 2011 |publisher=National Park Service }}{{cite news |first=Eli |last=Rosenberg |date=June 24, 2016 |title=Stonewall Inn Named National Monument, a First for the Gay Rights Movement |newspaper=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/25/nyregion/stonewall-inn-named-national-monument-a-first-for-gay-rights-movement.html |access-date=June 25, 2016 }}]]

In 1969, the Stonewall riots were a series of violent protests by members of the gay community against a police raid that took place in the early morning of June 28, 1969, at the Stonewall Inn in Greenwich Village.{{cite book |first=Timothy |last=Murphy |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FeWMAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA572 |title=Reader's Guide to Lesbian and Gay Studies |publisher=Routledge |year=2013 |isbn=978-1-135-94234-2 |page=572 }} They are widely considered to be the single most important event leading to the gay liberation movement{{cite web |title=Brief History of the Gay and Lesbian Rights Movement in the U.S. |url=http://www.uky.edu/~lbarr2/gws250spring11_files/Page1186.htm |access-date=September 2, 2017 |publisher=University of Kentucky |archive-date=November 18, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191118054142/http://www.uky.edu/~lbarr2/gws250spring11_files/Page1186.htm |url-status=dead }}{{cite web |first=Nell |last=Frizzell |date=June 28, 2013 |title=Feature: How the Stonewall riots started the LGBT rights movement |url=http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2013/06/28/feature-how-the-stonewall-riots-started-the-gay-rights-movement/ |access-date=August 31, 2017 |publisher=PinkNews }}{{cite encyclopedia |url=https://www.britannica.com/event/Stonewall-riots |title=Stonewall riots |encyclopedia=Encyclopædia Britannica |access-date=August 31, 2017}} and the modern fight for LGBT rights.{{cite web |date=June 2016 |title=Civil Rights at Stonewall National Monument |url=https://www.nps.gov/places/stonewall.htm |access-date=August 31, 2017 |publisher=National Park Service }}{{cite web |title=Obama inaugural speech references Stonewall gay-rights riots |url=http://www.northjersey.com/news/2012_Presidential_Election/Obama_inaugural_speech_references_Stonewall_riots.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130530065722/http://www.northjersey.com/news/2012_Presidential_Election/Obama_inaugural_speech_references_Stonewall_riots.html |date=January 21, 2013 |archive-date=May 30, 2013 |access-date=July 2, 2013 |publisher=North Jersey Media Group }} Wayne R. Dynes, author of the Encyclopedia of Homosexuality, wrote that drag queens were the only "transgender folks around" during the Stonewall riots. The transgender community in New York City played a significant role in fighting for LGBT equality.{{cite web |first=Cristan |last=Williams |date=January 25, 2013 |title=So, what was Stonewall? |url=http://transadvocate.com/so-what-was-stonewall_n_8424.htm |access-date=March 28, 2017 |publisher=The TransAdvocate }}

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In the 1970s, job losses due to industrial restructuring caused New York City to suffer from economic problems and rising crime rates.{{cite web |last=Tannenbaum |first=Allan |title=New York in the 70s: A Remembrance |url=http://digitaljournalist.org/issue0402/at_intro.html |date=February 2004 |access-date=December 18, 2011 |publisher=The Digital Journalist |archive-date=March 20, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120320194616/http://digitaljournalist.org/issue0402/at_intro.html |url-status=dead }} Growing fiscal deficits in 1975 led the city to appeal to the federal government for financial aid; President Gerald Ford gave a speech denying the request, which was paraphrased on the front page of the New York Daily News as "FORD TO CITY: DROP DEAD".Roberts, Sam. [https://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/28/nyregion/28veto.html "Infamous 'Drop Dead' Was Never Said by Ford"], The New York Times, December 28, 2006. Accessed February 20, 2024. "Mr. Ford, on Oct. 29, 1975, gave a speech denying federal assistance to spare New York from bankruptcy. The front page of The Daily News the next day read: "FORD TO CITY: DROP DEAD."... Moreover, the speech spurred New York's civic, business and labor leaders to rally bankers in the United States and abroad, who feared their own investments would be harmed if New York defaulted on its debt." The Municipal Assistance Corporation was formed and granted oversight authority over the city's finances.Chan, Sewell. [https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/14/nyregion/felix-rohatyn-dead.html "Felix G. Rohatyn, Financier Who Piloted New York's Rescue, Dies at 91"], The New York Times, December 14, 2019. Accessed February 20, 2024. "For nearly two decades, from 1975 to 1993, as chairman of the state-appointed Municipal Assistance Corporation, Mr. Rohatyn had a say, often the final one, over taxes and spending in the nation's largest city, a degree of influence for an unelected official that rankled some critics. His efforts to meld private profit with the public good defined him: In the perception of many his name was synonymous with two institutions — the M.A.C., which was hastily created in 1975 to save the city from insolvency, and Lazard (formerly Lazard Frères), the storied investment firm that started as a dry-goods business in New Orleans in 1848." While a resurgence in the financial industry greatly improved the city's economic health in the 1980s, New York's crime rate continued to increase through that decade and into the beginning of the 1990s.{{cite web |last=Effgen |first=Christopher |date=September 11, 2001 |title=New York Crime Rates 1960–2009 |url=http://www.disastercenter.com/crime/nycrime.htm |access-date=October 28, 2010 |publisher=Disastercenter.com }}

New York City's population exceeded 8 million for the first time in the 2000 census;[https://www.nyc.gov/site/planning/planning-level/nyc-population/census-summary-2000.page Population - Decennial Census - Census 2000], New York City Department of City Planning. Accessed January 27, 2024. "According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the population of New York City as of April 1, 2000, was 8,008,278, the largest enumerated census population in the city's history. The previous peak was in 1970, when the enumerated population stood at 7,894,862." further records were set in the 2010 and 2020 censuses.[https://www.nyc.gov/site/planning/planning-level/nyc-population/nyc-population.page Population], New York City Department of City Planning. Accessed January 27, 2024. "The enumerated population of New York City's was 8,804,190 as of April 1, 2020, a record high population. This is an increase of 629,057 people since the 2010 Census." Important new economic sectors, such as Silicon Alley, emerged.{{cite book |first=Irvin |last=Waller |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qQPGAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA38 |title=Smarter Crime Control |publisher=Rowman & Littlefield |year=2013 |isbn=978-1-4422-2170-3 |page=38 }}

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The year 2000 was celebrated with fanfare in Times Square.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/01/02/nyregion/year-2000-overview-2000-draws-rave-reviews-after-opening-night-night-jitters.html |title=THE YEAR 2000: THE OVERVIEW; 2000 Draws Rave Reviews After Opening Night Night Jitters |newspaper=The New York Times |date=January 6, 2000 |access-date=October 28, 2023 }} 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.{{cite book |first=David A. |last=Dieterle |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LmphDgAAQBAJ&pg=PA396 |title=Economics: The Definitive Encyclopedia from Theory to Practice [4 volumes] |publisher=ABC-CLIO |year=2017 |isbn=978-0-313-39708-0 |page=396 }} Two of the four hijacked airliners were flown into the twin towers of the World Trade Center, resulting in the collapse of both buildings and the deaths of 2,753 people, including 343 first responders from the New York City Fire Department and 71 law enforcement officers.Nelson, Joshua Q. [https://www.foxnews.com/media/former-fdny-commissioner-firefighters-9-11 "Former FDNY commissioner on losing 343 firefighters on 9/11: 'We had the best fire chiefs in the world'"], Fox News, September 11, 2021. Accessed January 30, 2024. "Of the 2,753 people killed at the World Trade Center, 343 were first responders from the Fire Department of New York, while another 71 were law enforcement officers from 10 different agencies."

The area was rebuilt with a new World Trade Center, the National September 11 Memorial and Museum, and other new buildings and infrastructure,{{cite book |first=Elizabeth |last=Greenspan |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DMHzmpTK5rYC&pg=PA152 |title=Battle for Ground Zero: Inside the Political Struggle to Rebuild the World Trade Center |publisher=St. Martin's Press/Harvard University |year=2013 |isbn=978-1-137-36547-7 |page=152 }} including the World Trade Center Transportation Hub, the city's third-largest hub.{{cite web |url=http://www.panynj.gov/wtcprogress/transportation-hub.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200103164156/https://old.panynj.gov/wtcprogress/transportation-hub.html |title=World Trade Center Transportation Hub |publisher=Port Authority of New York and New Jersey |access-date=February 9, 2017 |archive-date=January 3, 2020 |quote=The state-of-the-art World Trade Center Transportation Hub, completed in 2016, serves 250,000 Port Authority Trans-Hudson (PATH) daily commuters and millions of annual visitors from around the world. At approximately 800,000 square feet, the Hub, designed by internationally acclaimed architect Santiago Calatrava, is the third-largest transportation center in New York City. |url-status=dead }} The new One World Trade Center is the tallest skyscraper in the Western Hemisphere{{cite news |last1=Hetter |first1=Katia |last2=Boyette |first2=Chris |date=November 12, 2013 |title=It's official: One World Trade Center to be tallest U.S. skyscraper |publisher=CNN |url=http://www.cnn.com/2013/11/12/travel/one-world-trade-center-tallest-us-building/index.html?hpt=hp_t2 |access-date=March 1, 2014 }} and the world's seventh-tallest building by pinnacle height, with its spire reaching a symbolic {{convert|1776|ft|m|1}}, a reference to the year of American independence.{{cite web |title=New York City Skyscraper Diagram |url=http://skyscraperpage.com/diagrams/?cityID=8 |access-date=January 22, 2013 |website=SkyscraperPage.com |publisher=Skyscraper Source Media }}{{cite web |title=One World Trade Center |url=http://skyscraperpage.com/cities/?buildingID=7788 |access-date=February 9, 2017 |website=SkyscraperPage.com |publisher=Skyscraper Source Media |quote=The roof height is the same as original One World Trade Center. The building is topped out by a 124-meter (408-foot) spire. So the tower rises 1,776 feet (541-meter) which marks the year of the American declaration of Independence. }}{{cite web |last=Lesser |first=Benjamin |date=April 30, 2012 |title=It's official: 1 World Trade Center is now New York's tallest skyscraper |url=https://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/real-estate/official-1-wtc-new-york-new-tallest-building-article-1.1069925 |access-date=January 22, 2013 |work=Daily News |location=New York }}

The Occupy Wall Street protests in Zuccotti Park in the Financial District of Lower Manhattan began on September 17, 2011, receiving global attention and popularizing the Occupy movement against social and economic inequality worldwide.{{cite web |first=Joe |last=Nocera |author-link=Joe Nocera |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/15/opinion/nocera-two-days-in-september.html |title=Two Days in September |work=The New York Times |date=September 14, 2012 |access-date=May 6, 2017 |quote=On the left, that anger led, a year ago, to the rise of the Occupy Wall Street movement. Thus, Anniversary No. 2: Sept. 17, 2011, was the date Occupy Wall Street took over Zuccotti Park in Lower Manhattan, which soon led to similar actions in cities across the country. The movement's primary issue was income inequality—"We are the 99 percent", they used to chant. }}

New York City was heavily impacted by Hurricane Sandy in October 2012, including flooding that led to the days-long shutdown of the subway system,Flegenheimer, Matt. [https://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/31/nyregion/subways-may-be-shut-for-several-days-after-hurricane-sandy.html "Flooded Tunnels May Keep City's Subway Network Closed for Several Days"], The New York Times, October 30, 2012. Accessed January 15, 2024. "As the remnants of Hurricane Sandy left the city on Tuesday, transit officials surveyed the damage to the system, which they shut down on Sunday night as a precaution. What they found was an unprecedented assault: flooded tunnels, battered stations and switches and signals likely damaged." and flooding of all East River subway tunnels and of all road tunnels entering Manhattan except the Lincoln Tunnel.[https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CHRG-112shrg81827/html/CHRG-112shrg81827.htm Superstorm Sandy: The Devastating Impact On The Nation's Largest Transportation Systems], United States Senate Commerce Subcommittee on Surface Transportation, Maritime, Freight, and Ports, December 6, 2012. Accessed January 15, 2024. "The most damaging impact of the storm, from a transportation standpoint, was on the highway, transit, and rail tunnels in and out of Manhattan. All seven of the subway tunnels under the East River flooded, as did the Hudson River subway tunnel, the East River and Hudson River commuter rail tunnels, and the subway tunnels in lower Manhattan. Three of the four highway tunnels into Manhattan flooded, leaving only the Lincoln Tunnel open. While some subway service was restored three days after the storm, the PATH train service to the World Trade Center was only restored on November 26, four weeks after the storm, and subway service between the Rockaway peninsula and Howard Beach is not expected to be re-opened for months." The New York Stock Exchange closed for two days due to weather for the first time since the Great Blizzard of 1888.Strasburg, Jenny; Cheng, Jonathan; and Bunge, Jacob. [https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052970204789304578087131092892180 "Behind Decision to Close Markets"], The Wall Street Journal, October 29, 2012. Accessed January 15, 2024. "Superstorm Sandy forced regulators and exchange operators to keep U.S. stock markets closed Tuesday, in the first weather-related shutdown to last more than one day since the Blizzard of 1888. The decision to close the New York Stock Exchange and other U.S. equity markets for a second straight day—reached by midafternoon Monday—renewed questions about the industry's disaster preparedness." At least 43 people died in New York City as a result of Sandy, and the economic losses in New York City were estimated to be roughly $19 billion.[https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-10-13/nyc-still-vulnerable-to-hurricanes-10-years-after-sandy "NYC Still Vulnerable to Hurricanes 10 Years After Sandy"], Bloomberg Businessweek, October 13, 2022. Accessed January 15, 2024. "Hurricane Sandy swept through New York City in October 2012, leading to 43 deaths and an estimated $19 billion in damages.... New York needs to step up its efforts and spend the $15 billion in federal grants that it received for recovery efforts, a new report by New York City Comptroller Brad Lander released on Thursday said." The disaster spawned long-term efforts towards infrastructural projects to counter climate change and rising seas, with $15 billion in federal funding received through 2022 towards those resiliency efforts.[https://comptroller.nyc.gov/reports/ten-years-after-sandy/ Ten Years After Sandy; Barriers to Resilience], New York City Comptroller Brad Lander, October 13, 2022. Accessed January 15, 2024. "Of the $15 billion of federal grants appropriated for Sandy recovery and resilience, the City has spent $11 billion, or 73%, as of June 2022."

In March 2020, the first case of COVID-19 in the city was confirmed.{{Cite news |last=West |first=Melanie Grayce |date=March 1, 2020 |title=First Case of Coronavirus Confirmed in New York State |language=en-US |work=The Wall Street Journal |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/first-case-of-coronavirus-confirmed-in-new-york-state-11583111692 |access-date=July 10, 2020 |issn=0099-9660 }} With its population density and extensive exposure to global travelers, the city rapidly replaced Wuhan, China as the global epicenter of the pandemic during the early phase, straining the city's healthcare infrastructure.{{Cite journal |date=August 2022 |title=When New York City was the COVID-19 pandemic epicenter: The impact on trauma care |journal=The Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery |pmc=9322893 |quote=During early spring 2020, New York City (NYC) rapidly became the first US epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic. |last1=Liveris |first1=A. |last2=Stone Jr |first2=M. E. |last3=Markel |first3=H. |last4=Agriantonis |first4=G. |last5=Bukur |first5=M. |last6=Melton |first6=S. |last7=Roudnitsky |first7=V. |last8=Chao |first8=E. |last9=Reddy |first9=S. H. |last10=Teperman |first10=S. H. |last11=Meltzer |first11=J. A. |volume=93 |issue=2 |pages=247–255 |doi=10.1097/TA.0000000000003460 |pmid=35881035 }}Robinson, David. [https://www.lohud.com/story/news/coronavirus/2020/03/27/how-new-york-city-became-coronavirus-pandemic-epicenter-what-know/2924735001/ "COVID-19: How New York City became epicenter of coronavirus pandemic, what that means"], The Journal News, March 27, 2020. Accessed January 13, 2024. "New York City's rise this month to become the new coronavirus pandemic's epicenter has far-reaching implications for communities statewide. Most pressing, the rapidly spreading virus that originated in Wuhan, China, threatens to overwhelm New York state's entire medical system, prompting a dire push for thousands of new hospital beds to treat infected New Yorkers. Further, the outbreak, which topped 44,600 confirmed cases statewide as of Friday, including 23,000 in New York City alone, is also devastating the entire state's economy and draining government coffers at all levels.... Why New York City's density, tourism made it vulnerable to coronavirus" Through March 2023, New York City recorded more than 80,000 deaths from COVID-19-related complications.[https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/us/new-york-covid-cases.html "Tracking Coronavirus in New York: Latest Map and Case Count"], The New York Times, March 23, 2023. Accessed January 13, 2024 "Since the beginning of the pandemic, a total of 6,805,271 cases have been reported. At least 1 in 243 residents have died from the coronavirus, a total of 80,109 deaths."

{{Main|Geography of New York City|Geography of New York–New Jersey Harbor Estuary}}

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New York City lies in the northeastern United States, in southeastern New York State, approximately halfway between Washington, D.C. and Boston. Its location at the mouth of the Hudson River, which feeds into a naturally sheltered harbor and then into the Atlantic Ocean, has helped the city become a significant trading port. Most of the city is built on the three islands of Long Island, Manhattan, and Staten Island.

During the Wisconsin glaciation, 75,000 to 11,000 years ago, the New York City area was situated at the edge of a large ice sheet.{{cite book |first1=Kenneth T. |last1=Jackson |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lI5ERUmHf3YC&pg=PT2384 |title=The Encyclopedia of New York City: Second Edition |first2=Lisa |last2=Keller |first3=Nancy |last3=Flood |publisher=Yale University Press |year=2010 |isbn=978-0-300-18257-6 |page=2384 }} The erosive forward movement of the ice (and its subsequent retreat) contributed to the separation of what is now Long Island and Staten Island. That action left bedrock at a relatively shallow depth, providing a solid foundation for most of Manhattan's skyscrapers.{{cite web |title=Remnants of an Ice Age, The Wisconsin Ice Sheet Continues Its Journey |url=http://www.nycgovparks.org/about/history/geology |access-date=August 8, 2015 |publisher=New York City Department of Parks and Recreation }}

The Hudson River flows through the Hudson Valley into New York Bay. Between New York City and Troy, New York, the river is an estuary.{{cite web |title=The Hudson River Estuary |url=http://life.bio.sunysb.edu/marinebio/fc.1.estuaries.html |access-date=August 20, 2011 |website=Life.bio.sunysb.edu |publisher=Stony Brook University |archive-date=June 4, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170604154033/http://life.bio.sunysb.edu/marinebio/fc.1.estuaries.html |url-status=dead }} The Hudson River separates the city from New Jersey. The East River—a tidal strait—flows from Long Island Sound and separates the Bronx and Manhattan from Long Island. The Harlem River, another tidal strait between the East and Hudson rivers, separates most of Manhattan from the Bronx. The Bronx River, which flows through the Bronx and Westchester County, is the only entirely freshwater river in the city.{{cite news |last=Berger |first=Joseph |date=July 19, 2010 |title=Reclaimed Jewel Whose Attraction Can Be Perilous |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/20/nyregion/20river.html |access-date=July 21, 2010 }}{{importance inline|date=July 2023}}

The city's land has been altered substantially by human intervention, with considerable land reclamation along the waterfronts since Dutch colonial times; reclamation is most prominent in Lower Manhattan, with developments such as Battery Park City in the 1970s and 1980s.{{cite book |last=Gillespie |first=Angus K. |url=https://archive.org/details/twintowerslifeof00gill |title=Twin Towers: The Life of New York City's World Trade Center |publisher=Rutgers University Press |year=1999 |isbn=978-0-7838-9785-1 |page=[https://archive.org/details/twintowerslifeof00gill/page/71 71] |url-access=registration }} Some of the natural relief in topography has been evened out, especially in Manhattan.{{cite book |last=Lopate |first=Phillip |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QR69izwr9dcC |title=Waterfront: A Walk Around Manhattan |publisher=Anchor Press |year=2005 |isbn=978-0-385-49714-5 }}

The city's total area is {{convert|468.484|sqmi}}. {{cvt|302.643|sqmi}} of the city is land and {{cvt|165.841|sqmi}} of it is water.[http://www2.census.gov/geo/docs/maps-data/data/gazetteer/2010_place_list_36.txt New York State Gazetteer from 2010 United States Census], United States Census Bureau. Retrieved February 9, 2017.{{cite news |last=Roberts |first=Sam |date=May 22, 2008 |title=It's Still a Big City, Just Not Quite So Big |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/22/nyregion/22shrink.html |access-date=May 22, 2008 }} The highest point in the city is Todt Hill on Staten Island, which, at {{convert|409.8|ft}} above sea level, is the highest point on the eastern seaboard south of Maine.{{cite book |last=Lundrigan |first=Margaret |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-p4lHNbJfE8C |title=Staten Island: Isle of the Bay |publisher=Arcadia Publishing |year=2004 |isbn=978-0-7385-2443-6 |page=10 }} The summit of the ridge is mostly covered in woodlands as part of the Staten Island Greenbelt.{{cite book |last=Howard |first=David |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZfCcxk4OcwkC |title=Outside Magazine's Urban Adventure New York City |publisher=W.W. Norton & Company |year=2002 |isbn=978-0-393-32212-5 |page=35 }}

{{main|Boroughs of New York City|Neighborhoods in New York City}}

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{{nowrap|New York City}} is sometimes referred to collectively as the Five Boroughs.{{Cite web |date=October 7, 2017 |title=The Five Boroughs of the City of New York: A Brief Historical Description |url=http://www.thehistorybox.com/ny_city/nycity_5_boros_historical_descrip__article00598.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171007144725/http://www.thehistorybox.com/ny_city/nycity_5_boros_historical_descrip__article00598.htm |url-status=dead |publisher=The History Box |archive-date=October 7, 2017 |access-date=July 10, 2020 }} Each borough is coextensive with a respective county of New York State, making New York City one of the U.S. municipalities in multiple counties.

Manhattan (New York County) is the geographically smallest and most densely populated borough. It is home to Central Park and most of the city's skyscrapers, and is sometimes locally known as The City.{{cite web |first=Jen |last=Carlson |date=May 21, 2012 |title=Do You Refer To Manhattan As "The City"? |url=http://gothamist.com/2012/05/21/do_you_refer_to_manhattan_as_the_ci.php |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161025130428/http://gothamist.com/2012/05/21/do_you_refer_to_manhattan_as_the_ci.php |archive-date=October 25, 2016 |access-date=August 20, 2017 |publisher=Gothamist }} Manhattan's population density of {{Convert|70,450.8|PD/sqmi}} in 2022 makes it the highest of any county in the United States and higher than the density of any individual American city. Manhattan is the cultural, administrative, and financial center of New York City and contains the headquarters of many major multinational corporations, the United Nations headquarters, Wall Street, and a number of important universities. The borough is often described as the financial and cultural center of the world.{{cite news |author=Barry, Dan |date=October 11, 2001 |title=A Nation challenged: in New York; New York Carries On, but Test of Its Grit Has Just Begun |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/11/nyregion/nation-challenged-new-york-new-york-carries-but-test-its-grit-has-just-begun.html |access-date=March 27, 2016 |quote=A roaring void has been created in the financial center of the world. }}{{cite news |author=Sorrentino, Christopher |date=September 16, 2007 |title=When He Was Seventeen |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/16/nyregion/thecity/16toug.html |access-date=March 27, 2016 |quote=In 1980 there were still the remains of the various downtown revolutions that had reinvigorated New York's music and art scenes and kept Manhattan in the position it had occupied since the 1940s as the cultural center of the world. }}

Brooklyn (Kings County), on the western tip of Long Island, is the city's most populous borough. Brooklyn is known for its cultural, social, and ethnic diversity, an independent art scene, distinct neighborhoods, and a distinctive architectural heritage. Downtown Brooklyn is the largest central core neighborhood in the Outer Boroughs. The borough has a long beachfront shoreline including Coney Island, established in the 1870s as one of the earliest amusement grounds in the United States{{cite book |last=Immerso |first=Michael |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=i4POVzmwY9cC |title=Coney Island: The People's Playground |publisher=Rutgers University Press |year=2002 |isbn=978-0-8135-3138-0 |page=3 }} Marine Park and Prospect Park are the two largest parks in Brooklyn.{{cite news |last=Hughes |first=C.J. |date=August 17, 2016 |title=Marine Park, Brooklyn: Block Parties, Bocce and Salt Air |website=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/21/realestate/marine-park-brooklyn-block-parties-bocce-and-salt-air.html |access-date=October 29, 2017 |quote=The neighborhood of Marine Park, a compact enclave in southeast Brooklyn, has a major claim to fame. It sits next to the borough's largest park, Marine Park }} Since 2010, Brooklyn has evolved into a thriving hub of entrepreneurship and high technology startup firms,{{cite web |date=October 19, 2015 |title=19 Reasons Why Brooklyn Is New York's New Startup Hotspot |url=https://www.cbinsights.com/blog/brooklyn-hot-startup-list-investments/ |access-date=August 27, 2017 |publisher=CB Insights }}{{cite news |first=Vanessa |last=Friedman |date=April 30, 2016 |title=Brooklyn's Wearable Revolution |newspaper=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/01/fashion/brooklyn-wearables-revolution.html |access-date=August 27, 2017 }} and of postmodern art and design.{{cite news |first=Alexandria |last=Symonds |date=April 29, 2016 |title=One Celebrated Brooklyn Artist's Futuristic New Practice |newspaper=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/29/t-magazine/art/dustin-yellin-vr-google-tilt-brush-art.html |access-date=August 27, 2017 }} Brooklyn is also home to Fort Hamilton, the U.S. military's only active duty installation within New York City,{{cite web |title=Military Bases in the Continental United States |url=http://www.nps.gov/nagpra/documents/BASES.PDF |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110902235300/http://www.nps.gov/nagpra/documents/BASES.PDF |archive-date=September 2, 2011 |access-date=February 20, 2012 |publisher=Nps.gov |url-status=dead }} aside from Coast Guard operations. The facility was established in 1825 on the site of a battery used during the American Revolution, and it is one of America's longest-serving military forts.{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lI5ERUmHf3YC&q=encyclopedia+of+new+york |title=The History of New York City |edition=2nd |publisher=Yale University Press |year=2010 |isbn=978-0-300-11465-2 |editor1-last=Jackson |editor1-first=Kenneth T. |page=30 }}

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,{{cite news |last=O'Donnell |first=Michelle |date=July 4, 2006 |title=In Queens, It's the Glorious 4th, and 6th, and 16th, and 25th ... |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/04/nyregion/04fourth.html |access-date=July 20, 2014 }} and the most ethnically diverse urban area in the world.{{cite news |first1=Christine |last1=Kim |title=Queens, New York, Sightseeing |newspaper=USA Today |url=http://traveltips.usatoday.com/queens-new-york-sightseeing-107156.html |access-date=March 20, 2016 }}{{cite web |first=Andrew |last=Weber |date=April 30, 2013 |title=Queens |url=http://www.newyork.com/articles/neighborhoods/queens-72876/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150513065643/http://www.newyork.com/articles/neighborhoods/queens-72876/ |archive-date=May 13, 2015 |access-date=March 20, 2016 |publisher=NewYork.com }} Queens is the site of the Citi Field, home of the New York Mets, and hosts the annual US Open tennis tournament at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Flushing Meadows–Corona Park, with plans to build Etihad Park, a soccer-specific stadium for New York City FC.[https://abc7ny.com/metropolitan-park-casino-nyc-new-york-mets/14021998/ "Mets owner Steve Cohen proposes $8 billion casino complex at Citi Field"], WABC-TV, November 7, 2023. Accessed January 15, 2024. "The property surrounding Citi Field is home to Flushing Corona Park, the US Open Tennis Center, and a planned soccer stadium for New York City FC." Additionally, two of the three busiest airports serving the New York metropolitan area, John F. Kennedy International Airport and LaGuardia Airport, are in Queens.Rizzo, Cailey. [https://www.travelandleisure.com/airlines-airports/new-york-city-airports "What to Know About NYC Airports Before Your Next Trip; New York City has three major airports, so which should you choose? Here's everything you need to know before booking your flight."], Travel and Leisure, January 10, 2024. Accessed January 15, 2024. "NYC's main airport, John F. Kennedy International, is in Queens. It's the largest and busiest of the three major airports serving the city, seeing more than 55 million passengers per year.... LaGuardia is the smallest of the NYC area's three major airports but has been called the most efficient in the world. It's located in Queens, about 10 miles north of JFK, and is most accessible from Queens, Manhattan's Upper East Side, the Bronx, and northern Brooklyn."

The Bronx (Bronx County) is both New York City's northernmost borough and the only one that is mostly on the U.S. mainland. It is the location of Yankee Stadium, the baseball park of the New York Yankees, and home to the largest cooperatively-owned housing complex in the United States, Co-op City.{{cite news |last=Frazier |first=Ian |date=June 26, 2006 |title=Utopia, the Bronx |magazine=The New Yorker |url=https://www.newyorker.com/archive/2006/06/26/060626fa_fact_frazier |access-date=September 1, 2008 }} It is home to the Bronx Zoo, the world's largest metropolitan zoo,{{cite web |title=Animals & Exhibits |url=http://www.bronxzoo.com/animals-and-exhibits.aspx |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150114073313/http://bronxzoo.com/animals-and-exhibits.aspx |archive-date=January 14, 2015 |access-date=March 20, 2016 |work=Bronx Zoo |publisher=Wildlife Conservation Society }} which spans {{convert|265|acre|km2}} and houses more than 6,000 animals.{{cite book |last=Ward |first=Candace |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FuWKuHbWnvIC |title=New York City Museum Guide |publisher=Dover Publications |year=2000 |isbn=978-0-486-41000-5 |page=72 }} The Bronx is the birthplace of hip hop music and its associated culture.{{cite book |last=Toop |first=David |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9KuRQgAACAAJ |title=Rap Attack 2: African Rap to Global Hip Hop |publisher=Serpent's Tail |year=1992 |isbn=978-1-85242-243-1 }} Pelham Bay Park is the largest park in New York City, at {{convert|2772|acre|ha}}.{{cite news |author=Foderaro, Lisa W. |date=May 31, 2013 |title=How Big Is That Park? City Now Has the Answer |newspaper=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/01/nyregion/surveying-effort-alters-sizes-of-some-new-york-parks.html |access-date=May 31, 2013 }}

Staten Island (Richmond County) is the most suburban in character of the five boroughs. It is connected to Brooklyn by the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge, and to Manhattan by way of the free Staten Island Ferry. In central Staten Island, the Staten Island Greenbelt spans approximately {{cvt|2500|acres|km2}}, including {{convert|28|mi|km}} of walking trails and one of the last undisturbed forests in the city.{{cite web |title=Staten Island Greenbelt |url=http://www.nynjtc.org/park/staten-island-greenbelt |access-date=October 28, 2010 |website=NYNJTC.org |publisher=New York–New Jersey Trail Conference }} Designated in 1984 to protect the island's natural lands, the Greenbelt comprises seven city parks.

