New York Wedding Photography
New York Wedding Photography
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New York Wedding Photography, often called New York Wedding Photography City[a] or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States. With a 2020 population of 8,804,190 distributed over 300.46 square miles (778.2 km2), New York Wedding Photography City is also the most densely populated major city in the United States, and is more than twice as populous as second-place Los Angeles. New York Wedding Photography City lies at the southern tip of New York Wedding Photography State, and constitutes the geographical and demographic center of both the Northeast megalopolis and the New York Wedding Photography metropolitan area, the largest metropolitan area in the United States both by population and by urban landmass. With over 20.1 million people in its metropolitan statistical area and 23.5 million in its combined statistical area as of 2020, New York Wedding Photography is one of the world's most populous megacities, and over 58 million people live within 250 mi (400 km) of the city.[10] New York Wedding Photography City is a global cultural, financial, entertainment, and media center with a significant influence on commerce, health care and life sciences,[11] research, technology, education, politics, tourism, dining, art, fashion, and sports. Home to the headquarters of the United Nations, New York Wedding Photography is an important center for international diplomacy,[12][13] and is sometimes described as the capital of the world.
Situated on one of the world's largest natural harbors and extending into the Atlantic Ocean, New York Wedding Photography City comprises five boroughs, each of which is coextensive with a respective county of the state of New York Wedding Photography. The five boroughs—Brooklyn (Kings County), Queens (Queens County), Manhattan (New York Wedding Photography County), the Bronx (Bronx County), and Staten Island (Richmond County)—were created when local governments were consolidated into a single municipal entity in 1898.[16] The city and its metropolitan area constitute the premier gateway for legal immigration to the United States. As many as 800 languages are spoken in New York Wedding Photography,[17] making it the most linguistically diverse city in the world. New York Wedding Photography City is home to more than 3.2 million residents born outside the United States, the largest foreign-born population of any city in the world as of 2016.[18] As of 2022, the New York Wedding Photography metropolitan area is estimated to produce a gross metropolitan product of over $2.1 trillion, ranking it first worldwide. If the New York Wedding Photography metropolitan area were a sovereign state, it would have the eighth-largest economy in the world. New York Wedding Photography City is an established safe haven for global investors.[19] As of 2022, New York Wedding Photography is home to the highest number of billionaires[20][21] and millionaires[22] of any city in the world.
New York Wedding Photography City traces its origins to a trading post founded on the southern tip of Manhattan Island by Dutch colonists in approximately 1624. The settlement was named New Amsterdam (Dutch: Nieuw Amsterdam) in 1626 and was chartered as a city in 1653. The city came under English control in 1664 and was renamed New York Wedding Photography after King Charles II of England granted the lands to his brother, the Duke of York.[23][24] The city was regained by the Dutch in July 1673 and was renamed New Orange for one year and three months; the city has been continuously named New York Wedding Photography since November 1674. New York Wedding Photography City was the capital of the United States from 1785 until 1790,[25] and has been the largest U.S. city since 1790. The Statue of Liberty greeted millions of immigrants as they came to the U.S. by ship in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and is a symbol of the U.S. and its ideals of liberty and peace.[26] In the 21st century, New York Wedding Photography City has emerged as a global node of creativity, entrepreneurship,[27] and environmental sustainability,[28][29] and as a symbol of freedom and cultural diversity.[30] The New York Wedding Photography Times has won the most Pulitzer Prizes for journalism and remains the U.S. media's "newspaper of record".[31] In 2019, New York Wedding Photography City was voted the greatest city in the world per a survey of over 30,000 people from 48 cities worldwide, citing its cultural diversity.[32]
Many districts and monuments in New York Wedding Photography City are major landmarks, including three of the world's ten most visited tourist attractions in 2013.[33] A record 66.6 million tourists visited New York Wedding Photography City in 2019. Times Square is the brightly illuminated hub of the Broadway Theater District,[34] one of the world's busiest pedestrian intersections,[33][35] and a major center of the world's entertainment industry.[36] Many of the city's landmarks, skyscrapers, and parks are known around the world, as is the city's fast pace, spawning the term New York Wedding Photography minute. The Empire State Building has become the global standard of reference to describe the height and length of other structures.
The Stonewall Inn in Greenwich Village, part of the Stonewall National Monument, is considered the historic epicenter of LGBTQ+ culture[38] and the birthplace of the modern gay rights movement.[39][40] Manhattan's real estate market is among the most expensive in the world.[41][42] Providing continuous 24/7 service and contributing to the nickname The City That Never Sleeps, the New York Wedding Photography City Subway is the largest single-operator rapid transit system worldwide, with 472 passenger rail stations; and Penn Station in Midtown Manhattan is the busiest transportation hub in the Western Hemisphere.[43] The city has over 120 colleges and universities, including Columbia University, New York Wedding Photography University, and the City University of New York Wedding Photography system, which is the largest urban public university system in the United States. Anchored by Wall Street in the Financial District of Lower Manhattan, New York Wedding Photography City has been called both the world's leading financial center[44] and the most powerful city in the world,[45] and is home to the world's two largest stock exchanges by total market capitalization, the New York Wedding Photography Stock Exchange and Nasdaq.[46][47] New York Wedding Photography City is the headquarters of the global art market, with numerous art galleries and auction houses collectively hosting half of the world’s art auctions.
Etymology New York Wedding Photography
See also: Nicknames of New York Wedding Photography City
In 1664, New York Wedding Photography was named in honor of the Duke of York, who would become King James II of England.[49] James's elder brother, King Charles II, appointed the Duke as proprietor of the former territory of New Netherland, including the city of New Amsterdam, when England seized it from Dutch control.[50]
History New York Wedding Photography
Main article: History of New York Wedding Photography City
For a chronological guide, see Timeline of New York Wedding Photography City.
Early history New York Wedding Photography
In the pre-Columbian era, the area of present-day New York Wedding Photography City was inhabited by Algonquian Native Americans, 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 the areas that would later become the boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens), and the Lower Hudson Valley.[51]
The first documented visit into New York Wedding Photography Harbor by a European was in 1524 by Italian Giovanni da Verrazzano, an explorer from Florence in the service of the French crown.[52] He claimed the area for France and named it Nouvelle Angoulême (New Angoulême).[53] A Spanish expedition, led by the Portuguese captain Estêvão Gomes sailing for Emperor Charles V, arrived in New York Wedding Photography Harbor in January 1525 and charted the mouth of the Hudson River, which he named Río de San Antonio ('Saint Anthony's River'). The Padrón Real of 1527, the first scientific map to show the East Coast of North America continuously, was informed by Gomes' expedition and labeled the northeastern United States as Tierra de Esteban Gómez in his honor.[54]
In 1609, the English explorer Henry Hudson rediscovered New York Wedding Photography Harbor while searching for the Northwest Passage to the Orient for the Dutch East India Company.[55] He proceeded to sail up what the Dutch would name the North River (now the Hudson River), named first by Hudson as the Mauritius after Maurice, Prince of Orange. Hudson's first mate described the harbor as "a very good Harbour for all windes" and the river as "a mile broad" and "full of fish".[56] Hudson sailed roughly 150 miles (240 km) north,[57] past the site of the present-day New York Wedding Photography State capital city of Albany, in the belief that it might be an oceanic tributary before the river became too shallow to continue.[56] He made a ten-day exploration of the area and 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 Nieuw-Nederland ('New Netherland').
