
A record 62.8 million tourists came to New York City in 2017. Many districts and landmarks in New York City are well known, including three of the world's ten most visited tourist places in 2013.

In 2019, New York was voted the best city in the world in a survey of over 30,000 people from 48 cities worldwide, because of its cultural diversity. In the 21st century, New York has grew into a global hub of creativity and entrepreneurship and environmental sustainability, and as a symbol of freedom and cultural diversity. by ship in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and it is a symbol of the U.S. The Statue of Liberty welcomed millions of immigrants as they came to the U.S. New York was the capital of the United States from 1785 until 1790, and has been the biggest U.S. In 1664, the English controlled the city and the areas around it, and were renamed New York after King Charles II of England gave the lands to his brother, the Duke of York. New York City started as a trading post created by colonists from the Dutch Republic in 1624 on Lower Manhattan the post was named New Amsterdam in 1626. New York has more than 3.2 million people born outside the United States, the biggest foreign-born population of any city in the world as of 2016. As many as 800 languages are spoken in New York, making it the most linguistically diverse city in the world. The city and its metropolitan area are an important place for legal immigration to the United States. The five boroughs- Brooklyn, Queens, Manhattan, the Bronx, and Staten Island-were combined into one city in 1898. since it is home to the nation's stock market, Wall Street, and the One World Trade Center.īeing on one of the world's largest natural harbors, New York City is made up of five boroughs, each of which is a county of the state of New York. New York's population is similar to Chicago in Illinois with over 8 million people currently living in it, and over 22 million people live in the bigger New York metropolitan area.

It is at the southern end of the state of New York.

New York, often called New York City ( NYC), is the largest city by population in the United States. Statue of Liberty The 20th-Century Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright