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| New York

| 27.9 | 39.5 | 3.64

| 29.5 | 42.2 | 3.19

| 35.8 | 49.9 | 4.29

| 45.5 | 61.8 | 4.09

| 55.0 | 70.8 | 3.96

| 64.4 | 79.7 | 4.54

| 70.1 | 84.9 | 4.60

| 68.9 | 83.3 | 4.56

| 62.3 | 76.2 | 4.31

| 51.4 | 64.5 | 4.38

| 42.0 | 54.0 | 3.58

| 33.8 | 44.3 | 4.38

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Under the Köppen climate classification, New York City has a humid subtropical climate (Cfa), and is the northernmost major city on the North American continent with this categorization. The suburbs to the immediate north and west are in the transitional zone between humid subtropical and humid continental climates (Dfa).{{cite web |last1=Peel |first1=M.C. |last2=Finlayson |first2=B.L. |last3=McMahon |first3=T.A |title=World Map of Köppen-Geiger climate classification |url=https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bb/Koppen_World_Map_%28retouched_version%29.png |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150113015116/http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bb/Koppen_World_Map_%28retouched_version%29.png |archive-date=January 13, 2015 |access-date=April 26, 2013 |publisher=The University of Melbourne }}{{cite web |title=New York Polonia Polish Portal in New York |url=http://www.newyorkpolonia.com/index.php?sitelg=en&p=localinfo |access-date=April 26, 2013 |publisher=NewYorkPolonia.com }} The city receives an average of {{convert|49.5|in|sigfig=3}} of precipitation annually, which is relatively evenly spread throughout the year. New York averages over 2,500 hours of sunshine annually.{{cite web |title=Average monthly hours of sunshine in New York City (NY) |url=https://weather-and-climate.com/average-monthly-hours-Sunshine,New-York,United-States-of-America#google_vignette |publisher=World Weather & Climate Information |access-date=January 1, 2024 |quote=On average, the total annual amount of sun is 2540 hours. }}

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.[http://www.climateandweather.com/weather-in-new-york Weather in New York], Climate and Weather. Accessed December 31, 2023. "Sprawling across three islands at the mouth of the Hudson River in the north-eastern United States, New York City's climate benefits from the warm Gulf Stream of the Atlantic Ocean. This, coupled with the protection of the Appalachian Mountains inland, keep the city warmer than other big American cities at similar latitudes." The daily mean temperature in January, the area's coldest month, is {{convert|33.3|°F|1}}.{{cite web |title=New York, NY |url=http://w2.weather.gov/climate/local_data.php?wfo=okx |publisher=United States National Weather Service |access-date=July 30, 2022 }} Temperatures usually drop to {{convert|10|°F|0}} several times per winter,{{cite web |title=The Climate of New York |url=http://nysc.eas.cornell.edu/climate_of_ny.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080412104922/http://nysc.eas.cornell.edu/climate_of_ny.html |archive-date=April 12, 2008 |access-date=July 6, 2012 |publisher=Cornell University }} yet can also reach {{convert|60|°F}} for several days even in the coldest winter month. Spring and autumn are unpredictable and can range from cool to warm, although they are usually mild with low humidity. Summers are typically hot and humid, with a daily mean temperature of {{convert|77.5|°F|1}} in July.

Nighttime temperatures are {{Convert|9.5|F-change}} degrees higher for the average city resident due to the urban heat island effect, caused by paved streets and tall buildings.Maldonando, Samantha. [https://www.thecity.nyc/2023/07/26/heat-island-hot-map-temperature/ "How Much Hotter Is NYC's Heat Island Effect Making Your Neighborhood?"], The City, July 26, 2023. Accessed December 30, 2023. "The city as a whole feels about 9.5 degrees hotter for the average New Yorker. That's thanks to the human-made surroundings that define the cityscape: tall buildings that limit air circulation, abundant asphalt and pavement and the heat-generating things New Yorkers do fairly close to one another, like running appliances and driving." Daytime temperatures exceed {{convert|90|°F|0}} on average of 17 days each summer and in some years exceed {{convert|100|°F|0}}, although this is a rare occurrence, last noted on July 18, 2012.{{cite web |url=https://w2.weather.gov/climate/xmacis.php?wfo=okx |title=NowData – NOAA Online Weather Data |publisher=National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration |access-date=May 4, 2021 |archive-date=May 27, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150527215410/http://w2.weather.gov/climate/xmacis.php?wfo=okx |url-status=dead }}{{cite web |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210504224841/https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/services/data/v1?dataset=normals-monthly-1991-2020&startDate=0001-01-01&endDate=9996-12-31&stations=USW00094728&format=pdf |archive-date=May 4, 2021 |url=https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/services/data/v1?dataset=normals-monthly-1991-2020&startDate=0001-01-01&endDate=9996-12-31&stations=USW00094728&format=pdf |publisher=National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration |title=Summary of Monthly Normals 1991–2020 |access-date=May 4, 2021 |url-status=live }}{{cite web |title=New York Central Park, NY Climate Normals 1961−1990 |url=ftp://ftp.atdd.noaa.gov/pub/GCOS/WMO-Normals/TABLES/REG_IV/US/GROUP2/00305801.TXT |publisher=National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration |access-date=July 18, 2020 }}{{cite web |url=https://www.weather-us.com/en/new-york-usa/new-york-climate |title=New York, New York, USA - Monthly weather forecast and Climate data |publisher=Weather Atlas |access-date=July 4, 2019 }} Similarly, readings of {{convert|0|°F|0}} are extremely rare, last occurring on February 14, 2016.{{cite web |url=http://www.weather2000.com/NY_Cold.html |title=Days below 0 °F in New York City |publisher=Weather 2000 |access-date=June 24, 2021 |archive-date=March 26, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220326153735/http://weather2000.com/NY_Cold.html |url-status=dead }} Extreme temperatures have ranged from {{convert|106|°F|0}}, recorded on July 9, 1936, down to {{convert|−15|°F|0}} on February 9, 1934; the coldest recorded wind chill was {{convert|−37|°F|0}} on the same day as the all-time record low.{{Cite news |last=Pollak |first=Michael |date=January 10, 2014 |title=Determining New York City's Record Wind Chill |newspaper=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/12/nyregion/determining-new-york-citys-record-wind-chill.html |access-date=November 5, 2021 }} Average winter snowfall between 1991 and 2020 was {{convert|29.8|in|cm|0}}; this varies considerably between years. The record cold daily maximum was {{convert|2|°F|0}} on December 30, 1917, while, conversely, the record warm daily minimum was {{convert|87|°F|0}}, on July 2, 1903. The average water temperature of the nearby Atlantic Ocean ranges from {{convert|39.7|°F|1}} in February to {{convert|74.1|°F|1}} in August.{{cite web |title=New York City Sea Temperature—United States—Sea Temperatures |url=https://www.seatemperature.org/north-america/united-states/new-york-city.htm |website=World Sea Temperatures |access-date=November 5, 2021 }}

Hurricanes and tropical storms are rare in the New York area.{{cite news |last=Dolnick |first=Sam |date=August 28, 2011 |title=Damage From Irene Largely Spares New York—Recovery Is Slower in New York Suburbs |newspaper=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/29/nyregion/wind-and-rain-from-hurricane-irene-lash-new-york.html?pagewanted=all |access-date=November 5, 2021 }} Hurricane Sandy brought a destructive storm surge to New York City on the evening of October 29, 2012, flooding numerous streets, tunnels, and subway lines in Lower Manhattan and other areas of the city and cutting off electricity in many parts of the city and its suburbs.{{cite web |date=October 29, 2012 |title=Superstorm Sandy blamed for at least 11 U.S. deaths as it slams East Coast |url=http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2012/10/29/hurricane-sandy-strengthens-to-85-mph/ |access-date=January 22, 2013 |publisher=CNN |archive-date=January 20, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130120072118/http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2012/10/29/hurricane-sandy-strengthens-to-85-mph/ |url-status=dead }} The storm and its profound impacts have prompted the discussion of constructing seawalls and other coastal barriers around the shorelines of the city and the metropolitan area to minimize the risk of destructive consequences from another such event in the future.{{cite web |last=Eshelman |first=Robert S. |date=November 15, 2012 |title=Adaptation: Political support for a sea wall in New York Harbor begins to form |url=http://www.eenews.net/public/climatewire/2012/11/15/1 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150702082031/http://www.eenews.net/stories/1059972561 |archive-date=July 2, 2015 |access-date=July 23, 2015 |publisher=Environment & Energy Publishing, LLC |url-status=dead }}{{Weather box

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| location = New York (Belvedere Castle, Central Park), 1991–2020 normals,{{efn|Mean monthly maxima and minima (i.e. the expected highest and lowest temperature readings at any point during the year or given month) calculated based on data at said location from 1991 to 2020}} extremes 1869–present{{efn|Official weather observations for Central Park were conducted at the Arsenal at Fifth Avenue and 64th Street from 1869 to 1919, and at Belvedere Castle since 1919.{{Cite web |url=http://www.nycgovparks.org/parks/centralpark/highlights/11956 |title=Belvedere Castle at NYC Parks |access-date=January 26, 2024 |archive-date=July 2, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140702010127/http://www.nycgovparks.org/parks/centralpark/highlights/11956 |url-status=live }}}}

| single line = Y

| Jan record high F = 72

| Feb record high F = 78

| Mar record high F = 86

| Apr record high F = 96

| May record high F = 99

| Jun record high F = 101

| Jul record high F = 106

| Aug record high F = 104

| Sep record high F = 102

| Oct record high F = 94

| Nov record high F = 84

| Dec record high F = 75

| year record high F = 106

| Jan avg record high F = 60.4

| Feb avg record high F = 60.7

| Mar avg record high F = 70.3

| Apr avg record high F = 82.9

| May avg record high F = 88.5

| Jun avg record high F = 92.1

| Jul avg record high F = 95.7

| Aug avg record high F = 93.4

| Sep avg record high F = 89.0

| Oct avg record high F = 79.7

| Nov avg record high F = 70.7

| Dec avg record high F = 62.9

| year avg record high F = 97.0

| Jan high F = 39.5

| Feb high F = 42.2

| Mar high F = 49.9

| Apr high F = 61.8

| May high F = 71.4

| Jun high F = 79.7

| Jul high F = 84.9

| Aug high F = 83.3

| Sep high F = 76.2

| Oct high F = 64.5

| Nov high F = 54.0

| Dec high F = 44.3

| year high F = 62.6

| Jan mean F = 33.7

| Feb mean F = 35.9

| Mar mean F = 42.8

| Apr mean F = 53.7

| May mean F = 63.2

| Jun mean F = 72.0

| Jul mean F = 77.5

| Aug mean F = 76.1

| Sep mean F = 69.2

| Oct mean F = 57.9

| Nov mean F = 48.0

| Dec mean F = 39.1

| year mean F = 55.8

| Jan low F = 27.9

| Feb low F = 29.5

| Mar low F = 35.8

| Apr low F = 45.5

| May low F = 55.0

| Jun low F = 64.4

| Jul low F = 70.1

| Aug low F = 68.9

| Sep low F = 62.3

| Oct low F = 51.4

| Nov low F = 42.0

| Dec low F = 33.8

| year low F = 48.9

| Jan avg record low F = 9.8

| Feb avg record low F = 12.7

| Mar avg record low F = 19.7

| Apr avg record low F = 32.8

| May avg record low F = 43.9

| Jun avg record low F = 52.7

| Jul avg record low F = 61.8

| Aug avg record low F = 60.3

| Sep avg record low F = 50.2

| Oct avg record low F = 38.4

| Nov avg record low F = 27.7

| Dec avg record low F = 18.0

| year avg record low F = 7.7

| Jan record low F = −6

| Feb record low F = −15

| Mar record low F = 3

| Apr record low F = 12

| May record low F = 32

| Jun record low F = 44

| Jul record low F = 52

| Aug record low F = 50

| Sep record low F = 39

| Oct record low F = 28

| Nov record low F = 5

| Dec record low F = −13

| year record low F = -15

| precipitation colour = green

| Jan precipitation inch = 3.64

| Feb precipitation inch = 3.19

| Mar precipitation inch = 4.29

| Apr precipitation inch = 4.09

| May precipitation inch = 3.96

| Jun precipitation inch = 4.54

| Jul precipitation inch = 4.60

| Aug precipitation inch = 4.56

| Sep precipitation inch = 4.31

| Oct precipitation inch = 4.38

| Nov precipitation inch = 3.58

| Dec precipitation inch = 4.38

| year precipitation inch = 49.52

| Jan snow inch = 8.8

| Feb snow inch = 10.1

| Mar snow inch = 5.0

| Apr snow inch = 0.4

| May snow inch = 0.0

| Jun snow inch = 0.0

| Jul snow inch = 0.0

| Aug snow inch = 0.0

| Sep snow inch = 0.0

| Oct snow inch = 0.1

| Nov snow inch = 0.5

| Dec snow inch = 4.9

| year snow inch = 29.8

| unit precipitation days = 0.01 in

| Jan precipitation days = 10.8

| Feb precipitation days = 10.0

| Mar precipitation days = 11.1

| Apr precipitation days = 11.4

| May precipitation days = 11.5

| Jun precipitation days = 11.2

| Jul precipitation days = 10.5

| Aug precipitation days = 10.0

| Sep precipitation days = 8.8

| Oct precipitation days = 9.5

| Nov precipitation days = 9.2

| Dec precipitation days = 11.4

| year precipitation days = 125.4

| unit snow days = 0.1 in

| Jan snow days = 3.7

| Feb snow days = 3.2

| Mar snow days = 2.0

| Apr snow days = 0.2

| May snow days = 0.0

| Jun snow days = 0.0

| Jul snow days = 0.0

| Aug snow days = 0.0

| Sep snow days = 0.0

| Oct snow days = 0.0

| Nov snow days = 0.2

| Dec snow days = 2.1

| year snow days = 11.4

| humidity colour = green

| Jan humidity = 61.5

| Feb humidity = 60.2

| Mar humidity = 58.5

| Apr humidity = 55.3

| May humidity = 62.7

| Jun humidity = 65.2

| Jul humidity = 64.2

| Aug humidity = 66.0

| Sep humidity = 67.8

| Oct humidity = 65.6

| Nov humidity = 64.6

| Dec humidity = 64.1

| year humidity = 63.0

| Jan sun = 162.7

| Feb sun = 163.1

| Mar sun = 212.5

| Apr sun = 225.6

| May sun = 256.6

| Jun sun = 257.3

| Jul sun = 268.2

| Aug sun = 268.2

| Sep sun = 219.3

| Oct sun = 211.2

| Nov sun = 151.0

| Dec sun = 139.0

| year sun =

| Jan percentsun = 54

| Feb percentsun = 55

| Mar percentsun = 57

| Apr percentsun = 57

| May percentsun = 57

| Jun percentsun = 57

| Jul percentsun = 59

| Aug percentsun = 63

| Sep percentsun = 59

| Oct percentsun = 61

| Nov percentsun = 51

| Dec percentsun = 48

| year percentsun = 57

| Jan dew point C = −7.8

| Feb dew point C = −7.2

| Mar dew point C = −3.4

| Apr dew point C = 1.1

| May dew point C = 8.5

| Jun dew point C = 14.1

| Jul dew point C = 16.6

| Aug dew point C = 16.7

| Sep dew point C = 13.1

| Oct dew point C = 6.7

| Nov dew point C = 1.1

| Dec dew point C = −4.1

| year dew point C = 4.6

| Jan uv = 2

| Feb uv = 3

| Mar uv = 4

| Apr uv = 6

| May uv = 7

| Jun uv = 8

| Jul uv = 8

| Aug uv = 8

| Sep uv = 6

| Oct uv = 4

| Nov uv = 2

| Dec uv = 1

| source 1 = NOAA (relative humidity and sun 1961–1990; dew point 1965–1984)

| source 2 = Weather Atlas

See Climate of New York City for additional climate information from the outer boroughs.

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{{main|New York City Department of Parks and Recreation|List of New York City parks}}

File:Statue_of_Liberty,_NY.jpg on Liberty Island in New York Harbor, a global symbol of the United States and its ideals of liberty, freedom, and opportunity]]

File:Central Park - The Pond (48377220157).jpg and Midtown Manhattan as seen from Gapstow Bridge in Central Park]]

The city of New York has a complex park system, with various lands operated by the National Park Service, the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation, and the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation. In its 2023 ParkScore ranking, the Trust for Public Land reported that the park system in New York City was the tenth-best park system among the most populous U.S. cities, citing the city's park acreage, investment in parks and that 99% of residents are within {{Convert|1/2|mi}} of a park.[https://parkserve.tpl.org/downloads/pdfs/New%20York%20City_NY.pdf 2023 ParkScore Index New York, NY], Trust for Public Land. Accessed January 15, 2024.

Gateway National Recreation Area contains over {{convert|26000|acres|km2}}, most of it in New York City.{{cite web |title=Discover the truly wild side of New York's metropolitan area |url=http://www.nps.gov/gate/index.htm |access-date=June 11, 2012 |publisher=nps.gov }} In Brooklyn and Queens, the park contains over {{convert|9000|acre|km2}} of salt marsh, wetlands, islands, and water, including most of Jamaica Bay and the Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge. Also in Queens, the park includes a significant portion of the western Rockaway Peninsula, most notably Jacob Riis Park and Fort Tilden.[https://www.nps.gov/gate/planyourvisit/map_jbu.htm Maps for Jamaica Bay Unit], Gateway National Recreation Area. Accessed January 15, 2024. "Within the Jamaica Bay Unit there are several places to visit. Floyd Bennett Field, Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge, Canarsie Pier, Breezy Point, Fort Tilden and Jacob Riis Park." In Staten Island, it includes Fort Wadsworth, with historic pre-Civil War era Battery Weed and Fort Tompkins, and Great Kills Park.[https://www.nps.gov/gate/planyourvisit/maps_siu.htm Maps for Staten Island Unit], Gateway National Recreation Area. Accessed January 15, 2024. "The Staten Island Unit is made of three different areas, Fort Wadsworth, Miller Field, and Great Kills Park."

The Statue of Liberty National Monument and Ellis Island Immigration Museum are managed by the National Park Service and are in both New York and New Jersey. They are joined in the harbor by Governors Island National Monument. Historic sites under federal management on Manhattan Island include Stonewall National Monument; Castle Clinton National Monument; Federal Hall National Memorial; Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace National Historic Site; General Grant National Memorial (Grant's Tomb); African Burial Ground National Monument; and Hamilton Grange National Memorial. Hundreds of properties are listed on the National Register of Historic Places or as a National Historic Landmark.

There are seven state parks within the confines of New York City. They include: the Clay Pit Ponds State Park Preserve, a natural area that includes extensive riding trails; the Riverbank State Park, a {{convert|28|acre|ha|adj=on}} facility;{{cite web |title=New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation, New York City Region |url=http://www.nysparks.state.ny.us/parks/93/details.aspx |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110215035615/http://www.nysparks.state.ny.us/parks/93/details.aspx |archive-date=February 15, 2011 |access-date=October 28, 2010 |publisher=Nysparks.state.ny.us }} and the Marsha P. Johnson State Park, a state park in Brooklyn and Manhattan that borders the East River renamed in honor of Marsha P. Johnson.{{cite web |title=Marsha P. Johnson State Park (East River State Park) |url=https://www.parks.ny.gov/parks/155/details.aspx |website=New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation |access-date=October 4, 2021 }}

New York City has over {{convert|28000|acre|km2}} of municipal parkland and {{convert|14|mi|km}} of public beaches.{{cite web |date=February 3, 1999 |title=Mayor Giuliani Announces Amount of Parkland in New York City has Passed {{convert|28000|acre|km2 |adj=on}} Mark |url=http://www.nyc.gov/html/om/html/99a/pr042-99.html |access-date=September 1, 2008 |publisher=New York City Mayor's Office }}; {{cite web |title=Beaches |url=http://www.nycgovparks.org/facilities/beaches |access-date=September 1, 2008 |publisher=New York City Department of Parks & Recreation }} The largest municipal park in the city is Pelham Bay Park in the Bronx, with {{cvt|2772|acres|0}},{{cite web |title=Pelham Bay Park |url=http://www.nycgovparks.org/parks/pelham-bay-park |access-date=June 8, 2012 |publisher=New York City Department of Parks and Recreation }} and the most visited urban park is the Central Park, and one of the most filmed and visited locations in the world, with 42 million visitors in 2023.

{{main|Environmental issues in New York City}}

File:Recycling_combine_-_Sunset_Pk,_NYC_05.jpg is the largest commingled recycling facility in the United States.{{Cite web |last=Szczepanski |first=Mallory |date=July 21, 2017 |title=Behind the Scenes of Sims Municipal Recycling's MRF in Brooklyn |url=https://www.waste360.com/mrfs/behind-scenes-sims-municipal-recyclings-mrf-brooklyn |access-date=January 5, 2022 |website=Waste360 |language=en }}{{Cite web |last=Paben |first=Jared |date=January 11, 2022 |title=Closed Loop picks up a MRF operator with strong financials – Resource Recycling |url=https://resource-recycling.com/recycling/2022/01/11/closed-loop-picks-up-a-mrf-operator-with-strong-financials/ |access-date=February 21, 2022 |website=Resource Recycling News |language=en-US }}]]

Environmental issues in New York City are affected by the city's size, density, abundant public transportation infrastructure, and its location at the mouth of the Hudson River. For example, it is one of the country's biggest sources of pollution and has the lowest per-capita greenhouse gas emissions rate and electricity usage. Governors Island is planned to host a US$1{{nbsp}}billion research and education center to make New York City the global leader in addressing the climate crisis.{{cite web |date=October 26, 2022 |title=Mayor Adams, Trust For Governors Island Unveil Finalist Proposals For Climate Solutions Center |url=https://www1.nyc.gov/office-of-the-mayor/news/781-22/mayor-adams-trust-governors-island-finalist-proposals-climate-solutions-center#/0 |access-date=October 28, 2022 |publisher=City of New York }}

As an oceanic port city, New York City is vulnerable to long-term manifestations of global warming like sea level rise exacerbated by land subsidence.{{cite news |last1=Prisco |first1=Jacopo |title=New York City is sinking due to its million-plus buildings, study says |url=https://edition.cnn.com/2023/05/23/world/nyc-sinking-sea-level-climate-scn/index.html |access-date=January 22, 2024 |agency=CNN |publisher=Earth's Future |date=May 23, 2023 }} Climate change has spawned the development of a significant climate resiliency and environmental sustainability economy in the city. New York City has focused on reducing its environmental impact and carbon footprint.{{cite web |date=September 21, 2014 |title=Mayor de Blasio Commits to 80 Percent Reduction of Greenhouse Gas Emissions by 2050, Starting with Sweeping Green Buildings Plan |url=http://www1.nyc.gov/office-of-the-mayor/news/451-14/mayor-de-blasio-commits-80-percent-reduction-greenhouse-gas-emissions-2050-starting-with#/0 |access-date=October 31, 2014 |publisher=City of New York }} Mass transit use is the highest in the country.

New York's high rate of public transit use, more than 610,000 daily cycling trips {{As of|2022|lc=y}}, and many pedestrian commuters make it the most energy-efficient major city in the United States.{{cite book |last=Jervey |first=Ben |url=https://archive.org/details/biggreenappleyou00jerv |title=The Big Green Apple: Your Guide to Eco-Friendly Living in New York City |publisher=Globe Pequot Press |year=2006 |isbn=978-0-7627-3835-9 }} Walk and bicycle modes of travel account for 21% of all modes for trips in the city; nationally, the rate for metro regions is about 8%.{{cite web |date=December 2004 |title=2001 National Household Travel Survey: Summary of Travel Trends |url=http://nhts.ornl.gov/2001/pub/STT.pdf |access-date=September 1, 2008 |publisher=U.S. Department of Transportation }} In both 2011 and 2015, Walk Score named New York City the most walkable large city in the United States,{{cite news |last=Florida |first=Richard |date=April 7, 2015 |title=2015's Most Walkable U.S. Cities |newspaper=The Atlantic |publisher=MSN |url=https://www.msn.com/en-us/travel/news/2015s-most-walkable-us-cities/ar-AAayJRg |url-status=dead |access-date=April 12, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150411013021/http://www.msn.com/en-us/travel/news/2015s-most-walkable-us-cities/ar-AAayJRg |archive-date=April 11, 2015 }}{{cite web |title=NYC tops list of most walkable cities in America—video narrative by Mara Montalbano |url=https://www.msn.com/en-us/video/travel/nyc-tops-list-of-most-walkable-cities-in-america/vi-AAaEJMr |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151024120549/https://www.msn.com/en-us/video/travel/nyc-tops-list-of-most-walkable-cities-in-america/vi-AAaEJMr |archive-date=October 24, 2015 |access-date=April 11, 2015 |publisher=Buzz60, on MSN |url-status=dead }}{{cite web |year=2011 |title=The 10 Most Walkable U.S. Cities |url=http://www.marketwatch.com/story/the-10-most-walkable-us-cities-2011-07-20?link=MW_popular |access-date=July 20, 2011 |work=MarketWatch }} and in 2018, Stacker ranked New York the most walkable American city.{{cite web |first=Betsy |last=Ladyzhets |date=April 18, 2018 |title=Most walkable cities in America |url=https://www.msn.com/en-us/lifestyle/smart-living/most-walkable-cities-in-america/ss-AAw27Ti?li=BBnb7Kz&ocid=iehp |access-date=May 18, 2018 |publisher=Stacker, via MSN }} Citibank sponsored public bicycles for the city's bike-share project, which became known as Citi Bike, in 2013.{{cite web |last=Hamblin |first=James |date=June 28, 2013 |title=The Summer Bicycles Took Control |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2013/06/the-summer-bicycles-took-control/277166/ |access-date=June 28, 2013 |work=The Atlantic Monthly |publisher=The Atlantic Monthly Group }} New York City's numerical "in-season cycling indicator" of bicycling in the city had hit an all-time high of 437 when measured in 2014.{{cite web |title=2014 NYC In-Season Cycling Indicator |url=http://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/downloads/pdf/2014-isci.pdf |access-date=March 15, 2019 |publisher=City of New York }}

The New York City drinking water supply is extracted from the protected Catskill Mountains watershed.{{cite web |title=Current Reservoir Levels |url=http://www.nyc.gov/html/dep/html/drinking_water/maplevels_wide.shtml |access-date=August 15, 2014 |publisher=New York City Department of Environmental Protection }} 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 water treatment.{{cite news |last=Lustgarten |first=Abrahm |date=August 6, 2008 |title=City's Drinking Water Feared Endangered; $10B Cost Seen |work=The New York Sun |url=http://www.nysun.com/new-york/citys-drinking-water-feared-endangered-0b-cost/83288/ |access-date=August 9, 2008 |archive-date=August 20, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160820001437/http://www.nysun.com/new-york/citys-drinking-water-feared-endangered-0b-cost/83288/ |url-status=dead }} The city's municipal water system is the nation's largest, moving more than {{Convert|1|e9gal|e9l|abbr=off|sp=us}} of water daily from a watershed covering {{Convert|1900|sqmi}}{{cite news |first=Winnie |last=Hu |date=January 18, 2018 |title=A Billion-Dollar Investment in New York's Water |newspaper=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/18/nyregion/new-york-city-water-filtration.html |access-date=January 18, 2018 }}[https://www.epa.gov/sites/default/files/2017-02/documents/ws-ourwater-new-york-state-fact-sheet.pdf New York Water Fact Sheet], United States Environmental Protection Agency. June 2010. Accessed December 29, 2023. "New York City is home to the largest engineered water system in the nation, supplying more than 1 billion gallons of water each day to approximately 9 million people, representing half of the state's population. The city draws its water from reservoirs upstate, supplied by a 1,900-square mile watershed—that's about the size of Delaware."

According to the 2016 World Health Organization Global Urban Ambient Air Pollution Database,{{cite web |title=WHO Global Ambient Air Quality Database (update 2018) |url=https://www.who.int/airpollution/data/cities/en/ |website=World Health Organization |access-date=January 16, 2022 }} the annual average concentration in New York City's air of particulate matter measuring 2.5{{nbsp}}micrometers or less (PM_2.5) was 7.0{{nbsp}}micrograms per cubic meter, or 3.0{{nbsp}}micrograms within the recommended limit of the WHO Air Quality Guidelines for the annual mean PM_2.5.{{cite web |title=Ambient (outdoor) air quality and health |url=https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/ambient-(outdoor)-air-quality-and-health |website=World Health Organization |access-date=January 16, 2022 }} 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.{{cite web |title=Air Pollution Monitoring |url=http://www.nyc.gov/html/dep/html/air/air_pollution_monitoring.shtml |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190305195347/http://www.nyc.gov/html/dep/html/air/air_pollution_monitoring.shtml |archive-date=March 5, 2019 |access-date=January 16, 2022 |website=New York City Department of Environmental Protection |url-status=dead }}

{{Main|Demographics of New York City|Demographic history of New York City}}

{{Historical populations|type=USA

| 1698|4937

| 1712|5840

| 1723|7248

| 1737|10664

| 1746|11717

| 1756|13046

| 1771|21863

| 1790|33131

| 1800|60515

| 1810|96373

| 1820|123706

| 1830|202589

| 1840|312710

| 1850|515547

| 1860|813669

| 1870|942292

| 1880|1206299

| 1890|1515301

| 1900|3437202

| 1910|4766883

| 1920|5620048

| 1930|6930446

| 1940|7454995

| 1950|7891957

| 1960|7781984

| 1970|7894862

| 1980|7071639

| 1990|7322564

| 2000|8008288

| 2010|8175133

| 2020|8804190

| 2024 est.|8478072

|footnote={{efn|1880 & 1890 figures include part of the Bronx. Beginning with 1900, figures are for consolidated city of five boroughs. Sources: 1698–1771,{{cite book |last=Greene and Harrington |title=American Population Before the Federal Census of 1790 |location=New York |publisher=Columbia University Press |year=1932}}, as cited in: {{cite book |last=Rosenwaike |first=Ira |title=Population History of New York City |publisher=Syracuse University Press |location=Syracuse, N.Y. |year=1972 |isbn=0-8156-2155-8 |page=[https://archive.org/details/populationhistor00irar/page/8 8] |url=https://archive.org/details/populationhistor00irar/page/8 }} 1790–1990,Gibson, Campbell; and Jung, Kay. [https://www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/library/working-papers/2005/demo/POP-twps0076.pdf#page=81 Historical Census Statistics On Population Totals By Race, 1790 to 1990, and By Hispanic Origin, 1970 to 1990, For Large Cities And Other Urban Places In The United States], United States Census Bureau, February 2005. Accessed January 16, 2024. 2000 and 2010 Censuses,{{cite web |title=Table PL-P1 NYC: Total Population New York City and Boroughs, 2000 and 2010 |url=http://www1.nyc.gov/assets/planning/download/pdf/data-maps/nyc-population/census2010/t_pl_p1_nyc.pdf |website=nyc.gov |access-date=May 16, 2016 }} 2020 Census,}}

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New York City is the most populous city in the United States, with 8,804,190 residents as of the 2020 census, its highest decennial count ever, incorporating more immigration into the city than outmigration since the 2010 census.{{cite news |last=Sherry |first=Virginia N. |date=March 27, 2014 |title=Staten Island population at all-time high of 473,000; NYC's soars to record 8.4 million |newspaper=Staten Island Advance |url=http://www.silive.com/news/index.ssf/2014/03/staten_island_residents_number.html |access-date=March 27, 2014 }}{{cite news |last=Roberts |first=Sam |date=March 14, 2013 |title=Fewer People Are Abandoning the Bronx, Census Data Show |newspaper=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/14/nyregion/more-people-moving-to-bronx-census-shows.html |access-date=March 27, 2014 }} More than twice as many people live in New York City as in Los Angeles, the second-most populous American city.{{cite web |title=Population Rebounds for Many Cities in Northeast and Midwest |url=https://www.census.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2024/subcounty-population-estimates.html |website=United States Census Bureau |access-date=16 May 2024}} The city's population in 2020 was 35.9% White, 22.7% Black, 14.6% Asian, 10.5% Mixed, 0.7% Native American and 0.1% Pacific Islander; 28.4% identified themselves as Hispanic or Latino.

