With an estimated population in July 2024 of 8,478,072, distributed over 300.46 square miles (778.2 km2), the city is themost densely populated major city in the United States. New York City has more than double the population ofLos Angeles, the country's second-most populous city. Over 20.1 million people live in New York City'smetropolitan statistical area and 23.5 million in itscombined statistical area as of 2020, both the largest in the U.S. New York City is one of the world's most populousmegacities. The city and its metropolitan area are the premier gateway for legalimmigration to the United States. An estimated 800 languages are spoken in New York City, making it the most linguistically diverse city in the world. The New York City metropolitan region is home to thelargest foreign-born population of any metropolitan region in the world, approximately 5.9 million as of 2023. (Full article...)
Service on the route that became the Q27 started in October 1928. Operated by theNorth Shore Bus Company until 1947, it originally went from Flushing to the Rosewood section ofBayside. Buses were extended toQueens Village in 1950, then toMerrick Boulevard in 1956; a further extension to 233rd Street in 1957 was short-lived. Rush hour peak-direction limited-stop service along the Q27 route was introduced in September 2001, and the route was extended from Queens Village to Cambria Heights in 2004 to replaceQ83 service on Springfield Boulevard. Service on Kissena Boulevard and Holly Avenue was discontinued on June 29, 2025, and replaced with additional service on Parsons Boulevard and Sanford Avenue. (Full article...)
Held during theCOVID-19 pandemic, the tournament saw changes in format and personnel compared to previous editions. As a result, withdrawals and opt-outs became a theme of the competition. Defending men's singles champion and world No. 2Rafael Nadal and No. 9Gaël Monfils withdrew due to COVID-19 safety concerns, while No. 4Roger Federer, No. 12Fabio Fognini, and No. 15Stan Wawrinka opted out for other reasons. On the women's side, defending singles champion and world No. 6Bianca Andreescu did not return due to safety concerns, nor did No. 1Ashleigh Barty, No. 2Simona Halep, or No. 5Elina Svitolina, among others. Further, the qualifying rounds of the tournament, in addition to the mixed doubles and juniors draws, were not held due to the pandemic.
Men's singles world No. 1Novak Djokovic made headlines by becoming the first top-seeded player to be disqualified from a Grand Slam singles tournament when he wasdefaulted from his fourth-round match for hitting a ball out of frustration that inadvertently hit a line judge in the throat. Although accidental, Djokovic's actions were deemed to be in violation of a Grand Slam rule regarding ball abuse, and he was disqualified from the tournament. (Full article...)
Image 3
TheStaten Island Ferry is a fare-free passengerferry route operated by theNew York City Department of Transportation. The ferry's single route runs 5.2 miles (8.4 km) throughNew York Harbor between theNew York City boroughs ofManhattan andStaten Island, with ferry boats completing the trip in about 25 minutes. The ferry operates 24 hours a day and 7 days a week, with boats leaving every 15 to 20 minutes during peak hours and every 30 minutes at other times. Apart fromNYC Ferry'sSt. George route, it is the only direct mass-transit connection between the two boroughs. Historically, the Staten Island Ferry has charged a relatively low fare compared to other modes of transit in the area; and since 1997, the route has been fare-free. The Staten Island Ferry is one of several ferry systems in the New York City area and is operated separately from systems like NYC Ferry andNY Waterway.
The Staten Island Ferry route terminates atWhitehall Terminal, on Whitehall Street inLower Manhattan, and atSt. George Terminal, inSt. George, Staten Island. At Whitehall, connections are available to theNew York City Subway and several localNew York City Bus routes. At St. George, there are transfers to theStaten Island Railway and to the St. George Bus Terminal's many bus routes. UsingMetroCard fare cards, passengers from Manhattan can exit a subway or bus on Whitehall Street, take the ferry for free, and have a free second transfer to a train or bus at St. George. Conversely, passengers from Staten Island can freely transfer to a subway or bus in Manhattan after riding the ferry.
