New York City
New York City is the most heavily populated city in the US, by its metropolitan area, ranking among the leading urban areas all over the world. Since 1790, it has been the biggest city in United States as well as was the country’s first capital city. It has been one of the world’s foremost centers of finance and commerce for over a century. For its worldwide influence and power in media, education, entertainment, politics, fashion and arts it is rated as a city of alpha world. Moreover, the city is a most important center for hosting the headquarters and foreign affairs of the United Nations. New York City includes five boroughs, all of which are coextensive with a country; The Bronx, Manhattan, Brooklyn, Staten and Queens Island. New York City is the heavily populated main city in the US with more than 8.2 million inhabitants in an area of 322 square miles.
Most of the city’s landmarks and neighborhoods are famous all over the world. In the late 19th as well as early 20th centuries, The Statue of Liberty welcomed millions of migrants while they came to America, at Ellis Island, a tiny fraction of which lies in the city. Since World War II, Wall Street in Lower Manhattan has become the leading worldwide financial center and is the home to the Stock Exchange of New York. The city is the home to a number of the tallest buildings in the world, comprising the Building of Empire State as well as the twin towers of the WTC (World Trade Center), which was destroyed on September 11, 2001 attacks when around 3000 people died.
New York is the native land of many cultural movements comprising the Harlem Renaissance in visual art and literature, Tin Pan Alley in music and abstract expressionism which is also called as the New York School in punk, painting, salsa and hip hop. Around 170 languages were spoken in the city in the year 2005 and 36% of its residents were born outside the US. New York is called as the city which never sleeps which is evident by its 24 hours subway as well as regular bustling of people and traffic.
New York is an international center for advertising, music, television, newspaper as well as industries for publishing books and the biggest media market in the North America followed by Los Angeles, Chicago and Toronto. A few of the New York’s media conglomerates comprises Time Warner, the Hearst Corporation, the News Corporation and Viacom. Seven of the world’s leading 8 universal advertising agency networks are headquartered in New York. Two of the 3 national daily newspapers in the US are New York papers; The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal. The main tabloid newspapers in the city comprise The New York Post and The New York Daily News which was established in 1801 by Alexander Hamilton. The city has a main ethnic press with around 270 newspapers as well as magazines printed in over 40 languages.