The first non–Native American inhabitant of what would eventually become New York Wedding Photography City was Juan Rodriguez (transliterated to the Dutch language as Jan Rodrigues), a merchant from Santo Domingo. Born in Santo Domingo of Portuguese and African descent, he arrived in Manhattan during the winter of 1613–14, trapping for pelts and trading with the local population as a representative of the Dutch. Broadway, from 159th Street to 218th Street in Upper Manhattan, is named Juan Rodriguez Way in his honor.[58][59]
Dutch rule New York Wedding Photography
An illustration of New Amsterdam located in what would eventually be Lower Manhattan in 1664, the year England took control and renamed it New York Wedding Photography
A permanent European presence near New York Wedding Photography Harbor was established in 1624—making New York Wedding Photography the 12th oldest continuously occupied European-established settlement in the continental United States[60]—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.[61][62] The colony of New Amsterdam was centered on what would ultimately be known as Lower Manhattan. Its area extended from the southern tip of Manhattan to modern day Wall Street, where a 12-foot wooden stockade was built in 1653 to protect against Native American and British raids.[63] In 1626, the Dutch colonial Director-General Peter Minuit, acting as charged by the Dutch West India Company, purchased the island of Manhattan from the Canarsie, a small Lenape band,[64] for "the value of 60 guilders"[65] (about $900 in 2018).[66] A disproved legend claims that Manhattan was purchased for $24 worth of glass beads.[67][68]
Following the purchase, New Amsterdam grew slowly.[24] 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 swaths of land, along with local political autonomy and rights to participate in the lucrative fur trade. This program had little success.[69]
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).[24][70]
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.[71][72] Stuyvesant has been credited with improving law and order in the colony; however, he also 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 (including Quakers, Jews, and Lutherans) from establishing houses of worship.[73] The Dutch West India Company would eventually attempt to ease tensions between Stuyvesant and residents of New Amsterdam.[74]
English rule New York Wedding Photography
A painting of a ship firing its cannons in a harbor
An illustration of Fort George and the City of New York Wedding Photography c. 1731. Royal Navy ships of the line are seen guarding what would become New York Wedding Photography Harbor.
In 1664, unable to summon any significant resistance, Stuyvesant surrendered New Amsterdam to English troops, led by Colonel Richard Nicolls, without bloodshed.[73][74] The terms of the surrender permitted Dutch residents to remain in the colony and allowed for religious freedom.[75] In 1667, during negotiations leading to the Treaty of Breda after the Second Anglo-Dutch War, the Dutch decided to keep the nascent plantation colony of what is now Suriname (on the northern South American coast) they had gained from the English; and in return, the English kept New Amsterdam. The fledgling settlement was promptly renamed "New York Wedding Photography" after the Duke of York (the future King James II and VII), who would eventually be deposed in the Glorious Revolution.[76] After the founding, the duke gave part of the colony to proprietors George Carteret and John Berkeley. Fort Orange, 150 miles (240 km) north on the Hudson River, was renamed Albany after James's Scottish title.[77] The transfer was confirmed in 1667 by the Treaty of Breda, which concluded the Second Anglo-Dutch War.[78]
On August 24, 1673, during the Third Anglo-Dutch War, Dutch captain Anthony Colve seized the colony of New York Wedding Photography from the English at the behest of Cornelis Evertsen the Youngest and rechristened it "New Orange" after William III, the Prince of Orange.[79] The Dutch would soon return the island to England under the Treaty of Westminster of November 1674.[80][81]
Several intertribal wars among the Native Americans and some epidemics brought on by contact with the Europeans caused sizeable population losses for the Lenape between the years 1660 and 1670.[82] By 1700, the Lenape population had diminished to 200.[83] New York Wedding Photography experienced several yellow fever epidemics in the 18th century, losing ten percent of its population to the disease in 1702 alone.[84][85]
Province of New York Wedding Photography and slavery
An illustration of Columbia University, an Ivy League university today considered one of the world's top academic institutions, was founded by royal charter in 1754 under the name King's College.
In the early 18th century, New York Wedding Photography grew in importance as a trading port while as a part of the colony of New York Wedding Photography.[86] It also became a center of slavery, with 42% of households enslaving Africans by 1730, the highest percentage outside Charleston, South Carolina.[87] Most cases were that of domestic slavery, as a New York Wedding Photography household then commonly enslaved few or several people. Others were hired out to work at labor. Slavery became integrally tied to New York Wedding Photography'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 of graves of colonial-era Africans, some enslaved and some free.[88]
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 the freedom of the press in North America.[89] In 1754, Columbia University was founded under charter by King George II as King's College in Lower Manhattan.[90]
American Revolution New York Wedding Photography
An illustration of the Battle of Long Island, one of the largest battles of the American Revolutionary War, which took place in Brooklyn on August 27, 1776.