Between 2010 and 2020, New York City gained 629,000 residents, more than the total gains over the same decade of the next four largest American cities (Los Angeles, Chicago, Houston, and Phoenix) combined.{{cite web |first=Celine |last=Castronuovo |url=https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/567611-all-10-largest-cities-grew-phoenix-supplants-philly-as-5th-largest-in-us |title=All 10 largest cities grew, Phoenix supplants Philly as 5th largest in US |date=August 12, 2021 |access-date=August 28, 2021 |work=The Hill }}{{cite web |first=John L. |last=Dorman |url=https://www.businessinsider.com/census-10-largest-cities-united-states-population-growth-reapportionment-2021-8 |title=Census: The 10 most populous US cities are led by NYC, Los Angeles, and Chicago; Phoenix leapfrogs Philadelphia to claim the No. 5 spot |access-date=August 27, 2021 |date=August 16, 2021 |work=Business Insider }} The city's population density of {{Convert|27,744.1|PD/sqmi}} makes it the densest of any American municipality with a population above 100,000.[https://www.census.gov/popclock/embed.php?component=density Highest Density States, Counties and Cities (2022)], United States Census Bureau. Accessed December 30, 2023. Manhattan's population density is {{Convert|70,450.8|PD/sqmi}}, the highest of any county in the United States.

Based on data from the 2020 census, New York City comprises about 43.6% of the state's population of 20,202,320, and about 39% of the population of the New York metropolitan area.{{cite web |year=2016 |title=ACS Demographic and Housing Estimates—2012–2016 American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates—City Versus Metro |url=https://factfinder.census.gov/bkmk/table/1.0/en/ACS/15_5YR/DP05/1600000US3651000%7C330M200US408 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20200214004528/https://factfinder.census.gov/bkmk/table/1.0/en/ACS/15_5YR/DP05/1600000US3651000%7C330M200US408 |archive-date=February 14, 2020 |access-date=October 8, 2018 |website=American Fact Finder, United States Census Bureau }} The majority of New York City residents in 2020 (5,141,539 or 58.4%) were living in Brooklyn or Queens, the two boroughs on Long Island.[https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/newyorkcitynewyork,bronxcountynewyork,kingscountynewyork,newyorkcountynewyork,queenscountynewyork,richmondcountynewyork/ QuickFacts New York city, New York; Bronx County, New York; Kings County, New York; New York County, New York; Queens County, New York; Richmond County, New York], United States Census Bureau. Accessed January 14, 2024. As many as 800 languages are spoken in New York,{{cite web |url=http://elalliance.org/ |title=Endangered Language Alliance |year=2012 |access-date=September 7, 2013 }}{{cite news |url=http://www.economist.com/node/21528592 |title=Linguistics- Say what? |newspaper=The Economist |date=September 10, 2011 |access-date=October 24, 2013 }}{{cite news |url=https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/new-yorkers-self-assured-and-opinionated-defend-their-values/ar-BBog5Ms?li=BBnb7Kz&ocid=iehp |title=New Yorkers, Self-Assured and Opinionated, Defend Their Values |author=N. R. Kleinfield |newspaper=The New York Times |date=January 15, 2016 |access-date=January 15, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160118134043/http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/new-yorkers-self-assured-and-opinionated-defend-their-values/ar-BBog5Ms?li=BBnb7Kz&ocid=iehp |archive-date=January 18, 2016 |url-status=dead }} and the New York City metropolitan statistical area has the largest foreign-born population of any metropolitan region in the world. The New York region continues to be by far the leading metropolitan gateway for legal immigrants admitted into the United States, substantially exceeding the combined totals of Los Angeles and Miami.{{cite web |title=Yearbook of Immigration Statistics LPRSupplemental Table 2d Persons Obtaining Lawful Permanent Resident Status by Leading Core Based Statistical Areas (CBSAs) of Residence and Region and Country of Birth: Fiscal Year 2022 |url=https://www.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/2023-12/2023_0818_plcy_yearbook_lawful_permanent_residents_fy2022.xlsx |access-date=May 16, 2024 |publisher=U.S. Department of Homeland Security }} Nearly seven times as many young professionals applied for jobs in New York City in 2023 as compared to 2019, making New York the most popular destination for recent college graduates.{{cite web |url=https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2023/10/10/this-is-the-no-1-city-where-young-people-want-to-work-most.html |title=This is the No. 1 city attracting young professionals—demand grew nearly 7 times since 2019 |author=Jennifer Liu |publisher=CNBC |date=October 10, 2023 |access-date=May 16, 2024 }}

{{Main|Race and ethnicity in New York City|New York City ethnic enclaves}}

According to 2022 estimates from the American Community Survey, the largest self-reported ancestries in New York City were Dominican (8.7%), Chinese (7.5%), Puerto Rican (6.9%), Italian (5.5%), Mexican (4.4%), Irish (4.4%), Asian Indian (3.1%), German (2.9%), Jamaican (2.4%), Ecuadorian (2.3%), English (2.1%), Polish (1.9%), Russian (1.7%), Arab (1.4%), Haitian (1.4%), Guyanese (1.3%), Filipino (1.1%), and Korean (1.1%).{{cite web |title=QuickFacts for New York City / New York State / United States |url=https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/table/PST045216/3651000,36,00 |access-date=February 14, 2022 |publisher=United States Census Bureau}}

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!2020{{cite web |url=https://data.census.gov/cedsci/table?g=1600000US3651000&y=2020 |publisher=US Census Bureau |title=2020: DEC Redistricting Data (PL 94-171) }}

!2010

!1990{{cite web |title=Race and Hispanic Origin for Selected Cities and Other Places: Earliest Census to 1990 |url=https://www.census.gov/population/www/documentation/twps0076/twps0076.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120812191959/http://www.census.gov/population/www/documentation/twps0076/twps0076.html |access-date=November 7, 2021 |archive-date=August 12, 2012 |publisher=U.S. Census Bureau }}

!1970

!1940

|-

|White (non-Hispanic)

|30.9%

|33.3%

|43.4%

|64.0%

|92.1%

|-

|Hispanic or Latino

|28.3%

|28.6%

|23.7%

|15.2%

|1.6%

|-

|Black or African American (non-Hispanic)

|20.2%

|22.8%

|28.8%

|21.1%

|6.1%

|-

|Asian and Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic)

|15.6%

|12.6%

|7.0%

|1.2%

|0.2%

|-

|Native American (non-Hispanic)

|0.2%

|0.2%

|0.4%

|0.1%

|N/A

|-

|Two or more races (non-Hispanic)

|3.4%

|1.8%

|N/A

|N/A

|N/A

|}

Based on American Community Survey data from 2018 to 2022, approximately 36.3% of the city's population is foreign born (compared to 13.7% nationwide), and 40% of all children are born to mothers who are immigrants.Camarota, Steven A.; Zeigler, Karen; and Richwine, Jason. [https://cis.org/Report/Births-Legal-and-Illegal-Immigrants-US Births to Legal and Illegal Immigrants in the U.S; A look at health insurance coverage among new mothers by legal status at the state and local level], Center for Immigration Studies, October 9, 2018. Accessed January 14, 2024. Throughout its history, New York has been a major port of entry for immigrants.{{cite news |last=Semple |first=Kirk |date=June 8, 2013 |title=City's Newest Immigrant Enclaves, From Little Guyana to Meokjagolmok it |newspaper=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/06/09/nyregion/new-york-citys-newest-immigrant-enclaves.html?pagewanted=all |access-date=June 12, 2013 }}[https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/planning/download/pdf/data-maps/nyc-population/nny2013/nny_2013.pdf The Newest New Yorkers: 2013], New York City Department of City Planning, December 2013. Retrieved February 9, 2017. "The immigrant share of the population has also doubled since 1965, to 37 percent. With foreign-born mothers accounting for 51 percent of all births, approximately 6-in-10 New Yorkers are either immigrants or the children of immigrants." No single country or region of origin dominates. Queens has the largest Asian American and Andean populations in the United States, and is also the most ethnically and linguistically diverse urban area in the world.{{cite web |url=https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2017/02/queens-in-new-york-has-more-languages-than-anywhere-in-the-world/#:~:text=There%20are%20as%20many%20as,Endangered%20Language%20Alliance%20(ELA). |title=Welcome to the language capital of the world: Queens, New York |author=Gus Lubin |publisher=World Economic Forum, in collaboration with Business Insider |access-date=August 31, 2024 |quote=There are as many as 800 languages spoken in New York City, and nowhere in the world has more than Queens, according to the Endangered Language Alliance (ELA). }}

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The metropolitan area has the largest Asian Indian population in the Western Hemisphere; the largest Russian American, Italian American, and African American populations; the largest Dominican American, Puerto Rican American, and South American{{cite web |title=Yearbook of Immigration Statistics: 2011 Supplemental Table 2 |url=https://www.dhs.gov/files/statistics/publications/LPR11.shtm |access-date=July 18, 2014 |publisher=U.S. Department of Homeland Security }} and second-largest overall Hispanic population in the United States, numbering over 5 million. Venezuela, Ecuador, Colombia, Guyana, Peru, and Brazil, are the top source countries from South America for immigrants to the New York City region; the Dominican Republic, Jamaica, Haiti, and Trinidad and Tobago in the Caribbean; Nigeria, Egypt, Ghana, Tanzania, Kenya, and South Africa from Africa; and El Salvador, Honduras, and Guatemala in Central America.{{cite web |title=Persons Obtaining Lawful Permanent Resident Status by Leading Core Based Statistical Areas (CBSAs) of Residence and Region and Country of Birth: Fiscal Year 2013 |url=https://www.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/publications/immigration-statistics/yearbook/2013/LPR/immsuptable2d.xls |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140712214124/https://www.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/publications/immigration-statistics/yearbook/2013/LPR/immsuptable2d.xls |access-date=March 6, 2015 |archive-date=July 12, 2014 |publisher=United States Department of Homeland Security |url-status=dead }}

New York contains the highest total Asian population of any U.S. city proper.{{cite web |title=Asian American Statistics |url=http://www.ameredia.com/resources/demographics/asian_american.html |access-date=July 5, 2011 |publisher=Améredia Incorporated }} Asian Americans in New York City, according to the 2010 census, number more than 1.2 million, greater than the combined totals of San Francisco and Los Angeles.{{cite news |last=Semple |first=Kirk |date=June 23, 2011 |title=Asian New Yorkers Seek Power to Match Numbers |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/24/nyregion/asian-new-yorkers-asian-new-yorkers-seek-power-to-match-surging-numbers.html |access-date=July 5, 2011 |quote=Asians, a group more commonly associated with the West Coast, are surging in New York, where they have long been eclipsed in the city's kaleidoscopic racial and ethnic mix. For the first time, according to census figures released in the spring, their numbers have topped one million—nearly one in eight New Yorkers—which is more than the Asian population in the cities of San Francisco and Los Angeles combined. }} New York has the largest Chinese population of any city outside Asia,{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/23/nyregion/in-new-york-indictment-of-officer-peter-liang-divides-chinese-americans.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=photo-spot-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0 |title=Indictment of New York Officer Divides Chinese-Americans |author=Vivian Yee |newspaper=The New York Times |date=February 22, 2015 |access-date=November 17, 2023 |quote=Now they are reaching out to the Chinese-language press, contacting lawyers to advise Officer Liang and planning a protest march in New York, a city with the largest Chinese population outside of Asia. }} Manhattan's Chinatown is the highest concentration of Chinese people in the Western Hemisphere,* {{cite web |url=http://www.explorechinatown.com/PDF/FactSheet.pdf |title=Chinatown New York City Fact Sheet |publisher=www.explorechinatown.com |access-date=August 28, 2022}}

• {{cite web |url=http://www.ny.com/articles/chinatown.html |title=The History of New York's Chinatown |first=Sarah |last=Waxman |publisher=Mediabridge Infosystems, Inc |access-date=August 28, 2022 |quote=Manhattan's Chinatown, the largest Chinatown in the United States and the site of the largest concentration of Chinese in the Western Hemisphere, is located on the Lower East Side.}}
• {{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NagJFMxtkAcC&q=Flushing+Chinatown+Little+Taiwan&pg=PA104 |title=Still the golden door: the Third ... – Google Books |first=David M. |last=Reimers |access-date=August 28, 2022 |isbn=9780231076814 |year=1992 |publisher=Columbia University Press }}
• {{cite web |url=http://geographyplanning.buffalostate.edu/MSG%202002/13_McGlinn.pdf |title=Beyond Chinatown: Dual immigration and the Chinese population of metropolitan New York City, 2000, Page 4 |author=Lawrence A. McGlinn, Department of Geography SUNY-New Paltz |publisher=Middle States Geographer, 2002, 35: 110–119, Journal of the Middle States Division of the Association of American Geographers |access-date=August 28, 2022 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121029075400/http://geographyplanning.buffalostate.edu/MSG%202002/13_McGlinn.pdf |archive-date=October 29, 2012 }}
• {{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NagJFMxtkAcC&q=Flushing+Chinatown+Little+Taiwan&pg=PA104 |title=Still the golden door: the Third ... – Google Books |first=David M. |last=Reimers |access-date=August 28, 2022 |isbn=9780231076814 |year=1992 |publisher=Columbia University Press }} and Queens is home to the largest Tibetan population outside Asia.{{cite web |date=July 17, 2012 |title=Most Significant Unreached People Group Communities in Metro NY |url=http://www.globalgates.info/church-plant-needs-among-unreached/ |access-date=October 27, 2014 |publisher=GLOBAL GATES |archive-date=October 27, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141027192509/http://www.globalgates.info/church-plant-needs-among-unreached/ |url-status=dead }} Arab Americans number over 160,000 in New York City,{{cite web |title=A Community of Many Worlds: Arab Americans in New York City |url=http://www.allied-media.com/Arab-American/NY-Arabs.htm |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141108212113/http://www.allied-media.com/Arab-American/NY-Arabs.htm |archive-date=November 8, 2014 |access-date=October 9, 2014 |publisher=Allied Media Corp }} with the highest concentration in Brooklyn. New York City has the highest Palestinian population in the United States.{{Cite web |title=Largest Palestinian Community in the United States by City {{!}} Zip Atlas |url=https://zipatlas.com/us/city-comparison/largest-palestinian-community.htm |access-date=May 24, 2024 |website=zipatlas.com }} Central Asians, primarily Uzbek Americans, are a rapidly growing segment of the city's non-Hispanic White population.{{cite web |title=Yearbook of Immigration Statistics: 2013 Lawful Permanent Residents Supplemental Table 2 |url=https://www.dhs.gov/yearbook-immigration-statistics-2013-lawful-permanent-residents |access-date=July 19, 2014 |publisher=U.S. Department of Homeland Security }} The metropolitan area is home to 20% of the nation's Indian Americans and at least twenty Little India enclaves, and 15% of all Korean Americans and four Koreatowns.{{cite web |url=https://data.census.gov/ |title=Explore Census Data |publisher=United States Census Bureau |access-date=October 31, 2023 }}

New York City has the largest European and non-Hispanic white population of any American city, numbering 2.7 million in 2012.{{cite web |title=American FactFinder—Results |url=http://factfinder.census.gov/faces/tableservices/jsf/pages/productview.xhtml?pid=ACS_12_1YR_DP05&prodType=table |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20200212212412/http://factfinder.census.gov/faces/tableservices/jsf/pages/productview.xhtml?pid=ACS_12_1YR_DP05&prodType=table |archive-date=February 12, 2020 |access-date=October 8, 2014 |publisher=U.S. Department of Commerce }} The European diaspora residing in the city is very diverse and many European ethnic groups have formed enclaves.{{cite web |url=http://untappedcities.com/2014/01/23/nyc-micro-neighborhoods-little-odessa-brighton-beach-brooklyn/ |title=NYC's Micro Neighborhoods: Little Odesa in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn |author=Brennan Ortiz |year=2014 |work=Untapped Cities (online, January 23) |access-date=October 22, 2023 }}{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1991/11/15/arts/astoria-a-greek-isle-in-the-new-york-city-sea.html |title=Astoria, a Greek Isle in the New York City Sea |author=Richard F. Shepard |newspaper=The New York Times |date=November 15, 1991 |access-date=October 22, 2023 }}{{cite web |url=https://greekreporter.com/2022/06/18/the-ever-changing-face-of-greektown-in-astoria-queens-video/ |title=Astoria: The Ever-Changing Greektown of New York |author=Kerry Kolasa-Sikiaridi |publisher=Greek Reporter |date=June 18, 2022 |access-date=October 22, 2023 }} With 960,000 Jewish inhabitants as of 2023, New York City is home to the highest Jewish population of any city in the world,{{Cite web |last=Gergely |first=Julia |date=May 9, 2024 |title=Nearly 1 million Jews live in NYC, new study finds |url=https://www.jta.org/2024/05/09/ny/nearly-1-million-jews-live-in-nyc-new-study-finds |access-date=July 10, 2024 |website=Jewish Telegraphic Agency |language=en-US }} and its metropolitan area concentrated over 2 million Jews as of 2021, the second largest Jewish population worldwide after the Tel Aviv metropolitan area in Israel.{{cite report |editor1-last=Dashefsky |editor1-first=Arnold |editor-link1=Arnold Dashefsky |editor2-last=Della-Pergola |editor2-first=Sergio |editor-link2=Sergio Della Pergola |editor3-last=Sheskin |editor3-first=Ira |date=2021 |title=World Jewish Population |url=https://www.jewishdatabank.org/api/download/?studyId=1185&mediaId=bjdb%5c2021_World_Jewish_Population_AJYB_(DellaPergola)_DB_Public.pdf |publisher=Berman Jewish DataBank |access-date=September 4, 2023 }} In the borough of Brooklyn, an estimated one in four residents was Jewish as of 2018.{{cite web |last1=Danailova |first1=Hilary |title=Brooklyn, the Most Jewish Spot on Earth |url=https://www.hadassahmagazine.org/2018/01/11/brooklyn-jewish-spot-earth/ |work=Hadassah Magazine |date=January 2018 }}

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{{further|New York City Drag March|Queens Pride Parade|List of LGBT people from New York City|List of largest LGBT events}}

New York City has been described as the gay capital of the world and the central node of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) sociopolitical ecosystem, and is home to one of the world's largest LGBT populations and the most prominent.{{cite web |url=https://gayexpress.co.nz/2018/04/new-york-worlds-gay-capital/ |title=New York – The World's Gay Capital |first=Peter |last=Minkoff |publisher=Your LGBTQ+ Voice |date=April 5, 2018 |access-date=January 4, 2023 }} The New York metropolitan area is home to about 570,000 self-identifying gay and bisexual people, the largest in the country.{{cite web |last=Gates |first=Gary J. |title=Same-sex Couples and the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual Population: New Estimates from the American Community Survey |url=http://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/Gates-Same-Sex-Couples-GLB-Pop-ACS-Oct-2006.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130609015224/http://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/Gates-Same-Sex-Couples-GLB-Pop-ACS-Oct-2006.pdf |archive-date=June 9, 2013 |date=October 2006 |access-date=December 7, 2013 |publisher=The Williams Institute on Sexual Orientation Law and Public Policy }}{{Cite book |last1=Silverman |first1=Brian |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fIAuxa6ic9EC&q=new+york+one+of+the+largest+world+gay+population&pg=PT703 |title=Frommer's New York City 2013 |last2=Chauvin |first2=Kelsy |year=2013 |isbn=978-1-118-33144-6 |access-date=March 24, 2015 |publisher=John Wiley & Sons }} Same-sex sexual activity between consenting adults has been legal in New York since 1980's New York v. Onofre case, which invalidated the state's sodomy law.{{cite court |litigants=People v. Ronald Onofre |vol=51 |reporter=N.Y.2d |opinion=476 |court=N.Y. Court of Appeals |date=December 18, 1980 |url=https://www.leagle.com/decision/198052751ny2d4761481 |access-date=March 30, 2022 }} Same-sex marriage in New York was legalized on June 24, 2011, and were authorized to take place on July 23, 2011.{{cite news |last1=Confessore |first1=Nicholas |last2=Barbaro |first2=Michael |date=June 24, 2011 |title=New York Allows Same-Sex Marriage, Becoming Largest State to Pass Law |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/25/nyregion/gay-marriage-approved-by-new-york-senate.html?_r=1&hp |access-date=September 2, 2012 |work=The New York Times }}

File:NYC_Pride_2019_26.jpg is the largest pride parade in the world.]]

The annual NYC Pride March proceeds southward down Fifth Avenue and ends at Greenwich Village in Lower Manhattan; the parade is the largest pride parade in the world, attracting tens of thousands of participants and millions of sidewalk spectators each June.{{cite web |date=June 25, 2017 |title=Revelers Take to the Streets For 48th Annual NYC Pride March |url=http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2017/06/25/48th-nyc-pride-march/ |access-date=June 26, 2017 |publisher=CBS New York |quote=A sea of rainbows took over the Big Apple for the biggest pride parade in the world Sunday. }}{{Cite web |last=Gleason |first=Will |date=March 11, 2019 |title=Citing its diversity and culture, NYC was voted best city in the world in new global survey |url=https://www.timeout.com/newyork/news/new-york-voted-best-city-in-the-world-in-massive-worldwide-survey-031119 |access-date=May 19, 2019 |website=Time Out |quote=After compiling the thoughts of over 30,000 people, both from our NYC readership and half-a-world away, New York was voted the greatest city on the planet for 2019. In a hint as to why this happened, and why now, it also led the categories of most diverse metropolis and best culture.... Since then, it's steadily attracted more and more attendees and, last year, averaged 10,000 people a night. Those thousands of New Yorkers weren't just hungry for new food, but for new points-of-view.... 'We've now been able to represent over 85 countries, and I'm constantly hearing examples of people branching out and trying things they've never heard of before.' }} The annual Queens Pride Parade is held in Jackson Heights and is accompanied by the ensuing Multicultural Parade.{{cite news |first=Bill |last=Parry |date=July 10, 2018 |title=Elmhurst vigil remembers transgender victims lost to violence and hate |newspaper=TimesLedger |location=New York |url=https://www.timesledger.com/stories/2016/48/transvigil_2016_11_25_q.html |url-status=dead |access-date=April 13, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190213003206/https://www.timesledger.com/stories/2016/48/transvigil_2016_11_25_q.html |archive-date=February 13, 2019 }}

Stonewall 50 – WorldPride NYC 2019 was the largest international Pride celebration in history, commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall uprising, with 150,000 participants and five million spectators attending in Manhattan alone.{{cite news |first=Karma |last=Allen |url=https://abcnews.go.com/US/million-people-crowed-nyc-worldpride-mayor/story?id=64090338 |title=About 5 million people attended WorldPride in NYC, mayor says |date=July 3, 2019 |access-date=July 3, 2019 |work=ABC News }} New York City is home to the largest transgender population in the world, estimated at more than 50,000 in 2018, concentrated in Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Queens; however, until the June 1969 Stonewall riots, this community had felt marginalized and neglected by the gay community. Brooklyn Liberation March, the largest transgender-rights demonstration in LGBT 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.{{cite news |first=Anushka |last=Patil |date=June 15, 2020 |title=How a March for Black Trans Lives Became a Huge Event |newspaper=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/15/nyregion/brooklyn-black-trans-parade.html |access-date=June 28, 2020 }}{{cite web |first=Shannon |last=Keating |date=June 16, 2020 |title=Corporate Pride Events Can't Happen This Year. Let's Keep It That Way |website=BuzzFeed News |url=https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/shannonkeating/pride-protest-black-trans-rally-brooklyn-liberation-lgbtq |access-date=June 28, 2020 }}

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Christianity is the largest religion (59% adherent) in New York City,{{cite web |first=Michael |last=Lipka |url=http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2015/07/29/major-u-s-metropolitan-areas-differ-in-their-religious-profiles/ |title=Major U.S. metropolitan areas differ in their religious profiles |publisher=Pew Research Center |date=July 29, 2015 |access-date=July 30, 2015 }} which is home to the highest number of churches of any city in the world. Catholicism is the largest Christian denomination (33%), followed by Protestantism (23%), and other Christian denominations (3%). The Latin Catholic population is primarily served by the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York and Diocese of Brooklyn, while Eastern Catholics are divided into numerous jurisdictions throughout the city. 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.{{Cite web |title=Religion in America: U.S. Religious Data, Demographics and Statistics |url=https://www.pewforum.org/religious-landscape-study/ |access-date=July 11, 2020 |website=Pew Research Center's Religion & Public Life Project |language=en-US }}

With 960,000 Jewish inhabitants as of 2023, Judaism is the second-largest religion practiced in New York City. Nearly half of the city's Jews live in Brooklyn.{{cite news |last=Weichselbaum |first=Simone |date=June 26, 2012 |title=Nearly one in four Brooklyn residents are Jews, new study finds |newspaper=Daily News |location=New York |url=http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/brooklyn/brooklyn-residents-jews-new-study-finds-article-1.1100080 |url-status=live |access-date=May 30, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180704130656/http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/brooklyn/brooklyn-residents-jews-new-study-finds-article-1.1100080 |archive-date=July 4, 2018 }}{{Cite web |first=Hilary |last=Danailova |date=January 11, 2018 |title=Brooklyn, the Most Jewish Spot on Earth |url=https://www.hadassahmagazine.org/2018/01/11/brooklyn-jewish-spot-earth/ |access-date=July 29, 2020 |website=Hadassah Magazine |language=en-US }}

Islam ranks as the third-largest religion in New York City, following Christianity and Judaism, with estimates ranging between 600,000 and 1,000,000 observers of Islam, including 10% of the city's public school children.{{cite news |last1=Grynbaum |first1=Michael M. |last2=Otterman |first2=Sharon |date=March 4, 2015 |title=New York City Adds 2 Muslim Holy Days to Public School Calendar |newspaper=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/05/nyregion/new-york-to-add-two-muslim-holy-days-to-public-school-calendar.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=second-column-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news |access-date=March 4, 2015 }} 22.3% of American Muslims live in New York City, with 1.5 million Muslims in the greater New York metropolitan area, the largest metropolitan Muslim population in the Western Hemisphere{{Cite web |title=An Impact Report of Muslim Contributions to New York City |url=https://www.ispu.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/MAP-NY-Key-Findings-Web.pdf |access-date=May 17, 2021 |website=Institute for Social Policy and Understanding }}—and the most ethnically diverse Muslim population of any city in the world.{{Cite web |date=February 29, 2016 |title=Muslims in Metro New York (Part 2) – Specific Muslim Group Estimates |url=https://globalgates.info/resources-information/muslims-in-metro-new-york-part-2-specific-muslim-group-estimates/ |access-date=September 16, 2022 |website=Global Gates |language=en-US }} Powers Street Mosque in Brooklyn is one of the oldest continuously operating mosques in the United States, and represents the first Islamic organization in both the city and the state.{{Cite web |first=Tharik |last=Hussain |title=How America's oldest mosque was built by Muslims from the Baltic |url=https://www.baltictimes.com/how_america___s_oldest_mosque_was_built_by_muslims_from_the_baltic/ |date=May 19, 2016 |access-date=July 29, 2020 |website=The Baltic Times }}{{Cite web |first=Zuha |last=Siddiqui |date=December 26, 2018 |title=America's Oldest Surviving Mosque Is in Williamsburg |url=https://bedfordandbowery.com/2018/12/americas-oldest-surviving-mosque-is-in-williamsburg/ |access-date=July 29, 2020 |website=Bedford + Bowery |language=en-US }}

Following these three largest religious groups in New York City are Hinduism, Buddhism, Sikhism, Zoroastrianism, and others. As of 2023, 24% of Greater New Yorkers identified with no organized religious affiliation, and 4% were self-identified atheists.{{cite web |url=https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/religious-landscape-study/metro-area/new-york-city-metro-area/ |title=Religious composition of adults in the New York City metropolitan area |publisher=Pew Research Center |access-date=February 1, 2023 }}

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File:Midtown_Manhattan_from_Weehawken_September_2021_001.jpg is the world's largest central business district.{{cite news |url=https://www.reuters.com/business/new-york-widens-lead-over-london-top-finance-centres-index-2022-03-24/ |title=New York widens lead over London in top finance centres index |website=Reuters.com |date=March 24, 2022 |access-date=June 25, 2022 |last1=Jones |first1=Huw }}]]

File:Luchtfoto_van_Lower_Manhattan.jpg, including Wall Street, the world's principal financial center, and One World Trade Center, the tallest skyscraper in the United States]]

New York City is a global hub of business and commerce, sometimes called the "Capital of the World".{{cite news |first=Kenneth T. |last=Jackson |date=April 2, 2021 |title=Does New York Still Want to Be the Capital of the World? |newspaper=The Wall Street Journal |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/does-new-york-still-want-to-be-the-capital-of-the-world-11617400766 |access-date=October 12, 2022 }} Greater New York is the world's largest metropolitan economy, with a gross metropolitan product estimated at US$2.16 trillion in 2022. New York is a center for worldwide banking and finance, health care, and life sciences,{{cite web |url=https://www.governor.ny.gov/news/governor-hochul-mayor-adams-announce-plan-sparc-kips-bay-first-its-kind-job-and-education-hub |title=Governor Hochul, Mayor Adams Announce Plan for SPARC Kips Bay, First-of-Its-Kind Job and Education Hub for Health and Life Sciences Innovation |publisher=State of New York |date=October 13, 2022 |access-date=October 13, 2022 }} medical technology and research, retailing, world trade, transportation, tourism, real estate, new media, traditional media, advertising, legal services, accountancy, insurance, and the arts in the United States; while Silicon Alley, metonymous for New York's high technology sphere, continues to expand. The Port of New York and New Jersey is a major economic engine, benefitting post-Panamax from the expansion of the Panama Canal.{{Cite web |last=LaRocco |first=Lori Ann |date=September 24, 2022 |title=New York is now the nation's busiest port in a historic tipping point for United States–bound trade |url=https://www.cnbc.com/2022/09/24/new-york-now-no-1-port-in-us-as-sea-change-in-trade-hits-west-coast.html |access-date=May 21, 2023 |website=CNBC |language=en }}{{Cite web |title=Port of NYNJ Beats West Coast Rivals with Highest 2023 Volumes |url=https://maritime-executive.com/article/port-of-nynj-beats-west-coast-rivals-with-highest-2023-volumes |access-date=May 21, 2023 |website=The Maritime Executive |language=en }}{{Cite web |title=Port of New York and New Jersey Remains US' Top Container Port |url=https://www.marinelink.com/news/port-new-york-new-jersey-remains-us-top-501852 |access-date=May 21, 2023 |website=Marinelink.com |date=December 28, 2022 }}

Many Fortune 500 corporations are headquartered in New York City,[https://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune500/2011/cities/ Fortune 500 2011: Cities with most companies]. CNNMoney. Retrieved July 21, 2011; Fortune, Vol. 163, no. 7 (May 23, 2011), p. F-45 as are a large number of multinational corporations. New York City has been ranked first among cities across the globe in attracting capital, business, and tourists.{{cite news |last=Kennedy |first=Simon |date=April 13, 2014 |title=Beijing Breaks into Top Ten in Rankings by A.T. Kearney |website=Bloomberg.com |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-04-13/beijing-breaks-into-top-ten-in-rankings-by-a-t-kearney.html |access-date=April 13, 2014 |publisher=Bloomberg L.P }}{{cite news |last=Kaske |first=Michelle |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120312173905/http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-03-12/new-york-city-tops-global-competitiveness-london-is-no-2-economist-says.html |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2012-03-12/new-york-city-tops-global-competitiveness-london-is-no-2-economist-says |title=New York City Tops Global Competitiveness Rankings, Economist Report Says |publisher=Bloomberg L.P. |date=March 12, 2012 |archive-date=March 12, 2012 |access-date=February 9, 2017 }} New York City's role as the top global center for the advertising industry is metonymously reflected as Madison Avenue.{{cite web |title=Definition of Metonymy |url=https://www.chegg.com/homework-help/definitions/metonymy-39 |publisher=Chegg |access-date=November 23, 2021 |archive-date=July 31, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200731204559/https://www.chegg.com/homework-help/definitions/metonymy-39 |url-status=dead }} The city's fashion industry provides approximately 180,000 employees with $11 billion in annual wages.{{cite news |last=Fermino |first=Jennifer |date=February 7, 2014 |title=Mayor de Blasio announces $3M in grants for New York City's fashion industry |newspaper=Daily News |location=New York |url=http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/de-blasio-announces-3m-grants-city-fashion-industry-article-1.1605556 |url-status=live |access-date=February 11, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171011005433/http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/de-blasio-announces-3m-grants-city-fashion-industry-article-1.1605556 |archive-date=October 11, 2017 }}

Significant other economic sectors include universities and non-profit institutions. Manufacturing declined over the 20th century but still accounts for significant employment. The city's apparel and garment industry, historically centered on the Garment District in Manhattan, peaked in 1950, when more than 323,000 workers were employed in the industry in New York. In 2015, fewer than 23,000 New York City residents were employed in the industry, although revival efforts were underway,{{cite news |first=Winnie |last=Hu |date=February 7, 2017 |title=New York Tries to Revive Garment Industry, Outside the Garment District |newspaper=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/07/nyregion/new-york-garment-industry-brooklyn.html |access-date=October 14, 2022 }} and the American fashion industry continues to be metonymized as Seventh Avenue.{{cite web |url=https://www.apparelsearch.com/definitions/miscellaneous/seventh_avenue_new_york_fashion_avenue_definition.htm |title=Seventh Avenue New York:Fashion Avenue |publisher=Apparel Search |access-date=October 14, 2022 }} In 2017, the city had 205,592 employer firms, of which 22.0% were owned by women, 31.3% were minority-owned and 2.7% were owned by veterans.[https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/table/3651000,36,00 QuickFacts for New York city, New York; New York; United States], United States Census Bureau. Accessed January 12, 2024.

