A report on New York City, New York (state), New York metropolitan area and Brooklyn

New Amsterdam, centered in the eventual Lower Manhattan, in 1664, the year England took control and renamed it "New York"

Map of the counties in the four divisions of the New York Metropolitan Area

Fort George and the City of New York c. 1731. Royal Navy ships of the line are seen guarding what would become New York Harbor.

New York was dominated by Iroquoian (purple) and Algonquian (pink) tribes.

Nocturnal view of the New York City metropolitan area, the world's most brightly illuminated conurbation and largest urban landmass. Long Island extends 120 miles eastward from Manhattan, the central core of the conurbation.

A dining table from the Dutch village of Brooklyn, c. 1664, in The Brooklyn Museum

Columbia University was founded by royal charter in 1754 under the name of King's College.

New Amsterdam, present-day Lower Manhattan, 1660

Part of the Palisades Interstate Park, the cliffs of the New Jersey Palisades of Bergen County overlook the Hudson River as well as The Bronx and Upper Manhattan in New York.

The Battle of Long Island, the largest battle of the American Revolution, took place in Brooklyn in 1776.

New York and neighboring provinces, by Claude Joseph Sauthier, 1777

Enveloped by the Atlantic Ocean and Long Island Sound, New York City and Long Island alone are home to approximately 11 million residents conjointly.

The Battle of Long Island was fought across Kings County.

Broadway follows the Native American Wickquasgeck Trail through Manhattan.

British general John Burgoyne surrenders at Saratoga in 1777

The Bear Mountain Bridge connecting Westchester and Orange Counties, New York, across the Hudson River, as seen from Bear Mountain

Winter Scene in Brooklyn, c. 1819–20, by Francis Guy (Brooklyn Museum)

The current 5 boroughs of Greater New York as they appeared in 1814. Bronx was in Westchester County, Queens County included modern Nassau County, Kings County had 6 towns, one of which was Brooklyn, New York City is shown by hatching in southern New York County on the island of Manhattan, and Richmond County on Staten Island.

1800 map of New York from Low's Encyclopaedia

High Point Monument as seen from Lake Marcia at High Point, Sussex County, the highest elevation in New Jersey at 1803 ft above sea level.

Brooklyn Bridge in 1883, by Currier and Ives

A construction worker atop the Empire State Building as it was being built in 1930. The Chrysler Building is behind him.

The Erie Canal at Lockport, New York, in 1839

The Village of Garden City in Nassau County, Long Island's Town of Hempstead, which with over 770,000 people is the New York metropolitan area's most populous individual municipality outside New York City.

Currier and Ives print of Brooklyn, 1886

Manhattan's Little Italy, Lower East Side, circa 1900

Flight 175 hitting the South Tower on September11, 2001

Westhampton, Suffolk County, New York, on the East End of Long Island, December 2008

The Stonewall Inn in Greenwich Village, a designated U.S. National Historic Landmark and National Monument, as the site of the June 1969 Stonewall riots and the cradle of the modern gay rights movement

Flooding on AvenueC in Lower Manhattan caused by Hurricane Sandy

The Great Falls of the Passaic River in Paterson, Passaic County, New Jersey, dedicated as a National Historical Park in November 2011, incorporates one of the largest waterfalls in the eastern United States.

Location of Brooklyn (red) within New York City (remainder yellow)

United Airlines Flight 175 hits the South Tower of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001.

New York is bordered by six U.S. states, two Great Lakes, and the Canadian provinces of Ontario and Quebec.

Downtown Trenton in Mercer County, including the New Jersey State House topped by its golden dome, alongside the Delaware River

Landmark 19th-century rowhouses on tree-lined Kent Street in Greenpoint Historic District

The core of the New York City metropolitan area, with Manhattan Island at its center

Enveloped by the Atlantic Ocean and Long Island Sound, New York City and Long Island alone are home to about eleven million residents conjointly.

Downtown New Brunswick, Middlesex County, New Jersey, an educational and cultural district undergoing gentrification

Lake-effect snow is a major contributor to heavy snowfall totals in western New York, including the Tug Hill region.

The Mohonk Mountain House, Ulster County, New York, in the Hudson Valley, was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1986.

150–159 Willow Street, three original red-brick early 19th-century Federal Style houses in Brooklyn Heights

Lower and Midtown Manhattan, as seen by a SkySat satellite in 2017

Two major state parks (in green) are the Adirondack Park (north) and the Catskill Park (south).