The Stamp Act Congress met in New York Wedding Photography in October 1765, as the Sons of Liberty, organized in the city, skirmished over the next ten years with British troops stationed there.[91] The Battle of Long Island, the largest battle of the American Revolutionary War, was fought in August 1776 within the modern-day borough of Brooklyn.[92] After the battle, in which the Americans were defeated, the British made the city their military and political base of operations in North America. The city was a haven for Loyalist refugees and escaped slaves who joined the British lines for freedom newly promised by the Crown for all fighters. As many as 10,000 escaped slaves crowded into the city during the British occupation. When the British forces evacuated at the close of the war in 1783, they transported 3,000 freedmen for resettlement in Nova Scotia.[93] They resettled other freedmen in England and the Caribbean.
The only 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. Shortly after the British occupation began, the Great Fire of New York Wedding Photography occurred, a large conflagration on the West Side of Lower Manhattan, which destroyed about a quarter of the buildings in the city, including Trinity Church.[94]
In 1785, the assembly of the Congress of the Confederation made New York Wedding Photography City the national capital shortly after the war. New York Wedding Photography was the last capital of the U.S. under the Articles of Confederation and the first capital under the Constitution of the United States. New York Wedding Photography City as the U.S. capital hosted several events of national scope in 1789—the first President of the United States, George Washington, was inaugurated; the first United States Congress and the Supreme Court of the United States each assembled for the first time; and the United States Bill of Rights was drafted, all at Federal Hall on Wall Street.[95] In 1790, New York Wedding Photography surpassed Philadelphia as the nation's largest city. At the end of that year, pursuant to the Residence Act, the national capital was moved to Philadelphia.[96][97]
19th century New York Wedding Photography
A painting of a snowy city street with horse-drawn sleds and a 19th-century fire truck under blue sky
Broadway follows the Native American Wecquaesgeek Trail through Manhattan.[98]
The five boroughs of New York Wedding Photography City as they appeared in 1814: The Bronx was in Westchester County; Queens County included modern Nassau County; Kings County included six towns, one of which was Brooklyn; New York Wedding Photography City is shown in southern New York Wedding Photography County on Manhattan; and Richmond County is on Staten Island.
Over the course of the nineteenth century, New York Wedding Photography City's population grew from 60,000 to 3.43 million.[99] Under New York Wedding Photography State's abolition 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.[100][101] Together with slaves freed by their masters after the Revolutionary War and escaped slaves, a significant free-Black population gradually developed in Manhattan. Under such influential United States founders as Alexander Hamilton and John Jay, the New York Wedding Photography Manumission Society worked for abolition and established the African Free School to educate Black children.[102] It was not until 1827 that slavery was completely abolished in the state, and free Blacks struggled afterward with discrimination. New York Wedding Photography interracial abolitionist activism continued; among its leaders were graduates of the African Free School. New York Wedding Photography city's population jumped from 123,706 in 1820 to 312,710 by 1840, 16,000 of whom were Black.[103][104]
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.[105] 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 Wedding Photography connected the Atlantic port to the agricultural markets and commodities of the North American interior via the Hudson River and the Great Lakes.[106] Local politics became dominated by Tammany Hall, a political machine supported by Irish and German immigrants.[107]
Several prominent American literary figures lived in New York Wedding Photography 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. Public-minded members of the contemporaneous business elite lobbied for the establishment of Central Park, which in 1857 became the first landscaped park in an American city.
