new york. (the big apple.)
the City New York – often called New York City or the City of New York to distinguish it from the State of New York, of which it is a part – is the most populous city in the United States[1] and the center of the New York metropolitan area, the premier gateway for legal immigration to the United States[9][10] [11] and one of the most populous urban agglomerations in the world.[12][13] A global power city,[14] New York exerts a significant impact upon commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and entertainment. Home to the headquarters of the United Nations,[15] New York is an impor-
tant center for international diplomacy[16] and has been described as the cultural and financial capital of the world.[17][18][19] [20][21][22] Situated on one of the world’s largest natural harbors,[23][24] New York City consists of five boroughs, each of which is a separate county of New York State.[25] The five boroughs – Brooklyn, Queens, Manhattan, the Bronx, and Staten Island – were consolidated into a single city in 1898.[26] With a census-estimated 2014 population of 8,491,079[1][27] distributed over a land area of just 305 square miles (790 km2),[28] New York is the most densely
populated major city in the United States. [29] As many as 800 languages are spoken in New York,[30][31] making it the most linguistically diverse city in the world.[31][32] [33] By 2014 census estimates, the New York City metropolitan region remains by a significant margin the most populous in the United States, as defined by both the Metropolitan Statistical Area (20.1 million residents)[5] and the Combined Statistical Area (23.6 million residents).19th and early 20th centuries[42] and is a globally recognized symbol of the United States and its democracy.[43]
the skyline New York City, the most populous city in the United States, is home to 5,845 completed high-rises,[1] 101 of which are 600 feet (183 m) or taller. The tallest building in New York is One World Trade Center, which rises 1,776 feet (541 m).[2] [3] The 104-story skyscraper also stands as the tallest building in the United States, the tallest building in the Western Hemisphere, and the 4th-tallest building in the world.[3][4] The second tallest building in the city is 432 Park Avenue, and the third tallest is the 102-story Empire
State Building in Midtown Manhattan, which was finished in 1931 and rises to 1,250 feet (381 m), increased to 1,454 feet (443 m) by its antenna. [5] It also is the fifth-tallest building in the United States and the 25th-tallest building in the world. The Empire State Building stood as the tallest building in the world from its completion until 1972, when the 110-story North Tower of the original World Trade Center was completed. At 1,368 feet (417 m), The World Trade Center briefly held the
title as the world’s tallest building until the completion of the 108-story Sears Tower (now known as the Willis Tower) in Chicago in 1974. The World Trade Center towers were destroyed by terrorist attacks in 2001, and the Empire State Building regained the title of tallest building in the City. It remained the tallest until April 2012, when the construction on One World Trade Center surpassed it. The fourth-tallest building in New York is the Bank of America Tower, which rises to 1,200 feet (366 m).
The taxicabs of New York City are widely recognized icons of the city,[1] come in two varieties: yellow and green. Taxis painted canary yellow (medallion taxis) are able to pick up passengers anywhere in the five boroughs. Those painted apple green (street hail livery vehicles,[2] or commonly known as boro taxis),[3] which began to appear in August 2013, are allowed to pick up passengers in Upper Manhattan, the Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens (excluding LaGuardia Airport and John F. Kennedy International Airport), and Staten Island.[4] Both types have the same fare structure. Taxicabs are operated by private companies and licensed by the New York City Taxi and Limou-
sine Commission (TLC).[5][6] It also oversees over 40,000 other for-hire vehicles, including “black cars�, commuter vans and ambulettes.[1] As of March 14, 2014, in New York City, there were 51,398 men and women licensed to drive medallion taxicabs. There were 13,605 taxicab medallion licenses in existence, 368 of them having been auctioned by the City of New York between November 2013 and February 2014. Each of these new medallions was earmarked for use with a wheelchair-accessible vehicle. Taxicab vehicles, each of which must have a medallion to operate, are driven an average of 180 miles per shift; the average
new york taxicabs total number of annual taxi passengers is 241 million.[7] As of September 2012, there are around 7,990 hybrid taxi vehicles, representing almost 59% of the taxis in service – the most in any city in North America.[8][9] The Nissan NV200 won the city’s bid to become the “Taxi of Tomorrow” to replace most of the city’s taxi fleet, with its introduction scheduled for October 2012. Nevertheless, this decision has faced several lawsuits and criticism.[10][11] As of March 2014, 6,000 Street Hail Livery (SHL) permits have been issued, 20% of which must be used
with wheelchair-accessible vehicles, with 4,478 Street Hail Livery vehicles already in use as of March 14, 2014. The first taxicab company in New York City was the Samuel’s Electric Carriage and Wagon Company, which began running 12 electric hansom cabs in July 1897.[13] The company ran until 1898 with up to 62 cabs operating until it was reformed by its financiers to form the Electric Vehicle Company.[14] The company then built the Electrobat electric car, and had up to 100 taxicabs running in total by 1899.
