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The written history of New York City began with the first European explorer, the Italian Giovanni da Verrazzano in 1524. European settlement began with the Dutch in 1608 and New Amsterdam was founded in 1624.
New York City, city and port located at the mouth of the Hudson River, southeastern New York state, considered the most influential American metropolis and the country’s financial and cultural center. New York City comprises five boroughs—Manhattan, Brooklyn, the Bronx, Queens, and Staten Island.
New York City served as the capital of the United States from 1785 to 1790. During the 1760s and 1770s, the city was a center of anti-British activity–for instance, after the British...
Edited by James Grant Wilson and published by the New York History Company in 1892, this text marks the first entry in a four-volume series on the history and contemporary life of New York City. It is broken into fifteen chapters and covers major developments between the early 16th and late 17th centuries.
Despite the loss of the national government, New York’s population skyrocketed in 1781–1800, and it became America’s largest city. Once again trade grew rapidly, and not even the War of 1812 hindered development; an auction system for surplus British merchandise dumped in New York solidified the city’s economic position after 1816.
New York, often called New York City [b] or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States, located at the southern tip of New York State on one of the world's largest natural harbors.The city comprises five boroughs, each coextensive with a respective county.The city is the geographical and demographic center of both the Northeast megalopolis and the New York metropolitan area, the ...
Already established as America's premier port, New York City swelled into the nation's greatest industrial metropolis as a massive wave of German and Irish immigration turned the city into...
Following the 19th-century pattern of urban imperialism, and in large part spurred by the challenge that Chicago posed to its primacy, modern New York was formed when the independent city of Brooklyn, the portion of Westchester county called the Bronx, Staten Island, and large parts of Queens county were added to Manhattan following a referendum.
One of the original 13 colonies, New York played a crucial political and strategic role during the American Revolution. Between 1892 and 1954, millions of immigrants arrived in New York Harbor...
The contemporary city of New York, comprising the five boroughs of the Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens, and Staten Island, covers three hundred square miles and contains almost nine million people. Often described as the center of the world, the city is home to the headquarters of the United Nations and is a hub of global media and finance.