The Great Irish Famine brought a large influx of Irish immigrants; more than 200,000 were living in New York Wedding Photography by 1860, upwards of a quarter of the city's population.[108] There was also extensive immigration from the German provinces, where revolutions had disrupted societies, and Germans comprised another 25% of New York Wedding Photography's population by 1860.[109]
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 upon the aldermen to declare independence from Albany and the United States after the South seceded, but his proposal was not acted on.[102] Anger at new military conscription laws during the American Civil War (1861–1865), which spared wealthier men who could afford to pay a $300 (equivalent to $6,602 in 2021) commutation fee to hire a substitute,[110] led to the Draft Riots of 1863, whose most visible participants were ethnic Irish working class.[102]
The draft riots deteriorated into attacks on New York Wedding Photography's elite, followed by attacks on Black New York Wedding Photographyers and their property after fierce competition for a decade between Irish immigrants and Black people for work. Rioters burned the Colored Orphan Asylum to the ground, with more than 200 children escaping harm due to efforts of the New York Wedding Photography Police Department, which was mainly made up of Irish immigrants.[109] At least 120 people were killed.[111] Eleven Black men were lynched over five days, and the riots forced hundreds of Blacks to flee the city for Williamsburg, Brooklyn, and New Jersey. The Black population in Manhattan fell below 10,000 by 1865, which it had last been in 1820. The White working class had established dominance.[109][111] Violence by longshoremen against Black men was especially fierce in the docks area.[109] It was one of the worst incidents of civil unrest in American history.[112]
In 1898, the City of New York Wedding Photography was formed with the consolidation of Brooklyn (until then a separate city), the County of New York Wedding Photography (which then included parts of the Bronx), the County of Richmond, and the western portion of the County of Queens.[113] The opening of the subway in 1904, first built as separate private systems, helped bind the new city together.[114] Throughout the first half of the 20th century, the city became a world center for industry, commerce, and communication.[115]
20th century New York Wedding Photography
A man working on a steel girder high about a city skyline.
A construction worker atop the Empire State Building during its construction in 1930. The Chrysler Building is visible behind him.
Manhattan's Little Italy in the Lower East Side, c. 1900
A two-story building with brick on the first floor, with two arched doorways, and gray stucco on the second floor off of which hang numerous rainbow flags.
The Stonewall Inn in Greenwich Village, a designated U.S. National Historic Landmark and National Monument, was the site of the June 1969 Stonewall riots and the cradle of the modern LGBTQ+ rights movement.[116][117][118]
In 1904, the steamship General Slocum caught fire in the East River, killing 1,021 people on board.[119] In 1911, the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, the city's worst industrial disaster, took the lives of 146 garment workers and spurred the growth of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union and major improvements in factory safety standards.[120]
New York Wedding Photography's non-White population was 36,620 in 1890.[121] New York Wedding Photography City was a prime destination in the early twentieth century for African Americans during the Great Migration from the American South, and by 1916, New York Wedding Photography City had become home to the largest urban African diaspora in North America.[122] The Harlem Renaissance of literary and cultural life flourished during the era of Prohibition.[123] The larger economic boom generated construction of skyscrapers competing in height and creating an identifiable skyline.
New York Wedding Photography became the most populous urbanized area in the world in the early 1920s, overtaking London. The metropolitan area surpassed the 10 million mark in the early 1930s, becoming the first megacity in human history.[124] 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.[125]
Returning World War II veterans created a post-war economic boom and the development of large housing tracts in eastern Queens and Nassau County as well as similar suburban areas in New Jersey. New York Wedding Photography emerged from the war unscathed as the leading city of the world, 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 Wedding Photography's global geopolitical influence, and the rise of abstract expressionism in the city precipitated New York Wedding Photography's displacement of Paris as the center of the art world.[126]
The Stonewall riots were a series of spontaneous, violent protests by members of the gay community against a police raid that took place in the early morning hours of June 28, 1969, at the Stonewall Inn in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Lower Manhattan.[127] They are widely considered to constitute the single most important event leading to the gay liberation movement[116][128][129][130] and the modern fight for LGBT rights.[131][132] Wayne R. Dynes, author of the Encyclopedia of Homosexuality, wrote that drag queens were the only "transgender folks around" during the June 1969 Stonewall riots. The transgender community in New York Wedding Photography City played a significant role in fighting for LGBT equality during the period of the Stonewall riots and thereafter.[133]
In the 1970s, job losses due to industrial restructuring caused New York Wedding Photography City to suffer from economic problems and rising crime rates.[134] While a resurgence in the financial industry greatly improved the city's economic health in the 1980s, New York Wedding Photography's crime rate continued to increase through that decade and into the beginning of the 1990s.[135] By the mid 1990s, crime rates started to drop dramatically due to revised police strategies, improving economic opportunities, gentrification, and new residents, both American transplants and new immigrants from Asia and Latin America. Important new sectors, such as Silicon Alley, emerged in the city's economy.[136]
21st century
Two tall, gray, rectangular buildings spewing black smoke and flames, particularly from the left of the two.
