East Coast of the United States as seen from the International Space Station (© NASA)
Established in 1624
Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens, Staten Island and the Bronx
Photo by: Alex Proimos
New York City, New York reported to have 8,405,837 residents according to the 2013 census. Over past two centuries, New York has been the largest and wealthiest American city. Los Angeles is the second largest city, and it has less then half the population in comparison to New York City. More than half the people and goods that ever entered the United States came through its port.
New York is the most ethnically diverse, religiously varied, commercially driven, famously congested, and, in the eyes of many, the most attractive urban centre in the country.
No other city has contributed more images to the collective consciousness of Americans: Wall Street means finance, Broadway is synonymous with theatre, Fifth Avenue is automatically paired with shopping, Madison Avenue means the advertising industry, Greenwich Village connotes bohemian lifestyles, Seventh Avenue signifies fashion, Tammany Hall defines machine politics, and Harlem evokes images of the Jazz Age, African American aspirations, and slums.
The word tenement brings to mind both the miseries of urban life and the upward mobility of striving immigrant masses. New York has more Jews than Tel Aviv, more Irish than Dublin, more Italians than Naples, and more Puerto Ricans than San Juan. Its symbol is the Statue of Liberty, but the metropolis is itself an icon, the arena in which Emma Lazarus’s “tempest-tost” people of every nation are transformed into Americans—and if they remain in the city, they become New Yorkers. Source link.
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