The building has a facade ofashlar masonry and pinkTennessee marble. The first floor consists of apiano nobile over a low basement; above are the second story, the maincornice, and two more stories. After its completion, the building became known as the headquarters of J.P. Morgan & Co.—the "House of Morgan"—although its exterior was never signed with the Morgan name. The banking room, which took up nearly the entire ground floor, included offices and was used for banking transactions. This space was designed with a domed,coffered ceiling and, later, a large crystal chandelier. Mechanical systems and vaults were in the basement, and executive offices were placed on the upper floors.
23 Wall Street replaced the Drexel Building, which was the banking headquarters for J.P. Morgan & Co.'s predecessorDrexel, Morgan & Co. When the building was damaged during theWall Street bombing in 1920, J.P. Morgan & Co. refused to make repairs, in defiance of the bombing's perpetrators. The building was linked to neighboring15 Broad Street in 1957, and the two buildings served as the J.P. Morgan & Co. headquarters until 1988, when the firm moved to60 Wall Street. During the 2000s, there were plans to convert both 23 Wall Street and 15 Broad Street into a condominium complex. In 2008, 23 Wall Street was sold to interests associated with the billionaire industrialistSam Pa but mostly remained empty afterward. (Full article...)
Western Union decided to construct the building in 1872 after outgrowing a previous space at 145 Broadway. Post was selected as the winner of anarchitectural design competition, and the building was completed in February 1875. At the time of its completion, it was one of the tallest structures in New York City, behind onlyTrinity Church, theNew York Tribune Building, and theBrooklyn Bridge towers. The original design contained eleven stories, including the ground story. It had a three-storymansard roof and aclock tower whose pinnacle gave the building its 230-foot height. The interior included executive offices, a large telegraph operating room, and office space that could be rented to other tenants.
The top five stories were destroyed by fire in 1890, although the superstructure of the ground story and the lowest five floors remained intact. Hardenbergh designed a four-story flat-roofed expansion to the structure, completed in 1891.AT&T, which acquired the Western Union Telegraph Building, decided to redevelop the site with a 29-story building at195 Broadway, which was completed in 1916. The old Western Union Building was demolished between 1912 and 1914, although Western Union continued to occupy the replacement structure until 1930. (Full article...)
Image 6
The Home Life Building includes the original Home Life structure at 256 Broadway (right) and the Postal Telegraph Building at 253 Broadway (left).
The Home Life Building is made of two adjacent structures at 251–257Broadway, erected between 1892 and 1894 as separate buildings. The original 16-storyHome Life Insurance Company Building at 256 Broadway was designed byNapoleon LeBrun & Sons in theRenaissance Revival style. The 13-storyPostal Telegraph Building, immediately to the south at 253 Broadway, was designed byGeorge Edward Harding & Gooch in theneoclassical style. The original Home Life Building is clad with marble, while the Postal Telegraph Building's facade consists of limestone at its base and brick on its upper stories. Ornamental details are used on both structures.
256 Broadway was erected for theHome Life Insurance Company, while 253 Broadway was erected for thePostal Telegraph Company. Both buildings were constructed simultaneously between 1892 and 1894. Although 256 Broadway was intended as a 12-story building, it was expanded to 16 stories mid-construction, making it one of thetallest buildings in the city when it was completed. After the Home Life Company bought 253 Broadway in 1947, the two buildings were joined internally to form a single structure, and became collectively known as the Home Life Building. The Home Life Company occupied the building until 1985. It was made aNew York City designated landmark in 1991. (Full article...)
Image 7
The southeast facade, seen in 2010 from the corner of Nassau and Fulton Streets
TheBennett Building is a cast-iron building in theFinancial District ofLower Manhattan in New York City, United States. The building is on the western side ofNassau Street, spanning the entire block fromFulton Street toAnn Street. While the Bennett Building contains a primary address of 93-99 Nassau Street, it also has entrances at 139 Fulton Street and 30 Ann Street.