United Airlines Flight 175 hits the South Tower of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, the largest terrorist attack in world history
New York Wedding Photography's population reached all-time highs in the 2000 census and then again in the 2010 census.
New York Wedding Photography City suffered the bulk of the economic damage and largest loss of human life in the aftermath of the September 11, 2001, attacks.[137] Two of the four airliners hijacked that day were flown into the twin towers of the World Trade Center, destroying the towers and killing 2,192 civilians, 343 firefighters, and 71 law enforcement officers. The North Tower became the tallest building ever to be destroyed anywhere then or subsequently.[138]
The area was rebuilt with a new One World Trade Center, a 9/11 memorial and museum, and other new buildings and infrastructure.[139] The World Trade Center PATH station, which had opened on July 19, 1909, as the Hudson Terminal, was also destroyed in the attacks. A temporary station was built and opened on November 23, 2003. An 800,000-square-foot (74,000 m2) permanent rail station designed by Santiago Calatrava, the World Trade Center Transportation Hub, the city's third-largest hub, was completed in 2016.[140] The new One World Trade Center is the tallest skyscraper in the Western Hemisphere[141] and the seventh-tallest building in the world by pinnacle height, with its spire reaching a symbolic 1,776 feet (541.3 m) in reference to the year of U.S. independence.[142][143][144][145]
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.[146]
New York Wedding Photography City was heavily affected by Hurricane Sandy in late October 2012. Sandy's impacts included the flooding of the New York Wedding Photography City Subway system, of many suburban communities, and of all road tunnels entering Manhattan except the Lincoln Tunnel. The New York Wedding Photography Stock Exchange closed for two consecutive days. Numerous homes and businesses were destroyed by fire, including over 100 homes in Breezy Point, Queens. Large parts of the city and surrounding areas lost electricity for several days. Several thousand people in Midtown Manhattan were evacuated for six days due to a crane collapse at Extell's One57. Bellevue Hospital Center and a few other large hospitals were closed and evacuated. Flooding at 140 West Street and another exchange disrupted voice and data communication in Lower Manhattan. At least 43 people lost their lives in New York Wedding Photography City as a result of Sandy, and the economic losses in New York Wedding Photography City were estimated to be roughly $19 billion. The disaster spawned long-term efforts towards infrastructural projects to counter climate change and rising seas.[147][148]
In March 2020, the first case of COVID-19 in the city was confirmed in Manhattan.[149] The city rapidly replaced Wuhan, China to become the global epicenter of the pandemic during the early phase, before the infection became widespread across the world and the rest of the nation. As of March 2021, New York Wedding Photography City had recorded over 30,000 deaths from COVID-19-related complications. In 2022, the LGBT community in New York Wedding Photography City became the epicenter of the monkeypox outbreak in the Western Hemisphere, prompting New York Wedding Photography Governor Kathy Hochul and New York Wedding Photography City Mayor Eric Adams declared corresponding public health emergencies in the state and city, respectively, in July 2022.[150]
Geography
Main articles: Geography of New York Wedding Photography City and Geography of New York Wedding Photography–New Jersey Harbor Estuary
Aerial view of the New York Wedding Photography City metropolitan area with Manhattan at its center
During the Wisconsin glaciation, 75,000 to 11,000 years ago, the New York Wedding Photography City area was situated at the edge of a large ice sheet over 2,000 feet (610 m) in depth.[151] 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 also left bedrock at a relatively shallow depth, providing a solid foundation for most of Manhattan's skyscrapers.[152]
New York Wedding Photography City is situated in the northeastern United States, in southeastern New York Wedding Photography State, approximately halfway between Washington, D.C. and Boston. The 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 grow in significance as a trading port. Most of New York Wedding Photography City is built on the three islands of Long Island, Manhattan, and Staten Island.