The city’s population in 2010 was 44% white (33.3% non-Hispanic white), 25.5% black (23% non-Hispanic black), 0.7% Native American, and 12.7% Asian.[210] Hispanics of any race represented 28.6% of the population,[210] while Asians constituted the fastest-growing segment of the city’s population between 2000 and 2010; the non-Hispanic white
population declined 3 percent, the smallest recorded decline in decades; and for the first time since the Civil War, the number of blacks declined over a decade.[211] Throughout its history, the city has been a major port of entry for immigrants into the United States; more than 12 million European immigrants
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were received at Ellis Island between 1892 and 1924.[212] The term “melting pot” was first coined to describe densely populated immigrant neighborhoods on the Lower East Side. By 1900, Germans constituted the largest immigrant group, followed by the Irish, Jews, and Italians. [213] In 1940, whites represented 92%
of the city’s population.[196] Approximately 37% of the city’s population is foreign born.[216][217] In New York, no single country or region of origin dominates. The ten largest sources of foreign-born individuals in the city as of 2011 were the Dominican Republic, China, Haiti, India, Russia, and Trinidad and Tobago among others.
times Square Times Square is a major commercial intersection and neighborhood in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, at the junction of Broadway and Seventh Avenue, and stretching from West 42nd to West 47th Streets.[1] Brightly adorned with billboards and advertisements, Times Square is sometimes referred to as The Crossroads of the World,[2] The Center of the Universe,[3] the heart of The Great White Way,[4][5][6] and the “heart of the world”.[7] One of the world’s busiest pedestrian intersections,[8] it is also the hub of the Broadway Theater District[9] and a major center of the world’s entertainment industry.[10] Times Square is one of the world’s most visited tourist attractions, drawing an estimated fifty million visitors annually.[11] Approximately 330,000 people pass through Times Square daily, many of them tourists;[12] while over 460,000 pedestrians walk through Times Square on its busiest days.[7] Formerly Longacre Square, Times Square was renamed in 1904 after The New York Times moved its headquarters to the newly erected Times Building, the site of the annual ball drop which began on December 31, 1907, and continues today, attracting over a million visitors to Times Square every New
Year’s Eve.[13] Duffy Square, the northernmost of Times Square’s triangles, was dedicated in 1937 to Chaplain Francis P. Duffy of New York City’s U.S. 69th Infantry Regiment and is the site of a memorial to him, along with a statue of George M. Cohan When Manhattan Island was first settled by the Dutch, three small streams united near what is now 10th Avenue and 40th street. These three streams formed the “Great Kill” (Dutch: Grote Kill). From there the Great Kill wound through the low-lying Reed Valley, known for fish and waterfowl[15] and emptied into a deep bay in the Hudson River at the present 42nd Street.[16] The name was retained in a tiny hamlet, Great Kill, that became a center for carriage-making, as the upland to the south and east became known as Longacre.[17] Before and after the American Revolution, the area belonged to John Morin Scott, a general of the New York militia, in which he served under George Washington. Scott’s manor house was at what is currently 43rd Street, surrounded by countryside used for farming and breeding horses. In the first half of the 19th century.
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empire state The Empire State Building is a 102-story[7][8][9][note 2] skyscraper located in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, on Fifth Avenue between West 33rd and 34th Streets. It has a roof height of 1,250 feet (381 m), and with its antenna spire included, it stands a total of 1,454 feet (443 m) high.[7] Its name is derived from the nickname for New York, the Empire State. It stood as the world’s tallest building for nearly 40 years, from its completion in early 1931 until the topping out of the original World Trade Center’s North Tower in late 1970.[14] Following the September 11 attacks in 2001, the Empire State Building
was again the tallest building in New York, until One World Trade Center reached a greater height in April 2012.[15] The Empire State Building is currently the fifth-tallest completed skyscraper in the United States and the 25th-tallest in the world. It is also the fifth-tallest freestanding structure in the Americas. When measured by pinnacle height, it is the fourth-tallest building in the United States. The Empire State Building is generally thought of as an American cultural icon. It is designed in the distinctive Art Deco style and has been named as one of the Seven Wonders of the Modern World
by the American Society of Civil Engineers. The building and its street floor interior are designated landmarks of the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission, and confirmed by the New York City Board of Estimate.[16] It was designated as a National Historic Landmark in 1986. [12][17][18] In 2007, it was ranked number one on the AIA’s List of America’s Favorite Architecture. The building is owned by the Empire State Realty Trust, of which Anthony Malkin serves as Chairman, CEO and President. [19] In 2010, the Empire State Building underwent a $550 million renovation.
Designs by Dan Parker