In 2022, the gross domestic product of New York City was US$1.053 trillion, of which $781 billion (74%) was produced by Manhattan. Like other large cities, New York City has a degree of income disparity, as indicated by its Gini coefficient of 0.55 as of 2022.[https://data.census.gov/table?q=B19083:%20GINI%20INDEX%20OF%20INCOME%20INEQUALITY&g=160XX00US3651000 B19083 Gini Index of Income Inequality American Community Survey Universe: Households 2022: ACS 1-Year Estimates], United States Census Bureau. Accessed January 12, 2024.{{Cite news |last=Honan |first=Katie |date=September 11, 2019 |title=New York City's Income-Inequality Gap Hasn't Changed, Report Says |language=en-US |work=The Wall Street Journal |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/new-york-citys-income-inequality-gap-hasnt-changed-report-says-11568174460 |access-date=October 27, 2020 |issn=0099-9660 }} In November 2023, the city had total employment of over 4.75 million of which more than a quarter were in education and health services.[https://www.bls.gov/regions/northeast/summary/blssummary_newyorkcity.pdf New York City Economic Summary], Bureau of Labor Statistics, updated January 8, 2024. Accessed January 12, 2024. Manhattan, which accounted for more than half of the city's jobs, had an average weekly wage of $2,590 in the second quarter of 2023, ranking fourth-highest among the nation's 360 largest counties.[https://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/cewqtr.pdf County Employment And Wages – Second Quarter 2023], Bureau of Labor Statistics, November 21, 2023. Accessed January 12, 2024. New York City is one of the relatively few American cities levying an income tax (about 3%) on its residents;{{cite web |last=Moreno |first=Tonya |date=February 2, 2017 |title=U.S. Cities That Levy Income Taxes |url=https://www.thebalance.com/cities-that-levy-income-taxes-3193246 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170308014312/https://www.thebalance.com/cities-that-levy-income-taxes-3193246 |archive-date=March 8, 2017 |access-date=December 20, 2017 |publisher=The Balance |quote=Fourteen states and the District of Columbia allow cities, counties, and municipalities to levy their own separate individual income taxes in addition to state income taxes. }}{{cite web |title=Personal Income Tax & Non-resident NYC Employee Payments |url=http://www1.nyc.gov/site/finance/taxes/personal-income-tax-and-non-resident-employees.page |access-date=December 19, 2017 |publisher=New York City Department of Finance |archive-date=August 27, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220827134650/https://www1.nyc.gov/site/finance/taxes/personal-income-tax-and-non-resident-employees.page |url-status=dead }}{{cite web |year=2016 |title=New York City tax rate schedule |url=https://www.tax.ny.gov/pdf/current_forms/it/nyc_tax_rate_schedule.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170308234704/https://www.tax.ny.gov/pdf/current_forms/it/nyc_tax_rate_schedule.pdf |archive-date=March 8, 2017 |access-date=December 15, 2017 |publisher=New York State Department of Taxation and Finance }} despite this tax levy, New York City in 2024 was home by a significant margin to the highest number of billionaires of any city in the world, with a total of 110.

{{main|Wall Street|Financial District, Manhattan}}

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New York City's most important economic sector lies in its role as a comprehensive financial center, metonymously known as Wall Street. Lower Manhattan is home to the New York Stock Exchange and the Nasdaq, representing the world's largest and second largest stock exchanges, respectively, when measured both by overall average daily trading volume and by total market capitalization of their listed companies in 2013.{{cite web |title=NYSE Listings Directory |url=https://www.nyse.com/about/listed/lc_ny_overview.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130621174531/http://www.nyse.com/about/listed/lc_ny_overview.html |archive-date=June 21, 2013 |access-date=June 23, 2014 |publisher=New York Stock Exchange }}{{cite web |title=2013 WFE Market Highlights |url=http://www.world-exchanges.org/files/2013_WFE_Market_Highlights.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140327112731/http://www.world-exchanges.org/files/2013_WFE_Market_Highlights.pdf |date=January 28, 2014 |archive-date=March 27, 2014 |access-date=July 20, 2014 |publisher=World Federation of Exchanges }} In fiscal year 2013–14, Wall Street's securities industry generated 19% of New York State's tax revenue.{{cite web |date=March 11, 2015 |title=DiNapoli: Wall Street Bonuses Edge Up in 2014 |url=https://www.osc.state.ny.us/press/releases/mar15/031115.htm |access-date=July 15, 2015 |publisher=Office of the New York State Comptroller }}

New York City remains the largest global center for trading in public equity and debt capital markets.{{cite report |url=http://www.nyc.gov/html/om/pdf/ny_report_final.pdf |title=Sustaining New York's and the US' Global Financial Services Leadership |publisher=New York City Economic Development Corporation |access-date=July 19, 2015 }}{{rp|31–32}}{{cite web |date=June 2013 |title=Total debt securities |url=http://www.bis.org/statistics/r_qa1306_hanx18.pdf |access-date=July 19, 2015 |publisher=Bank for International Settlements }} New York also leads in hedge fund management; private equity; and the monetary volume of mergers and acquisitions. Several investment banks and investment managers headquartered in Manhattan are important participants in other global financial centers.{{rp|34–35}} New York is the principal commercial banking center of the United States.{{cite news |last=Chaudhuri |first=Saabira |date=September 15, 2014 |title=Ranking the Biggest U.S. Banks: A New Entrant in Top 5 |newspaper=The Wall Street Journal |url=https://blogs.wsj.com/moneybeat/2014/09/15/ranking-the-biggest-u-s-banks-a-new-entrant-in-top-5/ |access-date=July 19, 2015 }}

Manhattan contained over 500 million square feet (46.5 million m²) of office space in 2018,{{cite web |first=Cynthia |last=Foster |date=December 7, 2018 |title=Q3 2018 U.S. Office Market Outlook |url=https://www2.colliers.com/en/Research/2018-Q3-US-Office-Market-Outlook-Report |access-date=April 13, 2019 |publisher=Colliers International |archive-date=April 14, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190414022654/https://www2.colliers.com/en/Research/2018-Q3-US-Office-Market-Outlook-Report |url-status=dead }} making New York City the largest office market in the world,{{cite news |url=https://www.ft.com/content/f2849309-f490-47e8-abe6-2aa6bfcc69fc |title=Law firm Paul Weiss signs biggest US office lease of 2023 in Manhattan |author=Joe Miller and Joshua Chaffin |newspaper=Financial Times |date=December 21, 2023 |access-date=April 30, 2024 |quote=New York City's office market, the world's largest... }}{{cite web |title=Understanding The Manhattan Office Space Market |url=http://www.officespaceseeker.com/manhattan-office-space-market.html |access-date=July 20, 2014 |publisher=Officespaceseeker.com |archive-date=July 13, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140713071533/http://www.officespaceseeker.com/manhattan-office-space-market.html |url-status=dead }} while Midtown Manhattan, with 400 million square feet (37.2 million m²) in 2018, is the largest central business district in the world.{{cite web |title=Marketbeat United States CBD Office Report 2Q11 |url=http://www.cushwake.com/cwmbs2q11/PDF/off_us_cbd_2q11.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130508231043/http://www.cushwake.com/cwmbs2q11/PDF/off_us_cbd_2q11.pdf |archive-date=May 8, 2013 |access-date=July 20, 2014 |publisher=Cushman & Wakefield, Inc }}

{{further|Tech:NYC|Tech companies in New York City|Biotech companies in New York City|Silicon Alley}}

File:Flatiron District.jpg is the cradle of Silicon Alley, initially metonymous for the New York metropolitan region's high tech sector]]

File:Cornell_Tech_buildings_(41991).jpg on Roosevelt Island]]

New York is a top-tier global technology hub.{{cite magazine |url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/bradthomas/2021/09/11/silicon-alley-provides-path-to-prosperity-for-new-york-city/?sh=728c3b7b5465 |title='Silicon Alley' Provides Path To Prosperity For New York City |first=Brad |last=Thomas |magazine=Forbes |date=September 11, 2021 |access-date=August 23, 2023 |quote=As it stands now, the city is second only to Silicon Valley as the largest technology ecosystem in the world. }} Silicon Alley, once a metonym for the sphere encompassing the metropolitan region's high technology industries,{{cite web |url=http://www.businessinsider.com/silicon-alley-100-2013-2013-10?op=1 |title=SA 100 2013: The Coolest People In New York Tech |first1=Megan Rose |last1=Dickey |first2=Jillian |last2=D'Onfro |website=Business Insider |date=October 24, 2013 |access-date=July 30, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140722170340/http://www.businessinsider.com/silicon-alley-100-2013-2013-10?op=1 |archive-date=July 22, 2014 |url-status=live }} is no longer a relevant moniker as the city's tech environment has expanded dramatically both in location and in scope since at least 2003, when tech business appeared in more places in Manhattan and in other boroughs, and not much silicon was involved.{{cite news |url=https://theculturetrip.com/north-america/usa/new-york/articles/the-history-of-new-yorks-silicon-alley |title=The History of New York's Silicon Alley |first=Peter |last=Ward |work=The Culture Trip |date=March 8, 2018 |access-date=August 23, 2023 |quote=when the revival began in 2003, tech companies didn't stick to the same areas. }} New York City's current tech sphere encompasses the array of applications involving universal applications of artificial intelligence (AI),{{cite web |url=https://www.nyc.gov/assets/cto/downloads/ai-strategy/nyc_ai_strategy.pdf |title=AI Strategy |work=City of New York |access-date=July 27, 2023 }}{{cite web |url=https://www.cnbc.com/2023/08/24/google-amazon-nvidia-amd-other-tech-giants-invest-in-hugging-face.html |title=Google, Amazon, Nvidia and other tech giants invest in AI startup Hugging Face, sending its valuation to $4.5 billion |author=Kif Leswing |publisher=CNBC |date=August 24, 2023 |access-date=August 27, 2023 |quote=Hugging Face, an AI firm based in New York, has raised $235 million at a $4.5 billion valuation from some of technology's biggest companies. }} broadband internet,{{cite web |url=https://www.nyc.gov/assets/cto/downloads/internet-master-plan/NYC_IMP_1.7.20_FINAL-2.pdf |title=The New York City Internet Master Plan |work=City of New York |access-date=July 27, 2023 }} new media, financial technology (fintech) and cryptocurrency, biotechnology, game design, and other fields within information technology that are supported by its entrepreneurship ecosystem and venture capital investments. Technology-driven startup companies and entrepreneurial employment are growing in New York City and the region. The technology sector has been claiming a greater share of New York City's economy since 2010.{{cite news |first1=Ben |last1=Casselman |first2=Keith |last2=Collins |first3=Karl |last3=Russell |date=February 15, 2019 |title=Even Without Amazon, Tech Could Keep Gaining Ground in New York |newspaper=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/02/15/business/economy/nyc-tech-startups-amazon.html |access-date=February 16, 2019 }} Tech:NYC, founded in 2016, is a non-profit organization which represents New York City's technology industry with government, civic institutions, in business, and in the media, and whose primary goals are to further augment New York's substantial tech talent base and to advocate for policies that will nurture tech companies to grow in the city.{{cite news |first=Jonathan |last=Schieber |date=May 24, 2017 |title=A Year After its Launch, TechNYC Has Become a Force in New York Politics |work=TechCrunch |url=https://techcrunch.com/2017/05/24/a-year-after-its-launch-technyc-has-become-a-force-in-new-york-politics/ |access-date=March 15, 2019 }}

New York City's AI sector raised US$483.6 million in venture capital investment in 2022.{{cite web |url=https://www.crainsnewyork.com/technology/new-york-artificial-intelligence-firms-raised-whopping-4836m-2022 |title=City AI firms bucked the VC downturn, raised a whopping $483.6M in 2022 |author=Cara Eisenpress |publisher=Crain Communications |date=March 22, 2023 |access-date=November 8, 2023 }} In 2023, New York unveiled the first comprehensive initiative to create both a framework of rules and a chatbot to regulate the use of AI within the sphere of city government.{{cite web |url=https://www.pymnts.com/artificial-intelligence-2/2023/new-york-city-unveils-ai-action-plan-that-develops-rules-framework/ |title=New York City Unveils AI Action Plan that Develops Rules Framework |publisher=PYMNTS |date=October 16, 2023 |access-date=November 8, 2023 |quote=This comprehensive initiative is the first for a major U.S. city...As part of the plan, the city has piloted the first citywide AI chatbot to help business owners navigate government. }}

The biotechnology sector is growing in New York City, based on the city's strength in academic scientific research and public and commercial financial support. On December 19, 2011, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg announced his choice of Cornell University and Technion-Israel Institute of Technology to build a $2 billion graduate school of applied sciences called Cornell Tech on Roosevelt Island with the goal of transforming New York City into the world's premier technology capital.{{cite news |last=Pérez-Peña |first=Richard |date=December 19, 2011 |title=Cornell Alumnus Is Behind $350 Million Gift to Build Science School in City |newspaper=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/20/nyregion/cornell-and-technion-israel-chosen-to-build-science-school-in-new-york-city.html?scp=3&sq=cornell&st=cse |access-date=August 1, 2014 }}{{cite web |last=Ju |first=Anne |date=December 19, 2011 |title='Game-changing' Tech Campus Goes to Cornell, Technion |url=https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2011/12/nyc-chooses-cornell-technion-build-tech-campus |access-date=August 1, 2014 |publisher=Cornell University }}

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New York City real estate is a safe haven for global investors. The total value of all New York City property was assessed at US$1.479 trillion for the 2017 fiscal year, an increase of 6.1% from the previous year. Of the total market value, single family homes accounted for $765 billion (51.7%); condominiums, co-ops, and apartment buildings totaled $351 billion (23.7%); and commercial properties were valued at $317 billion (21.4%).[https://www.nyc.gov/site/finance/about/press/press-release-fy24-tentative-assessment-roll.page Department Of Finance Publishes Fiscal Year 2024 Tentative Property Tax Assessment Roll], New York City Department of Finance, press release dated January 17, 2023. Accessed July 28, 2023. "The tentative assessment roll for FY24 shows the total market value of all New York City properties is $1.479 trillion, a 6.1 percent increase from Fiscal Year 2023. Property values for FY24 reflect real estate activity between January 6, 2022, to January 5, 2023, the taxable status date."{{cite news |url=https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/finance/downloads/pdf/press_release/fy2017_tentative_assessment_roll.pdf |title=Department of Finance Publishes Fiscal Year 2017 Tentative Assessment Roll |publisher=New York City Department of Finance |date=January 15, 2016 |access-date=November 26, 2021 |quote=Today, Jacques Jiha, Commissioner for the Department of Finance, announced the publication of the Tentative Property Assessment Roll for fiscal year 2017, which shows the total Market Value for the upcoming year at about $1.072 trillion, an increase of $102.5 billion, or 10.6 percent from the 2016 Fiscal Year. }} Fifth Avenue in Midtown Manhattan commands the highest retail rents in the world, at {{convert|2000|$/ft2|$/m2}} in 2023.Boonshoft, Michael. [https://www.cushmanwakefield.com/en/news/2023/11/ny-fifth-avenue-retains-its-top-ranking-as-the-worlds-most-expensive-retail-destination "New York's Fifth Avenue Retains Its Top Ranking As The World's Most Expensive Retail Destination"], Cushman & Wakefield, November 20, 2023. Accessed January 13, 2024. "New York's Fifth Avenue retains its top ranking as the world's most expensive retail destination, despite recording flat rental growth year-over-year (YOY)."

New York City has one of the highest costs of living in the world, which is exacerbated by the city's housing shortage.Horowitz, Alex; and Staveski, Adam. [https://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/articles/2023/05/25/new-yorks-housing-shortage-pushes-up-rents-and-homelessness "New York's Housing Shortage Pushes Up Rents and Homelessness"], The Pew Charitable Trusts, May 25, 2023. Accessed March 17, 2024. "Housing construction in New York City and its suburbs has lagged far behind that of other major cities and their suburbs, resulting in low housing availability and a vacancy rate of just 3%. New York City's housing stock has only increased 4% since 2010, not nearly enough to keep up with its 22% increase in jobs. And from 2017 to 2021, New York City permitted 13 homes for every 1,000 residents in 2017, while Boston added 28, Washington, D.C., added 43, and Seattle added 67."Morabito, Charlotte (June 24, 2024). [https://www.cnbc.com/2023/06/24/how-new-york-citys-sky-high-cost-of-living-stacks-up-to-london.html How New York City's sky-high cost of living stacks up to London], CNBC. Retrieved January 12, 2024. In 2023, one-bedroom apartments in Manhattan rented at a median monthly price of US$4,443.Duddridge, Natalie (August 11, 2023). [https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/manhattans-average-rent-soared-to-record-5588-in-july/ Manhattan's average rent soared to record $5,588 in July]. CBS New York. Retrieved January 12, 2024. The median house price city-wide is over $1 million as of 2023.Barrett, George (August 2, 2023). [https://www.nyrealestatetrend.com/home-prices-and-property-values-in-new-york/ Home Prices and Property Values in New York]. NY Real Estate Trend. Retrieved January 12, 2024. With 33,000 units available in 2023 among the city's 2.3 million rentable apartments, the vacancy rate was 1.4%, the lowest level since 1968 and a rate that is indicative of a shortage of available units, especially among those with rents below a monthly rental of $1,650, where less than 1% of units were available.Zaveri, Mihir. [https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/08/nyregion/apartment-vacancy-rate-housing-crisis.html "New York City's Housing Crunch Is the Worst It Has Been in Over 50 Years Only 1.4 percent of the city's rentals were available in 2023, according to new data, the lowest portion since 1968. The market was even tighter for lower-cost apartments."], The New York Times, February 8, 2024. Accessed February 9, 2024. "The portion of rentals that were vacant and available dropped to a startling 1.4 percent in 2023, according to city data released on Thursday. It was the lowest vacancy rate since 1968 and shows just how drastically home construction lags behind the demand from people who want to live in the city.... Then, that number — about 33,210 units in 2023 — is divided by the roughly 2.3 million total rental homes in the city that are either available or occupied by tenants. The vacancy rate dropped to 1.4 percent even as the city added some 60,000 homes over the past two years, according to the city data." Perennially high demand has pushed median monthly one-bedroom apartment rents in New York City to over US$4,000 and two-bedroom rents to over $5,000, the highest in the United States by a significant margin.

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File:Times_Square,_Broadway,_May_2016.jpg is one of the world's leading tourist attractions with 50 million tourists annually.]]

Tourism is a vital industry for New York City, and New York City Tourism + Conventions represents the city's official bureau of tourism.[https://www.travelweekly.com/Travel-News/Travel-Agent-Issues/NYC-and-Company-changes-its-name "NYC & Company is now New York City Tourism + Conventions"], Travel Weekly, March 28, 2023. Accessed January 17, 2024. "New York City's official destination marketing organization has changed its name to New York City Tourism + Conventions, dropping the NYC & Company name it's held since 1999." New York has witnessed a growing combined volume of international and domestic tourists, with as many as 66.6 million visitors to the city per year, including as many as 13.5 million international visitors, with the highest numbers from the United Kingdom, Canada, Brazil, and China. Multiple sources have called New York the most photographed city in the world.{{cite web |date=January 19, 2022 |title=History in Photos: New York is the Most Photographed City in the World |url=https://nycity.media/history/history-in-photos-new-york-is-the-most-photographed-city-in-the-world.html |access-date=December 4, 2022 |quote=Not eliminate how many photos you have done well with your digital cameras, cell phones, and smartphones. And also in the professional area, New York has a non-sealing charm for filmmakers and photographers..Every year, there are 40,000 shoots for advertising, cinema films, TV shows, series, music videos, documentation. New York is considered the most photographed city in the world. And yet photographers, again and again, manage to take a new perspective in the megacity, to avoid an unusual motif to create an optics that fascinates. }}{{cite web |title=The Most Photographed Places In The World Based On Traveler Data |url=https://www.expedia.com/stories/most-photographed-places-in-the-world/ |access-date=December 3, 2022 |publisher=Expedia |quote=With visitors taking a slice of the Big Apple back home on their camera reel, it's hardly surprising that New York is the most photographed city in the world. }}{{cite news |last1=Swanson |first1=Ana |date=August 26, 2015 |title=The world's most photographed places |newspaper=The Washington Post |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/08/26/the-worlds-most-photographed-places/ |access-date=September 25, 2022 }} 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,{{cite web |url=http://www.believermag.com/issues/200309/?read=interview_glaser |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150619204157/http://www.believermag.com/issues/200309/?read=interview_glaser |title=Chip Kidd talks with Milton Glaser |work=The Believer |date=September 2003 |access-date=July 8, 2015 |archive-date=June 19, 2015 }} and later to promote New York State as well. The trademarked logo is owned by New York State Empire State Development.{{cite web |date=September 26, 2013 |title=I Love New York Logo |url=http://www.nysl.nysed.gov/emblems/iluvny.htm |access-date=July 8, 2015 |publisher=New York State Education Department |archive-date=September 6, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150906091226/http://www.nysl.nysed.gov/emblems/iluvny.htm |url-status=dead }}

Many districts and monuments in New York City are major landmarks, including three of the world's ten-most-visited tourist attractions in 2023.{{Cite web |title=World's Most Visited Tourist Attractions, Ranked |url=https://www.farandwide.com/s/most-visited-tourist-destinations-bc849c0424864219 |access-date=April 22, 2023 |website=Farandwide.com |language=en }} A record 66.6 million tourists visited New York City in 2019, bringing in $47.4 billion in tourism revenue. Visitor numbers dropped by two-thirds in 2020 during the pandemic, rebounding to 63.3 million in 2023.[https://www.osc.ny.gov/reports/osdc/tourism-industry-new-york-city The Tourism Industry in New York City Reigniting the Return], New York State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli, April 2021. Accessed December 29, 2023. "After reaching a record high of 66.6 million visitors in 2019 and generating $47.4 billion in spending, the number of visitors to New York City dropped by 67 percent and their spending declined by 73 percent in 2020.... New York City hosted 66.6 million visitors in 2019 (about 25 percent of the State's 265.5 million visitors that year), a tenth-consecutive annual record. In 2020, the pandemic and related behavioral and governmental restrictions caused the number to drop to 22.3 million, a 67 percent reduction (see Figure 1)."David, Greg. [https://www.thecity.nyc/2023/09/05/tourists-china-hotel-rates/ "Tourists Are Back to NYC in Big Numbers"], The City, September 5, 2023. Accessed December 29, 2023. "But the city will not surpass its 2019 record of 66.6 million visitors because once-numerous travelers from China remain few and far between and Americans are flocking to Europe in unprecedented numbers.... Still, the numbers show a rebound with the official forecast from the tourism agency NYC & Co. still predicting 63.3 million visitors this year, up 12% from last year." Major landmarks in New York City include the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Statue of Liberty, the Empire State Building, and Central Park.[https://www.lux-review.com/most-popular-landmarks-in-new-york/ Most Popular Landmarks in New York], LUXlife Magazine, November 5, 2021 Times Square is the brightly illuminated hub of the Broadway Theater District,{{Cite encyclopedia |title=Times Square |encyclopedia=Encyclopædia Britannica |url=https://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/596253/Times-Square |access-date=May 10, 2011 }} and a major center of the world's entertainment industry,{{Cite web |title=New York Architecture Images—Midtown Times Square |url=http://www.nyc-architecture.com/MID/MID-TimesSquare3.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170125164419/http://www.nyc-architecture.com/MID/MID-TimesSquare3.htm |archive-date=January 25, 2017 |access-date=May 10, 2011 |publisher=2011 nyc-architecture }} attracting 50 million visitors annually to one of the world's busiest pedestrian intersections.Alikpala, Gidget. [https://en.as.com/latest_news/the-top-10-most-visited-tourist-attractions-in-the-usa-n/ "The top 10 most visited tourist attractions in the USA"], As, September 4, 2023. Accessed January 13, 2024. "Central Park, New York- 42 million annual visitors... Times Square, New York- 50 million annual visitors. At number one is Times Square, one of the most iconic locations in the world." According to The Broadway League, shows on Broadway sold approximately US$1.54 billion worth of tickets in both the 2022–2023 and the 2023–2024 seasons. Both seasons featured theater attendance of approximately 12.3 million each.{{cite web |url=https://www.broadwayleague.com/research/statistics-broadway-nyc/ |title=Broadway Season Statistics |publisher=The Broadway League |access-date=August 3, 2024 }}

{{Main|Media in New York City}}

{{further|New Yorkers in journalism}}

File:New_York,_2019_(48621790492).jpg, one of Manhattan's leading media and entertainment hubs]]

File:Freedom_Of_Speech_(256854761).jpeg of the New York Times Company, publisher of The New York Times]]

New York City has been described as the entertainment{{cite book |title=New York City Skyscrapers |first=Richard |last=Panchyk |publisher=Arcadia Publishing |year=2010 |isbn=9781439638620 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=01rPeuHXpeQC&pg=PT180 }}{{cite book |title=New York: The Movie Lover's Guide: The Ultimate Insider Tour of Movie New York |first=Richard |last=Alleman |publisher=Crown/Archetype |year=2013 |page=95 |isbn=9780804137782 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=f_0Z5SxTKLkC&pg=PA95 }} and digital media capital of the world.{{cite web |url=https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2017/05/first-nyc-pridefest-will-televised/ |title=ABC will broadcast New York's pride parade live for the first time |first=Dawn |last=Ennis |publisher=LGBTQ Nation |date=May 24, 2017 |access-date=December 21, 2020 |quote=Never before has any TV station in the entertainment and news media capital of the world carried what organizer boast is the world's largest Pride parade live on TV. }} It is a center for the advertising, music, newspaper, digital media, and publishing industries and is the largest media market in North America.{{cite press release |title=Tampa Bay 12th Largest Media Market Now |publisher=Tampa Bay Partnership |date=August 26, 2005 |url=http://www.tampabay.org/press.asp?rls_id=991& |access-date=September 1, 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080928205103/http://www.tampabay.org/press.asp?rls_id=991& |archive-date=September 28, 2008 }} Many of the world's largest media conglomerates are based in the city, including Warner Bros. Discovery, the Thomson Reuters Corporation, the Associated Press, Bloomberg L.P., the News Corp, The New York Times Company, NBCUniversal, the Hearst Corporation, AOL, Fox Corporation, and Paramount Global. Seven of the world's top eight global advertising agency networks have their headquarters in New York.{{cite web |url=http://adage.com/datacenter/datapopup.php?article_id=116384 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070602212322/http://adage.com/datacenter/datapopup.php?article_id=116384 |title=Top 10 Consolidated Agency Networks: Ranked by 2006 Worldwide Network Revenue |work=Advertising Age |access-date=June 8, 2007 |archive-date=June 2, 2007 }}

More than 200 newspapers and 350 consumer magazines have an office in the city, and the publishing industry employs about 11,500 people, with an economic impact of $9.2 billion.Milliot, Jim. [https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/financial-reporting/article/91028-new-report-finds-nyc-publishing-bookselling-jobs-fell-between-2010-and-2020.html "New Report Finds NYC Publishing, Bookselling Jobs Fell Between 2010 and 2020"], Publishers Weekly, December 1, 2022. Accessed January 30, 2024. "According to the study, book publishers generated $9.2 billion of economic output in 2020, ahead of the other publishing sub-sectors: periodical publishers ($6.3 billion); internet publishers ($2.8 billion); and newspaper publishers (2.5 billion).... The number of people employed in New York publishing houses dipped by 1.7% between 2010 and 2020, falling to 11,500." The two national daily newspapers with the largest daily circulations in the United States are published in New York: The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times broadsheets.Majid, Aisha. [https://pressgazette.co.uk/media-audience-and-business-data/media_metrics/top-25-us-newspaper-circulations-down-march-2023/ "Top 25 US newspaper circulations: Largest print titles fall 14% in year to March 2023"], Press Gazette, June 26, 2023. Accessed January 13, 2024. "News Corp's business-focused The Wall Street Journal (609,654) and The New York Times (296,329) remain the biggest dailies in the US."' With 132 awards through 2022, The Times has won the most Pulitzer Prizes for journalismFolkenflik, David. [https://www.npr.org/2022/05/08/1097097620/new-york-times-pulitzer-ukraine-walter-duranty "The New York Times can't shake the cloud over a 90-year-old Pulitzer Prize"], NPR, May 8, 2022. Accessed January 13, 2024. "The New York Times is looking to add to its list of 132 Pulitzer Prizes — by far the most of any news organization — when the 2022 recipients for journalism are announced on Monday." and is considered the U.S. media's newspaper of record.[https://ropercenter.cornell.edu/new-york-times The New York Times], Roper Center for Public Opinion Research. Accessed January 13, 2024. "Nicknamed The Gray Lady, The Times is long regarded within the industry as a national 'newspaper of record'." Tabloid newspapers in the city include the New York Daily News, which was founded in 1919 by Joseph Medill Patterson,{{cite encyclopedia |url=https://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/412434/New-York-Daily-News |title=New York Daily News (American newspaper) |encyclopedia=Britannica.com |access-date=May 4, 2013 }} and the New York Post, founded in 1801 by Alexander Hamilton.Allan Nevins, The Evening Post: Century of Journalism, Boni and Liveright, 1922, p. 17.[https://www.loc.gov/item/lcwaN0011417/ New York Post], Library of Congress. Accessed January 13, 2024. "The New York Post is an American daily newspaper, primarily distributed in New York City and its surrounding area. It is the 13th-oldest and seventh-most-widely circulated newspaper in the United States. Established in 1801 by federalist and Founding Father Alexander Hamilton, it became a respected broadsheet in the 19th century, under the name New York Evening Post."