Sugarloaf Hill in Putnam County, New York, in the Hudson Valley

Imatra Society, consisting of Finnish immigrants, celebrating its summer festival in Fort Hamilton, Brooklyn in 1894.

Central Park in Winter by Raymond Speers, in Munsey's Magazine, February 1900

The Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor is a symbol of the United States and its ideals.

A deer in a suburban street (Highland Park, Middlesex County, NJ)

Flushing Meadows–Corona Park was used in both the 1939 and 1964 New York World's Fair, with the Unisphere as the centerpiece of the latter and which remains today.

The African Burial Ground National Monument in Lower Manhattan

Mohawk Mountain Ski Area, Cornwall, Litchfield County, Connecticut, in the Berkshire Mountains

The Statue of Liberty on Liberty Island in New York Harbor is a symbol of the United States and its ideals of freedom, democracy, and opportunity.

Dingmans Falls in the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area, Pike County, northeastern Pennsylvania

The Soldiers' and Sailors' Arch at Grand Army Plaza

View of The Pond and Midtown Manhattan from the Gapstow Bridge in Central Park, one of the world's most visited tourist attractions, in 2019

New York population distribution map. New York's population is primarily concentrated in the Greater New York area, including New York City and Long Island.

Downtown Stamford in Fairfield County, Connecticut

The USS North Carolina, launched at Brooklyn Navy Yard, June 1940

California sea lions play at the Bronx Zoo, the world's largest metropolitan zoo.

The Stonewall Inn in the gay village of Greenwich Village, Lower Manhattan, site of the June 1969 Stonewall riots, the cradle of the modern LGBT rights movement

The New Haven Green Historic District in Connecticut was designated a National Historic Landmark District in 1970.

Newer buildings near East River State Park

A map of racial distribution in New York, 2010 U.S. census. Each dot is 25 people:

Aerial view of Newark, Essex County, New Jersey's most populous city

Kwanzan Cherries in bloom at Brooklyn Botanic Garden.

The landmark Neo-Gothic Roman Catholic St. Patrick's Cathedral, Midtown Manhattan

The main laboratory building of the IBM Watson Research Center is located in Yorktown Heights, New York.

Public Library in Yonkers, Westchester County, New York

Ultra-Orthodox Jewish residents in Brooklyn. Brooklyn has the largest Jewish community in the United States, with approximately 600,000 individuals.

Times Square in Midtown Manhattan, hub of the Broadway theater district, a media center, and one of the world's busiest pedestrian intersections

Barnum Museum in Bridgeport, Fairfield County, Connecticut's most populous city

Barclays Center in Pacific Park within Prospect Heights, home of the Nets and Liberty.

The Islamic Cultural Center of New York in Upper Manhattan was the first mosque built in New York City.

Paterson, Passaic County, New Jersey, known as the "Silk City", seen here from Garret Mountain Reservation, is a prime destination for a diverse pool of international immigrants.

Ganesh Temple in Flushing, Queens, is the oldest Hindu temple in the Western Hemisphere.

CMA CGM Theodore Roosevelt, the largest container ship to enter the Port of New York and New Jersey as of September7, 2017

Peter Minuit is credited with the purchase of the island of Manhattan in 1626.

Brooklyn Tech as seen from Ashland Place in Fort Greene

The New York Stock Exchange, by a significant margin the world's largest stock exchange per market capitalization of its listed companies, at US$23.1 trillion as of April 2018. Pictured is the exchange's building on Wall Street.

Harris Hall of the City College of New York, a public college of the City University of New York

The Brooklyn College library, part of the original campus laid out by Randolph Evans, now known as "East Quad"

The Deutsche Bank Center as viewed from Central Park West

Little Italy, Lower East Side, Manhattan, circa 1900.

Brooklyn Law School's 1994 new classical "Fell Hall" tower, by architect Robert A. M. Stern

Times Square is the hub of the Broadway theater district and a media center. It also has one of the highest annual attendance rates of any tourist attraction in the world, estimated at 50 million.

The United Nations Headquarters, established in Midtown Manhattan in 1952

South campus of the University at Buffalo, the flagship of the State University of New York

Liberty Enlightening the World, known as the Statue of Liberty, on Liberty Island in New York Harbor, is a globally recognized symbol of both the United States and ideals such as freedom, democracy, and opportunity.