The building was designed byArthur D. Gilman in theFrench Second Empire style, with expansions byJames M. Farnsworth that closely followed Gilman's original design. The Bennett Building contains a fully realizedcast-iron facade, the largest known such example in the world, and is one of two remaining Second Empire-style office buildings south ofCanal Street with cast-iron faces. The building's three fully designed facades face Fulton, Nassau, and Ann Streets, while the fourth side faces an adjacent property and is made of plain brick.
The building's namesake wasJames Gordon Bennett Jr., who commissioned the project as an investment. The original structure designed by Gilman was seven stories tall, including amansard roof. Real estate investor John Pettit bought the building in 1889, and he hired Farnsworth to design two expansions. The original mansard roof was demolished to allow the addition of the top four stories between 1890 and 1892, while an eleven-story annex was erected on Ann Street in 1894. After Pettit disappeared in 1898, ownership of the Bennett Building passed to several other companies and individuals, who made minor modifications to the building. In 1995, theNew York City Landmarks Preservation Commission designated the building aNew York City landmark. The Bennett Building is also a contributing property to theFulton–Nassau Historic District, aNational Register of Historic Places district created in 2005. (Full article...)
Image 8
One Times Square in 2017 from one block north. The building is barely visible given the signage.
One Times Square (also known as1475 Broadway, theNew York Times Building, theNew York Times Tower, theAllied Chemical Tower or simply as theTimes Tower) is a 25-story, 363-foot-high (111 m)skyscraper onTimes Square in theMidtown Manhattan neighborhood ofNew York City, New York, U.S. Designed byCyrus L. W. Eidlitz in theneo-Gothic style, the tower was built in 1903–1904 as the headquarters ofThe New York Times. It takes up thecity block bounded bySeventh Avenue,42nd Street,Broadway, and 43rd Street. The building's design has been heavily modified throughout the years, and all of its original architectural detail has since been removed. One Times Square's primary design features are theadvertising billboards on itsfacade, added in the 1990s. Due to the large amount of revenue generated by its signage, One Times Square is one of the most valuable advertising locations in the world.
The surrounding Longacre Square neighborhood was renamed "Times Square" during the tower's construction, andThe New York Times moved into the tower in January 1905. Quickly outgrowing the tower, eight years later, the paper's offices and printing presses moved to nearby229 West 43rd Street. One Times Square remained a major focal point of the area due to its annualNew Year's Eve "ball drop" festivities and the introduction of a large lightednews ticker near street-level in 1928. The Times sold the building toDouglas Leigh in 1961.Allied Chemical then bought the building in 1963 and renovated it as a showroom. Alex M. Parker took a long-term lease for the entire building in October 1973, buying it two years later. One Times Square was sold multiple times in the 1980s and continued to serve as an office building.
The financial firmLehman Brothers acquired the building in 1995, adding billboards to take advantage of its prime location within Times Square.Jamestown L.P. has owned the building since 1997. In 2017, as part of One Times Square's redevelopment, plans were announced to construct a new Times Square museum, observation deck, and a new entrance to theTimes Square–42nd Street subway station. Jamestown started a $500 million renovation of the building in 2022. The renovation will add an observation deck, a museum space, and a glass exterior, and is scheduled to be completed in Fall 2025. (Full article...)
Katherine Angelina Hughes (November 12, 1876 – April 26, 1925) was a Canadian journalist, author, archivist, and political activist. She founded the Catholic Indian Association in 1901 and was the secretary of theCatholic Women's League of Canada. She was the first provincial archivist forAlberta. As a journalist, Hughes worked for the Montréal Daily Star and the Edmonton Bulletin.
Until the 19th century, the site consisted of wetlands straddling theFlushing River, which traverses the region from north to south. Starting in the first decade of the 20th century, it was used as a dumping ground for ashes, since at the time, the land was so far away from the developed parts of New York City as to be considered almost worthless.New York City Parks commissionerRobert Moses first conceived the idea of developing a large park in Flushing Meadow in the 1920s as part of a system of parks across eastern Queens. Flushing Meadows–Corona Park was created as the site of the1939 New York World's Fair and also hosted the1964 New York World's Fair. Following the 1964 fair, the park fell into disrepair, although some improvements have taken place since the 1990s and 2000s.