{{As of|2019}}, New York City was the second-largest center for filmmaking and television production in the United States, producing about 200 feature films annually. The industry employed more than 100,000 people in 2019, generating $12.2 billion in wages and a total economic impact of $64.1 billion.[https://www.nyc.gov/assets/mome/pdf/mome-nyc-film-tv-industry-study-executive-summary.pdf New York City Film and Television Industry Economic Impact Study 2021], New York City Mayor's Office of Media and Entertainment. Accessed January 30, 2024. "In 2019, New York City's film and television industry was directly responsible for 100,200 jobs, $12.2 billion in wages, and $64.1 billion in direct economic output." By volume, New York is the world leader in independent film production—one-third of all American independent films are produced there.{{cite web |title=New York Film Academy, New York City |url=http://www.nyfa.edu/filmschools/newyork.php |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120126210946/http://www.nyfa.edu/filmschools/newyork.php |archive-date=January 26, 2012 |access-date=February 8, 2012 |publisher=New York Film Academy }}{{cite web |year=2005 |title=Request for Expressions of Interest |url=http://www.govisland.com/PDFs/RFEI/RFEI.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080802030053/http://www.govisland.com/PDFs/RFEI/RFEI.pdf |archive-date=August 2, 2008 |access-date=February 11, 2014 |publisher=Governors Island Preservation and Education Corporation }}

New York is a major center for non-commercial educational media. NYC Media is the official public radio, television, and online media network and broadcasting service of New York City,{{cite web |title=About NYC Media |url=https://www1.nyc.gov/site/media/about/about.page |access-date=July 23, 2019 |website=NYC Media |publisher=City of New York }} and has produced several original Emmy Award-winning shows covering music and culture in city neighborhoods and city government. The oldest public-access television channel in the United States is the Manhattan Neighborhood Network, founded in 1971.{{cite web |title=Community Celebrates Public Access TV's 35th Anniversary |url=http://www.mnn.org/en/community-celebrates-public-access-tvs-35th-annive |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100825122105/http://www.mnn.org/en/community-celebrates-public-access-tvs-35th-annive |archive-date=August 25, 2010 |access-date=October 28, 2010 |publisher=Mnn.org }} WNET is the city's major public television station and produces a third of national Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) television programming.[https://www.nyc-arts.org/organizations/thirteen-wnet/ Thirteen/WNET], NYC Arts. Accessed January 30, 2024. "Channel Thirteen is the flagship television station of the Public Broadcasting Service—a national, commercial-free, viewer-supported network known for its productions of top-notch programming in the arts and culture (Masterpiece Theater; Great Performances), science and nature (NOVA; Stephen Hawking's Universe), news and public affairs (News Hour with Jim Lehrer; ITN World News) and the humanities (The 1900 House; The American President). Thirteen/WNET produces about a third of the prime-time public-television programming aired in the United States, for which it often taps the unmatched cultural resources of New York City." WNYC, a public radio station owned by the city until 1997,Darrow, Peter H. [https://www.wnyc.org/story/going-public-story-wnycs-journey-independence/ "Going Public: The Story of WNYC's Journey to Independence"], WNYC, May 10, 2018. Accessed January 30, 2024. "From July 1924 until January 1997 WNYC was owned and operated by the City of New York. This is the story of how it became a self-supporting independent non-profit organization." has the largest public radio audience in the United States.{{cite web |date=August 28, 2006 |title=Top 30 Public Radio Subscribers – Spring 2006 Arbitron |url=http://www.rrconline.org/reports/pdf/Sp06%20eRanks.pdf |access-date=September 1, 2008 |publisher=Radio Research Consortium |archive-date=January 13, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130113222054/http://www.rrconline.org/reports/pdf/Sp06%20eRanks.pdf |url-status=dead }}

{{Main|Culture of New York City}}

File:NYC_-_Guggenheim_Museum.jpg seen from Fifth Avenue]]

New York City is frequently the setting for novels, movies, and television programs and has been described as the cultural capital of the world.{{cite web |url=http://www.iceland.is/iceland-abroad/us/nyc/cultural-affairs/ |title=Consulate General of Iceland New York Culture |publisher=Consulate General of Iceland New York |access-date=July 23, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130205061848/http://www.iceland.is/iceland-abroad/us/nyc/cultural-affairs/ |archive-date=February 5, 2013 }}{{cite web |url=http://www.latvia-newyork.org/english/ |title=Consulate of Latvia in New York |publisher=Consulate of Latvia |access-date=July 23, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130208223706/http://www.latvia-newyork.org/english/ |archive-date=February 8, 2013 }}{{cite web |url=http://www.baruch.cuny.edu/nycdata/Culture/intro.htm |title=Introduction to Chapter 14: New York City (NYC) Culture |publisher=The Weissman Center for International Business Baruch College/CUNY 2011 |access-date=July 23, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130505181316/http://www.baruch.cuny.edu/nycdata/culture/intro.htm |archive-date=May 5, 2013 }}{{Cite book |url=http://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/371497 |title=New York, Culture Capital of the World, 1940–1965 / edited by Leonard Wallock; essays by Dore Ashton ... [et al.] |publisher=National Library of Australia |year=1988 |isbn=978-0-8478-0990-5 |access-date=July 23, 2023 }}

The city is the birthplace of many cultural movements, including the Harlem Renaissance in literature and visual art;{{cite news |date=February 8, 1987 |title=Harlem in the Jazz Age |newspaper=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1987/02/08/magazine/harlem-in-the-jazz-age.html?src=pm |access-date=May 31, 2012 }}{{cite news |first=Holland |last=Cotter |date=May 24, 1998 |title=ART; A 1920's Flowering That Didn't Disappear |newspaper=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1998/05/24/arts/art-a-1920-s-flowering-that-didn-t-disappear.html?src=pm |access-date=May 31, 2012 }} abstract expressionism (known as the New York School) in painting; and hip-hop,{{cite news |first=David |last=Gonzalez |date=May 21, 2007 |title=Will Gentrification Spoil the Birthplace of Hip-Hop? |newspaper=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/21/nyregion/21citywide.html?pagewanted=all |access-date=June 1, 2012 }} punk,{{cite book |last=Harrington |first=Joe S. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lw9Ccboc5OcC |title=Sonic Cool: The Life & Death of Rock 'N' Roll |pages=324–30 |year=2002 |isbn=978-0-6340-2861-8 |publisher=Hal Leonard }} hardcore,{{cite magazine |first1=Sam |last1=McPheeters |first2=Christy |last2=Karacas |date=September 1, 2009 |title=Survival of the Streets |url=https://www.vice.com/read/survival-of-the-streets-137-v16n9 |magazine=Vice |access-date=June 1, 2012 }} salsa, freestyle, Tin Pan Alley, certain forms of jazz,{{cite web |title=Harlem Renaissance Music in the 1920s |url=http://www.1920s-fashion-and-music.com/Harlem-Renaissance-music.html |access-date=June 1, 2012 |publisher=1920s Fashion & Music }} and (along with Philadelphia) disco in music. New York City has been considered the dance capital of the world.{{cite web |title=Free To Dance—About The Film |url=https://www.pbs.org/wnet/freetodance/about/episodes.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100414045804/https://www.pbs.org/wnet/freetodance/about/episodes.html |archive-date=April 14, 2010 |access-date=July 10, 2011 |publisher=Public Broadcasting Service |url-status=dead }}{{cite web |title=Group Visits |url=http://www.alvinailey.org/about/visit-us/group-visits |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110513030823/http://www.alvinailey.org/about/visit-us/group-visits |archive-date=May 13, 2011 |access-date=July 10, 2011 |publisher=Alvin Ailey Dance Foundation, Inc }}

One of the most common traits attributed to New York City is its fast pace,{{cite web |last=Chauvin |first=Kelsy |date=March 15, 2019 |title=15 Things NOT to Do in New York City |url=https://www.fodors.com/world/north-america/usa/new-york/new-york-city/experiences/news/15-things-not-to-do-in-new-york-city |publisher=Fodor's |quote=There are more than 8.6 million citizens of New York City, and they're pretty much all in a hurry. They're also shrewd, outspoken, and proudly able to survive in a metropolis that tends to punish the meek. The buzzing subway system alone is a symbol of how this city works: part ballet, part battlefield. Residents and visitors alike can see why New York is considered the greatest city in the world. |access-date=March 23, 2019 }}{{cite news |last=Poliak |first=Shira |title=Adjusting To New York City |newspaper=Sun Sentinel |url=http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/2009-11-19/features/0911180065_1_new-yorkers-fast-paced-big-apple |quote=Additionally, the fast-paced lifestyle of New York City demands adjusting. |access-date=November 1, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151203093200/http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/2009-11-19/features/0911180065_1_new-yorkers-fast-paced-big-apple |archive-date=December 3, 2015 }}{{Cite book |first=Stephen |last=Miller |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tfsmDAAAQBAJ&q=hurrying+feverish+electric+crowds+new+york&pg=PA50 |title=Walking New York: Reflections of American Writers from Walt Whitman to Teju Cole |year=2016 |isbn=978-0-8232-7425-3 |pages=46, 50, 131 |publisher=Fordham University Press |access-date=May 10, 2017 }} which spawned the term New York minute.{{cite encyclopedia |url=http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/new%20york%20minute |title=Dictionary—Full Definition of New York Minute |dictionary=Merriam-Webster |access-date=November 1, 2015 }} New York City's residents are prominently known for their resilience historically, and more recently related to their management of the impacts of the September 11 terrorist attacks and the COVID-19 pandemic.{{Cite magazine |date=September 7, 2021 |title=The City That Endures |url=https://time.com/6094319/new-york-after-sept-11/ |access-date=April 22, 2023 |magazine=Time |language=en }}{{cite web |last1=Weaver |first1=Shaye |title=New York is the most resilient city in the world, according to locals |url=https://www.timeout.com/newyork/news/new-york-is-the-most-resilient-city-in-the-world-according-to-locals-072222#:~:text=New%20York%20is%20the%20most,isn't%20just%20a%20phrase.&text=Throughout%20its%20history%2C%20New%20York,to%20whatever%20comes%20their%20way. |website=Time Out |date=July 22, 2022 |access-date=April 22, 2023 }}{{Cite news |last=Moynihan |first=Colin |date=May 3, 2020 |title=On Subways as Riders Return: Odes to Their Resilience |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/03/arts/virus-subway-riders-poems.html |access-date=April 22, 2023 |issn=0362-4331 }} New York was voted the world's most resilient city in 2021 and 2022, per Time Out's global poll of urban residents.

{{Further|Broadway theatre|Theater District, Manhattan}}

File:Broadway Theaters 45th Street Night.jpg; Jacobs; Schoenfeld; and Booth theatres in Theater District]]

The central hub of the American theater scene is Manhattan, with its divisions of Broadway, off-Broadway, and off-off-Broadway.{{cite book |first1=Felicia Hardison |last1=Londré |first2=Daniel J. |last2=Watermeier |date=1998 |title=The History of North American Theater: From Pre-Columbian Times to the Present |publisher=Continuum |pages= |isbn=978-0-8264-1079-5 |oclc=1024855967 }} Many movie and television stars have gotten their big break working in New York productions.Stephen Watt, and Gary A. Richardson, American Drama: Colonial to Contemporary (1994).

Broadway theatre is one of the premier forms of English-language theatre in the world, named after Broadway, the major thoroughfare that crosses Times Square,{{cite news |last=Welsh |first=Anne Marie |date=June 6, 2004 |title=2 plays + 9 nominations = good odds for locals |newspaper=The San Diego Union-Tribune |url=http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/features/20040606-9999-1a6tony.html |url-status=dead |access-date=September 1, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081005110339/http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/features/20040606-9999-1a6tony.html |archive-date=October 5, 2008 }} sometimes referred to as "The Great White Way".{{cite web |last=McBeth |first=VR |url=http://timessquare.com/NYC__/Times_Square_History/The_Great_White_Way/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110504160457/http://timessquare.com/NYC__/Times_Square_History/The_Great_White_Way/ |title=The Great White Way |website=TimesSquare.com |quote=Coined in 1901 by O.J. Gude, the designer of many prominent advertising displays, to describe the new light show that beckoned along Broadway, The Great White Way is a phrase known worldwide to describe Broadway's profusion of theaters in Times Square. |archive-date=May 4, 2011 |date=September 25, 2006 |access-date=December 4, 2021 |url-status=dead }}{{cite book |last=Tell |first=Darcy |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NwaLWFSG3rcC&pg=PA41 |title=Times Square Spectacular: Lighting Up Broadway |publisher=HarperCollins |year=2007 |isbn=978-0-0608-8433-8 }}{{cite book |last=Allen |first=Irving Lewis |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=j41z0yeKbeIC&pg=PA59 |title=The City in Slang: New York Life and Popular Speech |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=1995 |quote=By 1910, the blocks of Broadway just above 42nd Street were at the very heart of the Great White Way. The glow of Times Square symbolized the center of New York, if not of the world. |isbn=978-0-1953-5776-9 }}

Forty-one venues mostly in Midtown Manhattan's Theatre District, each with at least 500 seats, are classified as Broadway theatres.[https://www.playbill.com/broadway-theatres Learn about the 41 theatres on Broadway.], Playbill. Accessed January 15, 2024. The 2018–19 Broadway theatre season set records with total attendance of 14.8 million and gross revenue of $1.83 billion[https://www.broadwayleague.com/press/press-releases/2018-2019-broadway-end-of-season-statistics/ "2018 – 2019 Broadway End-of-Season Statistics"], The Broadway League, May 28, 2019. Accessed November 13, 2022. Recovering from closures forced by the COVID-19 pandemic, 2022–23 revenues rebounded to $1.58 billion with total attendance of 12.3 million.[https://www.broadwayleague.com/press/press-releases/20222023-broadway-end-of-season-statistics-show-that-broadway-had-attendance-of-123-million-and-grosses-of-158-billion/ "2022–2023 Broadway End-Of-Season Statistics Show That Broadway Had Attendance Of 12.3 Million And Grosses Of $1.58 Billion"], The Broadway League, press release dated May 23, 2023. Accessed January 1, 2024. "The Broadway League has released statistics for the 2022-2023 season, which began on May 23, 2022, and ended on May 21, 2023. In the first full season since Broadway returned from the COVID-19 pandemic closure, Broadway reached a total attendance of 12,283,399 and generated $1,577,586,897 in grosses."[https://www.broadwayleague.com/research/statistics-broadway-nyc/ Broadway Season Statistics], The Broadway League. Accessed January 15, 2024. The Tony Awards recognizes excellence in live Broadway theatre and are presented at an annual ceremony in Manhattan.[https://www.tonyawards.com/about/faq/ Frequently Asked Questions], Tony Awards. Accessed January 15, 2024. "Only Broadway productions that open in designated Broadway theatres in Manhattan are eligible for Tonys."

{{Main|New York City English|New York accent}}

The New York area is home to a distinctive regional accent and speech pattern called the New York dialect, alternatively known as Brooklynese or New Yorkese. It has been considered one of the most recognizable accents within American English.{{cite book |last=Newman |first=Michael |title=American Voices |publisher=Blackwell |year=2005 |isbn=978-1-4051-2109-5 |editor1-last=Wolfram |editor1-first=Walt |pages=82–87 |chapter=New York Talk |editor2-last=Ward |editor2-first=Ben }} The traditional New York area speech pattern is known for its rapid delivery, and its accent is characterized as non-rhotic so that the sound {{IPA|[ɹ]}} does not appear at the end of a syllable or immediately before a consonant, therefore the pronunciation of the city name as "New Yawk".{{cite news |last=Sontag |first=Deborah |date=February 14, 1993 |title=Oy Gevalt! New Yawkese An Endangered Dialect? |newspaper=The New York Times |url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F0CE0D61438F937A25751C0A965958260 |access-date=July 19, 2014 }} The classic version of the New York City dialect is centered on middle- and working-class New Yorkers. The influx of non-European immigrants in recent decades has led to changes in this distinctive dialect, and the traditional form of this speech pattern is no longer as prevalent.

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{{Further|List of buildings, sites, and monuments in New York City|List of tallest buildings in New York City}}

File:1232-42 Dean Street Crown Heights.jpg in Crown Heights North Historic District, Brooklyn]]

New York has architecturally noteworthy buildings in a wide range of styles and from distinct time periods, from the Dutch Colonial Pieter Claesen Wyckoff House in Brooklyn, the oldest section of which dates to 1656, to the modern One World Trade Center, the skyscraper at Ground Zero in Lower Manhattan and the most expensive office tower in the world by construction cost.{{cite web |first=Marisa |last=Taylor |title=As One World Trade Center soars, so do its costs |url=http://bottomline.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/01/31/10279406-as-one-world-trade-center-soars-so-do-its-costs |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120201180547/http://bottomline.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/01/31/10279406-as-one-world-trade-center-soars-so-do-its-costs |archive-date=February 1, 2012 |access-date=February 1, 2012 |publisher=MSNBC }}

Manhattan's skyline, with its many skyscrapers, has been recognized as an iconic symbol of the city,Fazzare, Elizabeth. [https://www.architecturaldigest.com/gallery/what-makes-nycs-skyline-so-iconic "What Makes NYC's Skyline So Iconic? 17 Buildings to Know"], Architectural Digest, May 23, 2023. Accessed February 13, 2024. "When it comes to recognizable skylines, New York City's tops the list.... Super-talls and their historic neighbors have helped shape the iconic urban silhouette we associate with the city today."Dobnik, Verena for Associated Press. [https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-indianapolis-star-iconic-skyline-of/140916473/ "NYC sizing up its iconic skyline; Empire State Building' s owner objects to tower he says would spoil view"], The Indianapolis Star, August 25, 2010. Accessed February 13, 2024, via Newspapers.com. "Look at Manhattan from afar, and the first thing you notice is the Empire State Building, spiking like a needle above the carpet of skyscrapers that coats the island from tip to tip. Now it's got some competition a proposal for a nearby glass office tower that would rise almost as high and alter the iconic skyline."Hakela, Deepti. [https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-day-new-skyscrapers-changing-new-yor/140916613/ "Rising to new heights; Skinny skyscrapers are transforming NYC's iconic skyline"], The Day, February 28, 2016. Accessed February 13, 2024, via Newspapers.com. "In New York City there's no escaping the pressure to be taller and thinner — not even for the skyscrapers Changes in building technology and materials in recent years have made it possible to build slender towers that are among the tallest in the world And some of these cloud-puncturing beanstalks are poised to transform the city's iconic skyline." and the city has been home to several of the tallest buildings in the world. {{As of|2019}}, New York City had 6,455 high-rise buildings, the third most in the world after Hong Kong and Seoul.{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20121106210644/http://www.emporis.com/statistics/skyline-ranking Skyline Ranking]}}, Emporis. Accessed February 9, 2017.

The character of New York's large residential districts is often defined by the elegant brownstone rowhouses and townhouses and shabby tenements that were built during a period of rapid expansion from 1870 to 1930.{{cite book |last=Plunz |first=Richard A. |title=History of Housing in New York City: Dwelling Type and Change in the American Metropolis |publisher=Columbia University Press |year=1990 |isbn=978-0-231-06297-8 |chapter=Chapters 3 [Rich and Poor] & 4 [Beyond the Tenement] }} Stone and brick became the city's building materials of choice after the construction of wood-frame houses was limited in the aftermath of the Great Fire of 1835.Lankevich (1998), pp. 82–83; {{cite book |last=Wilson |first=Rufus Rockwell |url=https://archive.org/details/newyorkoldnewit01wilsgoog |title=New York: Old & New: Its Story, Streets, and Landmarks |publisher=J.B. Lippincott |year=1902 |page=[https://archive.org/details/newyorkoldnewit01wilsgoog/page/n375 354] }}

In contrast, New York City also has neighborhoods that are less densely populated and feature free-standing dwellings. In neighborhoods such as Riverdale (in the Bronx), Ditmas Park (in Brooklyn), and Douglaston (in Queens), large single-family homes are common in various architectural styles such as Tudor Revival and Victorian.{{cite news |first=Margaret |last=Garb |date=March 1, 1998 |title=If You're Thinking of Living In/Riverdale, the Bronx; A Community Jealous of Its Open Space |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1998/03/01/realestate/if-you-re-thinking-living-riverdale-bronx-community-jealous-its-open-space.html |access-date=February 10, 2012 }}{{cite web |date=September 17, 2001 |title=New York Metro: 6 Affordable Neighborhoods |url=https://nymag.com/realestate/articles/affordable/ditmaspark.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120204145438/https://nymag.com/realestate/articles/affordable/ditmaspark.htm |access-date=February 10, 2012 |archive-date=February 4, 2012 |work=New York |url-status=dead }}{{cite news |first=Diana |last=Shaman |date=February 8, 2004 |title=If You're Thinking of Living In/Douglaston, Queens; Timeless City Area, With a Country Feel |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/08/realestate/if-you-re-thinking-living-douglaston-queens-timeless-city-area-with-country-feel.html |access-date=February 10, 2012 }}

{{Wide image|Weehawken Hi Res Labeled 2.jpg|1800px|3={{convert|9|mi|spell=In|adj=on|}} high-resolution panorama of Manhattan's West Side, from 115th Street to The Battery, taken from Weehawken, New Jersey, on March 26, 2020. The Chrysler Building is blocked by One Vanderbilt.}}

{{Further|List of museums and cultural institutions in New York City|Music of New York City}}

File:Lincoln Center at dawn.jpg: David H. Koch Theater (left), home of the NY City Ballet; Metropolitan Opera House (center), home of the Metropolitan Opera; and David Geffen Hall (right), home of the NY Philharmonic]]

File:Metropolitan Museum of Art (The Met) - Central Park, NYC.jpg, the largest art museum in the Americas]]

Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, anchoring Lincoln Square on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, is home to numerous influential arts organizations, including the Metropolitan Opera, New York City Opera, New York Philharmonic, and New York City Ballet, as well as the Vivian Beaumont Theater, the Juilliard School, Jazz at Lincoln Center, and Alice Tully Hall. The Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute is in Union Square, and Tisch School of the Arts is based at New York University, while Central Park SummerStage presents free concerts in Central Park.{{cite web |title=About Summer Stage |url=http://www.cityparksfoundation.org/summerstage/about/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121016075818/http://www.cityparksfoundation.org/summerstage/about/ |archive-date=October 16, 2012 |access-date=June 14, 2012 |publisher=City Parks Foundation }}

New York City has more than 2,000 arts and cultural organizations and more than 500 art galleries.{{cite web |date=December 2005 |title=Creative New York |url=http://www.nycfuture.org/images_pdfs/pdfs/CREATIVE_NEW_YORK.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080831013443/http://www.nycfuture.org/images_pdfs/pdfs/CREATIVE_NEW_YORK.pdf |archive-date=August 31, 2008 |access-date=September 1, 2008 |publisher=Center for an Urban Future |url-status=dead }} The city government funds the arts with a larger annual budget than the National Endowment for the Arts. The city is also home to hundreds of cultural institutions and historic sites. Museum Mile is the name for a section of Fifth Avenue running from 82nd to 105th streets on the Upper East Side of Manhattan,{{cite web |title=Museum Mile Festival |url=http://www.museummilefestival.org/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120804102650/http://museummilefestival.org/ |archive-date=August 4, 2012 |access-date=August 23, 2014 |website=museummilefestival.org }} in the upper portion of Carnegie Hill.{{cite news |last=Kusisto |first=Laura |date=October 21, 2011 |title=Reaching High on Upper 5th Avenue |work=The Wall Street Journal |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052970204618704576643022038133998 |url-status=live |access-date=August 23, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111023171126/http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204618704576643022038133998.html |archive-date=October 23, 2011 }}

Nine museums occupy this section of Fifth Avenue, making it one of the densest displays of high culture in the world.{{cite web |title=Museums on the Mile |url=http://www.museummilefestival.org/museums/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120101013336/http://www.museummilefestival.org/museums/ |archive-date=January 1, 2012 |access-date=August 23, 2014 |website=museummilefestival.org }} Its art museums include the Guggenheim, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Neue Galerie New York, and The Africa Center. In addition to other programming, the museums collaborate for the annual Museum Mile Festival, held each year in June, to promote the museums and increase visitation.{{Cite news |date=June 27, 1979 |title=New Drive Promoting 5th Ave.'s 'Museum Mile' |work=The New York Times |url=https://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=FB0F1FFA395D12728DDDAE0A94DE405B898BF1D3 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140506150805/https://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=FB0F1FFA395D12728DDDAE0A94DE405B898BF1D3 |archive-date=May 6, 2014 |access-date=August 23, 2014 }} Many of the world's most lucrative art auctions are held in New York City.{{cite news |first1=Robin |last1=Pogrebin |first2=Scott |last2=Reyburn |date=November 15, 2017 |title=Leonardo da Vinci Painting Sells for $450.3 Million, Shattering Auction Highs |newspaper=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/15/arts/design/leonardo-da-vinci-salvator-mundi-christies-auction.html |access-date=November 16, 2017 }}{{cite web |date=November 15, 2017 |title=Christ painting by Leonardo da Vinci sells for record $450M |url=https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/christ-painting-by-leonardo-da-vinci-sells-for-record-dollar450m/ar-BBEYwDu?li=BBnbfcL&ocid=iehp |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171116083413/http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/christ-painting-by-leonardo-da-vinci-sells-for-record-dollar450m/ar-BBEYwDu?li=BBnbfcL&ocid=iehp |archive-date=November 16, 2017 |access-date=November 15, 2017 |agency=Associated Press |publisher=MSN }}

The Metropolitan Museum of Art is the largest art museum in the Americas. In 2022, it welcomed 3.2 million visitors, ranking it the third-most visited museum in the country, and eighth-most visited art museum in the world.The Art Newspaper, "Visitors Survey 2022", March 27, 2023 Its permanent collection contains more than two million works across 17 curatorial departments,[https://www.metmuseum.org/press/exhibitions/2000/metropolitan-museum-launches-new-and-expanded-web-site "Metropolitan Museum Launches New and Expanded Web Site"] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161128201035/https://www.metmuseum.org/press/exhibitions/2000/metropolitan-museum-launches-new-and-expanded-web-site |date=November 28, 2016 }}, press release, The Met, January 25, 2000. and includes works of art from classical antiquity and ancient Egypt; paintings and sculptures from nearly all the European masters; and an extensive collection of American and modern art. The Met maintains extensive holdings of African, Asian, Oceanian, Byzantine, and Islamic art.{{cite book |last=de Montebello |first=Philippe |author-link=Philippe de Montebello |title=Masterpieces of the Metropolitan Museum of Art |year=1997 |publisher=Metropolitan Museum of Art |location=New York |pages=[https://archive.org/details/masterpiecesofme0000unse/page/6 6–7] |isbn=0-300-10615-7 |url=https://archive.org/details/masterpiecesofme0000unse/page/6 }}

{{Main|Cuisine of New York City|List of restaurants in New York City|List of Michelin starred restaurants in New York City}}

File:Lox-and-bagel-02.jpg with lox]]

New York City's food culture includes an array of international cuisines influenced by the city's long immigrant history. Central and Eastern European immigrants, especially Jewish immigrants from those regions, brought New York-style bagels, cheesecake, hot dogs, knishes, and delicatessens (delis) to the city. Italian immigrants brought New York-style pizza and Italian cuisine into the city, while Jewish immigrants and Irish immigrants brought pastrami{{cite web |title=Pastrami On Rye: A Full-length History Of The Jewish Deli |work=Public Radio International |date=March 31, 2016 |publisher=The World |url=https://www.pri.org/stories/2016-03-31/pastrami-rye-full-length-history-new-york-jewish-deli |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160402133541/https://www.pri.org/stories/2016-03-31/pastrami-rye-full-length-history-new-york-jewish-deli |archive-date=April 2, 2016 |access-date=November 27, 2020 |url-status=live }} and corned beef,{{cite web |first=Shaylyn |last=Esposito |title=Is Corned Beef Really Irish? |work=Smithsonian |url=https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/is-corned-beef-really-irish-2839144/ |date=March 15, 2013 |access-date=November 27, 2020 }} respectively. Chinese and other Asian restaurants, sandwich joints, trattorias, diners, and coffeehouses are ubiquitous throughout the city. Some 4,000 mobile food vendors licensed by the city, many immigrant-owned, have made Middle Eastern foods such as falafel and kebabs{{cite news |last=Bleyer |first=Jennifer |date=May 14, 2006 |title=Kebabs on the Night Shift |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/14/nyregion/thecity/14vend.html |access-date=January 17, 2014 }} examples of modern New York street food. The city is home to "nearly one thousand of the finest and most diverse haute cuisine restaurants in the world", according to Michelin.{{cite web |title=27,479 restaurants selected by the Michelin Guide—Top Destinations |url=http://www.viamichelin.com/web/Restaurants |access-date=August 24, 2014 |publisher=Michelin Guide }} The New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene assigns letter grades to the city's restaurants based on inspection results.{{cite web |title=Restaurant Inspection Results (Letter Grades) |url=http://www.nyc.gov/html/doh/html/services/restaurant-inspection.shtml |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140122123431/http://www.nyc.gov/html/doh/html/services/restaurant-inspection.shtml |archive-date=January 22, 2014 |access-date=January 19, 2014 |publisher=New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene }} As of 2019, there were 27,043 restaurants in the city, up from 24,865 in 2017.{{cite web |first=Jennifer |last=Tiedemann |title=$15-Per-Hour Minimum Wage Isn't What NYC Restaurant Workers Ordered |url=https://indefenseofliberty.blog/2019/04/08/15-per-hour-minimum-wage-isnt-what-nyc-restaurant-workers-ordered/ |work=Goldwater Institute |publisher=In Defense of Liberty |date=April 8, 2019 |access-date=June 1, 2019 }} The Queens Night Market in Flushing Meadows–Corona Park attracts more than ten thousand people nightly to sample food from more than 85 countries.