St. Francis College Administration Building

Rockefeller Center is home to NBC Studios.

The New York City Subway is one of the world's busiest, serving more than five million passengers per average weekday.

The Unisphere in Flushing Meadows – Corona Park, iconic of Queens, the most ethnically diverse U.S. county and a borough of New York.

The Central Library at Grand Army Plaza.

Times Square Studios, home of Good Morning America

The main concourse of Grand Central Terminal, which opened in 1913.

Coney Island – Stillwell Avenue subway station

Butler Library at Columbia University, described as one of the most beautiful college libraries in the United States

John F. Kennedy Airport in Queens, the busiest international air passenger gateway to the United States

A flooded Avenue C in Manhattan just moments before the explosion at an electrical substation caused by Hurricane Sandy on October 29, 2012.

Atlantic Terminal is a major hub in Brooklyn

The Washington Square Arch, an unofficial icon of both New York University (NYU) and its Greenwich Village neighborhood

Spanish Harlem (El Barrio) in Upper Manhattan

New York-Presbyterian Hospital, affiliated with Columbia University and Cornell University, the largest hospital and largest private employer in New York City and one of the world's busiest

Chinatown, Manhattan (紐約華埠). The New York metropolitan area is home to the largest population of overseas Chinese outside of Asia, over three-quarters of a million in 2013.

Williamsburg Bridge, as seen from Wallabout Bay with Greenpoint and Long Island City in background

The New York Police Department (NYPD) is the largest police force in the United States.

Kirsten Gillibrand and Chuck Schumer, New York's U.S. Senators

Bergen County (버겐 카운티), New Jersey, is home to [[List of U.S. cities with significant Korean-American populations#Top ten municipalities as ranked by Korean-American percentage of overall population in 2010|all of the nation's top ten municipalities by percentage of Korean population]], led by Palisades Park (벼랑 공원) (above), a borough where Koreans comprise the majority (52%) of the population.

Police officers of New York Police Department (NYPD)

Kathy Hochul (D), the 57th Governor of New York

India Square, Jersey City, New Jersey, known as Little Bombay, home to the highest concentration of Asian Indians in the Western Hemisphere.

The Fire Department of New York (FDNY) is the largest municipal fire department in the United States.

The Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree, considered the “worldwide symbol of Christmas”, is an annual staple of the New York metropolitan area during the Holiday season

The Stephen A. Schwarzman Headquarters Building of the New York Public Library, at 5th Avenue and 42nd Street

The New York metropolitan area is home to the largest gay and bisexual community in the United States and one of the world's largest.

The fast-paced streets of New York City, January 2020

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory on the North Shore of Long Island is an internationally renowned biomedical research facility and home to eight scientists awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

The NY Stock Exchange on Wall St. is the world's largest by total market capitalization of listed companies.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, part of Museum Mile, is one of the largest museums in the world.

Manhattan's Flatiron District was the cradle of Silicon Alley, now metonymous for the New York metropolitan region's high tech sector, which has since expanded beyond the area.

Smorgasburg opened in 2011 as an open-air food market and is part of the Brooklyn Flea.

As of 2012, the city had about 6,000 hybrid taxis (shown) in service, the largest number of any city in North America.

Low Library, the Neoclassical centerpiece of the Columbia University campus

New York City Hall is the oldest City Hall in the United States that still houses its original governmental functions.

The bronze clock on Harkness Tower at Yale University, a structure reflecting the Collegiate Gothic architectural genre

The New York County Courthouse houses the New York Supreme Court and other offices.

Watercolor of Cleveland Tower, Princeton University, seen in the noon autumn sun

Eric Adams, the current and 110th Mayor of New York City

The George Washington Bridge, connecting Washington Heights in Upper Manhattan across the Hudson River to Fort Lee in Bergen County, New Jersey, is the world's busiest motor vehicle bridge. Interstate 95 and U.S. Route 1/9 cross the river via the bridge, while U.S. Route 46, which lies entirely within New Jersey, ends halfway across the bridge at the state border with New York.

New York City is home to the two busiest train stations in the U.S., including Grand Central Terminal.

The Walkway over the Hudson, the world's longest pedestrian bridge, connects Ulster and Dutchess counties in New York.