Eusebia Cosme Almanza (5 March 1908 – 11 July 1976) was a Cuban poetry reciter and actress who gained widespread fame in the 1930s. Because ofracial segregation, Cosme did not pursue an acting career in the traditional Cuban theater, instead focusing on the art ofdeclamation, or poetry reading. She was the sole Cuban woman and one of the few black women to participate in African-themed declamation. Her performances went beyond reciting the poems, as she used gestures, facial expression and vocal rhythm to convey the emotion of the written word. Focusing on works that served as social commentary on race, gender, and the disparity of the position of blacks in both Latin America and the United States, Cosme was recognized as a master of her craft. Beginning her career in variety shows, she performed in Cuba until the late 1930s, before embarking on international tours.
In 1938, Cosme moved to the United States. She became a naturalized US citizen in the 1940s. She performed to sold-out houses at venues includingCarnegie Hall,The Town Hall, andhistorically black universities. She performed with bothMarian Anderson andLangston Hughes, and brought the works of African-American poets to Hispanic audiences viaThe Eusebia Cosme Show, which aired onCBS Radio from 1943 to 1945. She performed recitations in the United States through the late 1950s, worked as an abstract painter in the 1960s, and began acting in film and television in 1964. Cosme lived inMexico City from 1966 to 1973, when she appeared in such films asThe Pawnbroker andWhite Roses for My Black Sister. Her most noted role was as "Mamá Dolores", which she played repeatedly in her career. She first played this character, fromFelix B. Caignet's radio dramaEl Derecho de nacer (The Right of Birth), in a 1955 stage performance in New York City. She repeated it in both the 1966 film andtelenovela by the same name. In 1971 she filmed a spin-off,Mamá Dolores. Her performance in the 1966 film was recognized with thePremio Ónix as best actress.
After suffering a stroke in Mexico City in 1973, Cosme was moved to the United States and lived her final years in Miami. Located in Mexico, her effects were donated to theSchomburg Center for Research in Black Culture at theNew York Public Library inHarlem. The archive has become an important resource for academics studying race, gender and social perception of not only Afro-Cubans in her era but also within the wider community of the African diaspora. (Full article...)
The building's glass facade is designed to reflectSt. Patrick's Cathedral immediately to the south. Thesuperstructure is made of steel on the lower stories and cast concrete on the upper stories. The first two stories contain a public atrium, Olympic Place, which connects the 51st and 52nd Street facades. The next 19 stories contain office space while the top 30 stories contain 230 condominium apartments. Upon Olympic Tower's completion, architectural writers such asAda Louise Huxtable andChristopher Gray criticized its design.
Construction of Olympic Tower dates to the late 1960s, whenBest & Co. sought to build an office tower above their store at Fifth Avenue and 51st Street.Morris Lapidus was initially hired for the project, but the plans were changed after the zoning district was created. When the building was completed, wealthy non-American buyers purchased most of its residential units. Crown Acquisitions bought Olympic Tower from its original owners in the 2010s. (Full article...)
PPFA has its roots inBrooklyn, New York, whereMargaret Sanger opened the firstbirth control clinic in the United States, in 1916. Sanger founded theAmerican Birth Control League in 1921, and 14 years after her exit as its president, ABCL's successor organization became Planned Parenthood in 1942.
Planned Parenthood consists of 159 medical and non-medical affiliates, which operate over 600 health clinics in the United States. It partners with organizations in 12 countries globally. The organization directly provides a variety of reproductive health services and sexual education, contributes to research in reproductive technology and advocates for the protection and expansion ofreproductive rights. Research shows that closures of Planned Parenthood clinics lead to increases in maternal mortality rates. (Full article...)
The construction of theRockefeller Center complex inMidtown Manhattan,New York City, was conceived in the late 1920s and led byJohn D. Rockefeller Jr. Rockefeller Center is on one ofColumbia University's former campuses and is bounded byFifth Avenue to the east,Sixth Avenue (Avenue of the Americas) to the west, 48th Street to the south, and 51st Street to the north. The center occupies 22 acres (8.9 ha) in total, with some 17 million square feet (1.6 million square meters) of office space.
