A report on New York City and Staten Island

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

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.

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

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

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

Broadway follows the Native American Wickquasgeck Trail through Manhattan.

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 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Aerial view of Staten Island from the east at night

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.

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

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

Borough Hall in St. George, Staten Island.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 Deutsche Bank Center as viewed from Central Park West

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.

Rockefeller Center is home to NBC Studios.

Times Square Studios, home of Good Morning America

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

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

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

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

Police officers of New York Police Department (NYPD)

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

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

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.

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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

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

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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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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.

Richmond County (Staten Island)—southwest

Brooklyn

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

The Battle of Long Island was fought across Kings County.

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

Brooklyn Bridge in 1883, by Currier and Ives

Currier and Ives print of Brooklyn, 1886

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

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

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

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

The Soldiers' and Sailors' Arch at Grand Army Plaza

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

Newer buildings near East River State Park

Kwanzan Cherries in bloom at Brooklyn Botanic Garden.

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

Brooklyn Tech as seen from Ashland Place in Fort Greene

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

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

St. Francis College Administration Building

The Central Library at Grand Army Plaza.

Coney Island – Stillwell Avenue subway station

Atlantic Terminal is a major hub in Brooklyn

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

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

Brooklyn has several bridge and tunnel connections to the borough of Manhattan across the East River and the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge connects it with Staten Island.

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.

New York (state)

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State in the Northeastern United States.

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

New Amsterdam, present-day Lower Manhattan, 1660

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

British general John Burgoyne surrenders at Saratoga in 1777

1800 map of New York from Low's Encyclopaedia

The Erie Canal at Lockport, New York, in 1839

Flight 175 hitting the South Tower on September11, 2001

Flooding on AvenueC in Lower Manhattan caused by Hurricane Sandy

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

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

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

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

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

The African Burial Ground National Monument in Lower Manhattan

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Much of New York's boundaries are in water, as is true for New York City: four of its five boroughs are situated on three islands at the mouth of the Hudson River: Manhattan Island; Staten Island; and Long Island, which contains Brooklyn and Queens at its western end.

Long Island

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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.

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

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.

To the extreme southwest, Long Island is separated from Staten Island and the state of New Jersey by Upper New York Bay, the Narrows, and Lower New York Bay.

Hudson River

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315 mi river that flows from north to south primarily through eastern New York in the United States.

The Hudson River Watershed, including the Hudson and Mohawk rivers

The mouth of the Hudson (yellow), located between Jersey City and New York City

The Hudson River flowing out of Henderson Lake in Tahawus

The river from Poughkeepsie, looking north.

The river between Hudson Waterfront in New Jersey (left) and Manhattan (right)

The bulk carrier Nord Angel breaking ice on the Hudson

Robert Havell, Jr., View of the Hudson River from Tarrytown, c. 1866

The George Washington Bridge links Upper Manhattan and Fort Lee, New Jersey

The Hudson Valley Hot-Air Balloon Festival, 2009

US Airways Flight 1549 after landing on the waters of the Hudson River in January 2009

North River by George Bellows, 1908, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts

The Norrie Point Environmental Center in Staatsburg, headquarters of the Hudson River National Estuarine Research Reserve

Debris floating on the river near the World Trade Center, 1973

A juvenile house sparrow by the Hudson River

It originates in the Adirondack Mountains of Upstate New York and flows southward through the Hudson Valley to the Upper New York Bay between New York City and Jersey City, eventually draining into the Atlantic Ocean at New York Harbor.

Its outflow continues through the Narrows between Brooklyn and Staten Island, under the Verrazzano Bridge, and into Lower New York Bay and the Atlantic Ocean.

New York metropolitan area

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Largest metropolitan area in the world by urban landmass, at 4669.0 mi2, and one of the most populous urban agglomerations in the world.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Downtown Stamford in Fairfield County, Connecticut

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

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

Public Library in Yonkers, Westchester County, New York

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

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

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

The United Nations Headquarters, established in Midtown Manhattan in 1952

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.

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

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

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

Spanish Harlem (El Barrio) in Upper Manhattan

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Low Library, the Neoclassical centerpiece of the Columbia University campus

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

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

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.

