A report on New York (state), New York City, Province of New York 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 Province of New York
New York was dominated by Iroquoian (purple) and Algonquian (pink) tribes.
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.
The Van Bergen farm, 1733, near Albany, New York
A dining table from the Dutch village of Brooklyn, c. 1664, in The Brooklyn Museum
New Amsterdam, present-day Lower Manhattan, 1660
Columbia University was founded by royal charter in 1754 under the name of King's College.
Map of the Province of New York
Village of Brooklyn and environs, 1766
New York and neighboring provinces, by Claude Joseph Sauthier, 1777
The Battle of Long Island, the largest battle of the American Revolution, took place in Brooklyn in 1776.
The Battle of Long Island was fought across Kings County.
British general John Burgoyne surrenders at Saratoga in 1777
Broadway follows the Native American Wickquasgeck Trail through Manhattan.
Winter Scene in Brooklyn, c. 1819–20, by Francis Guy (Brooklyn Museum)
1800 map of New York from Low's Encyclopaedia
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.
Brooklyn Bridge in 1883, by Currier and Ives
The Erie Canal at Lockport, New York, in 1839
A construction worker atop the Empire State Building as it was being built in 1930. The Chrysler Building is behind him.
Currier and Ives print of Brooklyn, 1886
Flight 175 hitting the South Tower on September11, 2001
Manhattan's Little Italy, Lower East Side, circa 1900
Brooklyn in 1897
Flooding on AvenueC in Lower Manhattan caused by Hurricane Sandy
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
Location of Brooklyn (red) within New York City (remainder yellow)
New York is bordered by six U.S. states, two Great Lakes, and the Canadian provinces of Ontario and Quebec.
United Airlines Flight 175 hits the South Tower of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001.
Landmark 19th-century rowhouses on tree-lined Kent Street in Greenpoint Historic District
Enveloped by the Atlantic Ocean and Long Island Sound, New York City and Long Island alone are home to about eleven million residents conjointly.
The core of the New York City metropolitan area, with Manhattan Island at its center
Park Slope
Lake-effect snow is a major contributor to heavy snowfall totals in western New York, including the Tug Hill region.
150–159 Willow Street, three original red-brick early 19th-century Federal Style houses in Brooklyn Heights
Two major state parks (in green) are the Adirondack Park (north) and the Catskill Park (south).
Lower and Midtown Manhattan, as seen by a SkySat satellite in 2017
Imatra Society, consisting of Finnish immigrants, celebrating its summer festival in Fort Hamilton, Brooklyn in 1894.
The Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor is a symbol of the United States and its ideals.
Central Park in Winter by Raymond Speers, in Munsey's Magazine, February 1900
The Brooklyn Museum on Eastern Parkway
The African Burial Ground National Monument in Lower Manhattan
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.
Brooklyn Botanic Garden
Map of the counties in New York
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.
The Soldiers' and Sailors' Arch at Grand Army Plaza
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.
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
The USS North Carolina, launched at Brooklyn Navy Yard, June 1940
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
California sea lions play at the Bronx Zoo, the world's largest metropolitan zoo.
Newer buildings near East River State Park
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A map of racial distribution in New York, 2010 U.S. census. Each dot is 25 people:
Kwanzan Cherries in bloom at Brooklyn Botanic Garden.
The main laboratory building of the IBM Watson Research Center is located in Yorktown Heights, New York.
The landmark Neo-Gothic Roman Catholic St. Patrick's Cathedral, Midtown Manhattan
Astroland in Coney Island.
Times Square in Midtown Manhattan, hub of the Broadway theater district, a media center, and one of the world's busiest pedestrian intersections
Ultra-Orthodox Jewish residents in Brooklyn. Brooklyn has the largest Jewish community in the United States, with approximately 600,000 individuals.
Barclays Center in Pacific Park within Prospect Heights, home of the Nets and Liberty.
"I Love New York"
The Islamic Cultural Center of New York in Upper Manhattan was the first mosque built in New York City.
Brooklyn Borough Hall
CMA CGM Theodore Roosevelt, the largest container ship to enter the Port of New York and New Jersey as of September7, 2017
Ganesh Temple in Flushing, Queens, is the oldest Hindu temple in the Western Hemisphere.
Brooklyn Tech as seen from Ashland Place in Fort Greene
Harris Hall of the City College of New York, a public college of the City University of New York
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.
The Brooklyn College library, part of the original campus laid out by Randolph Evans, now known as "East Quad"
Butler Library at Columbia University
The Deutsche Bank Center as viewed from Central Park West
Brooklyn Law School's 1994 new classical "Fell Hall" tower, by architect Robert A. M. Stern
University of Rochester
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.
NYU Tandon Wunsch Building
South campus of the University at Buffalo, the flagship of the State University of New York
The I Love New York logo, designed by Milton Glaser in 1977
St. Francis College Administration Building
The New York City Subway is one of the world's busiest, serving more than five million passengers per average weekday.
Rockefeller Center is home to NBC Studios.
The Central Library at Grand Army Plaza.
Grand Central Terminal in New York City
Times Square Studios, home of Good Morning America
Coney Island – Stillwell Avenue subway station
John F. Kennedy Airport in Queens, the busiest international air passenger gateway to the United States
Butler Library at Columbia University, described as one of the most beautiful college libraries in the United States
Atlantic Terminal is a major hub in Brooklyn
The New York State Capitol in Albany
The Washington Square Arch, an unofficial icon of both New York University (NYU) and its Greenwich Village neighborhood
The Marine Parkway Bridge
New York State Court of Appeals
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
Williamsburg Bridge, as seen from Wallabout Bay with Greenpoint and Long Island City in background
Kirsten Gillibrand and Chuck Schumer, New York's U.S. Senators
The New York Police Department (NYPD) is the largest police force in the United States.
Kathy Hochul (D), the 57th Governor of New York
Police officers of New York Police Department (NYPD)
Yankee Stadium in The Bronx
The Fire Department of New York (FDNY) is the largest municipal fire department in the United States.
Koppen climate of New York
The Stephen A. Schwarzman Headquarters Building of the New York Public Library, at 5th Avenue and 42nd Street
The fast-paced streets of New York City, January 2020
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, part of Museum Mile, is one of the largest museums in the world.
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.
New York City Hall is the oldest City Hall in the United States that still houses its original governmental functions.
The New York County Courthouse houses the New York Supreme Court and other offices.
Eric Adams, the current and 110th Mayor of New York City
New York City is home to the two busiest train stations in the U.S., including Grand Central Terminal.
The New York City Subway is the world's largest rapid transit system by number of stations.
The Port Authority Bus Terminal, the world's busiest bus station, at 8th Avenue and 42nd Street
John F. Kennedy Airport in Queens, the busiest international air passenger gateway to the United States
The Staten Island Ferry shuttles commuters between Manhattan and Staten Island.
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.
The growing skyline of Long Island City, Queens (background),<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-10-30/nyc-s-fastest-growing-neighborhood-gets-180-million-investment|title=NYC's Fastest-Growing Neighborhood Gets $180 Million Investment|first=Henry|last=Goldman|date=October 30, 2018|publisher=Bloomberg L.P|access-date=October 30, 2018}}</ref> facing the East River and Manhattan in May 2017
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)

As one of the Middle Colonies, New York achieved independence and worked with the others to found the United States.

- Province of New York

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)

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.

- New York City

The final evacuation of all of New York by the British Army was followed by the return of General George Washington's Continental Army on November 25, 1783, in a grand parade and celebration.

- Province of New York

During the American Revolutionary War (1775–1783), a group of colonists of the Province of New York attempted to take control of the British colony and eventually succeeded in establishing independence.

- New York (state)

Kings County: the current Kings County; Brooklyn.

- Province of New York

Brooklyn became a part of the West Riding of York Shire in the Province of New York, one of the Middle Colonies of nascent British America.

- Brooklyn

New York grew in importance as a trading port while as a part of the colony of New York in the early 1700s.

- New York City

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Queens

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Catherine of Braganza, Queen of England
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
Forest Hills Gardens
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
Little India in Jackson Heights
Ridgewood is home to a large Puerto Rican community
Rocket Thrower (1963) at Flushing Meadows–Corona Park
JetBlue headquarters in Queens
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
John F. Kennedy Airport in Queens, the busiest international air passenger gateway to the United States
A multibillion-dollar reconstruction of LaGuardia Airport was announced in July 2015.
46th Street – Bliss Street subway station
Flushing – Main Street LIRR 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 was established in 1683 as one of the original 12 counties of the Province of New York.

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
Voorlezer's House
Billiou–Stillwell–Perine House
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.
The Conference House
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.
The geology of 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
Sailors' Snug Harbor
The Richmond County Bank Ballpark
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.

At the end of the Second Anglo-Dutch War in 1667, the Dutch ceded New Netherland to England in the Treaty of Breda, and the Dutch Staaten Eylandt, anglicized as "Staten Island", became part of the new English colony of New York.