The New York City Subway is the world's largest rapid transit system by number of stations.

The Long Island Expressway (I-495), viewing eastbound in Corona, Queens

The Port Authority Bus Terminal, the world's busiest bus station, at 8th Avenue and 42nd Street

Heavy traffic on the Garden State Parkway in Wall Township, Monmouth County, New Jersey

The AirTrain at JFK International Airport in Jamaica, Queens

The Staten Island Ferry shuttles commuters between Manhattan and Staten Island.

Skyline of Six Flags Great Adventure in Jackson Township, Ocean County, New Jersey, the world's largest theme park in 2013. To the far left is Kingda Ka, the world's tallest roller coaster.

Yellow medallion taxicabs are widely recognized icons of the city.

8th Avenue, looking northward ("uptown"). Most streets and avenues in Manhattan's grid plan incorporate a one-way traffic configuration.

The George Washington Bridge, connecting Upper Manhattan (background) from Fort Lee, New Jersey across the Hudson River, is the world's busiest motor vehicle bridge.

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The Grand Concourse in the Bronx, foreground, with Manhattan in the background in February 2018

St. George, Staten Island as seen from the Staten Island Ferry, the world's busiest passenger-only ferry system, shuttling passengers between Manhattan and Staten Island

The Asia gate entrance to the Bronx Zoo, the world's largest metropolitan zoo.

The Spanish Harlem Orchestra. New York City is home to nearly 3 million Latino Americans, the largest Hispanic population of any city outside Latin America and Spain.

The Financial District of Lower Manhattan including Wall Street, the world's principal financial center

New York, often called New York City (NYC) to distinguish it from the State of New York, is the most populous city in the United States.

- New York City

Brooklyn is a borough of New York City, coextensive with Kings County, in the U.S. state of New York.

- Brooklyn

It is often called New York State to distinguish it from its largest city, New York City.

- New York (state)

The metropolitan area includes New York City (the most populous city in the United States), Long Island, the Mid and Lower Hudson Valley in the State of New York; the six largest cities in New Jersey: Newark, Jersey City, Paterson, Elizabeth, Lakewood, and Edison, and their vicinities; and six of the seven largest cities in Connecticut: Bridgeport, New Haven, Stamford, Waterbury, Norwalk, and Danbury, and their vicinities.

- New York metropolitan area

Located at the southern tip of the state of New York, the city is the center of the New York metropolitan area, the largest metropolitan area in the world by urban landmass.

- New York City

With 20.2 million residents, it is the fourth most populous state in the United States as of 2021, with approximately 44% living in New York City, including 25% of the state's population within Brooklyn and Queens, and another 15% on the remainder of Long Island.

- New York (state)

New York City (NYC) is the most populous city in the United States, and around two-thirds of the state's population lives in the New York metropolitan area, the world's largest urban landmass.

- New York (state)

The five boroughs—Brooklyn (Kings County), Queens (Queens County), Manhattan (New York County), the Bronx (Bronx County), and Staten Island (Richmond County)—were created when local governments were consolidated into a single municipal entity in 1898.

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Kings County, NY (the borough of Brooklyn in NYC)

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As in much of the New York metropolitan area, Greek-owned diners are found throughout the borough.

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Queens

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Queens Boulevard, looking east from Van Dam Street, in 1920. The newly built IRT Flushing Line is in the boulevard's median.

Location of Queens (red) within New York City (remainder white)

Aerial view of Queens looking north from the vicinity of John F. Kennedy International Airport, showing development patterns typical of the borough

A typical residential street in Jackson Heights

Long Island City, a neighborhood in western Queens

The Elmhurst Chinatown (艾姆赫斯特唐人街) at the corner of Broadway and Dongan Avenue

Street scene in Astoria, a largely Greek-American neighborhood

Ridgewood is home to a large Puerto Rican community

Rocket Thrower (1963) at Flushing Meadows–Corona Park

Long Island City is one of New York City's fastest-growing neighborhoods.

Citi Field, the home of the New York Mets

Arthur Ashe Stadium interior, US Open 2014

The Queens County Courthouse was built in 1938 and houses the borough's Supreme Court, Surrogate Court and County Clerk.

LaGuardia Community College in Long Island City, Queens

Queens College is part of the City University of New York.

A branch of the Queens Public Library in Flushing

A multibillion-dollar reconstruction of LaGuardia Airport was announced in July 2015.