{{Further|New York Fashion Week|Met Gala}}

File:Carolina Herrera AW14 12.jpg fashion models walk the runway during NYFW]]

New York City is a global fashion capital, and the fashion industry employs 4.6% of the city's private workforce.{{cite web |url=https://edc.nyc/industry/fashion |title=Global Center of Fashion |publisher=NYCEDC |access-date=November 10, 2024 |quote=With the industry employing 4.6 percent of the city's private sector workforce, fashion is a major driver of New York City's economy. }} New York Fashion Week (NYFW) is a high-profile semiannual event featuring models displaying the latest wardrobes created by fashion designers worldwide in advance of these fashions proceeding to the marketplace.{{cite web |url=https://www.lightspeedhq.com/blog/new-york-fashion-week/ |title=New York Fashion Week 2023 {{!}} Retailers bring the runway to real-life |author=Naeme Elzein |work=Lightspeed |date=August 22, 2023 |access-date=November 26, 2023 |quote=Starting with world renown designers reading the winds of change through to buyers forecasting trends that feel 'right now', New York Fashion Week is the first big domino to fall in a succession of actions resulting in what ends up in your closet. }}

NYFW sets the tone for the global fashion industry.{{cite news |url=https://thefordhamram.com/93053/news/fashion-week/ |title=The Economic Impact of New York Fashion Week |author=Diana Juarez |newspaper=The Fordham Ram |date=October 4, 2023 |access-date=November 26, 2023 |quote=New York Fashion Week (NYFW) is an iconic event that not only sets the global fashion industry's tone but also plays a pivotal role in contributing to the economic vitality of the city. Beyond the glitz, glamor and gorgeous soirées of the runway, NYFW profoundly impacts various sectors of the economy, including tourism, retail, hospitalityurl and media. }} New York's fashion district encompasses roughly 30 city blocks in Midtown Manhattan,{{cite web |url=https://www.allartschools.com/fashion-design/fashion-design-new-york/ |title=New York: Fashion Design Capital of the U.S. |publisher=All Art Schools |access-date=November 26, 2023 |quote=New York and fashion design go hand in hand. }} clustered around a stretch of Seventh Avenue nicknamed Fashion Avenue.Nemy, Enid.(June 8, 1972) [https://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9B06E5DD1F3EE63BBC4053DFB0668389669EDE "Everybody – Well, Almost – Attended A Mammoth Party on 'Fashion Ave.'"] The New York Times New York's fashion calendar also includes Couture Fashion Week to showcase haute couture styles.{{cite web |url=https://www.couturefashionweek.com/designers/ |title=Couture Fashion Week |publisher=Couture Fashion Week |quote=Couture Fashion Week New York Latest Designers |access-date=November 26, 2023 }} The Met Gala is often described as "Fashion's biggest night".{{cite web |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/met-gala-2023-red-carpet/ |title=Met Gala 2023: Fashion's biggest night honors Karl Lagerfeld |author=Ali Bauman |publisher=CBS News |date=May 1, 2023 |access-date=November 26, 2023 }}

{{Further|Category:Parades in New York City{{!}}List of parades in New York City}}

File:Macy's_Thanksgiving_Day_Parade_2022_New_York_City_(52522832206).jpg, the world's largest parade]]

New York City is well known for its street parades, the majority in Manhattan. The primary orientation of the annual street parades is typically from north to south, marching along major avenues. The annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade is the world's largest parade,{{cite web |date=November 24, 2016 |title=Millions Of Revelers Marvel Over Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade |url=http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2016/11/24/macys-thanksgiving-day-parade-2016/ |access-date=March 30, 2017 |publisher=CBS Broadcasting Inc }} beginning alongside Central Park and proceeding southward to the flagship Macy's Herald Square store;{{cite web |first=Hilarey |last=Wojtowicz |title=Guide to the 2016 Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade |url=http://www.familyvacationcritic.com/guide-to-2016-macys-thanksgiving-day-parade/art/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170329144025/http://www.familyvacationcritic.com/guide-to-2016-macys-thanksgiving-day-parade/art/ |archive-date=March 29, 2017 |access-date=March 28, 2017 |publisher=The Independent Traveler, Inc }} the parade is viewed on telecasts worldwide and draws millions of spectators in person. Other notable parades including the annual New York City St. Patrick's Day Parade in March, the NYC LGBT Pride March in June, the LGBT-inspired Greenwich Village Halloween Parade in October, and numerous parades commemorating the independence days of many nations. Ticker-tape parades celebrating championships won by sports teams as well as other accomplishments march northward along the Canyon of Heroes on Broadway from Bowling Green to City Hall Park in Lower Manhattan.

{{Main|Sports in the New York metropolitan area|Traditional games of New York City}}

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New York City is home to the headquarters of the National Football League,{{cite web |title=National Football League Company Information |url=http://www.hoovers.com/company-information/cs/company-profile.National_Football_League.f36bd60db3fbcb01.html |access-date=May 18, 2013 |publisher=Hoover's, Inc. }} Major League Baseball,{{cite web |title=Major League Baseball Company Information |url=http://www.hoovers.com/company-information/cs/company-profile.Major_League_Baseball.690243a73fc37ae4.html |access-date=May 18, 2013 |publisher=Hoover's, Inc. }} the National Basketball Association,{{cite web |title=National Basketball Association, Inc. Company Information |url=http://www.hoovers.com/company-information/cs/company-profile.National_Basketball_Association_Inc.9752d99632cf8a45.html |access-date=May 18, 2013 |publisher=Hoover's, Inc. }} the National Hockey League,{{cite web |title=National Hockey League Company Information |url=http://www.hoovers.com/company-information/cs/company-profile.National_Hockey_League.6eb8cbd895fc6ce9.html |access-date=May 18, 2013 |publisher=Hoover's, Inc. }} and Major League Soccer.{{cite web |title=Major League Soccer, L.L.C. Company Information |url=http://www.hoovers.com/company-information/cs/company-profile.Major_League_Soccer_LLC.0432cbf68c309307.html |access-date=May 18, 2013 |publisher=Hoover's, Inc. }}

New York City hosted the 1984 Summer Paralympics[https://www.paralympicheritage.org.uk/new-york-1984-paralympic-summer-games New York 1984 Paralympic Summer Games], National Paralympic Heritage Trust. Accessed January 18, 2024. "The New York Games were set to run from 17th - 29th June and the Stoke Mandeville Games from 22nd July - 1st August." and the 1998 Goodwill Games.Bondy Filip. [https://www.nytimes.com/1992/10/16/us/new-york-city-and-environs-land-goodwill-games-for-98.html "New York City and Environs Land Goodwill Games for '98"], The New York Times, October 16, 1992. Accessed January 18, 2024. "New York City, New Jersey and Long Island were awarded the 1998 Goodwill Games last night, an intriguing but risky choice by the Games' selection committee. Six years from now, the area will be called upon to play host to thousands of international athletes and fans who have every right to expect upgraded athletic facilities and a convenient ride to the arena." New York City's bid to host the 2012 Summer Olympics was one of five finalists, but lost out to London.Zinser, Lynn. [https://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/06/sports/othersports/olympic-committee-chooses-london-for-2012-summer-games.html "Olympic Committee Chooses London for 2012 Summer Games"],The New York Times, July 6, 2005. Accessed January 19, 2023. "London won the 2012 Olympic Summer Games on Wednesday in a surprising upset over the front-running Paris after ardent last-minute lobbying by Prime Minister Tony Blair..... The British capitalized on a desire to hold the Games in Western Europe and surpassed four finalists, including New York, which was knocked out in the second round of voting, earlier than most expected."

The city has played host to more than 40 major professional teams in the five sports and their respective competing leagues. Four of the ten most expensive stadiums ever built worldwide (MetLife Stadium, the new Yankee Stadium, Madison Square Garden, and Citi Field) are in the New York metropolitan area.{{cite web |author=Esteban |date=October 27, 2011 |title=11 Most Expensive Stadiums in the World |url=http://www.totalprosports.com/2011/10/27/11-most-expensive-stadiums-in-the-world/ |access-date=September 2, 2012 |publisher=Total Pro Sports |archive-date=August 27, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120827201315/http://www.totalprosports.com/2011/10/27/11-most-expensive-stadiums-in-the-world/ |url-status=dead }}

The city is represented in the National Football League by the New York Giants and the New York Jets, although both teams play their home games at MetLife Stadium in nearby East Rutherford, New Jersey,{{cite news |date=December 22, 2011 |title=Preparations Different for a Home-and-Home Contest |newspaper=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/23/sports/football/for-giants-jets-game-metlife-stadium-preparations-differ.html?pagewanted=all |access-date=May 31, 2012 }} which hosted Super Bowl XLVIII in 2014.{{cite news |date=May 26, 2010 |title=Owners warm up to New York/New Jersey as Super Bowl XLVIII host |publisher=National Football League |agency=Associated Press |url=http://www.nfl.com/news/story?id=09000d5d8184fc83&template=with-video-with-comments&confirm=true |access-date=May 27, 2010 |quote=It's the first time the league has gone to a cold-weather site that doesn't have a dome{{nbsp}}... the NFL will wait and see how this foray into the great outdoors in winter goes. Then the league might OK another bid }}

The city's two Major League Baseball teams are the New York Mets, who play at 41,800-seat Citi Field in Queens and the New York Yankees, who play at 47,400-seat Yankee Stadium in the Bronx.[https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/11/nyregion/stadiums-arenas-funding-nyc.html "So Many Seats, So Many Tax Breaks"], The New York Times, July 11, 1028. Accessed January 18, 2024. "Yankee Stadium Location: Bronx Year Opened: 2009 Seats: 47,422. The stadium cost more than $2.3 billion to build.... Citi Field Location: Queens; Year Opened: 2009; Seats: 41,800. The project cost about $830.6 million with $134.91 million coming from the New York Mets, and $614.3 million in public money and tax breaks." The two rivals compete in four games of interleague play every regular season, called the Subway Series.Lupica, Mike. [https://www.mlb.com/news/subway-series-2023-a-time-to-hit-reset "Subway Series still as intriguing a ticket as there is in town"], MLB.com, June 12, 2023. Accessed January 18, 2024. "You certainly know what it was like at the old Stadium and Shea, where the Mets and Yankees played a real Subway Series in 2000. Four games this time. Two at Citi. Two at the Stadium next month." The Yankees have won an MLB-record 27 championships,{{cite web |title=New York Yankees: Facts, History, Stats, and Resources |url=http://www.thefreeresource.com/new-york-yankees-facts-history-stats-and-resources |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120605211426/http://www.thefreeresource.com/new-york-yankees-facts-history-stats-and-resources |archive-date=June 5, 2012 |access-date=May 31, 2012 |publisher=The free sources }} while the Mets have won the World Series twice.{{cite news |date=October 8, 1986 |title=How Mets, Colt .45s Grew Up To Beat The Bullies |newspaper=Chicago Tribune |url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/1986/10/08/how-mets-colt-45s-grew-up-to-beat-the-bullies/ |access-date=May 31, 2012 }} The city was once home to the Brooklyn Dodgers (now the Los Angeles Dodgers), who won the World Series once,{{cite web |title=Dodgers Timeline |url=http://losangeles.dodgers.mlb.com/la/history/timeline01.jsp |access-date=September 22, 2008 |publisher=Los Angeles Dodgers |archive-date=July 4, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080704170220/http://losangeles.dodgers.mlb.com/la/history/timeline01.jsp |url-status=dead }} and the New York Giants (now the San Francisco Giants), who won the World Series five times. Both teams moved to California in 1958.{{cite web |title=Historical Moments |url=http://www.dodgers-giants.com/ |access-date=May 31, 2012 |publisher=Dodgers Giants }} There is one Minor League Baseball team in the city, the Mets-affiliated Brooklyn Cyclones,{{cite news |date=May 30, 2012 |title=Major League Baseball, Police Athletic League and the Brooklyn Cyclones to host free MLB Umpire Camp |newspaper=MLB Press Release |url=http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20120530&content_id=32491896&vkey=pr_mlb&c_id=mlb |access-date=May 31, 2012 }} and the city gained a club in the independent Atlantic League when the Staten Island FerryHawks began play in 2022.{{cite web |title=Introducing Your Ferryhawks!! |work=Staten Island Entertainment |url=https://ferryhawks.com/news/2021/11/17/Your_FerryHawks_2.aspx |access-date=November 18, 2021 |date=November 17, 2021 }}

The city's National Basketball Association teams are the New York Knicks, who play at Madison Square Garden, and the Brooklyn Nets, who play at the Barclays Center. The New York Liberty is the city's Women's National Basketball Association team. The first national college-level basketball championship, the National Invitation Tournament, was held in New York in 1938 and remains in the city.{{cite web |title=Postseason Overview |url=http://www.nit.org/history/nit-postseason.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080724155001/http://www.nit.org/history/nit-postseason.html |archive-date=July 24, 2008 |access-date=September 1, 2008 |publisher=National Invitation Tournament }}

The metropolitan area is home to three National Hockey League teams. The New York Rangers, one of the league's Original Six, play at Madison Square Garden in Manhattan. The New York Islanders, traditionally representing Long Island, play in UBS Arena in Elmont, New York, but played in Brooklyn's Barclays Center from 2015 to 2020. The New Jersey Devils play at Prudential Center in nearby Newark, New Jersey.

New York City is represented by New York City FC of Major League Soccer, who play their home games at Yankee Stadium{{cite web |url=https://www.nycfc.com/schedule |title=nycfc.com |access-date=May 10, 2017 }} and the New York Red Bulls, who play their home games at Sports Illustrated Stadium in nearby Harrison, New Jersey.{{cite news |date=March 20, 2010 |title=Picture-perfect opening for $200M Red Bull Arena in Harrison |agency=Associated Press |url=http://www.nj.com/hudson/index.ssf/2010/03/picture-perfect_opening_for_20.html }} NJ/NY Gotham FC in the National Women's Soccer League plays their home games in Sports Illustrated Stadium. Brooklyn FC is a professional soccer club based in that borough, fielding a women's team in the first-division USL Super League starting in 2024 and a men's team in the second-division USL Championship in 2025.{{cite web |title=Brooklyn FC reveal "shared identity" for USL Super League brand |url=https://www.uslsuperleague.com/news/2024/04/12/brooklyn-fc-reveal-shared-identity-for-usl-super-league-brand/ |website=uslsuperleague.com |publisher=United Soccer League |access-date=April 15, 2024 |date=April 12, 2024 }} New York was a host city for the 1994 FIFA World Cup, with matches being played at Giants Stadium in neighboring East Rutherford, New Jersey.{{cite web |url=https://www.stadiumguide.com/fifa-world-cup-1994-stadiums/ |title=FIFA 1994 World Cup Stadiums – USA – the Stadium Guide }} New York City will be one of eleven host cities for the 2026 FIFA World Cup, with the final set to be played at MetLife Stadium.{{Cite web |url=https://www.fifa.com/fifaplus/en/articles/fifa-to-announce-host-cities-for-fifa-world-cup-2026 |title=FIFA announces hosts cities for FIFA World Cup 2026 |website=Fifa.com |access-date=November 24, 2023 }}[https://www.nyc.gov/office-of-the-mayor/news/096-24/mayor-adams-governor-murphy-celebrate-new-york-new-jersey-selection-host-biggest "Mayor Adams and Governor Murphy Celebrate New York New Jersey Selection as Host for Biggest Sporting Event in World History: FIFA World Cup 26 Final"], Mayor of New York City Eric Adams, February 4, 2024. Accessed February 14, 2024. "New York City Mayor Eric Adams and New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy celebrated today's announcement that the Host Region of New York New Jersey (NYNJ) was awarded the rights to host the FIFA World Cup 26™ Final and seven other matches throughout the tournament at New York New Jersey Stadium (MetLife Stadium) in East Rutherford, New Jersey.... Consistent with stadiums in other Host Cities, MetLife Stadium will adopt a new venue name for FIFA World Cup 26, New York New Jersey Stadium."

The annual US Open is one of four Grand Slam tennis tournaments and is held at the National Tennis Center in Flushing Meadows–Corona Park.{{cite web |title=US Open 2015 |url=http://www.usopen.org/ |access-date=July 6, 2015 |publisher=United States Tennis Association }} The New York City Marathon, which courses through all five boroughs, is the world's largest running marathon, with 51,402 finishers in 2023, who came from all 50 states and 148 nations.Butler, Sarah Lorge. [https://www.runnersworld.com/races-places/a45760471/new-york-city-marathon-2023-by-the-numbers/ "New York City Was the World's Largest Marathon in 2023"], Runner's World, November 7, 2023. Accessed January 17, 2024. "If you were one of the 51,933 people who started the New York City Marathon on November 5, chances are very high that you also finished it. According to New York Road Runners, 51,402 runners finished the marathon, a 98.9 percent completion rate.... They hailed from all 50 states and 148 countries." The Millrose Games is an annual track and field meet held at the Fort Washington Avenue Armory, whose featured event is the Wanamaker Mile.Metzler, Brian. [https://www.outsideonline.com/running/news/millrose-games-records-and-wanamaker-mile/ "The Famous Millrose Games Delivers Speed, Records, and the Wanamaker Mile"], Outside, February 13, 2023. Accessed January 17, 2024. "With his dominating performance in the Wanamaker Mile, Nuguse might have signaled a new era in the classic imperial distance — the quest for the world's first sub-3:47 mile on an indoor track.... In the final race of the 115th Millrose Games at The Armory Track & Field Center, Nuguse made it look relatively easy." Boxing is a prominent part of the city's sporting scene, with events like the New York Golden Gloves held at Madison Square Garden each year.[https://www.nydailynews.com/2021/12/31/daily-news-golden-gloves-amateur-boxing-tournament-may-return-in-2022/ "Daily News Golden Gloves amateur boxing tournament may return in 2022"], New York Daily News, December 13, 2021. Accessed July 17, 2024. "Created by Daily News sports columnist Paul Gallico, the city's inaugural Golden Gloves was held in 1927 at Madison Square Garden and its ensuing popularity led to a wave of similar tournaments across the country."

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File:Low_Memorial_Library_Columbia_University_College_Walk_Court_Yard_05.jpg at Columbia University]]

New York City has the largest educational system of any city. The city's educational infrastructure spans primary education, secondary education, higher education, and research. The New York City Public Schools system, managed by the New York City Department of Education, is the largest public school system in the United States, serving about 1.1 million students in approximately 1,800 separate primary and secondary schools, including charter schools, as of 2017–2018.{{cite web |title=Where we live NRC Fair housing together |url=https://wherewelive.cityofnewyork.us/explore-data/access-to-opportunity/education/#:~:text=New%20York%20City's%20public%20school,and%20various%20charter%20programs1. |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230723020135/http://wherewelive.cityofnewyork.us/explore-data/access-to-opportunity/education/#:~:text=New%20York%20City's%20public%20school,and%20various%20charter%20programs1. |archive-date=July 23, 2023 |access-date=July 23, 2023}} There are approximately 900 additional privately run secular and religious schools.{{cite web |title=Private School Universe Survey |url=http://nces.ed.gov/surveys/pss/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080906170332/http://www.nces.ed.gov/surveys/pss/ |archive-date=September 6, 2008 |access-date=September 1, 2008 |publisher=National Center for Education Statistics}}

File:Facade_of_the_New_York_Public_Library_Main_Branch_2.jpg of the New York Public Library]]

The New York Public Library (NYPL) has the largest collection of any public library system in the United States.{{cite web |title=Nation's Largest Libraries |url=http://www.libraryspot.com/lists/listlargestlibs.htm |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070529215517/http://www.libraryspot.com/lists/listlargestlibs.htm |archive-date=May 29, 2007 |access-date=September 1, 2008 |publisher=LibrarySpot}} Queens is served by the Queens Borough Public Library (QPL), the nation's second-largest public library system, while the Brooklyn Public Library (BPL) serves Brooklyn.

More than a million students, the highest number of any city in the United States,{{Cite news |date=September 8, 2016 |title=America's Biggest College Towns |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-09-08/america-s-biggest-college-towns |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220728164158/https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-09-08/america-s-biggest-college-towns |archive-date=July 28, 2022 |access-date=August 15, 2022 |work=Bloomberg.com |language=en}} are enrolled in New York City's more than 120 higher education institutions, with more than half a million in the City University of New York (CUNY) system alone {{as of|2020|lc=yes}}.{{cite web |title=Academics |url=https://www.cuny.edu/academics/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220814044917/https://www.cuny.edu/academics/ |archive-date=August 14, 2022 |access-date=April 15, 2020 |publisher=City University of New York}} According to Academic Ranking of World Universities, New York City has, on average, the best higher education institutions of any global city.{{Cite web |title=Academic Ranking of World Universities 2019 |url=http://www.shanghairanking.com/ARWU2019.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190817225232/http://www.shanghairanking.com/ARWU2019.html |archive-date=August 17, 2019 |access-date=August 17, 2019 |publisher=Shanghai Ranking Consultancy}}

The public CUNY system comprises 25 institutions across all five boroughs. The public State University of New York (SUNY) system's campuses in New York City include SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University, Fashion Institute of Technology, SUNY Maritime College, and SUNY College of Optometry. New York City is home to such notable private universities as Barnard College, Columbia University, Cooper Union, Fordham University, New York University, New York Institute of Technology, Rockefeller University, Mercy University, Cornell Tech and Yeshiva University; several of these are ranked among the top universities in the world,{{cite web |title=Academic Ranking of World Universities 2017 |url=http://www.shanghairanking.com/ARWU2017.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171012154517/http://www.shanghairanking.com/ARWU2017.html |archive-date=October 12, 2017 |access-date=October 16, 2017 |publisher=Shanghai Ranking Consultancy Consultancy}}{{cite web |title=CWUR 2016—World University Rankings |url=https://cwur.org/2016.php |access-date=October 16, 2017 |publisher=Center for World University Rankings}} while some of the world's most prestigious institutions like Princeton University and Yale University remain in the New York metropolitan area.

Much of the scientific research in the city is done in medicine and the life sciences. In 2019, the New York metropolitan area ranked first by share of published articles in life sciences.{{Cite web |title=Top 50 science cities in life sciences |url=https://www.natureindex.com/supplements/nature-index-2020-science-cities/tables/life-sciences |access-date=March 26, 2022 |website=natureindex.com |language=en}} New York City has the most postgraduate life sciences degrees awarded annually in the United States, and in 2012, 43,523 licensed physicians were practicing in New York City.{{cite web |last1=Horner |first1=Blair |last2=Levin |first2=Arthur |last3=Mattei |first3=Suzanne |date=August 2014 |others=Casey Ciceron (contributor) |title=The Doctor Is In: New York's Increasing Number of Doctors |url=http://www.nypirg.org/pubs/health/2014.08.21DoctorIsIn.pdf |access-date=August 22, 2014 |publisher=New York City Economic Development Corporation |page=13, Appendix 1: Comparison of the Numbers Of New York Doctors By County, As Of December 31, 2004, And December 31, 2012}} There are 127 Nobel laureates with roots in local institutions {{As of|2004|lc=y}}.{{cite press release |title=Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and Economic Development Corporation President Andrew M. Alper Unveil Plans to Develop Commercial Bioscience Center in Manhattan |date=November 18, 2004 |publisher=New York City Economic Development Corporation |url=http://home2.nyc.gov/portal/site/nycgov/menuitem.c0935b9a57bb4ef3daf2f1c701c789a0/index.jsp?pageID=mayor_press_release&catID=1194&doc_name=http%3A%2F%2Fhome2.nyc.gov%2Fhtml%2Fom%2Fhtml%2F2004b%2Fpr310-04.html&cc=unused1978&rc=1194&ndi=1 |access-date=September 1, 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071011233830/http://home2.nyc.gov/portal/site/nycgov/menuitem.c0935b9a57bb4ef3daf2f1c701c789a0/index.jsp?pageID=mayor_press_release&catID=1194&doc_name=http%3A%2F%2Fhome2.nyc.gov%2Fhtml%2Fom%2Fhtml%2F2004b%2Fpr310-04.html&cc=unused1978&rc=1194&ndi=1 |archive-date=October 11, 2007}}

{{main|Healthcare in New York City|NYC Health + Hospitals|New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene}}

File:NewYorkPresbyterian-Cornell.jpg, affiliated with Columbia University and Cornell University, is the largest hospital and largest private employer in New York City and one of the world's busiest hospitals.{{cite web |title=About Us: Locations |url=http://careers.nyp.org/about-us/locations/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140812212715/http://careers.nyp.org/about-us/locations/ |archive-date=August 12, 2014 |access-date=August 12, 2014 |publisher=NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital}}]]New York City is a center for healthcare and medical training, with employment of over 750,000 in the city's health care sector.[https://www.governor.ny.gov/news/governor-hochul-mayor-adams-announce-plan-sparc-kips-bay-first-its-kind-job-and-education-hub "Governor Hochul, Mayor Adams Announce Plan for SPARC Kips Bay, First-of-Its-Kind Job and Education Hub for Health and Life Sciences Innovation"], Governor of New York Kathy Hochul, October 13, 2022. Accessed January 17, 2024. "New York City's health care sector employs over 750,000 New Yorkers, and the metropolitan area's life sciences sector is a rapidly growing industry with nearly 150,000 additional jobs last year."[https://edc.nyc/industry/healthcare Healthcare], New York City Economic Development Corporation. Accessed January 17, 2024. "New York City is home to the largest public healthcare system in the US, world-class private medical centers, and a robust, cutting-edge R&D landscape." Private hospitals in New York City include the Hospital for Special Surgery, Lenox Hill Hospital, Long Island Jewish Medical Center, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Mount Sinai Hospital, NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, and NYU Langone Health.[https://www.definitivehc.com/resources/healthcare-insights/top-hospitals-new-york-net-patient-revenue "Top 25 New York hospitals by net patient revenue"], Definitive Healthcare, June 6, 2023. Accessed January 16, 2024. Medical schools include SUNY Downstate College of Medicine in Brooklyn, Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx, and CUNY School of Medicine, Touro College of Osteopathic Medicine, Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, Weill Cornell Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, and New York University School of Medicine in Manhattan.[https://www.nyacep.org/practice-resources-2/resources/medical-students/new-york-medical-schools New York Medical Schools], New York ACEP. Accessed January 16, 2024.

NYC Health + Hospitals (HHC) is a public-benefit corporation established in 1969 which operates the city's public hospitals and a network of outpatient clinics.[https://a856-gbol.nyc.gov/GBOLWebsite/GreenBook/Details?orgId=2879 Health + Hospitals NYC, (NYC H+H)], New York City Green Book. Accessed January 16, 2024. "Description: A public benefit Corporation created by State Legislature, July 1, 1969, to operate the City's municipal hospitals. Operates facilities in all five boroughs, providing general, chronic, ambulatory and skilled nursing care and a wide variety of specialized patient care services. All employees are public employees."[https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/laws/HHC Chapter1016 New York City health and hospitals corporation act 1016/69], New York State Senate. Accessed January 16, 2024. {{as of|2021}}, HHC is the largest American municipal healthcare system with $10.9 billion in annual revenues.{{cite web |title=Financial Statements and Supplemental Schedules and Report of Independent Certified Public Accountants – New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation (A Component Unit of the City of New York) |url=https://comptroller.nyc.gov/wp-content/uploads/documents/HHC-Financial-Statements-2021.pdf |access-date=October 12, 2022 |publisher=The City of New York}} HHC serves 1.4 million patients, including more than 475,000 uninsured city residents.{{Cite web |title=HHC Health and Hospitals Corporation |url=http://www.nyc.gov/html/hhc/html/home/home.shtml |access-date=November 29, 2021 |website=nyc.gov}} HHC operates eleven acute-care hospitals, four skilled nursing facilities, six diagnostic and treatment centers, and more than 70 community-based primary care sites, serving primarily the city's poor and working-class residents.[https://www.nychealthandhospitals.org/careers/frequently-asked-questions/ Frequently Asked Questions], NYC Health + Hospitals. Accessed January 16, 2024. "Where are your facilities located? NYC Health + Hospitals includes 11 acute care hospitals, four skilled nursing facilities, six large diagnostic and treatment centers and more than 70 community-based clinics. These facilities are within seven geographically based networks throughout the New York City metropolitan area."Miller, Kenneth. [https://www.nursing.columbia.edu/news/public-option The Public Option], Columbia University School of Nursing, November 12, 2023. Accessed January 16, 2024. "HHC is the largest municipal health system in the United States, serving 1.4 million patients—mostly low-income or working-class people on Medicaid or Medicare. About one-third are uninsured, and many are undocumented. A public benefit corporation, HHC operates 11 acute care hospitals, five nursing homes, six diagnostic and treatment centers, and more than 70 primary care centers across New York's five boroughs." HHC's MetroPlus Health Plan is one of New York City's largest providers of government-sponsored health insurance, enrolling 670,000 city residents as of June 2022.[https://www.osc.ny.gov/reports/osdc/metroplus-health-plan-covid-19-enrollment-trends MetroPlus Health Plan: COVID-19 Enrollment Trends], New York State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli, September 2022. Accessed January 16, 2024. "MetroPlus Health Plan is a prepaid health services plan and a wholly owned subsidiary of NYC Health + Hospitals (H+H).... MetroPlus enrollment reached a record high of 670,915, an increase of 159,284 members (31 percent) between February 2020 and June 2022, the period impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic (see Figure 1)."