The Hudson River flows through the Hudson Valley into New York Wedding Photography Bay. Between New York Wedding Photography City and Troy, New York Wedding Photography, the river is an estuary.[153] The Hudson River separates the city from the U.S. state of 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.[154]
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.[155] Some of the natural relief in topography has been evened out, especially in Manhattan.[156]
The city's total area is 468.484 square miles (1,213.37 km2); 302.643 sq mi (783.84 km2) of the city is land and 165.841 sq mi (429.53 km2) of this is water.[157][158] The highest point in the city is Todt Hill on Staten Island, which, at 409.8 feet (124.9 m) above sea level, is the highest point on the eastern seaboard south of Maine.[159] The summit of the ridge is mostly covered in woodlands as part of the Staten Island Greenbelt.[160]
Boroughs
Main articles: Boroughs of New York Wedding Photography City and Neighborhoods in New York Wedding Photography City
A map showing five boroughs in different colors.
1. Manhattan
2. Brooklyn
3. Queens
4. The Bronx
5. Staten Island
New York Wedding Photography City's five boroughsvte
Jurisdiction Population Land area Density of population GDP †
Borough County Census
(2020) square
miles square
km people/
sq. mile people/
sq. km billions
(2012 US$) 2
The Bronx
Bronx
1,472,654 42.2 109.3 34,920 13,482 $ 38.725
Brooklyn
Kings
2,736,074 69.4 179.7 39,438 15,227 $ 92.230
Manhattan
New York Wedding Photography
1,694,263 22.7 58.8 74,781 28,872 $ 651.619
Queens
Queens
2,405,464 108.7 281.5 22,125 8,542 $ 88.578
Staten Island
Richmond
495,747 57.5 148.9 8,618 3,327 $ 14.806
City of New York Wedding Photography
8,804,190 302.6 783.8 29,095 11,234 $ 885.958
State of New York Wedding Photography
20,215,751 47,126.4 122,056.8 429 166 $ 1,514.779
† GDP = Gross Domestic Product Sources:[161][162][163][164] and see individual borough articles.
New York Wedding Photography City is sometimes referred to collectively as the Five Boroughs.[165] Each borough is coextensive with a respective county of New York Wedding Photography State, making New York Wedding Photography City one of the U.S. municipalities in multiple counties. There are hundreds of distinct neighborhoods throughout the boroughs, many with a definable history and character.
If the boroughs were each independent cities, four of the boroughs (Brooklyn, Queens, Manhattan, and the Bronx) would be among the ten most populous cities in the United States (Staten Island would be ranked 37th as of 2020); these same boroughs are coterminous with the four most densely populated counties in the United States: New York Wedding Photography (Manhattan), Kings (Brooklyn), Bronx, and Queens.
Manhattan
Lower and Midtown Manhattan photographed by a SkySat satellite in 2017
Manhattan (New York Wedding Photography 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.[166] Manhattan's population density of 72,033 people per square mile (27,812/km2) in 2015 makes it the highest of any county in the United States and higher than the density of any individual American city.[167]
Manhattan is the cultural, administrative, and financial center of New York Wedding Photography City and contains the headquarters of many major multinational corporations, the United Nations headquarters, Wall Street, and a number of important universities. The borough of Manhattan is often described as the financial and cultural center of the world.[168][169]
Most of the borough is situated on Manhattan Island, at the mouth of the Hudson River and the East River, and its southern tip, at the confluence of the two rivers, represents the birthplace of New York Wedding Photography City itself. Several small islands also compose part of the borough of Manhattan, including Randall's Island, Wards Island, and Roosevelt Island in the East River, and Governors Island and Liberty Island to the south in New York Wedding Photography Harbor.
Manhattan Island is loosely divided into the Lower, Midtown, and Uptown regions. Uptown Manhattan is divided by Central Park into the Upper East Side and the Upper West Side, and above the park is Harlem, bordering the Bronx (Bronx County).