46th Street – Bliss Street subway station

Newtown Creek with the Midtown Manhattan skyline in the background.

Air Train JFK path above the Van Wyck Expressway

Standard cross-street signs for a single-named Boulevard and a co-named Avenue, in Queens

The Triborough Bridge connects Queens with Manhattan and the Bronx.

Queens is a borough of New York City, coextensive with Queens County, in the U.S. state of New York.

Located on Long Island, it is the largest borough of New York City in area; it is bordered by the borough of Brooklyn at the western tip of Long Island to its west and Nassau County to the east.

Queens has crucial importance in international and interstate air traffic, with two of the New York metropolitan area's three major airports located there.

Long Island

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Painting of three Lenape Indians, circa 1860s

The Old House, built in 1699 in Cutchogue, January 2008

The Brooklyn Bridge, the first of multiple crossings constructed across the East River, connects Long Island with Manhattan Island (background).

Oheka Castle, a Gold Coast estate in West Hills, is the second-largest private residence in the country

Montauk Point at Long Island's rural eastern tip, January 2013

The four counties of Long Island include two independent counties (Nassau and Suffolk) and two New York City boroughs (Brooklyn and Queens)

Satellite imagery showing the New York metropolitan area at night. Long Island is highly developed and densely populated, extending approximately 120 mi eastward from the central core of Manhattan

The intersection of Long Island, Manhattan, and the continental mainland taken from space by the Space Shuttle Columbia, 1993

The bluffs of Long Island's North Shore, November 2012

Cumulus congestus clouds over Long Island on a summer afternoon, July 2013

Clear skies in autumn over the Great Peconic Bay, with the Atlantic Ocean as its primary inflow, separating the North Fork and South Fork at the East End of Long Island, November 2007

Stripped Rockaway Beach Boardwalk after Hurricane Sandy, November 2012

A mansion on Long Island's wealthy Gold Coast, which along with The Hamptons and Brooklyn's western waterfront (facing Manhattan) provides Long Island with some of the most expensive residential real estate in the world.

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory on the North Shore of Nassau County is an internationally renowned biomedical research facility and home to eight scientists awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

Brookhaven National Laboratory a major U.S. Department of Energy research institution, July 2010

A commemorative half-dollar coin issued in 1936 for Long Island's tercentenary

Chaminade High School in Mineola, April 2013

The Student Activities Center at Stony Brook University, August 2020

Blodgett Hall at Adelphi University in Garden City, March 2022

Northwell Health at Jones Beach Theater in Wantagh, March 2007

A winery and tasting room in a 1690 farmhouse near Stony Brook, May 2014

Citi Field, home of the New York Mets, in Queens, September 2011

Barclays Center in Brooklyn, home of the Brooklyn Nets, October 2016

The Stony Brook Seawolves homecaming game, September 2012

Bethpage Ballpark, home of the Long Island Ducks minor league baseball team, July 2011

Preparing for a horse race at Belmont Park, home of the Belmont Stakes, the final leg of the Triple Crown, April 2005

John F. Kennedy Airport in Queens, the busiest international air passenger gateway to the United States, January 2013

A Nassau Inter-County Express bus, June 2019

Long Island is a largely urbanized and densely populated island in the southeastern geographical area of the U.S. state of New York, part of the New York metropolitan area.

The island comprises four counties; Kings and Queens counties (the New York City boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens, respectively) and Nassau County share the western third of the island, while Suffolk County occupies the eastern two thirds.

Manhattan

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Pieter Schaghen's 1626 letter saying Manhattan was purchased for 60 guilders.

The Castello Plan showing the Dutch city of New Amsterdam in 1660, at the southern tip of Manhattan

Washington's statue in front of Federal Hall on Wall Street, where in 1789 he was sworn in as first U.S. president

Manhattan in 1873. The Brooklyn Bridge was under construction from 1870 until 1883

The "Sanitary & Topographical Map of the City and Island of New York", commonly known as the Viele Map, was created by Egbert Ludovicus Viele in 1865

Manhattan personified, early 20th century

V-J Day in Times Square in Times Square, 1945

Flooding on Avenue C caused by Hurricane Sandy on October 29, 2012

Satellite image of Manhattan Island, bounded by the Hudson River to the west, the Harlem River to the north, the East River to the east, and New York Harbor to the south, with rectangular Central Park prominently visible. Roosevelt Island, in the East River, belongs to Manhattan.

