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 New York City - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
New York City 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.
Springs in New York are warm and mild, with high temperatures averaging in the 50 °Fs (10 to 15 °C) in late March to the lower 80 °Fs (27 °C to 30 °C) in early June.
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 York (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
York is a trance music DJ duo who has had several worldwide hits in the 1990s and 2000s.
Dwight Yorke, a footballer from Trinidad and Tobago; not to be confused with the author and musician Dwight York.
The York Rite is a branch of freemasonry.
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 New York   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
New York was one of the thirteen colonies that revolted against British rule in American Revolution.
New York was heavily glaciated in the ice age leaving much of the state with fertile though somewhat rocky soils.
As of 2000 New York is the third largest in population after California and Texas with a population of 18 976
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 New York - Facts, Information, and Encyclopedia Reference article
The southern tip of New York State—New York City, its suburbs, and the southern portion of the Hudson Valley—can be considered to form the central core of a "megalopolis," a super-city stretching from the northern suburbs of Boston to the southern suburbs of Washington and therefore occasionally called "BosWash".
The five New York City boroughs (and their counties) are: (1) The Bronx (Bronx), on the mainland, north of (2) Manhattan (New York) on Manhattan Island.
Upstate New York typically includes the Catskill and Adirondack Mountains, the Shawangunk Ridge, the Finger Lakes and the Great Lakes in the west and Lake Champlain, Lake George, and Oneida Lake in the northeast, and rivers such as the Delaware, Genesee, Hudson, Mohawk, and Susquehanna.
www.startsurfing.com /encyclopedia/n/e/w/New_York_3da4.html   (3281 words)

  
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The southern tip of New York State—New York City, its suburbs including Long Island, and the southern portion of the Hudson Valley—can be considered to form the central core of a "megalopolis," a super-city stretching from the northern suburbs of Boston to the southern suburbs of Washington D.C. in Virginia and therefore occasionally called "BosWash".
The Duke of York previously purchased, in 1663, the grant of Long Island and other islands on the New England coast made in 1635 to the Earl of Stirling, and, in 1664, he equipped an armed expedition which took possession of New Amsterdam, which was thenceforth called New York.
Albany and southeast-central New York are heavily Irish-American and Italian-American.
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 New York
New York State's borders touch (clockwise from the northwest) two Great Lakes (Erie and Ontario, which are connected by the Niagara River), the Provinces of Quebec and Ontario in Canada, three New England states (Vermont, Massachusetts, and Connecticut), the Atlantic Ocean, and two Mid-Atlantic states (New Jersey and Pennsylvania).
The five New York City boroughs and their (counties) are: The Bronx (Bronx) on the mainland north of Manhattan (New York) on Manhattan Island; the Hudson River is their western boundary.
Upstate New York includes the Catskill and Adirondack Mountains, the Shawangunk Ridge, the Finger and Great Lakes in the west and Lake Champlain, Lake George, and Oneida Lake in the northeast, and rivers such as the Delaware, Genesee, Hudson, Mohawk, and Susquehanna.
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 York travel guide - Wikitravel
York is one of the main hubs of the UK rail network, with a large range of services and destinations to choose from.
York is one of the most cycle-friendly cities in the UK - there's an extensive network of cycle routes in and around the city, and most of the traffic controls have been set up to give bikes priority.
York's area code (for landline numbers) is 01904 when dialed from within the UK or +441904 from outside the UK.
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 The Ultimate New York Dog Breeds Information Guide and Reference   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The southern tip of New York State – New York City, its suburbs, and the southern portion of the Hudson Valley – can be considered to form the central core of a "megalopolis", a super-city stretching from the northern suburbs of Boston to the southern suburbs of Washington and therefore occasionally called BosWash.
"Upstate" is a common term for New York State north of the New York City metropolitan area; but many of those outside of the NYC metropolitan area find the term demeaning because it is emblematic of the cultural and demographic divide which separates the two areas, one rural and conservative, the other urban and liberal.
At Chautauqua Lake in the southwestern portion of the state is the Chautauqua Institution, co-founded by Methodist Rev. John Vincent and devoted to adult continuing education in a uplifting setting, as that ambiance was understood in the last half of the Nineteenth Century.
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 New York, NY   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Upper New York Bay is surrounded by Manhattan, Brooklyn, Staten Island, and the coast of New Jersey, and is connected by the Narrows between Brooklyn and Staten Island to Lower New York Bay, which is partially surrounded by Brooklyn, Staten Island, and the coast of New Jersey, and opens to the Atlantic Ocean.
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.
New York’s portrayal on television is similarly varied, with a disproportionate number of crime dramas taking place in the city despite the fact that it is one of the safest cities in which to live in the United States.
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 New York City
New York City is known affectionately as the "Big Apple" and recognised as one of several "world cities".
New York City is part of the New York metropolitan area with a population of around 20 million.
Prior to 1898, New York City consisted of Manhattan and the Bronx, which was annexed by the city from southern Westchester County in two separate actions: the western portion in 1874, and the remaining portion in 1895.
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 City of New York - Gurupedia
New York — official name City of New York and often called New York City to distinguish it from New York state, in which it is located — is the most populous city in the United States, and the second most populous in North America, after
Affectionately known as "The Big Apple," New York is by many measures one of the most important cities in the world.
It is a 20 minute ride from Pennsylvania Station and the first aiport in the New York Metropolitan Area to have such a station/link on a mainline railway.
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 Top20NewYork.com - Your Top20 Guide to New York
It is sometimes called New York State when there is need to distinguish it from New York City, the largest city both in the state and in the nation.
However, this is with the notable exception of those Upstate counties with large cities, such as Erie County (Buffalo), Monroe County (Rochester), Onondaga County (Syracuse), Tompkins County (Ithaca), and Albany County (Albany), as well as several others which voted blue in 2004.
Upstate New York typically includes the Catskill and Adirondack Mountains, the Shawangunk Ridge, the Finger and Great Lakes in the west and Lake Champlain, Lake George, and Oneida Lake in the northeast, and rivers such as the Delaware, Genesee, Hudson, Mohawk, and Susquehanna.
top20newyork.com   (3342 words)

  
 New York (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
New York County, generally referred to as Manhattan, a county fully contained in the above city (population 1,537,195)
New York metropolitan area, New York City and its suburbs (population 21,923,089)
New York, Missouri, a former community founded in 1835-36 about 2 3/4 miles upriver from Commerce, Missouri.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/New_York_(disambiguation)   (195 words)

  
 New York (disambiguation) - LoveToKnow 1911
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There is more than one meaning of New York discussed in the 1911 Encyclopedia.
We are planning to let all links go to the correct meaning directly, but for now you will have to search it out from the list below by yourself.
www.1911encyclopedia.org /New_York_(disambiguation)   (94 words)

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