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The city is the birthplace of many cultural movements, including the Harlem Renaissance in literature and visual art; abstract expressionism (also known as the New York School) in painting; and hip hop, [10] punk, salsa, freestyle, Tin Pan Alley, certain forms of jazz, and (along with Philadelphia) disco in music.
The New York metropolitan area, broadly referred to as the Tri-State area and often also called the Greater New York City Area, is the largest metropolitan area in the world by urban landmass, [12] [13] [14] encompassing 4,669.0 sq mi (12,093 km 2 ). [15] The New York metropolitan area is one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world ...
The first mayor of the expanded city was Robert Anderson Van Wyck . The longest-serving mayors have been Fiorello H. La Guardia (1934–1945), Robert F. Wagner Jr. (1954–1965), Ed Koch (1978–1989) and Michael Bloomberg (2002–2013), each of whom was in office for twelve years (three successive four-year terms).
The New York City Subway is a rapid transit system in the New York City boroughs of Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, and the Bronx. It is owned by the government of New York City and leased to the New York City Transit Authority, [14] an affiliate agency of the state-run Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA). [15]
Manhattan (/ m æ n ˈ h æ t ən, m ə n-/ ⓘ) is the most densely populated and geographically smallest of the five boroughs of New York City.The borough is coextensive with New York County, the smallest county by geographical area in the U.S. state of New York.
The five boroughs of New York City. New York City is located on the coast of the Northeastern United States at the mouth of the Hudson River in southeastern New York state. It is located in the New York–New Jersey Harbor Estuary, the centerpiece of which is the New York Harbor, whose deep waters and sheltered bays helped the city grow in significance as a trading city.