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New York City

Welcome to the New York City Website of pictures within the World from the Web Home page. Located on the east coast of New York state, this is the largest city in the U.S.A.

The city consists of 5 boroughs (also 5 counties) on 4 different land masses and covers 303 square miles. Four of the boroughs are on islands. Brooklyn (Kings County) and Queens (Queens County) are on the western end of the much larger Long Island. Richmond County is on Staten Island and Manhattan (New York County) is on a long, narrow island bordering New Jersey, Long Island (Queens and Brooklyn) and the mainland (Bronx, also Bronx County). The city is serviced by 3 major airports, Kennedy, LaGuardia and Newark (New Jersey). Various portions of the city are near water (Long Island Sound, the Hudson River, East River and Harlem River, New York Harbor and the Atlantic Ocean). The city is connected with an extensive mass transit system including subways and buses. Taxi cabs (at least in Manhattan) are constantly available. The population is 8,008,278 people in 2000, making it the largest city in the USA. The metro area is enormous with 21,199,865 people.

New Amsterdam was settled on the southern tip of Manhattan by the Dutch West India Company in 1625. Europeans had passed through this area as early as 1524. It remained in Dutch control until 1674, when power passed to English control. Manhattan continued to grow under small hamlets beneath 14th St resulting in irregular laid out districts. By 1811, a regular grid plan north of 14th St resulted in most streets running east-west and most avenues running north-south. Central Park was begun in the 1850s and the major bridges were initiated as early as the 1880s, the Brooklyn Bridge being the first major suspension bridge of its size. Soon afterwards, the major skyscrapers such as the Flatiron (1902, 285' at 21 stories), Woolworth (1913, 792' at 58 stories), the Chrysler Building (1930, 1046' at 77 stories) and the great Empire State Building (1931, 1,250' at 102 stories). This remained the largest building in the world for many years. In the early 1970s, World Trade Center towers (1970-1973, 1,368 and 1,362' at 110 stories) became the largest buildings in the world. They were soon surpassed by the Sears Tower in Chicago. The WTC remained the largest buildings in NY until the horrific terrorist attack on Sept 11, 2001, bringing them down and resulting in large casualties.

New York has a diverse economy. It is known as the financial capital of the world. It is also a major shipping and manufacturing city. Tourism and commercial activities also dominate the economy. A major wholesale and retail center, there is no shopping like that of New York. Advertising and communications industries are large. In recent years, small Internet businesses have launched in NY and this is known as Silicon Alley.

Known as "the City", the "Big Apple", New York is extremely diverse. Downtown has the financial district, South Street Seaport, City Hall, Chinatown, Little Italy, SOHO and Greenwich Village. Midtown is Chelsea, Hells Kitchen, Times Square and Rockefeller Center. Uptown is the Upper East Side, Upper West Side, Central Park, Harlem and Washington Heights. And this is just in Manhattan. Sites to visit are so numerous. Many of the below pictures are a good guide of sites to see.

All pictures on this website are from New York City, using various film and digital cameras. Most pictures found on this site are from Manhattan. The pictures below on this page are from the southern tip of the island of Manhattan along the waterline. Subsequent pages found directly below will be ordered in a south to north direction along the island. A total of 10 pages make up this New York City site. Many of the pages have connections to various parks in NYC. These connections include the Statue of Liberty, Ellis Island, Brooklyn Promenade, Central Park, General Grants National Memorial, the Botanical Garden and the Bronx Zoo.