New York officially City of New York, otherwise known as the name and abbreviation of New York City or NYC, is the largest city in the United States and one of the largest in the Americas. It is located in the Northeastern United States, on the Atlantic coast to the southeastern tip of the state of New York. The New York City consists of five boroughs called boroughs: Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx and Staten Island. Its inhabitants are called New Yorkers.
Between 1785 and 1790 the city of New York was the capital of the United States. It is the largest city in the country since 1790, before feeding for a few decades the financial and political rivalry between New York and Philadelphia.
New York has a significant impact on global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education and entertainment. Gathering all the characteristics of a global city, it is sometimes considered the "capital of the world." If it is not the capital of the United States for over two centuries, New York is not least the country's most populous city, with 8,336,697 inhabitants according to the Census Bureau of the United States (2012). At the heart of the megalopolis of BosWash, the agglomeration of 19,069,796 inhabitants [5] extends over several counties in the State of New York (suburbs east and north) and impinges on two neighboring states. Indeed, the state of New Jersey has its western suburbs and south, and the Connecticut includes its suburbs northeast. Its urban area in turn had 22,201,312 inhabitants in 2009.
New York is one of the most cosmopolitan cities in the world, with its many ethnic neighborhoods. The best known are Little Italy, Chinatown or that incorporates the highest concentration of Chinese in the Americas [.
New York welcomes 50 million visitors annually. Times Square, iconified as "the Crossroads of the World", is the hub of the show in the entire country and the theater district of Broadway [, one of the most popular intersections, and a major center of industry entertainment in the world. The city has a large number of bridges (788 in 2012), skyscrapers and parks worldwide fame. The financial district in New York, anchored by Wall Street in Lower Manhattan, functions as the "Financial Capital of the World" and is home to the New York Stock Exchange and its future financial center One World Trade Center. In addition, the Manhattan real estate market is among the most expensive in the world.
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