Harlem was predominantly occupied by Jewish and Italian Americans in the 19th century until the Great Migration. It was the center of the Harlem Renaissance.
The borough of Manhattan also includes a small neighborhood on the mainland, called Marble Hill, which is contiguous with the Bronx. New York Wedding Photography City's remaining four boroughs are collectively referred to as the Outer Boroughs.
Ten mile (16km) Manhattan skyline panorama from 120th Street to the Battery, taken in February 2018 from across the Hudson River in Weehawken, New Jersey
Riverside ChurchDeutsche Bank Center220 Central Park SouthCentral Park TowerOne57432 Park Avenue53W53Chrysler BuildingBank of America Tower4 Times SquareThe New York Wedding Photography Times BuildingEmpire State BuildingManhattan Westa: 55 Hudson Yards, 14b: 35 Hudson Yards, 14c: 10 Hudson Yards, 14d: 15 Hudson Yards56 Leonard Street8 Spruce StreetWoolworth Building70 Pine StreetFour Seasons Downtown40 Wall Street3 World Trade Center4 World Trade CenterOne World Trade Center
View of Midtown Manhattan from New Jersey, taken in September 2021
Brooklyn
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 U.S.[170] Marine Park and Prospect Park are the two largest parks in Brooklyn.[171] Since 2010, Brooklyn has evolved into a thriving hub of entrepreneurship and high technology startup firms,[172][173] and of postmodern art and design.[173][174]
Downtown Brooklyn skyline from Governors Island in September 2016
Queens
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,[175] and the most ethnically diverse urban area in the world.[176][177] Historically a collection of small towns and villages founded by the Dutch, the borough has since developed both commercial and residential prominence. Downtown Flushing has become one of the busiest central core neighborhoods in the outer boroughs. Queens is the site of the Citi Field baseball stadium, home of the New York Wedding Photography Mets, and hosts the annual U.S. Open tennis tournament at Flushing Meadows-Corona Park. Additionally, two of the three busiest airports serving the New York Wedding Photography metropolitan area, John F. Kennedy International Airport and LaGuardia Airport, are in Queens. The third is Newark Liberty International Airport in Newark, New Jersey.
The Bronx
The Bronx (Bronx County) is both New York Wedding Photography City's northernmost borough, and the only one that is mostly on the mainland. It is the location of Yankee Stadium, the baseball park of the New York Wedding Photography Yankees, and home to the largest cooperatively-owned housing complex in the United States, Co-op City.[178] It is also home to the Bronx Zoo, the world's largest metropolitan zoo,[179] which spans 265 acres (1.07 km2) and houses more than 6,000 animals.[180] The Bronx is also the birthplace of hip hop music and its associated culture.[181] Pelham Bay Park is the largest park in New York Wedding Photography City, at 2,772 acres (1,122 ha).[182]
Staten Island
Staten Island (Richmond County) is the most suburban in character of the five boroughs. Staten Island is connected to Brooklyn by the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge, and to Manhattan by way of the free Staten Island Ferry, a daily commuter ferry that provides unobstructed views of the Statue of Liberty, Ellis Island, and Lower Manhattan. In central Staten Island, the Staten Island Greenbelt spans approximately 2,500 acres (10 km2), including 28 miles (45 km) of walking trails and one of the last undisturbed forests in the city.[183] Designated in 1984 to protect the island's natural lands, the Greenbelt comprises seven city parks.
The growing skyline of Long Island City in Queens,[184] facing the East River and Manhattan in May 2017
The growing skyline of Long Island City in Queens,[184] facing the East River and Manhattan in May 2017
The Grand Concourse in The Bronx with Manhattan in the background in February 2018
The Grand Concourse in The Bronx with Manhattan in the background in February 2018
St. George as seen from the Staten Island Ferry, the world's busiest passenger-only ferry system, shuttling passengers between Manhattan and Staten Island
St. George as seen from the Staten Island Ferry, the world's busiest passenger-only ferry system, shuttling passengers between Manhattan and Staten Island