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	New York City - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		New York emerged from World War II as the unquestioned leading city of the world, with Wall Street leading America's emergence as the world's dominant economic power, the United Nations headquarters (built in Manhattan in 1952) emphasizing its political influence, and the rise of Abstract Expressionism displacing Paris as center of the art world.
		New York City is located at the center of the BosWash megalopolis, 218 miles (350 km) driving distance from Boston and 220 miles (353 km) from Washington, D.C. The city's total area is 468.9 square miles (1,214.4 km²), of which 35.31% is water.
		New York City is a major center for international business and commerce and is one of three "command centers" for the global economy (along with Tokyo and London) according to sociologist and economist Saskia Sassen.
	www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/New_York_City (8601 words)

	New York City, New York - City Search (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		New York City was the site of a terrorist attack on September 11, 2001 when nearly 3,000 people were killed by the terrorist strike on the World Trade Center, including New Yorkers employed in the buildings and hundreds of firemen, policemen, and rescue workers who came to their aid.
		New York City is also home to the nation's largest community of American Jews, with an estimate of 972,000 in 2002, and is the worldwide headquarters of the Hasidic Lubavitch sect and the Bobover and Satmar branches of Hasidism.
		New York is a city of "great museums" with the Metropolitan Museum of Art's assemblage of historic art, the Museum of Modern Art and Guggenheim Museum's 20th century collection, and the American Museum of Natural History and its Hayden Planetarium focusing on the sciences.
	www.yp.com /cities/new-york-city.php (6418 words)

	New York City secession - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		With secession threatening to marginalize Governor Clinton and a lightly developed upstate, ratification was finally agreed and the divisional crisis passed.
		The war, and especially conscription, was nevertheless often unpopular in the city, sparking the deadly New York Draft Riots.
		On February 26, 2003, a bill was introduced by Astoria, Queens Councilman Peter Vallone, and sponsored by 20 of 51 City Council members, reviving the idea of a secession referendum in the context of the red state vs. blue state divide and opposition to the policies of Governor George Pataki.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/New_York_City_secession (699 words)

	Top20NewYorkCity.com - Your Top20 Guide to New York city!
		New York City, officially named the City of New York, is the most populous city in the United States, the most densely populated major city in North America, and is at the center of international finance, politics, entertainment, and culture.
		New York City is one of the world's global cities, home to an almost unrivaled collection of world-class museums, galleries, performance venues, media outlets, international corporations, and stock exchanges.
		Located in the state of New York, New York City has a population of 8,168,388 people contained within 309 square miles (800 km²), and is the heart of the New York Metropolitan Area, which is one of the largest urban conglomerations in the world with a population of over 22 million.
	top20newyorkcity.com (5380 words)

	AmericanHeritage.com / Blog: New York City Secession
		Peter Vallone, Jr., a New York City councilman, has called for the city to secede from New York State and become the 51st state on its own.
		By 1860 New York was the “megalopolis of the Western world,” far and way the most cosmopolitan city in the country, famous—or infamous—for its wealth, depravity, and all that is wonderful and terrible about a great city.
		New York had been reaping enormous profits brokering Southern cotton to British and French mills, and that trade was threatened by the breakup of the Union.
	www.americanheritage.com /blog/20065_17_220.shtml (536 words)

	Discover the Wisdom of Mankind on New York City (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		New York City's estimated gross metropolitan product of $488.8 billion in 2003 was the largest of any city in the United States and would be the sixth largest if the city were one of the 50 states.
		New York City has the most famous skyline in the world; because of both its high residential density, and the extremely high real estate values found in the city's central business districts, New York has amassed the largest collection of office and residential towers in the world.
		* As of the 2004 U.S. Census, New York City's population is 8,104,079 9
	www.blinkbits.com /blinks/new_york_city (7670 words)

	THE CITY OF NEW YORK, ET AL., APPELLANTS, v. THE STATE OF NEW YORK, RESPONDENT.
		Likewise, any anticipated uncertainties in City planning or financing are not the direct consequence of chapter 773, which commits to no binding law of any sort; Staten Island's expressed interest in secession after Morris v Board of Estimate (171 F2d 656, affd 489 US 103) itself suggested planning for that contingency even without chapter 773.
		Although the city's expenditures are to be reimbursed by the state (id. § 3), the city must initially lay out its money, assign its personnel, detail its expenses, and submit them to the state, subject to audit by the comptroller.
		Home Rule for cities, adopted by the People with much ado and after many years of agitation, will be another Statute of Uses, a form of words and little else, if the courts in applying the new tests shall ignore the new spirit that dictated their adoption.
	www.law.cornell.edu /nyctap/I90_0162.htm (3289 words)

	Southeast Queens PRESS - Not 4 Publication
		In 1972, when aspiring publisher Gary Ackerman was struggling with his new “Tribune,” and I was conned into serving as its Contest Editor, I remember penning a contest: “What should we name New York City if it became the 51st State?” The romance of the effort never left this lefty.
		New York City gets to share two senators with the residue of New York State, which is also larger than all these other states put together.
		Secession is not a new idea, said Vallone, who pointed out that the new state would be the 10th largest in the nation, but he wasn’t talking about Mailer-Breslin.
	www.queenspress.com /archives/nfp/2003/0214/nfp.htm (1586 words)

	Upstate New York's Statehood Movement - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The proposed separation of New York City from New York State can be found here.
		In the face of lagging job growth in Upstate New York in the first decade of the 21st century, a few living in the region have broached the idea of seceding from New York, in the belief that the state's emphasis on New York City issues has contributed to Upstate's problems.
		Ironically, in New York City a feeling of undue focus on Upstate issues, as well as a feeling of subsidizing Upstate governmental activities, has lead to a New York City secession movement.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Upstate_New_York's_Statehood_Movement (301 words)

	The New Yorker: Fact
		On July 13th, Charles Rangel, the New York City congressman, and fifty protesters sang “We Shall Overcome” and were arrested in front of the Sudanese Embassy in Washington.
		New residents had taken up patches of land at the edge of the camp, and, using grass and acacia branches, were beginning the meticulous process of assembling their new homes.
		A second theory, which is slightly kinder to the leaders in Khartoum, holds that the Sudanese government, which in 2002 had just agreed to grant a right of secession to rebels in the South, could not afford to placate another rebel group.
	www.newyorker.com /fact/content/?040830fa_fact1 (10991 words)

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