Columbia University had acquired the site in the early 19th century but had moved toMorningside Heights inUpper Manhattan in the early 1900s. By the 1920s, Fifth Avenue in Midtown Manhattan was a prime site for development. Around that time, theMetropolitan Opera (Met) was looking for a new site for their opera house, and architectBenjamin Wistar Morris decided on the former Columbia site.
Rockefeller eventually became involved in the project and leased the Columbia site in 1928 for 87 years. The lease excluded land along the east side of Sixth Avenue to the west of the Rockefeller property, as well as at the site's southeast corner. He hired Todd, Robertson, and Todd as design consultants and selected the architectural firms ofCorbett, Harrison & MacMurray, Hood, Godley & Fouilhoux, and Reinhard & Hofmeister for the opera complex. However, the Met was unsure about moving there, and theWall Street Crash of 1929 put an end to the plans. Rockefeller instead entered into negotiations with theRadio Corporation of America (RCA) to create a mass-media complex on the site. A new plan was released in January 1930, and an update to the plan was presented after Rockefeller obtained a lease for the land along Sixth Avenue. Revisions continued until March 1931, when the current site design was unveiled. A late change to the proposal included a complex of internationally themed structures along Fifth Avenue. (Full article...)
Image 15
The 1913 squad, the first that went by the name "Yankees"
The Yankees won the World Series every year from 1936 to 1939 with a team that featured Gehrig and outfielderJoe DiMaggio, who recorded arecord hitting streak during New York's 1941 championship season. New York set a major league record by winning five consecutive championships from 1949 to 1953, and appeared in the World Series nine times from 1955 to 1964.Mickey Mantle,Yogi Berra, andWhitey Ford were among the players fielded by the Yankees during the era. After the 1964 season, a lack of effective replacements for aging players caused the franchise to decline on the field, and the team became a money-loser for ownersCBS while playing in an agingstadium.
George Steinbrenner bought the club in 1973 and regularly invested in new talent, usingfree agency to acquire top players. Yankee Stadium was renovated and reopened in 1976 as the home of a more competitive Yankees team. Despite clubhouse disputes, the team reached the World Series four times between 1976 and 1981 and claimed the championship in 1977 and 1978. New York continued to pursue their strategy of signing free agents into the 1980s, but with less success, and the team eventually sank into mediocrity after 1981. In the early 1990s, the team began to improve as their roster was rebuilt around young players from their minor league system, includingDerek Jeter andMariano Rivera. After earning a playoff berth in 1995, the Yankees won four of the next five World Series, and the 1998–2000 teams were the last in MLB to win three straight Series titles. (Full article...)
Image 16
Map of the hurricane on August 24 over New York City
The1893 New York hurricane, also known as theMidnight Storm, was a powerful and destructivetropical cyclone that struck the New York City area in August 1893. First identified as a tropical storm on August 15, over the central Atlantic Ocean, the hurricane moved northwestward for most of its course, ultimately peaking withmaximum sustained winds of 115 mph (185 km/h) and a minimum barometric pressure reading of 952 mbar (hPa; 28.11 inHg). It turned due northward as it approached theU.S. East Coast and struck westernLong Island on August 24. It moved inland and quickly deteriorated, degenerating the next day.
The storm inflicted severe damage with storm tides as high as 30 ft (9 m). Trees were brought down, houses were demolished, andHog Island was largely washed away by the cyclone. Several areas suffered extensive effects from the hurricane, and at least 34 sailors lost their lives. The storm is regarded as one of the most severe hurricanes to strike the city. (Full article...)