HHC's facilities annually provides service to millions of New Yorkers, interpreted in more than 190 languages.{{cite web |title=2014 HHC Report to the Community |url=http://www.nychealthandhospitals.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/2014-hhc-report-to-the-community.pdf |access-date=March 10, 2017 |publisher=New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation}} The best-known hospital in the HHC system is Bellevue Hospital, the oldest public hospital in the United States, established in 1736.Fiani, Brian; Covarrubias, Claudia; Jarrah, Ryan; Kondilis, Athanasios; and Doan, Thao M. [https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36041717/ "Bellevue Hospital, the Oldest Public Health Center in the United States of America"], World Neurosurgery, August 28, 2022. Accessed January 16, 2024. "Bellevue Hospital is known as the oldest public hospital in the United States of America. Although its historical beginnings date back to the 1600s, it was officially founded on the second floor of the New York City Almshouse in 1736, 40 years before the American Revolution." Bellevue is the designated hospital for treatment of the president and other world leaders should they require care while in New York City.{{cite web |title=New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation History |url=http://www.fundinguniverse.com/company-histories/New-York-City-Health-and-Hospitals-Corporation-Company-History.html |access-date=October 8, 2014 |publisher=Funding Universe}}

The city banned smoking in most parts of restaurants in 1995 and prohibited smoking in bars, restaurants and places of public employment in 2003.Roberts, Sam. [https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/07/health/dr-colin-mccord-dead.html "Colin McCord, Who Helped Impose a Smoking Ban, Dies at 94"], The New York Times, April 7, 2023. Accessed January 16, 2024. "Dr. McCord successfully lobbied for a ban on smoking in workplaces, restaurants and bars while he was an assistant health commissioner in Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg's administration. The ban, which took effect in 2003, was later expanded and replicated in jurisdictions around the world. New York had banned smoking in most restaurants in 1995, but the city continued to allow smoking in bars and the bar areas of restaurants." Pharmacies are banned from selling smoked and vaped products in New York State.{{cite web |title=New York State Tobacco Control Laws |url=https://www.health.ny.gov/prevention/tobacco_control/current_policies.htm |access-date=December 6, 2024 |publisher=New York State Department of Health}}

New York City enforces a right-to-shelter law guaranteeing shelter to anyone who needs it, regardless of their immigration, socioeconomic, or housing status, which entails providing adequate shelter and food.{{cite web |author=Annie McDonough |date=August 15, 2023 |title=Could New York City's right to shelter apply statewide? |url=https://www.cityandstateny.com/policy/2023/08/could-new-york-citys-right-shelter-apply-statewide/389450/ |access-date=September 9, 2023 |publisher=City & State New York}} As a result, while New York has the highest total homeless population of American cities, only 5% were unsheltered by the city, representing a significantly lower percentage of outdoor homelessness than in other cities.{{cite web |author=Gwynn’s Hogan |date=June 13, 2024 |title=NYC's Unsheltered Homeless Population Reaches Highest Number in More Than a Decade. Volunteers and city staffers counted 4,140 people sleeping on the streets and subways during the overnight annual count on Jan. 23 |url=https://www.thecity.nyc/2024/06/13/nycs-unsheltered-homeless-population-reaches-highest-number-in-more-than-a-decade/ |access-date=June 15, 2024 |publisher=The City |quote=Shelter Beacon. City officials also pointed out that compared to other major United States cities, a relatively low proportion of New York City’s homeless population live outdoors. In Los Angeles last year 52,000 of 72,000 homeless people were living outdoors (72%), whereas the unsheltered homeless in New York City is around 5% of the 124,000 who are unhoused in total.}} As of 2023, there were 92,824 homeless people sleeping nightly in the shelter system.[https://www.coalitionforthehomeless.org/basic-facts-about-homelessness-new-york-city/ Basic Facts About Homelessness: New York City], Coalition for the Homeless, updated December 2023. Accessed January 13, 2024. 'In recent years, homelessness in New York City has reached the highest levels since the Great Depression of the 1930s. In November 2023, there were 92,824 homeless people, including 33,365 homeless children, sleeping each night in New York City's main municipal shelter system. A total of 23,945 single adults slept in shelters each night in November 2023."

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The New York Police Department (NYPD) is the largest police force in the United States, with more than 36,000 sworn officers.Kershner, Ellen. [https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/the-largest-police-departments-in-the-us.html "The Largest Police Departments In The US"], WorldAtlas, August 3, 2020. Accessed January 17, 2024. "Established in 1845, The New York City Police Department (NYPD) is one of the most well-known law enforcement agencies in the world. As the largest in the United States, it currently has about 36,008 full-time active officers and 19,000 civilian employees. This is almost three times as many as the country's second-largest police department in Chicago." Members of the NYPD are frequently referred to by politicians, the media, and their own police cars by the nickname, New York's Finest.Williams, Keith. [https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/04/nyregion/origins-of-new-yorks-finest.html "We Know They're New York's Finest. But Why?"], The New York Times, May 4, 2017. Accessed January 17, 2024. "The Police Department's slogan also came from a phrase with military origins: “the finest police force on the planet,” an adaptation of Gen. Joseph Hooker's 1863 claim that the Union forces were 'the finest army on the planet.' A similar phrase referring to police officers appeared in The Times in 1865. The police chief George Washington Matsell promoted the nickname in the early 1870s, Mr. Popik wrote; the 1882 play 'One of the Finest' cemented the label, which was condensed to 'New York's Finest' by 1889."

The city saw a spike in crime in the 1970s through 1990s.{{cite magazine |last=Prager |first=Arthur |date=February–March 2006 |title=Worst-Case Scenario |url=http://www.americanheritage.com/content/worst-case-scenario |access-date=July 23, 2019 |magazine=American Heritage |volume=57 |issue=1}} Crime overall has trended downward in New York City since the 1990s;{{cite web |title=Compstat |url=http://www1.nyc.gov/assets/nypd/downloads/pdf/crime_statistics/cs-en-us-city.pdf |access-date=July 6, 2017 |publisher=City of New York Police Department}} violent crime decreased more than 75% from 1993 to 2005, and continued decreasing during periods when the nation as a whole saw increases.{{cite journal |date=December 15–31, 2013 |title=Don't Tell New York, But Crime Is Going Up |url=http://www.lib.jjay.cuny.edu/len/2002/12.31/page5.html |url-status=dead |publisher=City University of New York |volume=28 |issue=589, 590 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211023100612/https://www.lib.jjay.cuny.edu/len/2002/12.31/page5.html |archive-date=October 23, 2021 |access-date=August 20, 2011 |website=Lib.jjay.cuny.edu}} The NYPD's stop-and-frisk program was declared unconstitutional in 2013 as a "policy of indirect racial profiling" of Black and Mixed residents,Goldstein, Joseph. [https://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/13/nyregion/stop-and-frisk-practice-violated-rights-judge-rules.html 'Judge Rejects New York's Stop-and-Frisk Policy"], The New York Times, August 12, 2013. Accessed January 17, 2024. "But the judge, Shira A. Scheindlin, found that the Police Department resorted to a 'policy of indirect racial profiling' as it increased the number of stops in minority communities. That has led to officers' routinely stopping 'blacks and Hispanics who would not have been stopped if they were white.'" although claims of disparate impact continued in subsequent years.Katersky, Aaron; Grant, Teddy. [https://abcnews.go.com/US/nypd-safety-team-making-high-number-unlawful-stops/story?id=99850699 "NYPD safety team making high number of unlawful stops, mostly people of color: Report"], ABC News, June 5, 2023. January 17, 2024. "A decade after the New York Police Department's stop-and-frisk tactic was deemed unconstitutional, the police are still unlawfully stopping and searching many people, particularly men of color, according to a new report issued Monday by a court-appointed monitor. The monitor, Mylan Denerstein, faulted certain units of the NYPD's Neighborhood Safety Teams (NST), which are meant to combat gun violence in high-crime areas.... Shortly after a U.S. District Court judge ruled in 2013 the policy violated the Constitution, then-NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg, in an op-ed in the Washington Post, pushed back against claims that stop-and-frisk promoted racial profiling." The stop-and-frisk program had been widely credited as being behind the decline in crime, though rates continued dropping in the years after the program ended.Ehrenfreund, Max. [https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/09/22/donald-trump-claims-new-yorks-stop-and-frisk-policy-reduced-crime-the-data-disagree/ "Donald Trump claims New York's stop-and-frisk policy reduced crime. The data disagree."], The Washington Post, September 22, 2016. Accessed January 17, 2024. "In 1990, there were nearly 31 homicides in the city for every 100,000 people — more than the average for other major American cities even in a year of frequent violence across the country. A decade later, that figure had declined by nearly 75 percent, to 8.4 homicides per 100,000 people. As New York police abruptly moved away from the practice of stop-and-frisk toward the end of Kelly's tenure in 2013, the rate of homicide continued to decline as it had previously."Badger, Emily. [https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/02/upshot/stop-and-frisk-bloomberg.html "The Lasting Effects of Stop-and-Frisk in Bloomberg's New York"], The New York Times, March 2, 2020, updated November 30, 2020. Accessed January 17, 2024. "In the years since Michael Bloomberg left the mayor's office in New York, the legacy of stop-and-frisk policing widely used during his administration has become clearer. Crime in the city continued to decline, suggesting that the aggressive use of police stops wasn't so essential to New York's safety after all."

The city set a record high of 2,245 murders in 1990 and hit a near-70-year record low of 289 in 2018.Kanno-Youngs, Zolan. [https://www.wsj.com/articles/new-york-citys-murder-rate-hit-new-low-in-2018-11546559793 "New York City's Murder Rate Hit New Low in 2018"], The Wall Street Journal, January 3, 2019. Accessed January 15, 2024. "The New York Police Department recorded 289 murders in 2018, three fewer than the 292 recorded in 2017. Mayor Bill de Blasio said it was the fewest number of homicides in nearly 70 years. Overall, major crime in the city fell by 1.3% from 97,089 to 95,844, police said. There were 2,245 people murdered in New York City in 1990." The number of murders and the rate of 3.3 per 100,000 residents in 2017 was the lowest since 1951.[https://a860-gpp.nyc.gov/concern/nyc_government_publications/05741v36b "Fewest Annual Murders and Shooting Incidents Ever Recorded in the Modern Era; Lowest per-capita murder rate since 1951"], New York City Police Department, press release dated January 5, 2018. Accessed January 15, 2024. "With the close of 2017, New York City marks three new crime reduction benchmarks: the first time the total number of index crimes has fallen below 100,000; the first time the number of shooting incidents has fallen below 800; and the first time the total number of murders has fallen below 300. This reduction in murders has resulted in the lowest per-capita murder rate in nearly 70 years." New York City recorded 386 murders in 2023, a decline of 12% from the previous year.Cramer, Maria; Meko, Hurubie; and Marcius, Chelsia Rose. [https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/03/nyregion/nyc-crime-2023.html "Homicides and Shootings Fell in New York City as Felony Assaults Rose"], The New York Times, January 3, 2024. Accessed January 15, 2024. "There were 386 homicides in 2023, a 12 percent drop from 2022."[https://www.nyc.gov/site/nypd/news/p00098/nypd-december-2023-end-of-year-citywide-crime-statistics "NYPD Announces December 2023, End-of-Year Citywide Crime Statistics"], New York City Police Department, press release dated January 4, 2024. Accessed January 15, 2024. "Murders – which rose for four consecutive years before the current administration was installed – fell by 11.9% (386 vs. 438) in 2023 compared to 2022, and by 33.3% (24 vs. 36) in December 2023, compared to the same month a year prior." New York City had one of the lowest homicide rates among the ten largest U.S. cities at 5.5 per 100,000 residents in 2021.[https://www.vitalcitynyc.org/vital_signs/gun-violence-in-new-york-city-the-data "Gun Violence in New York City; The Data"], Vital City. Accessed January 17, 2024.

New York City has stricter gun laws than most other cities in the United States—a license to own any firearm is required, and the NY SAFE Act of 2013 banned assault weapons. New York State had the fifth-lowest gun death rate of the states in 2020.{{cite news |title=States with the most gun violence share one trait |url=https://edition.cnn.com/2022/05/26/politics/gun-violence-data-what-matters/index.html |access-date=May 13, 2023 |agency=CNN}}

Organized crime has long been associated with New York City, beginning with the Forty Thieves and the Roach Guards in the Five Points neighborhood in the 1820s, followed by the Tongs in the same neighborhood, which ultimately evolved into Chinatown, Manhattan. The 20th century saw a rise in the Mafia, dominated by the Five Families, as well as in gangs, including the Black Spades.{{cite web |last=Berkey-Gerard |first=Mark |date=March 5, 2001 |title=Youth Gangs |url=http://www.gothamgazette.com/article/issueoftheweek/20010305/200/161 |access-date=December 2, 2021 |work=Gotham Gazette}} The Mafia and gang presence has declined in the city in the 21st century.{{cite news |last1=Gardiner |first1=Sean |last2=Shallwani |first2=Pervaiz |date=February 18, 2014 |title=NY Crime: Mafia Is Down—but Not Out – Crime Families Adapt to Survive, Lowering Profile and Using Need-to-Know Tactics |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052702304626804579363363092833756 |access-date=July 8, 2015 |newspaper=The Wall Street Journal}}{{cite web |last=Ferranti |first=Seth |date=August 18, 2015 |title=How New York Gang Culture Is Changing |url=https://www.vice.com/read/how-new-york-citys-gang-culture-is-changing-818 |access-date=December 2, 2021 |magazine=Vice}}

The Fire Department of New York (FDNY) provides fire protection, technical rescue, primary response to biological, chemical, and radioactive hazards, and emergency medical services. FDNY faces multifaceted firefighting challenges in many ways unique to New York. In addition to responding to building types that range from wood-frame single family homes to high-rise structures, the FDNY responds to fires that occur in the New York City Subway.{{cite report |url=https://www.hsdl.org/?view&did=730260 |title=Special Investigation Report: New York City Transit Authority Subway System Fires |date=October 23, 1985 |publisher=National Transportation Safety Board |access-date=July 30, 2022}} Secluded bridges and tunnels, as well as large parks and wooded areas that can give rise to brush fires, also present challenges. The FDNY is headquartered at 9 MetroTech Center in Downtown Brooklyn,{{cite web |title=9 Metrotech Center – FDNY Headquarters |url=http://www.fmmcorp.com/p_gov5.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120118054305/http://www.fmmcorp.com/p_gov5.html |archive-date=January 18, 2012 |access-date=November 5, 2009 |publisher=Fresh Meadow Mechanical Corp}} and the FDNY Fire Academy is on Randalls Island.{{cite web |title=FDNY Fire Academy |url=http://nyc.gov/html/fdny/html/units/fire_academy/fa_index.shtml |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141014104143/http://www.nyc.gov/html/fdny/html/units/fire_academy/fa_index.shtml |archive-date=October 14, 2014 |access-date=October 8, 2014 |work=New York City Fire Department |publisher=The City of New York}}

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File:Port-authority-terminal.jpg, the world's busiest bus station, at Eighth Avenue and 42nd Street]]

Mass transit in New York City, most of which runs 24 hours a day, accounts for one in every three users of mass transit in the country, and two-thirds of the nation's rail riders live in the New York City metropolitan area.{{cite web |title=The MTA Network: Public Transportation for the New York Region |url=http://web.mta.info/mta/network.htm |access-date=August 30, 2012 |publisher=Metropolitan Transportation Authority }}{{cite web |last=Pisarski |first=Alan |date=October 16, 2006 |title=Commuting in America III: Commuting Facts |url=http://onlinepubs.trb.org/onlinepubs/nchrp/CIAIIIfacts.pdf |access-date=August 30, 2012 |publisher=Transportation Research Board }}

New York City's public bus fleet runs 24/7 and is the largest in North America.{{cite web |title=Top 100 Transit Bus Fleets |url=http://www.metro-magazine.com/resources/septoct_top100.pdf |access-date=April 20, 2015 |work=Metro Magazine |page=4 |archive-date=October 11, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171011010537/http://www.metro-magazine.com/resources/septoct_top100.pdf |url-status=dead }} The New York City bus system serves the most passengers of any city in the nation: In 2022, MTA New York City Transit's buses served 483.5 million trips, while MTA Regional Bus Operations handled 100.3 million trips.[https://www.apta.com/wp-content/uploads/2022-Q4-Ridership-APTA.pdf#page=8 Public Transportation Ridership Report: Fourth Quarter 2022], American Public Transportation Association, March 1, 2023. Accessed February 13, 2024.

The Port Authority Bus Terminal is the city's main intercity bus terminal and the world's busiest bus station, serving 250,000 passengers on 7,000 buses each workday in a building opened in 1950 that was designed to accommodate 60,000 daily passengers. A 2021 plan announced by the Port Authority would spend $10 billion to expand capacity and modernize the facility.[https://www.panynj.gov/port-authority/en/press-room/press-release-archives/2008_press_releases/architect_chosenforplannedofficetoweraboveportauthoritybustermin.html Architect Chosen for Planned Office Tower Above Port Authority Bus Terminal's North Wing], Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, dated November 17, 2008. Accessed January 4, 2024. "The Port Authority Bus Terminal opened in 1950 and has become the busiest bus passenger facility in the world, handling 7,000 buses and 200,000 commuters each day. It includes 223 bus gates, retail and commercial space, and public parking for 1,250 vehicles."McGeehan, Patrick; and Hu, Winnie. [https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/21/nyregion/port-authority-bus-terminal.html "'Notorious' Port Authority Bus Terminal May Get a $10 Billion Overhaul"], The New York Times, January 21, 2021, updated September 23, 2021. Accessed January 4, 2024. "The bus terminal plan, which has been in the works for more than seven contentious years, would cost as much as $10 billion and could take a decade to complete.... More than 250,000 people passed through it on a typical weekday before the pandemic, according to the Port Authority.... The bus terminal, a brick hulk perched at the mouth of the Lincoln Tunnel, has long exceeded its capacity — when it opened in late 1950, it was expected to handle 60,000 passengers a day."Wilson, Colleen. [https://www.northjersey.com/in-depth/news/transportation/2021/06/30/port-authority-bus-terminal-replacement-meet-commuter-needs/7685645002/ "Port Authority Bus Terminal was once a marvel. Will the next one meet commuters' needs?"], The Record, June 30, 2021. Accessed January 4, 2024. "Becoming the busiest bus terminal in the world doesn't happen without also bearing the brunt of blame every time a commute goes horribly wrong — deserved or otherwise.... The popularity of bus commuting over the Hudson River has steadily risen over the last seven decades, with some 260,000 people a day coming through the terminal pre-pandemic.... A more efficient terminal should improve some of the delays through the Lincoln Tunnel and exclusive bus lane (XBL), the dedicated lane in the morning that converges all buses into a single lane from I-495 into the Lincoln Tunnel from New Jersey." In 2024, the Port Authority announced plans for a new terminal that would feature a glass atrium at a new main entrance on 41st Street.Hill, John. [https://www.world-architects.com/en/architecture-news/headlines/renderings-of-new-midtown-bus-terminal-revealed "Renderings of New Midtown Bus Terminal Revealed"], World Architects, February 5, 2024. Accessed February 13, 2024. "Not surprisingly, the two renderings included in last week's announcement show the main terminal and are accompanied by photos of the existing to depict a dramatic departure from the current situation. Compare the existing intersection of 8th Avenue and 41st Street (below) with a rendering of the same (above), in which a portion of 41st Street would be closed to create an 'iconic' atrium entrance."McGeehan, Patrick. [https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/01/nyregion/port-authority-bus-terminal-replacement.html "A Look at the $10 Billion Design for a New Port Authority Bus Terminal The Port Authority unveiled a revised design for a replacement of the much-reviled transit hub, which opened in 1950."], The New York Times, February 1, 2024. Accessed February 9, 2024. "Instead of the dismal, brick hulk that has darkened two full blocks of Midtown Manhattan for more than 70 years, there would be a bright, modern transit hub topped by two office towers.... Construction is expected to take eight years, he said, meaning the project could be completed by 2032."

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File:R160_E_enters_42nd_Street.jpg, the world's largest rapid transit system by number of stations]]

The New York City Subway system is the largest rapid transit system in the world when measured by stations in operation, with {{NYCS const|number|total}}, and by length of routes. Nearly all of New York's subway system is open 24 hours a day, in contrast to the overnight shutdown common to most subway systems.{{Cite news |last1=Hu |first1=Winnie |last2=Schweber |first2=Nate |last3=Piccoli |first3=Sean |date=May 17, 2021 |title=New York City Subway Returns to 24-Hour Service |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/17/nyregion/nyc-subway-full-service-24-hours.html |access-date=July 23, 2023 |issn=0362-4331 }} The New York City Subway is the busiest metropolitan rail transit system in the Western Hemisphere,{{cite web |title=The world's top 10 busiest metros |website=Railway Technology |date=November 12, 2014 |url=https://www.railway-technology.com/features/featurethe-worlds-top-10-busiest-metros-4433827/ |access-date=July 23, 2023 }} with 1.70 billion passenger rides in 2019.{{cite web |title=Subway and bus ridership for 2021 |website=MTA |url=https://new.mta.info/agency/new-york-city-transit/subway-bus-ridership-2021 |access-date=July 23, 2023 }}

Public transport is widely used in New York City. 54.6% of New Yorkers commuted to work in 2005 using mass transit.{{cite news |last=Christie |first=Les |date=June 29, 2007 |title=New Yorkers are Top Transit Users |publisher=CNNMoney.com |url=https://money.cnn.com/2007/06/13/real_estate/public_transit_commutes/index.htm |access-date=January 2, 2008 }} This is in contrast to the rest of the country, where 91% of commuters travel in automobiles to their workplace.{{cite web |year=2001 |title=NHTS 2001 Highlights Report, BTS03-05 |url=http://www.bts.gov/publications/highlights_of_the_2001_national_household_travel_survey/pdf/entire.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050514220419/http://www.bts.gov/publications/highlights_of_the_2001_national_household_travel_survey/pdf/entire.pdf |archive-date=May 14, 2005 |access-date=September 1, 2008 |publisher=Bureau of Transportation Statistics }} According to the New York City Comptroller, workers in the New York City area spend an average of 6{{nbsp}}hours and 18 minutes getting to work each week, the longest commute time in the nation among large cities.{{cite report |url=http://comptroller.nyc.gov/wp-content/uploads/documents/Longest_Work_Weeks_March_2015.pdf |title=The Hardest Working Cities |date=March 2015 |publisher=Office of the New York City Comptroller }} New York is the only American city in which a majority (52%) of households do not have a car; only 22% of Manhattanites own a car.{{cite web |last1=Weinberger |first1=Rachel |last2=Kaehny |first2=John |last3=Rufo |first3=Matthew |year=2010 |title=U.S. Parking Policies: An Overview of Management Strategies |url=http://www.infrastructureusa.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/itdp_parking_fullreport.pdf |access-date=June 11, 2011 |publisher=Institute for Transportation and Development Policy |page=62 |quote=New York City is the largest, densest and most transit- and pedestrian-oriented city in the United States. It is the only U.S. city in which a majority of households do not have a car. Despite this, New York City is very much an American city in the way it under prices and under uses curbside parking meters. Meter rates are far lower than in other leading world cities, and New York suffers from high levels of cruising and double parking (p. 62) ... Nationally 90% of households own automobiles. New Yorkers own fewer at 48% with only 22% of Manhattan residents owning automobiles (p. 78) }} 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.{{cite web |date=April 21, 2010 |title=New York City's Green Dividend |url=http://www.streetsblog.org/2010/04/21/sustainable-transport-saves-new-yorkers-19-billion-per-year/ |access-date=January 26, 2012 |publisher=CEOs for Cities |archive-date=November 1, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161101135006/http://www.streetsblog.org/2010/04/21/sustainable-transport-saves-new-yorkers-19-billion-per-year/ |url-status=dead }}

New York City's commuter rail network is the largest in North America. The rail network, connecting New York City to its suburbs, consists of the Long Island Rail Road, Metro-North Railroad, and New Jersey Transit. The combined systems converge at Grand Central Terminal and New York Penn Station and contain more than 250 stations and 20 rail lines. The elevated AirTrain JFK in Queens connects JFK International Airport to the New York City Subway and the Long Island Rail Road.[https://www.jfkairport.com/to-from-airport/public-transportation Public Transportation], John F. Kennedy International Airport. Accessed January 15, 2024. For inter-city rail, New York City is served by Amtrak, whose busiest station by a significant margin is Penn Station on the West Side of Manhattan, from which Amtrak provides connections to Boston, Philadelphia, and Washington, D.C. along the Northeast Corridor, and long-distance train service to other North American cities.{{cite web |title=National Fact Sheet Fiscal Year 2013 |url=http://www.amtrak.com/ccurl/826/406/Amtrak-National-Fact-Sheet-FY2013-rev.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150410143624/http://www.amtrak.com/ccurl/826/406/Amtrak-National-Fact-Sheet-FY2013-rev.pdf |archive-date=April 10, 2015 |access-date=April 20, 2015 |publisher=Amtrak }}

The Staten Island Railway rapid transit system solely serves Staten Island, operating 24 hours a day, with access to Manhattan from the St. George Terminal via the Staten Island Ferry.[https://new.mta.info/document/14061 Staten Island Railway Timetable], Metropolitan Transportation Authority, effective January 2020. Accessed January 15, 2024. "MTA Staten Island Railway – service runs 24 hours a day between the St George and Tottenville terminals. At the St George terminal, customers can make connections with Staten Island Ferry service to Manhattan." The PATH train links Midtown and Lower Manhattan with Hoboken Terminal and Newark Penn Station in New Jersey, and then those stations with the World Trade Center Oculus across the Hudson River.[https://www.panynj.gov/path/en/schedules-maps.html PATH Schedules and Maps], Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. Accessed January 15, 2024. Like the New York City Subway, the PATH operates 24 hours a day, meaning three of the five American rapid transit systems which operate on 24-hour schedules are wholly or partly in New York.Cohn, Emily. [https://www.businessinsider.com/nyc-subway-runs-all-night-and-thats-why-its-great-2017-8 "Say what you want about the NYC subway — there's one thing that makes it much better than most other subways in the world"], Business Insider, August 28, 2017. Accessed January 15, 2024. "Only five rapid transit systems in the country have 24-hour service, and three of them — the subway, the Staten Island Railway, and the PATH — all service New York City. Chicago's 'L' is only 24/7 on some of its lines." Grand Central Terminal is the world's largest train station by number of rail platforms and acres occupied.{{cite web |title=10 things we bet you didn't know about Grand Central |publisher=Signum International AG |url=https://www.ef.com/wwen/blog/language/10-things-we-bet-you-didnt-know-about-grand-central/ |quote=Grand Central Terminal is spread over 49 acres, has 44 platforms and 67 tracks on two levels. It is the world’s largest train station by number of platforms and area occupied. }}

Multibillion-dollar heavy rail transit projects under construction in New York City include the Second Avenue Subway.{{cite news |last=Dobnik |first=Verena |date=February 7, 2013 |title=NYC Transit Projects: East Side Access, Second Avenue Subway, And 7 Train Extension (PHOTOS) |work=HuffPost |url=https://huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/07/nyc-subway-underground-rail-second-avenue-subway_n_2637601.html |url-status=dead |access-date=August 15, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130208120505/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/07/nyc-subway-underground-rail-second-avenue-subway_n_2637601.html |archive-date=February 8, 2013 }}

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File:JFK_Aerial_Nov_14_2018.jpg in Queens]]

New York's airspace is the busiest in the United States and one of the world's busiest air corridors. The three busiest airports in the New York metropolitan area are John F. Kennedy International Airport (with 55.3 million passengers), Newark Liberty International Airport (43.6 million) and LaGuardia Airport (29.0 million); 127.9 million travelers used these three airports in 2022.[https://www.panynj.gov/content/dam/airports/statistics/statistics-general-info/annual-atr/ATR_2022.pdf#page=39 2022 Air Traffic Report], Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, April 2023. Accessed January 15, 2024. JFK and Newark Liberty were the busiest and fourth-busiest U.S. gateways for international air passengers, respectively, in 2023.[https://www.transportation.gov/sites/dot.gov/files/2023-11/US%20International%20Air%20Passenger%20and%20Freight%20Statistics%20for%20June%202023.pdf U.S. InternationalAir Passenger and Freight Statistics June 2023], United States Department of Transportation, released November 2023. Accessed January 14, 2024. "The top five domestic scheduled passenger gateway airports for the year-ended June 2023 were New York, NY (JFK), Miami, FL (MIA), Los Angeles, CA (LAX), New York, NY (EWR), and Chicago, IL (ORD)." {{As of|2011}}, JFK was the busiest airport for international passengers in North America.{{cite web |title=2011 Year-to-date International passenger Traffic (as of December 2011) |url=http://www.aci.aero/cda/aci_common/display/main/aci_content07_c.jsp?zn=aci&cp=1-5-212-1376-1379_666_2__ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101206022153/http://www.aci.aero/cda/aci_common/display/main/aci_content07_c.jsp?zn=aci&cp=1-5-212-1376-1379_666_2__ |archive-date=December 6, 2010 |access-date=October 8, 2014 |publisher=Airports Council International }}

Described in 2014 by then-Vice President Joe Biden as the kind of airport travelers would see in "some third world country", LaGuardia Airport has undergone an $8 billion project with federal and state support that has replaced its aging facilities with modern terminals and roadways.Reed, Ted. [https://airlineweekly.skift.com/2023/03/laguardia-airport-the-queens-miracle-from-loser-to-winner/ "In a Queens Miracle, New York LaGuardia Airport Goes From Loser to Winner"], Airline Weekly, March 21, 2023. Accessed January 15, 2023. "Throughout a troubled 2022, the pandemic exposed many fragilities in a troubled United States airline industry, but it also enabled a widely recognized miracle in the $8 billion resurrection of New York LaGuardia Airport. Once widely viewed as a hellhole, LaGuardia was transformed.... Transformation involved rebuilding two terminals, each costing about $4 billion, as well as about five miles of roadway. Terminal B has 35 gates, occupied by American and four other airlines. Work began in 2016 and was completed on July 8, 2022, the exact day specified in a bond offering six years earlier. Terminal C, occupied and financed by Delta Air Lines, will have 37 gates. Work began in 2017 and is largely finished, with completion by the end of the year."McGeehan, Patrick. [https://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/28/nyregion/la-guardia-airport-to-be-rebuilt-by-2021-cuomo-and-biden-say.html "La Guardia Airport to Be Overhauled by 2021, Cuomo and Biden Say"], The New York Times, July 27, 2015. Accessed January 15, 2024. "He said he took it personally when, in February 2014, Mr. Biden likened La Guardia to something a traveler might find 'in a third world country.'"via Associated Press. [https://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/07/nyregion/biden-compares-la-guardia-airport-to-third-world.html "Biden Compares La Guardia Airport to 'Third World'"], The New York Times, February 6, 2014. Accessed January 15, 2024. "Vice President Joseph R. Biden says La Guardia Airport in New York could use some major improvements — and that is putting it mildly. Mr. Biden said that if he blindfolded someone and took him to La Guardia, the person would think he was in 'some third world country.'"[https://www.anewlga.com/about-the-project/ The Project], A Whole New LGA. Accessed January 15, 2024. "The $8 billion project, two-thirds of which is funded through private financing and existing passenger fees, broke ground in 2016." Plans have advanced to expand passenger volume at a fourth airport, Stewart International Airport, near Newburgh, New York, by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.{{cite web |last=Strunsky |first=Steve |date=May 31, 2012 |title=Stewart International Airport upgrade approved as Port Authority aims to increase passenger traffic |url=http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2012/05/stewart_international_airport.html |access-date=July 30, 2012 |website=NJ.com |publisher=New Jersey On-Line LLC. }} Other commercial airports in or serving the New York metropolitan area include Long Island MacArthur Airport, Trenton–Mercer Airport and Westchester County Airport. The primary general aviation airport serving the area is Teterboro Airport.

