Located in upstate New York, which takes its name, which has for capital Albany, the city of New York is the most populous of the United States of America. It rises on the east coast of North America, just across the Atlantic and at the mouth of the Hudson River (which is its western border and separates it from the suburbs of New Jersey), where the island of Long Island is closer the Continent, separated only by the East River.

This particular its topographical arrangement has made the city one of the most important ports in the world since the beginning of the colonial era.

Founded by the Dutch in 1625, with the name of Nieuw Amsterdam, New York saw its first settlement on the southern tip of Manhattan. With the arrival of the British, who seized it in 1664, its name changes to New York (as in Latin, Novum Eboracum, is still written on the shield), so basically it for almost the entire duration of the war of independence was a British colony, became the most important point for British support during the war. From 1785 to 1790 he was served as the capital of the United States.

The city of New York is divided into 5 districts (boroughs) are curiously only one, the Bronx, is on the continent proper: for Brooklyn and Queens are located at the western end of Long Island, and the other two, Manhattan Staten Island, two islands of mean size of the same name. Nearby there are other islands are smaller, such as Ellis Island, where ships were once landed the poor European immigrants, held here in quarantine before being allowed to enter the United States, or Liberty Island, which was placed the famous Statue of Liberty.

 

There are several names that have buckled: navel of the world, the big apple (the Big Apple), Gotham City, the city that never sleeps (The City That Never Sleeps), the capital of the world (via the stock exchange on Wall Street). Surely it is one of the most important cities of the world and a major financial centers. Not only that, New York has always been one of the most popular cultural centers, unmatched destination of choice for more and more numerous travelers and tourists. The city is also home to the United Nations, to want to symbolize almost with pride, his way of being the capital of the world.