Image 17
TheA. L. Bazzini Company, commonly known asBazzini, is an American nut, fruit, and chocolate company headquartered inAllentown, Pennsylvania. Founded in New York City in 1886, it is the oldest nut company in the United States. It began on Park Place in theWashington Market neighborhood ofManhattan. Upon the market's demolition in 1968, the company moved to a large nut-processing facility onGreenwich Street. In 1983, the Bazzini family sold the business to Rocco Damato, who has owned and operated it since. The company moved to theBronx in 1997, and to Allentown in 2011. In addition to being sold through retail shops, its nuts are sold in venues likeYankee Stadium; it has supplied both theoriginal and current stadiums of that name since the original opened in 1923. The company's former factory on Greenwich Street is still known as theBazzini Building, although it has been turned in tocondominiums, and is part of the Tribeca West Historic District. (Full article...)
The house has three stories and is separated from Fifth Avenue by an elevated garden. It has three wings to the north, center, and south, arranged in an L shape. The limestone facade contains several carvedpediments andtympana. Most of the house remained essentially unchanged from the time of its construction until 1931. The first floor contained the family's communal rooms; the second floor contained their bedrooms and private rooms; and the third floor contained the servants' quarters. There was also a basement with service areas. The first and second-floor rooms have been adapted into museum spaces over the years.
Frick bought the site of theLenox Library in 1906 and 1907 but could not redevelop it for several years. Initially, Frick sought designs fromDaniel Burnham, but ultimately he commissioned Hastings, who designed a three-story mansion in theBeaux-Arts style. Construction took place between 1912 and 1914. Frick lived in the building only until his death in 1919, but his wife Adelaide and daughterHelen continued to live there until Adelaide died in 1931. Following a renovation, and in accordance with Frick's will, the house opened to the public as the Frick Collection in 1935. The building was enlarged slightly in 1977 and 2011, which has altered the original appearance of the house. From 2020 to 2025, the house was closed for an extensive renovation that expanded the museum. Over the years, the mansion has received generally positive architectural commentary. (Full article...)
Image 19
Agencies searching for the bodies and debris from the collision.
On August 8, 2009, at 11:53 a.m. (15:53 UTC), nine people died when a tour helicopter and a small private airplane collided over theHudson River nearFrank Sinatra Park inHoboken, New Jersey, United States. The aircraft were in an area known as the "Hudson River VFR Corridor", which extends from the surface of the river to altitudes of 800 to 1,500 ft (240 to 460 m) at various locations along the Hudson River in the immediate area ofNew York City. Within this corridor, aircraft operate undervisual flight rules (VFR), under which the responsibility to see and avoid other air traffic rests with the individual pilots rather than with theair traffic controller (ATC).
Because of the heavy commercial air traffic intoNewark,LaGuardia, andKennedy airports, an air traffic control clearance is required to operate in much of the airspace around the city. Since ATC is often unwilling to grant this discretionary VFR clearance because of traffic volume, many airplanes that need to transit the New York metro area use the VFR corridor as an alternative to going east of the city (over water) or west (towardPennsylvania). The corridor is also heavily used by helicopter tour companies, which take passengers on sight-seeing tours of the New Yorkskyline. (Full article...)
Image 20
An 1873 map of Queens showing the route of Kissena Creek (blue) and theCentral Railroad.
The name "Kissena" comes from theChippewa language term for "it is cold", "cold place", or "cool water". Much of the creek was covered or diverted into sewers in the 20th century, and the only extant above-ground portion of the creek is Kissena Lake in Kissena Park. (Full article...)
Malcolm spent his adolescence living in a series offoster homes and with various relatives, after his father's death and his mother's hospitalization. He committed various crimes, being sentenced to eight to ten years in prison in 1946 forlarceny and burglary. In prison, he joined the Nation of Islam, adopting the name Malcolm X to symbolize his unknown African ancestral surname while discarding "the whiteslavemaster name of 'Little'", and after his parole in 1952, he quickly became one of the organization's most influential leaders. He was the public face of the organization for 12 years, advocating Black empowerment andseparation of Black and White Americans, as well as criticizingMartin Luther King Jr. and the mainstream civil rights movement for its emphasis on non-violence andracial integration. Malcolm X also expressed pride in some of the Nation's social welfare achievements, such as its freedrug rehabilitation program. From the 1950s onward, Malcolm X was subjected to surveillance by theFederal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). (Full article...)
