TRANSPORTATION

Mass transit in New York City, most of which runs 24 hours a day, is the most complex and extensive in North America.  

The New York City Subway is the world's largest rapid transit system by length of routes and by number of stations.

 

EDUCATION

New York City is home to such notable private universities as Barnard College, Columbia University, Cooper Union, Fordham University, New York University, New York Institute of Technology, Pace University, and Yeshiva University. The public City University of New York system is one of the largest universities in the nation.

 

Columbia University

The New York Public Library, which has the largest collection of any public library system in the country, serves Manhattan, the Bronx, and Staten Island. The New York Public Library has several research libraries, including the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.

TOURISM

Times Square has the highest number of visitors of any tourist attraction in the US.

Major destinations include the Empire State Building; Statue of Liberty; Broadway theater; museums such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art or the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA); greenspaces such as Central Park; Rockefeller Center; Times Square; the Chinatown; luxury shopping along Fifth and Madison Avenues; and events such as the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade; the lighting of the Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree; the St. Patrick's Day parade; seasonal activities such as ice skating in Central Park in the wintertime.

The Empire State Building

Times Square

 

HISTORY

New York is the most popular city in the United States and the center of the New York metropolitan area, one of the most popular urban agglomerations in the world.

New York City has been described as the cultural capital of the world and consists of five boroughs: The Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens and Staten Island.

New York was founded in 1624 by colonists of the Dutch Republic and was named New Amsterdam in 1626. The city came under English control in 1664.

More than 800 languages are spoken in New York, making it the most linguistically diverse city in the world.