NEW YORK

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 New York City
• New York, often called New York City (NYC) to distinguish it from the state of New York, is the most populous city in the United
States. With a 2020 population of 8,804,190 distributed over 300.46 square miles (778.2 km2), New York City is also the most densely
populated major city in the United States. Located at the southern tip of the state of New York, the city is the center of the New York
metropolitan area, the largest metropolitan area in the world by urban area.With over 20.1 million people in its metropolitan
statistical area and 23.5 million in its combined statistical area as of 2020, New York is one of the world's most populous megacities.
New York City has been described as the cultural, financial, and media capital of the world, significantly influencing commerce,
entertainment, research, technology, education, politics, tourism, dining, art, fashion, and sports, and is the most photographed city
in the world. Home to the headquarters of the United Nations, New York is an important center for international diplomacy, and has
sometimes been called the capital of the world.

• Situated on one of the world's largest natural harbors, New York City is composed of five boroughs, each of which is coextensive
with a respective county of the state of New York. The five boroughs—Brooklyn (Kings County), Queens (Queens County),
Manhattan (New York County), the Bronx (Bronx County), and Staten Island (Richmond County)—were created when local
governments were consolidated into a single municipal entity in 1898.[15] The city and its metropolitan area constitute the premier
gateway for legal immigration to the United States. As many as 800 languages are spoken in New York, making it the most
linguistically diverse city in the world. New York is home to more than 3.2 million residents born outside the United States, the
largest foreign-born population of any city in the world as of 2016.As of 2018, the New York metropolitan area is estimated to
produce a gross metropolitan product (GMP) of nearly $1.8 trillion, ranking it first in the United States. If the New York
metropolitan area were a sovereign state, it would have the eighth-largest economy in the world. New York is home to the second
highest number of billionaires of any city in the world.
 Arts
• New York City has more than 2,000 arts and cultural organizations and more than
500 art galleries. The city government funds the arts with a larger annual budget
than the National Endowment for the Arts. Wealthy business magnates in the 19th
century built a network of major cultural institutions, such as Carnegie Hall and
the Metropolitan Museum of Art, which have become internationally renowned.
The advent of electric lighting led to elaborate theater productions, and in the
1880s, New York City theaters on Broadway and along 42nd Street began featuring
a new stage form that became known as the Broadway musical. Strongly
influenced by the city's immigrants, productions such as those of Harrigan and Hart
, George M. Cohan, and others used song in narratives that often reflected themes
of hope and ambition. New York City itself is the subject or background of many
plays and musicals.
 Cuisine
• New York City's food culture includes an array of international cuisines influenced by the city's
immigrant history. Central and Eastern European immigrants, especially Jewish immigrants
from those regions, brought bagels, cheesecake, hot dogs, knishes, and delicatessens (or delis)
to the city. Italian immigrants brought New York-style pizza and Italian cuisine into the city,
while Jewish immigrants and Irish immigrants brought pastrami and corned beef, respectively. 
Chinese and other Asian restaurants, sandwich joints, trattorias, diners, and coffeehouses are
ubiquitous throughout the city. Some 4,000 mobile food vendors licensed by the city, many
immigrant-owned, have made Middle Eastern foods such as falafel and kebabs examples of
modern New York street food. The city is home to "nearly one thousand of the finest and most
diverse haute cuisine restaurants in the world", according to Michelin. The 
New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene assigns letter grades to the city's
restaurants based upon their inspection results. As of 2019, there were 27,043 restaurants in
the city, up from 24,865 in 2017. The Queens Night Market in Flushing Meadows–Corona Park
 attracts more than ten thousand people nightly to sample food from more than 85 countries.
 Sports
• New York City is home to the headquarters of the National Football
League,Major League Baseball,the National Basketball Association,the
National Hockey League,and Major League Soccer.The New York metropolitan
area hosts the most sports teams in the four major North American professional
sports leagues with nine, one more than Los Angeles, and has 11 top-level
professional sports teams if Major League Soccer is included, also one more
than Los Angeles. Participation in professional sports in the city predates all
professional leagues, and the city has been continuously hosting professional
sports since the birth of the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1882.
 Statue of Liberty
The Statue of Liberty (Liberty Enlightening the World; French: La Liberté éclairant le monde) is a colossal neoclassical sculpture
on Liberty Island in New York Harbor in New York City, in the United States. The copper statue, a gift from the people of France
to the people of the United States, was designed by French sculptor Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi and its metal framework was
built by Gustave Eiffel. The statue was dedicated on October 28, 1886.
The statue is a figure of Libertas, a robed Roman liberty goddess. She holds a torch above her head with her right hand, and in
her left hand carries a tabula ansata inscribed JULY IV MDCCLXXVI (July 4, 1776 in Roman numerals), the date of the U.S.
Declaration of Independence. A broken shackle and chain lie at her feet as she walks forward, commemorating the recent
national abolition of slavery.[8] After its dedication, the statue became an icon of freedom and of the United States, seen as a
symbol of welcome to immigrants arriving by sea.
Bartholdi was inspired by a French law professor and politician, Édouard René de Laboulaye, who is said to have commented in
1865 that any monument raised to U.S. independence would properly be a joint project of the French and U.S. peoples. The
Franco-Prussian War delayed progress until 1875, when Laboulaye proposed that the French finance the statue and the U.S.
provide the site and build the pedestal. Bartholdi completed the head and the torch-bearing arm before the statue was fully
designed, and these pieces were exhibited for publicity at international expositions.
 Liberty Enlightening the World
• "The Statue of Liberty Enlightening the World" was a gift of
friendship from the people of France to the United States and
is recognized as a universal symbol of freedom and democracy.
The Statue of Liberty was dedicated on October 28, 1886.  It
was designated as a National Monument in 1924.  Employees of
the National Park Service have been caring for the colossal
copper statue since 1933.