All about New York City

New York (city), the largest city in the United States, the home of the United Nations, and the center of global finance, communications, and business.

New York City is unusual among cities because of its high residential density, its extraordinarily diverse population, its hundreds of tall office and apartment buildings, its thriving central business district, its extensive public transportation system, and its more than 400 distinct neighborhoods.

The city’s concert houses, museums, galleries, and theaters constitute an ensemble of cultural richness rivaled by few cities.

In 2000 the population of the city of New York was 8,008,278; the population of the metropolitan region was 21,199,865.

Located in the southeastern part of New York State just east of northern New Jersey, the city developed at the point where the Hudson and Passaic rivers mingle with the waters of the Atlantic Ocean and Long Island Sound.

The harbor consists of the Upper Bay (an arm of the Atlantic Ocean) as well as the East River and the various waterways that border the city. Its harbor is one of the largest and finest in the world and is ice-free in all seasons.

TEMPERATURE---
New York has a temperate climate with annual precipitation of 1,200 mm (47 in) per year.

The temperature ranges between 41°C (106° F) and –24° C (–11° F), but the Atlantic Ocean tends to moderate weather extremes in the city. It is about the same latitude as Naples, Italy.

Although the Dutch founded the city in 1624 and called it Fort Amsterdam and then New Amsterdam, the English captured the settlement in 1664 and renamed it New York, after the Duke of York, who later became James II of England.


(1) NEW YORK CITY AND IT'S METROPOLITAN AREA
(2) POPULATION AND AREA
(3) CULTURE
(4) PARKS AND RECREATION
(5) ECONOMY
(6) GOVERNMENT
(7) CONTEMPORARY ISSUES
(8) HISTORY