The borough, as Kings County, at 37,339.9 inhabitants per square mile (14,417.0/km2), is the secondmost densely populated county in the U.S. after Manhattan (New York County), and the most populouscounty in the state, as of 2022. In the2020 United States census, the borough had a population of 2,736,074. Had Brooklyn remained an independent city on Long Island, it would now be thefourth most populous American city after the rest ofNew York City,Los Angeles, andChicago. With a land area of 69.38 square miles (179.7 km2) and a water area of 27.48 square miles (71.2 km2), Kings County, one of the twelve original counties established under British rule in 1683 in the then-province of New York, is the state of New York's fourth-smallest county by land area and third smallest by total area. (Full article...)
With a population of 2,405,464 as of the2020 census, Queens is the second-most populous county in New York state, behind Kings County (Brooklyn), and is therefore also the second-most populous of the five New York City boroughs. If Queens were its own city, it would be thefourth most-populous in the U.S. after the rest ofNew York City,Los Angeles, andChicago. Queens is the fourth-most densely populated borough in New York City and the fourth-most densely populatedU.S. county. Queens is highly diverse with approximately 47% of its residents beingforeign-born. (Full article...)
Staten Island (/ˈstætən/STAT-ən) is the southernmost of thefive boroughs ofNew York City, coextensive withRichmond County and situated at the southernmost point ofNew York. The borough is separated from the adjacent state ofNew Jersey by theArthur Kill and theKill Van Kull and from the rest of New York byNew York Bay. With a population of 495,747 in the2020 Census, Staten Island is the least populated New York City borough but the third largest in land area at 58.5 sq mi (152 km2); it is also the least densely populated and mostsuburban borough in the city.
A home to theLenape Native Americans, the island was settled by Dutch colonists in the 17th century. It was one of the 12 original counties of New York state. Staten Island wasconsolidated with New York City in 1898. It was formerly known as theBorough of Richmond until 1975, when its name was changed to Borough of Staten Island. Staten Island has sometimes been called "the forgotten borough" by inhabitants who feel neglected by thecity government and the media. It has also been referred to as the "borough of parks" due to its 12,300 acres of protected parkland and over 170 parks. (Full article...)
The Bronx is divided by theBronx River into a hillier section in thewest, and a flattereastern section. East and west street names are divided byJerome Avenue. The West Bronx was annexed to New York City in 1874, and the areas east of the Bronx River in 1895. Bronx County was separated from New York County (modern-day Manhattan) in 1914. About a quarter of the Bronx's area is open space, includingWoodlawn Cemetery,Van Cortlandt Park,Pelham Bay Park, theNew York Botanical Garden, and theBronx Zoo in the borough's north and center. TheThain Family Forest at the New York Botanical Garden is thousands of years old and is New York City's largest remaining tract of the original forest that once covered the city. These open spaces are primarily on land reserved in the late 19th century as urban development progressed north and east from Manhattan. The Bronx is also home toYankee Stadium ofMajor League Baseball. (Full article...)
Image 18The Sunday magazine of theNew York World appealed to immigrants with this April 29, 1906 cover page celebrating their arrival at Ellis Island. (fromHistory of New York City (1898–1945))
Image 19Anderson Avenue garbage strike. A common scene throughout New York City in 1968 during a sanitation workers strike (fromHistory of New York City (1946–1977))
For editor resources and to collaborate with other editors on improving Wikipedia's New York City-related articles, see the following related WikiProjects:
This is a list of recognized content, updated weekly byJL-Bot (talk·contribs) (typically on Saturdays). There is no need to edit the list yourself. If an article is missing from the list, make sure it istagged (e.g.{{WikiProject New York City}}) orcategorized correctly and wait for the next update. SeeWP:RECOG for configuration options.
.JPG)
.jpg)
.jpg)
.jpg)
.jpg)
_Bronx%2c_NY%2c_where_she_is_a_%2560boot%2527_-_NARA_-_520638.jpg)
.jpg)
