Peter Minuit is credited with the purchase of the island of Manhattan in 1626. (Source)
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New Amsterdam, centered in the eventual Lower Manhattan, in 1664, the year England took control and renamed it New York. (Source)
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A view of Fort George and the city of New York c. 1731 (Source)
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The Battle of Long Island, the largest battle of the American Revolution, took place in Brooklyn in 1776. (Source)
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Broadway follows the Native American Wickquasgeck Trail through Manhattan.[119] (Source)
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Manhattans Little Italy, Lower East Side, circa 1900. (Source)
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A construction worker on top of the Empire State Building as it was being built in 1930. The Chrysler Building is below and behind him. (Source)
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The Stonewall Inn in Greenwich Village, a designated U.S. National Historic Landmark and National Monument, as the site of the 1969 Stonewall riots.[138][139] (Source)
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United Airlines Flight 175 hits the South Tower of the original World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. (Source)
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Satellite imagery illustrating the core of the New York City Metropolitan Area, with Manhattan Island at its center (Source)
Landmark 19th-century rowhouses, including brownstones, on tree-lined Kent Street in the Greenpoint Historic District, Brooklyn. (Source)
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Avenue C in Manhattan after flooding caused by Hurricane Sandy on October 29, 2012.[198] (Source)
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The Statue of Liberty on Liberty Island in New York Harbor is a symbol of the United States and its ideals of freedom, democracy, and opportunity.[214] (Source)
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Reindeer at the Bronx Zoo, the worlds largest metropolitan zoo.[194] (Source)
Map of racial distribution in New York, 2010 U.S. Census. Each dot is 25 people: White, Black, Asian, Hispanic or Other (yellow) (Source)
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The scene at the 2011 LGBT Pride March. New York City is home to the largest LGBTQ community in the United States and one of the worlds largest.[290][291][292] (Source)
The New York Stock Exchange on Wall Street, the worlds largest stock exchange per total market capitalization of its listed companies.[68][69] (Source)
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Silicon Alley, once centered around the Flatiron District, is now metonymous for New Yorks high tech sector, which has since expanded beyond the area.[343] (Source)
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Times Square is the hub of the Broadway theater district and a media center. It also has one of the highest annual attendance rates of any tourist attraction in the world, estimated at 50 million.[55] (Source)
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Rockefeller Center is home to NBC Studios. (Source)
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Butler Library at Columbia University, described as one of the most beautiful college libraries in the United States.[380] (Source)
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The Washington Square Arch, an unofficial icon of both New York University (NYU) and its Greenwich Village neighborhood. (Source)
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The Stephen A. Schwarzman Headquarters Building of the New York Public Library, at 5th Avenue and 42nd Street. (Source)
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New York-Presbyterian Hospital, white complex at center, the largest hospital and largest private employer in New York City[389] and one of the worlds busiest. (Source)
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The New York City Police Department (NYPD) represents the largest police force in the United States. (Source)
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The New York City Fire Department (FDNY) is the largest municipal fire department in the United States. (Source)