Location of Manhattan (red) within New York City (remainder yellow)

Manhattan schist outcropping in Central Park

Liberty Island is an exclave of Manhattan, of New York City, and of New York State, that is surrounded by New Jersey waters

The Empire State Building in the foreground looking southward from the top of Rockefeller Center, with One World Trade Center in the background, at sunset. The Midtown South Community Council acts as a civic caretaker for much of the neighborhood between the skyscrapers of Midtown and Lower Manhattan.

The Estonian House, the main center of Estonian culture amongst Estonian Americans

A. T. Stewart in 1870, 9th Street, Manhattan

Many tall buildings have setbacks on their facade due to the 1916 Zoning Resolution. This is exemplified at Park Avenue and 57th Street in Midtown Manhattan.

The Financial District of Lower Manhattan, seen from Brooklyn

The Flatiron District is the center and birthplace of Silicon Alley

Times Square is the hub of the Broadway theater district and a major cultural venue in Manhattan, it also has one of the highest annual attendance rates of any tourist attraction in the world, estimated at 50 million

The New York Times headquarters, 620 Eighth Avenue

Butler Library at Columbia University, with its notable architectural design

New York Public Library Main Branch at 42nd Street and Fifth Avenue

The scene at Manhattan's 2015 LGBT Pride March. The annual event rivals the sister São Paulo event as the world's largest pride parade, attracting tens of thousands of participants and millions of sidewalk spectators each June.

Madison Square Garden is home to the Rangers and Knicks, and hosts some Liberty games

A slum tour through the Five Points in an 1885 sketch

At the time of its construction, London Terrace in Chelsea was the largest apartment building in the world

Grand Central Terminal is a National Historic Landmark.

Ferries departing Battery Park City and helicopters flying above Manhattan

The Staten Island Ferry, seen from the Battery, crosses Upper New York Bay, providing free public transportation between Staten Island and Manhattan.

The Brooklyn Bridge to the right and the Manhattan Bridge towards the left, are two of the three bridges that connect Lower Manhattan with Brooklyn over the East River.

Eighth Avenue, looking northward ("Uptown"), in the rain; most streets and avenues in Manhattan's grid plan incorporate a one-way traffic configuration

Tourists looking westward at sunset to observe the July 12, 2016 Manhattanhenge

Ferry service departing Battery Park City towards New Jersey, see from Paulus Hook

Manhattan, known regionally as The City, is the most densely populated and geographically smallest of the five boroughs of New York City.

It is the urban core of the New York metropolitan area, and coextensive with New York County, one of the original counties of the U.S. state of New York.

Manhattan has the third-largest population of New York City's five boroughs, after Brooklyn and Queens, and is the smallest borough in terms of land area.

Boroughs of New York City

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Chinatown in Manhattan, the most densely populated borough of New York City, with a higher density than any individual American city.

Landmark 19th-century brownstones in the Greenpoint Historic District of Brooklyn, New York City's most populous borough.

The Unisphere in Queens, the most ethnically diverse urban area in the world.

The Bronx, the northernmost borough of New York City and the only borough situated on the United States mainland.

Borough Hall in the St. George neighborhood of Staten Island, the most suburban borough of New York City.

The percentage of New York City population residing in each borough (from bottom to top):
1. Manhattan ,
2. Brooklyn ,
3. Queens ,
4. The Bronx, and
5. Staten Island . Populations before 1898 are for the areas now enclosed in the present boroughs.

1. The Bronx (Bronx County)
2. Brooklyn (Kings County)
3. Manhattan (New York County)
4. Queens (Queens County)
5. Staten Island (Richmond County)
Note: JFK and LGA airports are both part of Queens.

New York City is composed of five boroughs: The Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens, and Staten Island.

Each borough is coextensive with a respective county of New York State, making New York City one of the U.S. municipalities in multiple counties.

New York City is often referred to collectively as the five boroughs, which can unambiguously refer to the city proper as a whole, avoiding confusion with any particular borough or with the Greater New York metropolitan area.

Staten Island

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Skeletons unearthed at Lenape burial ground in Staten Island, the largest pre-European burial ground in New York City

Sir William Howe established his headquarters at the Rose and Crown Tavern at New Dorp Lane and Richmond Road prior to the invasions of Long Island and Manhattan.

