New York City

New York, one of the most populous urban areas in the world.

The city consists of five boroughs, The Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens and Staten Island, the city’s estimated population exceeds 8.3 million people making it the most densely populated major city in the United States.

Much of New York is built on the three islands of Manhattan, Staten Island and Long Island.

New York was founded as a commercial trading post by the Dutch in 1624, the settlement was called New Amsterdam until 1664 when the colony came under English control.

“The City that Never Sleeps” can lay claim to almost 170 different languages being spoken as 36% of its population were born outside the United States.

The great Irish famine brought a large influx of Irish immigrants, and by 1860, one in four New Yorkers – over 200,000 – had been born in Ireland.

The architecture in New York is obviously the “skyscraper” of which there are 5538, with 50 completed skyscrapers taller than 656 feet, this is more than any other city in the United States, and second in the world behind Hong Kong.