{{Main|Staten Island Ferry|NYC Ferry|Taxis of New York City|Roosevelt Island Tramway}}

File:Spirit_of_America_-_Staten_Island_Ferry.jpg shuttles commuters between Manhattan and Staten Island]]

The Staten Island Ferry is the world's busiest ferry, carrying more than 23 million passengers from July 2015 through June 2016 on a {{convert|5.2|mi|km|adj=on}} route between Staten Island and Lower Manhattan and running 24/7.{{cite web |first=Anna |last=Sanders |date=September 20, 2016 |title=Staten Island Ferry ridershilip breaks record |url=http://www.silive.com/news/index.ssf/2016/09/staten_island_ferry_ridership.html |access-date=December 31, 2016 |publisher=SILive.com }}{{Cite web |url=http://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/html/ferrybus/staten-island-ferry.shtml |title=Staten Island Ferry |publisher=New York City Department of Transportation |website=nyc.gov |date=September 18, 2017 }} Other ferry systems shuttle commuters between Manhattan and other locales within the city and the metropolitan area. NYC Ferry, a NYCEDC initiative with routes planned to travel to all five boroughs, was launched in 2017.{{cite web |first=Zoe |last=Rosenberg |date=April 17, 2017 |title=First of New York's citywide ferries arrives in Brooklyn Bridge Park |url=http://ny.curbed.com/2017/4/17/15326348/nyc-ferry-routes-times |access-date=April 17, 2017 |publisher=Curbed New York, Vox Media }}

Identified by their color and taxi medallion, the city's 13,587 yellow taxicabs are the only vehicles allowed to pick up riders making street hails throughout the city.[https://www.nyc.gov/site/tlc/businesses/yellow-cab.page Yellow Cab], New York City Taxi and Limousine Commission. Accessed January 14, 2024. "Taxicabs are the only vehicles that have the right to pick up street-hailing and prearranged passengers anywhere in New York City. By law, there are 13,587 taxis in New York City and each taxi must have a medallion affixed to it." Apple green-colored boro taxis can pick up street hails in Upper Manhattan and the four outer boroughs.[https://www.nyc.gov/site/tlc/businesses/green-cab.page Green Cab], New York City Taxi and Limousine Commission. Accessed January 14, 2024. "Street-hail Liveries, also known as green cabs, are For-Hire Vehicles that are permitted to accept street-hails. In exchange, Street-Hail Liveries may not operate in the Hail Exclusionary Zone, south of West 110th St and East 96th St." Long dominated by yellow taxis, high-volume for-hire vehicles from Uber and Lyft have provided the most trips in the city since December 2016, when the for-hire vehicles and cabs each had about 10.5 million trips. By October 2023, the 78,000 vehicles-for-hire combined for 20.3 million trips, while 3.5 million trips were in yellow taxis.[https://tlcpolicy.maps.arcgis.com/apps/instant/portfolio/index.html?appid=be00fce0963540628e37fd7c75a6d386 TLC Factbook], New York City Taxi and Limousine Commission, updated December 18, 2023. Accessed January 13, 2024.[https://www.nyc.gov/office-of-the-mayor/news/597-23/mayor-adams-tlc-new-rules-require-city-s-rideshare-vehicles-be-zero-emission- "Mayor Adams, TLC Announce new Rules to Require City's Rideshare Vehicles to be Zero-Emission, Wheelchair Accessible by 2030"], Mayor of New York City Eric Adams, August 16, 2023. Accessed January 14, 2024. "Both Uber and Lyft, which together comprise New York City's high-volume for-hire fleet of approximately 78,000 vehicles, have committed to transitioning to a greener fleet by 2030."

The Roosevelt Island Tramway, an aerial tramway that began operation in 1976,[https://rioc.ny.gov/169/History History], Roosevelt Island Operating Corporation. Accessed January 13, 2024. "The original Roosevelt Island aerial tramway - the first tram in the country to be used for urban transportation – was opened in May 1976." transports 2 million passengers per year the {{Convert|3140|ft}} between Roosevelt Island and 59th Street and Second Avenue on Manhattan Island.[https://rioc.ny.gov/173/Aerial-Tramway-Vital-Statistics Aerial Tramway Vital Statistics], Roosevelt Island Operating Corporation. Accessed January 13, 2024. "The Tram travels between the Manhattan station at 2nd Avenue between 59th and 60th streets and the Tram station on Roosevelt Island. It travels a distance of 3,140 feet at a speed of up to 17 miles per hour in less than three (3) minutes. It rises to a maximum height of 230 feet and can carry a maximum of 109 passengers plus an attendant per cabin. The system annually transports more than two million passengers."

{{Main|Cycling in New York City}}

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New York City has mixed cycling conditions which include urban density, relatively flat terrain, congested roadways with stop-and-go traffic, and many pedestrians. The city's large cycling population includes utility cyclists, such as delivery and messenger services; recreational cycling clubs; and an increasing number of commuters. Cycling is increasingly popular in New York City; in 2022 there were approximately 61,200 people who commuted daily using a bicycle and 610,000 daily bike trips, both nearly doubling over the previous decade. {{As of|2022||df=}}, New York City had {{convert|1525|mi|km}} of bike lanes, including {{Convert|644|mi||abbr=}} of segregated or "protected" bike lanes citywide.[https://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/html/bicyclists/cyclinginthecity.shtml Cycling in the City], New York City Department of Transportation. Accessed January 14, 2024. "1,525 lane miles of bike lanes installed in New York City as of 2022; 644 lane miles of protected bike lanes installed in New York City as of 2022"

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Streets are also a defining feature of the city. New York has been found to lead the world in urban automobile traffic congestion.{{cite web |url=https://www.economist.com/united-states/2024/11/21/congestion-pricing-in-new-york-gets-the-go-ahead-after-all-maybe |title=Congestion pricing in New York gets the go-ahead after all. Maybe |publisher=The Economist |date=November 21, 2024 |access-date=November 21, 2024 |quote=But traffic is bad most days, with more than 900,000 cars entering Manhattan’s central business district. INRIX, a traffic-data firm, found that New York City leads the world in urban traffic congestion among the cities scored, with the average driver stationary for 101 hours a year.}} The Commissioners' Plan of 1811 greatly influenced its physical development. New York City has an extensive web of freeways and parkways, which link the city's boroughs to each other and to North Jersey, Westchester County, Long Island, and southwestern Connecticut through bridges and tunnels. Because these highways serve millions of outer borough and suburban residents who commute into Manhattan, it is common for motorists to be stranded for hours in dense traffic congestion that is a daily occurrence, particularly during rush hour.{{cite news |url=https://ny.curbed.com/2019/8/15/20807470/nyc-streets-dot-mobility-report-congestion |title=New York City's streets are 'more congested than ever': report |first1=Amy |last1=Plitt |first2=Valeria |last2=Ricciulli |work=Curbed |date=August 15, 2019 |access-date=January 16, 2022 }}{{Cite news |url=https://www.crainsnewyork.com/op-ed/solving-citys-traffic-nightmares |title=Solving the city's traffic nightmares |first=Jason M. |last=Barr |work=Crain Communications |date=September 5, 2019 |access-date=January 16, 2022 }} Congestion pricing in New York City was activated in January 2025, applying to most motor vehicular traffic using the area of Manhattan south of 60th Street, in an effort to encourage commuters to use rapid transit instead.{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/04/nyregion/congestion-pricing-nyc.html|title=Welcome to the Congestion Zone: New York Toll Program Is Set to Begin|author=Winnie Hu and Ana Ley|newspaper=The New York Times|date=January 4, 2025|access-date=January 4, 2025}}

Unlike the rest of the country, New York State prohibits turns on red lights in cities with a population greater than one million, to reduce collisions and increase pedestrian safety. In New York City, therefore, all turns on red lights are illegal unless a sign permitting such maneuvers is present.{{cite web |title=Chapter 4: Traffic Control |date=November 25, 2013 |url=https://dmv.ny.gov/about-dmv/chapter-4-traffic-control-2 |publisher=New York State Department of Motor Vehicles |access-date=January 16, 2022 }}

{{Further|List of bridges and tunnels in New York City|Commissioners' Plan of 1811}}

File:Manhattan and Brooklyn bridges on the East River, New York City, 1981.jpg and Brooklyn Bridge on the East River]]

The boroughs of Manhattan and Staten Island are located on islands with the same names, while Queens and Brooklyn are at the west end of the larger Long Island, and the Bronx is on New York State's mainland. Manhattan Island is linked to the outer boroughs and to New Jersey by an extensive network of bridges and tunnels. The 14-lane George Washington Bridge, connecting Manhattan to New Jersey across the Hudson River, is the world's busiest motor vehicle bridge.{{cite web |title=Port Authority of New York and New Jersey—George Washington Bridge |url=https://www.panynj.gov/bridges-tunnels/en/george-washington-bridge.html |publisher=Port Authority of New York and New Jersey |access-date=January 16, 2022 }}{{cite news |first1=Bod |last1=Woodruff |first2=Lana |last2=Zak |first3=Stephanie |last3=Wash |date=November 20, 2012 |title=GW Bridge Painters: Dangerous Job on Top of the World's Busiest Bridge |url=https://abcnews.go.com/US/george-washington-bridge-painters-dangerous-job-top-worlds/story?id=17771877 |work=ABC News |access-date=January 16, 2022 }} The Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge, spanning the Narrows between Brooklyn and Staten Island, is the longest suspension bridge in the Americas and one of the world's longest.{{cite web |title=The Top Ten: Longest Suspension Bridges in the World |url=http://www.infoplease.com/toptens/worldsuspbridges.html |website=Infoplease |access-date=September 7, 2012 |publisher=Pearson Education |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121113220448/http://www.infoplease.com/toptens/worldsuspbridges.html |archive-date=November 13, 2012 }}{{cite web |title=Verrazano-Narrows Bridge |url=http://www.nycroads.com/crossings/verrazano-narrows/ |website=NYCRoads |access-date=September 7, 2012 |publisher=Eastern Roads }} The Brooklyn Bridge, with its stone neo-Gothic suspension towers, is an icon of the city; opened in 1883, it was the first steel-wire suspension bridge and was the longest suspension bridge in the world until 1903."[https://www.loc.gov/item/today-in-history/june-12/ Today in History – June 12: Roebling and the Brooklyn Bridge]", Library of Congress. Accessed July 30, 2023. "The Brooklyn Bridge, Roebling's last and greatest achievement, spans New York's East River to connect Manhattan with Brooklyn. When completed in 1883, the bridge, with its massive stone towers and a main span of 1,595.5 feet between them, was by far the longest suspension bridge in the world.""[https://www.asce.org/about-civil-engineering/history-and-heritage/historic-landmarks/williamsburg-bridge Williamsburg Bridge]", American Society of Civil Engineers. Accessed July 30, 2023. "When opened in 1903, the 1,600 foot long main span of the Williamsburg Bridge was the world's longest suspension span, surpassing the nearby Brooklyn Bridge by only 4.5 feet." The Queensboro Bridge "was the longest cantilever span in North America" from 1909 to 1917."[https://www.asce.org/about-civil-engineering/history-and-heritage/historic-landmarks/queensboro-bridge Queensboro Bridge]", American Society of Civil Engineers. Accessed July 30, 2023. "The Queensboro Bridge was the longest cantilever span in North America (1,182 feet) from 1909 until the Quebec Bridge opened in 1917 and the longest in the United States until 1930." The Manhattan Bridge, opened in 1909, "is considered to be the forerunner of modern suspension bridges", and its design "served as the model for the major long-span suspension bridges" of the early 20th century."[https://www.ascemetsection.org/committees/history-and-heritage/landmarks/manhattan-bridge Manhattan Bridge]", American Society of Civil Engineers Metropolitan Section. Accessed July 30, 2023. "As the first suspension bridge to use the deflection theory, it is considered to be the forerunner of modern suspension bridges and served as the model for the major long-span suspension bridges built in the first half of the twentieth century." The Throgs Neck Bridge and Whitestone Bridge connect Queens and the Bronx, while the Triborough Bridge connects Manhattan, Queens, and the Bronx.

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The Lincoln Tunnel, which carries 120,000 vehicles a day under the Hudson River between New Jersey and Midtown Manhattan, is the busiest vehicular tunnel in the world.{{cite web |title=Lincoln Tunnel Historic Overview |url=http://www.nycroads.com/crossings/lincoln/ |website=NYCRoads |access-date=August 13, 2014 |publisher=Eastern Roads }} The tunnel was built instead of a bridge to allow unfettered passage of large passenger and cargo ships that sailed through New York Harbor and up the Hudson River to Manhattan's piers. The Holland Tunnel, connecting Lower Manhattan to Jersey City, New Jersey, was the first mechanically ventilated vehicular tunnel when it opened in 1927."[http://www.nycroads.com/crossings/holland/ Holland Tunnel (I-78)]". Nycroads.com. Retrieved April 12, 2014.{{cite web |title=Holland Tunnel |url=http://tps.cr.nps.gov/nhl/detail.cfm?ResourceId=2176&ResourceType=Structure |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140629011542/http://tps.cr.nps.gov/nhl/detail.cfm?ResourceId=2176&ResourceType=Structure |archive-date=June 29, 2014 |access-date=August 13, 2014 |work=National Historic Landmark Quicklinks |publisher=National Park Service }} The Queens–Midtown Tunnel, built to relieve congestion on the bridges connecting Manhattan with Queens and Brooklyn, was the largest non-federal project in its time when it was completed in 1940.{{cite web |title=Queens-Midtown Tunnel Historic Overview |url=http://www.nycroads.com/crossings/queens-midtown/ |access-date=August 13, 2014 |publisher=Eastern Roads }} The Brooklyn–Battery Tunnel (officially the Hugh L. Carey Tunnel) is the longest continuous underwater vehicular tunnel in North America and runs underneath Battery Park, connecting the Financial District, Manhattan, to Red Hook, Brooklyn.[https://new.mta.info/bridges-and-tunnels/about/hugh-l-carey-tunnel Hugh L. Carey Tunnel], Metropolitan Transportation Authority, updated July 10, 2023. Accessed January 16, 2024. "When the Hugh L. Carey Tunnel (formerly Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel) opened in 1950, it was the longest continuous underwater vehicular tunnel in North America. It still is.... On the Brooklyn side is the community of South Brooklyn, comprising the Red Hook, Columbia Terrace, Carroll Gardens, Cobble Hill, and Boerum Hill districts.... The Manhattan end of the tunnel leads to the Wall Street area, the South Street Seaport, City Hall/Civic Center, Battery Park City, the World Trade Center site, and the World Financial Center."

{{Main|Government of New York City|Politics of New York City|Elections in New York City}}

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File:New_York_County_Courthouse_-_Angle_Shot_(48129112547).jpg houses the New York Supreme Court and other governmental offices]]

New York City is a metropolitan municipality with a strong mayor–council form of government.{{cite web |title=Forms of Municipal Government |url=http://www.nlc.org/build-skills-networks/resources/cities-101/forms-of-municipal-government |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120118035924/http://www.nlc.org/build-skills-networks/resources/cities-101/forms-of-municipal-government |archive-date=January 18, 2012 |access-date=February 10, 2012 |publisher=National League of Cities }} The city government is responsible for public education, correctional institutions, public safety, recreational facilities, sanitation, water supply, and welfare services.

The City Council is a unicameral body of 51 council members whose districts are defined by geographic population boundaries.{{cite web |title=About the Council |url=http://www.nyccouncil.info/html/actioncenter/moved.cfm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071208230244/http://www.nyccouncil.info/html/actioncenter/moved.cfm |archive-date=December 8, 2007 |access-date=June 6, 2007 |publisher=New York City Council }} Each term for the mayor and council members lasts four years and has a two consecutive-term limit,{{cite news |last1=Chan |first1=Sewell |last2=Hicks |first2=Jonathan P. |date=October 23, 2008 |title=Council Votes, 29 to 22, to Extend Term Limits |newspaper=The New York Times |url=http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/10/23/council-to-debate-term-limits-change/ |access-date=February 13, 2012 }} (reset after a four-year break). The New York City Administrative Code, the New York City Rules, and The City Record are the code of local laws, compilation of regulations, and official journal, respectively.{{cite book |last1=Gibson |first1=Ellen M. |url=https://www.wshein.com/media/samples/5268.pdf |title=Gibson's New York Legal Research Guide |last2=Manz |first2=William H. |publisher=Wm. S. Hein Publishing |year=2004 |isbn=978-1-57588-728-9 |edition=3rd |pages=450, 458, 473 |lccn=2004042477 |oclc=54455036 }}{{cite news |last=Durkin |first=Erin |date=May 26, 2014 |title=Councilman Ben Kallos wants city to publish government notices on its website |newspaper=Daily News |location=New York |url=https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/post-city-notices-website-councilman-article-1.1806264 |url-status=live |access-date=July 23, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171011010531/http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/post-city-notices-website-councilman-article-1.1806264 |archive-date=October 11, 2017 }}

Each borough is coextensive with a judicial district of the state Unified Court System, of which the Criminal Court and the Civil Court are the local courts, while the New York Supreme Court conducts major trials and appeals. Manhattan hosts the First Department of the Supreme Court, Appellate Division, while Brooklyn hosts the Second Department. There are several extrajudicial administrative courts, which are executive agencies and not part of the state Unified Court System.

New York City is divided between, and is host to the main branches of, two different U.S. district courts: the District Court for the Southern District of New York, whose main courthouse is on Foley Square in Manhattan and whose jurisdiction includes Manhattan and the Bronx;[https://www.nysd.uscourts.gov Welcome], District Court for the Southern District of New York. Accessed January 15, 2024. "The United States District Court for the Southern District of New York encompasses the counties of New York, Bronx, Westchester, Rockland, Putnam, Orange, Dutchess, and Sullivan and draws jurors from those counties." and the District Court for the Eastern District of New York, whose main courthouse is in Brooklyn and whose jurisdiction includes Brooklyn, Queens, and Staten Island.[https://www.nyed.uscourts.gov Home Page], District Court for the Eastern District of New York. Accessed January 15, 2024. "The district comprises the counties of Kings, Nassau, Queens, Richmond, and Suffolk and concurrently with the Southern District, the waters within the counties of Bronx and New York." The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and U.S. Court of International Trade are also based on Foley Square.[https://www.ca2.uscourts.gov/about_the_court.html About the Court], U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Accessed January 15, 2024. "The Second Circuit Court of Appeals sits in New York City at the Thurgood Marshall U.S. Courthouse in lower Manhattan."[https://www.cit.uscourts.gov/court-info/court-locations Court Address & Directory], U.S. Court of International Trade. Accessed January 15, 2024.

File:Nancy_Pelosi_and_Eric_Adams_at_the_Speaker's_Balcony_(cropped).jpg, the current Mayor of New York City]]

The city's mayor is Eric Adams, a Democrat who was elected in 2021.[https://www.cnn.com/election/2021/results/new-york-city/mayor "New York City Mayor"], CNN. Accessed January 15, 2024. The Democratic Party holds the majority of public offices. As of November 2023, 67% of active registered voters in the city are Democrats and 10.2% are Republicans.[https://www.elections.ny.gov/NYSBOE/enrollment/county/county_Nov23.xlsx NYSVoter Enrollment by County, Party Affiliation and Status Voters Registered as of November 01, 2023] {{Webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240116035832/https://www.elections.ny.gov/NYSBOE/enrollment/county/county_Nov23.xlsx |date=January 16, 2024 }}, New York State Board of Elections, November 1, 2023. Accessed January 15, 2024. New York City has not been carried by a Republican presidential candidate since 1924, and no Republican candidate for statewide office has won all five boroughs since the city was incorporated in 1898. In redistricting following the 2020 census, 14 of New York's 26 congressional districts include portions of New York City.Boschma, Janie; Rigdon, Renée; Manley, Byron; and Cohen, Ethan. [https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2022/politics/us-redistricting/new-york-redistricting-map/ "Redistricting in New York"], CNN, November 8, 2022. Accessed January 15, 2024.

New York City is a significant source of political fundraising.Lincoln, Taylor. [https://www.citizen.org/wp-content/uploads/MaxedOut.pdf The Wells of the Congress], Public Citizen, January 18, 2022. Accessed January 13, 2024. "Eight of the 10 zip codes giving the most in maxed-out contributions are located in New York City and, specifically, in Manhattan." The city has a strong imbalance of payments with the national and state governments. It receives 83 cents in services for every $1 it sends to the federal government in taxes (or annually sends $11.4 billion more than it receives back). City residents and businesses also sent an additional $4.1 billion in the 2009–2010 fiscal year to the state than the city received in return.{{cite web |date=December 2011 |title=Downstate Pays More, Upstate Gets More: Does It Matter? |url=https://rockinst.org/blog/downstate-pays-upstate-gets-matter |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160501015209/http://www.rockinst.org/observations/wardr/2011-12-giving_getting.aspx |archive-date=May 1, 2016 |access-date=January 22, 2019 |publisher=The Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute of Government—The Public Policy Research Arm of the State University of New York }}

{{Main|List of sister cities of New York City}}

In 2006, the sister city program{{Cite web |title=History |url=http://www.nyc.gov/html/rwg/mcp/html/scp/scptokyohistory.html |access-date=March 22, 2022 |website=nyc.gov |archive-date=February 27, 2003 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030227225602/http://www.nyc.gov/html/rwg/mcp/html/scp/scptokyohistory.html |url-status=dead }} was restructured as New York City Global Partners. New York's historic sister cities are denoted below by the year they joined New York City's partnership network.{{cite web |title=NYC's Partner Cities |url=http://www.nyc.gov/html/ia/gp/html/partner/partner.shtml |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130814165415/http://www.nyc.gov/html/ia/gp/html/partner/partner.shtml |archive-date=August 14, 2013 |access-date=March 26, 2015 |publisher=The City of New York }}

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|Africa{{div col|small=yes|rules=yes|colwidth=20em}}

• Accra, Ghana
• Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
• Cairo, Egypt (1982)
• Cape Town, South Africa
• Lagos, Nigeria
• Libreville, Gabon
• Johannesburg, South Africa (2003)
• Nairobi, Kenya

{{div col end}}Asia

(East){{div col|small=yes|rules=yes|colwidth=20em}}

• Beijing, China (1980)
• Changwon, South Korea
• Chongqing, China{{cite web |url=http://open.nysenate.gov/legislation/bill/K1084-2011 |title=K1084-2011: Recognizing Yunnan Province and Chongqing Municipality of the People's Republic of China as a "Sister City" with New York City |publisher=New York State Senate |access-date=December 16, 2012 }}
• Guangzhou, China
• Hong Kong, China
• Seoul, South Korea
• Shanghai, China
• Shenyang, China
• Taipei, Taiwan
• Tokyo, Japan (1960)

{{div col end}}(South){{div col|small=yes|rules=yes|colwidth=20em}}

• Bangalore, India
• Delhi, India
• Dhaka, Bangladesh
• Karachi, Pakistan
• Mumbai, India

{{div col end}}(Southeast){{div col|small=yes|rules=yes|colwidth=20em}}

• Bangkok, Thailand
• Biên Hòa, Vietnam
• Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
• Jakarta, Indonesia
• Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia{{cite web |url=http://poskod.my/features/kls-sister-cities/ |title=KL's Sister Cities |publisher=poskod.my |access-date=August 21, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130830201710/http://poskod.my/features/kls-sister-cities/ |archive-date=August 30, 2013 |url-status=dead |date=October 21, 2010 }}
• Manila, Philippines
• Singapore

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• Dubai, United Arab Emirates
• Istanbul, Turkey (transcontinental)
• Jerusalem, Israel (1993)
• Tel Aviv, Israel{{cite web |url=http://www.tel-aviv.gov.il/Cityhall/Pages/Partnerships.aspx?tm=&sm=&side=515 |title=(Israel) Sister Cities |publisher=Tel Aviv |access-date=May 4, 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131001194353/http://www.tel-aviv.gov.il/Cityhall/Pages/Partnerships.aspx?tm=&sm=&side=515 |archive-date=October 1, 2013 }}

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• Melbourne, Australia
• Sydney, Australia

{{div col end}}Europe

(Central){{div col|small=yes|rules=yes|colwidth=20em}}

• Berlin, Germany
• Budapest, Hungary (1992)
• Düsseldorf, Germany
• Geneva, Switzerland
• Hamburg, Germany
• Heidelberg, Germany
• Munich, Germany
• Prague, Czech Republic
• Vienna, Austria
• Warsaw, Poland

{{div col end}}(East){{div col|small=yes|rules=yes|colwidth=20em}}

• Kyiv, Ukraine
• Moscow, Russia
• St. Petersburg, Russia

{{div col end}}(North){{div col|small=yes|rules=yes|colwidth=20em}}

• Copenhagen, Denmark
• Helsinki, Finland
• Oslo, Norway
• Stockholm, Sweden

{{div col end}}(South){{div col|small=yes|rules=yes|colwidth=20em}}

• Barcelona, Spain
• Bucharest, Romania
• Istanbul, Turkey (transcontinental)
• Lisbon, Portugal
• Madrid, Spain (1982)
• Milan, Italy
• Pristina, Kosovo
• Rome, Italy (1992)

{{div col end}}(West){{div col|small=yes|rules=yes|colwidth=20em}}

• Amsterdam, Netherlands
• Antwerp, Belgium
• Belfast, United Kingdom
• Brussels, Belgium
• Dublin, Ireland
• Edinburgh, United Kingdom
• Glasgow, United Kingdom
• London, United Kingdom (2001)
• Luxembourg City, Luxembourg
• Lyon, France
• Paris, France
• Rotterdam, Netherlands
• The Hague, Netherlands

{{div col end}}North America

(Canada){{div col|small=yes|rules=yes|colwidth=20em}}

• Calgary, Alberta, Canada
• Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
• Montreal, Quebec, Canada
• Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
• Quebec City, Quebec, Canada
• Toronto, Ontario, Canada
• Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
• Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
• Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

{{div col end}}(Mexico, Central America, and Caribbean){{div col|small=yes|rules=yes|colwidth=20em}}

• Cuernavaca, Morales, Mexico
• Mexico City, Mexico
• Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico
• Panama City, Panama
• Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic (1983)

{{div col end}}(United States){{div col|small=yes|rules=yes|colwidth=20em}}

• Baltimore, Maryland, United States
• Boston, Massachusetts, United States
• Chicago, Illinois, United States
• Los Angeles, California, United States
• Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

{{div col end}}South America{{div col|small=yes|rules=yes|colwidth=20em}}

• Bogotá, Colombia
• Brasília, Brazil (2004)
• Buenos Aires, Argentina
• Caracas, Venezuela
• Córdoba, Argentina
• Curitiba, Brazil
• Lima, Peru
• Medellín, Colombia
• Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
• Santiago, Chile
• São Paulo, Brazil

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{{Main|List of people from New York City}}

• Index of New York City-related articles
• Outline of New York City

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• {{cite book |last=Belden |first=E. Porter |year=1849 |url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_Jv-nXd8W8b0C |title=New York, Past, Present, and Future: Comprising a History of the City of New York, a Description of Its Present Condition, and an Estimate of Its Future Increase |publisher=G. P. Putnam |ref=none}}
• {{cite book |author-link=Anthony Burgess |last=Burgess |first=Anthony |year=1976 |title=New York |publisher=Little, Brown & Co. |isbn=978-90-6182-266-0 |title-link=New York (Anthony Burgess book) |ref=none}}
• {{cite gotham}}
• {{cite book |author=Federal Writers' Project |author-link=Federal Writers' Project |year=1939 |title=The WPA Guide to New York City |publisher=The New Press |edition=1995 reissue |isbn=978-1-56584-321-9 |ref=none}}
• Holli, Melvin G., and Jones, Peter d'A., eds. Biographical Dictionary of American Mayors, 1820–1980 (Greenwood Press, 1981) short scholarly biographies each of the city's mayors 1820 to 1980. [https://archive.org/details/biographicaldict0000unse_r8s1 online]; see index at p. 410 for list.
• {{cite enc-nyc}}
• {{cite book |editor1-last=Jackson |editor1-first=Kenneth T. |editor2-last=Dunbar |editor2-first=David S. |year=2005 |title=Empire City: New York Through the Centuries |publisher=Columbia University Press |isbn=978-0-231-10909-3 |ref=none}}
• {{cite book |title=American Metropolis: A History of New York City |url=https://archive.org/details/americanmetropol00lank |url-access=registration |last=Lankevich |first=George L. |publisher=NYU Press |year=1998 |isbn=978-0-8147-5186-2 |ref=none}}
• {{cite book |author-link=E. B. White |last=White |first=E. B. |year=1949 |title=Here is New York |publisher=Little Bookroom |edition=2000 reissue |ref=none}}
• {{cite AIA4}}
• {{cite book |author-link=Mike Wallace (historian) |last1=Wallace |first1=Mike |title=Greater Gotham: A History of New York City from 1898 to 1919 |year=2017 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=9780195116359|ref=none}}
• {{cite book |author-link=Colson Whitehead |last=Whitehead |first=Colson |year=2003 |title=The Colossus of New York: A City in 13 Parts |publisher=Doubleday |isbn=978-0-385-50794-3 |url=https://archive.org/details/colossusofnewyor00whit |ref=none}}

• {{Official website}}
• [http://www.nycgo.com/ NYC Go] – official tourism website
• {{osmrelation-inline|175905}}
• [http://collections.mcny.org/ Collections] – 145,000 NYC photographs at the Museum of the City of New York
• {{cite web |title=The New New York Skyline (interactive) |url=https://www.nationalgeographic.com/new-york-city-skyline-tallest-midtown-manhattan/ |date=November 2015 |work=National Geographic}}

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