City Profile: New York City, NY

Largest city of New York State, and largest city in the United States.

NYC.gov New York City official government website.

Area: 321 Square Miles (831 Square KM)
Population (City): 8,085,742 (2003 est.)
Overall Density: 25,189 Persons Per Square Mile
Population (Metro): 21,766,731 (2003 est.) Rank: 1

New York Discovery and Settlement

New York was briefly (1789-90) the U.S. capital and was state capital until 1797. By 1790 it was the largest U.S. city, and the opening (1825) of the Erie Canal, linking New York with the Great Lakes, led to even greater expansion.

In 1898 a new charter was adopted, making the city Greater New York, a metropolis of five boroughs. Massive immigration, mainly from Europe, swelled the city's population in the late 19th and early 20th cent. After World War II, many African Americans from the South, Puerto Ricans, and Latin Americans migrated to the city in search of jobs.

Manhattan
Giovanni da Verrazano may have been the first European to explore the region, and Henry Hudson visited it, but Dutch settlements truly began the city. In 1624 the town of New Amsterdam was established on lower Manhattan; Peter Minuit supposedly bought the island from its Native American inhabitants for about $24 worth of trinkets. In 1664 the English seized the colony and renamed it; during the American Revolution they held it from 1776 to 1781.

Brooklyn
Brooklyn was settled 1636, and chartered as part of New York City in 1898. The largest of New York's five boroughs, it has diverse industries and a waterfront handling foreign and domestic commerce. From Dutch and Walloon settlements it became the village of Brooklyn Ferry (1816) and the city of Brooklyn (1834), absorbing settlements like Flatbush and Gravesend as it grew; it became (1855) the third largest U.S. city.

Queens
Queens was largely unsettled except for small farms and rural settlements. Most of the settlement of this area has happened in the 19th and 20th centuries with an influx of immigrants looking for the American dream.

Bronx
The Bronx was originally settled by Jonas Bronck in 1636. He claimed the area for his farm. The population explosion that took place in the 19th and 20th centuries was due to an influx of Italian and Irish immigrants.

Staten Island
The Island was originally discovered by 16th century Florentine explorer Giovanni Da Verrazano. In 1687 the Duke of York offered it as a prize to the winner of a sailing race. The region remained largely unsettled and rural because of its relative isolation from the rest of the city. Not until a ferry was started to the island and the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge was built has the island become accessible.

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Alice Austen House Museum
American Folk Art Museum
American Museum of Natural History
American Museum of the Moving Image
American Numismatic Society
Americas Society
Artists Space
Asia Society and Museum
The Brooklyn Botanic Gardens
The Brooklyn Children's Museum
The Brooklyn Museum of Art
Carnegie Hall/Rose Museum
Central Park Zoo/Wildlife Gallery
The Children's Museum of the Arts
Children's Museum of Manhattan
The Cloisters
Dahesh Museum of Art
Dia Center for the Arts
Ellis Island Museum
Museum at FIT
Forbes Magazine Galleries
The Frick Collection
Grey Art Gallery
Goethe House

Guggenheim Museum SoHo
Hayden Planetarium
The Hispanic Society of America
International Center of Photography
Intrepid Sea-Air-Space Museum
Isamu Noguchi Garden Museum
Jewish Museum
LaGuardia and Wagner Archives
Lower East Side Tenement Museum
Madame Tussaud's New York
Merchant's House Museum

The Morgan Library
Mount Vernon Hotel Museum & Garden
Municipal Art Society
El Museo Del Barrio
Museum for African Art
Museum of American Financial History
Museum of Arts & Design
Museum of Chinese in the Americas
Museum of Jewish Heritage

Museum of the City of New York
Museum of Television and Radio
National Academy Museum
National Design Museum
National Museum of the American Indian
New Jersey Children's Museum
New Museum of Contemporary Art
New York Botanical Garden
New York City Fire Museum
New York City Police Museum
New York Hall of Science
New-York Historical Society
New York Public Library
New York Transit Museum
Nicholas Roerich Museum
PS1 Contemporary Art Center
Pierpont Morgan Library
Queens Historical Society

Rose Center for Earth and Space
Schomburg Center
Seaman's Church Institute
Snug Harbor Cultural Center
Sony Wonder Technology Lab
South Street Seaport Museum
Staten Island Institute
Studio Museum in Harlem
Taipei Gallery
Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace
Ukrainian Museum
Wave Hill
Whitney Museum of American Art
Whitney Museum/Philip Morris

Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Audrey Cohen College
Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law
Berkeley College - New York City Campus
Brooklyn Law School
Columbia University
Cooper Union
Cornell University Medical College
Fashion Institute of Technology
Fordham University
Gotham Writers' Workshop
Hunter College
Manhattan College
Milano Graduate School
New York University
Pace University
Parsons School of Design
Polytechnic University
Pratt Institute
Queens College
Rockefeller University
School of Visual Arts
State University of New York
Stern College for Women
SUNY: Empire State College
Sy Syms School of Business
The City University of New York
The City University of New York - Borough Of Manhattan Community College
The City University of New York - Brooklyn College of the City University of New York
The City University of New York - CUNY City College
The City University of New York - CUNY Hunter College
The City University of New York - John Jay College of Criminal Justice
The City University of New York - Kingsborough Community College
The City University of New York - York College
The Dalton School
The French Culinary Institute
The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture
The New School
The New York College of Podiatric Medicine
Yeshiva College
Yeshiva University

Television

NY1 | 24 Hour New York News Station

WABC-TV 7 ABC

WCBS-TV 2 CBS

WNBC-TV 4 NBC

WNET-TV 13 PBS thirteen

WNJU-TV 47 T47 telemundo Spanish Language

WNYE-TV 25 New York City Board of Education

WNYW-TV 5 FOX5

WPIX-TV 11 WB11

WWOR-TV 9 UPN

Newspapers and Magazines
New York Newsday
New York Blade Gay & Lesbian Newspaper
New York Daily News
New York Post
New York Observer
New York Times
Queens Chronicle
The Village Voice

Rumor has it that the "Big Apple" is so named because during the depression, many former financiers would travel from their suburban cottages in full suits in order to sell apples on the streets of New York. The rumor goes that several well-to-do families had to make ends-meet by selling apples and the charade became know to many as the "Big Apple" scam of New York. Since apples have always been a big part of the New York economy the name simply stuck and was eventually promoted by local government. -Truth or fiction? The Mediabridge staff is unsure, but it makes a good story.
Shelly Warwick: "The story I've always heard as to how New York began to be called the Big Apple is that jazz musicians would refer to getting a job in New York as playing the Big Apple, and the term filtered into the general vocabulary."
Paul Bloess: "The term 'Big Apple' was originally used in the 1920s and '30s by jazz musicians as a way of saying, 'There are many apples on the success tree, but when you pick New York City, you pick the Big Apple.'"
Aubrey Starr: "'The Big Apple' was the name of a jazz club. Jazz musicians used the name as synonymous with New York City because of the club's popularity. Going to New York invariably meant playing a set at The Big Apple."
Christopher Harper: "The club in Harlem, once called "The Big Apple", is now a Pharmacy."
Scott Butler: "Accoring to David Ellis's Lonely Planet 'New York City' guide (1st edition, Sept. 1997, p. 11), NYC was named so not because of jazz musicians, but because a writer covering horse races in 1920 (named John FitzGerald) repeated in the 'Morning Telegraph' what stable hands in New Orleans referred to a trip to a NY racecourse as the 'Big Apple', or greatest reward for any thoroughbred. The city government has agreed to this story, and all public tourist literature has been ammended to reflect this."

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