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

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

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

The AirTrain at JFK International Airport in Jamaica, Queens

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.

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.

Richmond County, NY (the borough of Staten Island in NYC)

New York Harbor

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At the mouth of the Hudson River where it empties into New York Bay near the East River tidal estuary, and then into the Atlantic Ocean on the east coast of the United States.

April 2013 view looking southeast: New York Harbor/Upper New York Bay (right), Hudson River (lower left) and East River (upper left)

April 1981 view looking southwest: Wallabout Bay and East River (foreground), Hudson River (at right), Upper New York Bay (left) and Newark Bay in the distance.

New Amsterdam, 1660: early East River docks along left bottom; protective wall against the British on right. West is at top. (Castello Plan redraft)

New York Harbor from the Brooklyn Bridge, 1893

A U.S. sailor's album snapshot of a railroad car float in the harbor, 1919

Convoy out of Brooklyn, February 1942, probably bound for Liverpool (photographed from a blimp from NAS Lakehurst)

Port Newark is seen in the foreground looking northeast across the Newark Bay

Hudson River estuary waterways: 1. Hudson River, 2. East River, 3. Long Island Sound, 4. Newark Bay, 5. Upper New York Bay, 6. Lower New York Bay, 7. Jamaica Bay, 8. Atlantic Ocean

Manhattan, across the bay from Liberty State Park

Robbins Reef Light, MOTBY, and Port Jersey

It is also known as Upper New York Bay, which is enclosed by the New York City boroughs of Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Staten Island and the Hudson County, New Jersey, municipalities of Jersey City and Bayonne.

Staten Island Ferry

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Passenger ferry route operated by the New York City Department of Transportation.

Hunchback (1852) on the James River in Virginia during the Civil War

The 'Westfield immediately after the explosion

Westfield disaster, recovering the bodies

The South Street Seaport, where the damaged Northfield II sank

The ferryboat Castleton at the Whitehall Street terminal

Former pier for 69th Street ferry service

The St. George Terminal, reconstructed in 1951

Cars were carried for most of the 20th century

The Staten Island Ferry Terminal, located in Lower Manhattan

Staten Island Ferry - Deboarding at Whitehall Terminal

Samuel I. Newhouse, one of two Barberi class ferryboats in the fleet, crosses Upper New York Bay

The passenger space of a Molinari-class ferryboat of the Staten Island Ferry

The ferryboat Dongan Hills, pictured in 1945

The Gov. Herbert H. Lehman, a now-retired Kennedy-class ferry, on its way to Staten Island

Damage to Andrew J. Barberi interior after the 2003 Staten Island Ferry crash

The ferry's single route runs 5.2 mi through New York Harbor between the New York City boroughs of Manhattan and Staten Island, with ferry boats making the trip in about 25 minutes.

Lower Manhattan

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The pre-9/11 Lower Manhattan skyline in May 2001, seen from the Empire State Building. The skyline was dominated by The Twin Towers.

The Cooper Union at Astor Place, where Abraham Lincoln gave his famed Cooper Union speech, is one of the area's most storied buildings.

Photo of Lower Manhattan pictured in 1931

Norman Friend. Sidney's Map Twelve Miles Around New York, 1849. Chromo lithograph, Brooklyn Museum

View from the Woolworth Building in 1913

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

Picture of Lower Manhattan skyline, including the One World Trade Center; taken from Little Island at Pier 55 in November 2021

Chinatown is home to the highest concentration of Chinese people in the Western Hemisphere.

The park and surrounding neighborhood of Union Square, located between 14th and 17th Streets, may be considered a part of either Lower or Midtown Manhattan.

New York City Hall in Lower Manhattan's Civic Center neighborhood

Lower Manhattan, also known as Downtown Manhattan or Downtown New York, is the southernmost part of Manhattan, the central borough for business, culture, and government in New York City, which is the most populated city in the United States with over 8.8 million residents as of the 2020 census.

Many MTA express buses stop in lower Manhattan, the, and to Staten Island, the , and to Brooklyn, the , and to Queens, and the to The Bronx.