Historic Richmond Town museum complex is located in the heart of Staten Island.

New housing on Staten Island, 1973. Photo by Arthur Tress.

US Navy ships tied up at the home port pier during Fleet Week in 2007

View of the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge from the South Beach on Staten Island.

Serpentinite shown in rock cut along I-278 in Staten Island by Todt Hill marked on USGS geological map.

Location of Staten Island (red) within New York City (remainder yellow)

Population density and elevation above sea level in Greater NYC, U.S. (2010). Staten Island is especially vulnerable to sea level rise.

Aerial view of Staten Island from the east at night

Deer found in Charleston, Staten Island. Deer may be part of 40-large herd in Clay Pit Ponds State Park Preserves.

Borough Hall in St. George, Staten Island.

"Postcards 9/11 Memorial", at St. George Esplanade

A 1905 golf match with Isaac Mackie (right) at Fox Hills Golf Club, Staten Island, NY

The Staten Island Ferry provides travel between lower Manhattan and the St. George Terminal.

The Staten Island Railway operates along the Richmond/Amboy Roads corridor.

Staten Island is a borough of New York City, coextensive with Richmond County, in the U.S. state of New York.

Motor traffic can reach the borough from Brooklyn by the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge and from New Jersey by the Outerbridge Crossing, Goethals Bridge and Bayonne Bridge.

The Jewish community is slightly less numerous compared to other parts of the New York Metropolitan Area.

Ecuadorian Americans

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Ecuadorian Americans (ecuatorio-americanos, norteamericanos de origen ecuatoriano or estadounidenses de origen ecuatoriano) are Americans of full or partial Ecuadorian ancestry.

Christina Aguilera singer, songwriter, actress, and television personality.

Past Illinois Lieutenant Governor Evelyn Sanguinetti

Debbie Mucarsel-Powell first South American immigrant member of Congress elected in 2018.

Nina Vaca chairperson and CEO of Pinnacle Group, which was named the Fastest-Growing Women-Owned Business in the United States.

The New York City Metropolitan Area is home to the largest Ecuadorian population in the United States, by a significant margin.

The majority of Ecuadorian immigrants emigrate into New York City and its surrounding suburbs.

The 1990 census recorded that 60 percent of Ecuadorians living in the United States live in the New York City Metropolitan Area; while another 10% live in Miami.

Queens County's percentage of Ecuadorians is about 4.7%, and it has the largest Ecuadorian community of any county in New York and in the United States, numbering just about 101,000 in 2010.

Still other Ecuadorian neighborhoods are situated in Brooklyn; in New Jersey cities such as Newark and Jersey City; and in towns in Connecticut.

Dominican Americans

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Dominican Americans (domínico-americanos, estadounidenses dominicanos) are Americans who trace their ancestry to the Dominican Republic.

Juan Pablo Duarte memorial, Roger Williams Park, Providence, Rhode Island

Dominicans in New York Dominican day parade.

Police men in Dominican day parade, New York.

The Dominican Day Parade in New York City, a major destination for Dominican emigrants.

Paterson, New Jersey, known as the "Silk City" in the New York City Metropolitan Area, has become a prime destination for one of the fastest-growing communities of Dominican Americans, who have now become the largest of more than 50 ethnic groups in the city, numbering in the tens of thousands.

Tom Perez served as chairman of the Democratic party from 2017 to 2021.

Dominican-American baseball player Albert Pujols.

He also became the first Dominican, the first Hispanic and the first person with European (specifically Portuguese) and African ancestry to settle in what is present day New York City.

As of 2017, the majority of Dominican Americans are in a handful of states, including New York (872,504; 4.4% of state population), New Jersey (301,655; 3.3%), Florida (259,799; 1.2%), Massachusetts (172,707; 2.5%), Pennsylvania (127,665; 1.0%), Rhode Island (52,100; 5.1%) and Connecticut (40,543; 1.1%).

Many of New York's Dominicans live in the boroughs of the Bronx and Manhattan, and to a lesser degree in Queens and Brooklyn.

As of 2017, the New York City Area, which includes southern New York state and North Jersey, has nearly 1.1 million Dominicans, making up about 5.3% of the New York metro area and nearly 60% of the Dominican American community, the highest percentage of any metropolitan area.