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  2. Chinese people in the New York City metropolitan area

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    The Chinese American experience has been documented at the Museum of Chinese in America in Manhattan's Chinatown since 1980.. The New York metropolitan area is home to the largest and most prominent ethnic Chinese population outside of Asia, hosting Chinese populations representing all 34 provincial-level administrative units of China.

  3. Staten Island - Wikipedia

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    With a population of 495,747 in the 2020 Census, [6] Staten Island is the least populated New York City borough but the third largest in land area at 58.5 sq mi (152 km 2); it is also the least densely populated and most suburban borough in the city.

  4. Sports in the New York metropolitan area - Wikipedia

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    After a ten-year campaign to build a soccer-specific stadium within the five boroughs of New York City, the club announced in November 2022 that they had a deal to build a privately-funded 25,000-seat stadium in the Willets Point neighborhood of Queens. [14]

  5. Transportation on Long Island - Wikipedia

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    Map showing JFK (1) and LaGuardia (2) airports, both in Queens. Long Island is the location of three large airports with regularly scheduled commercial jet airline service. These are the John F. Kennedy International Airport and LaGuardia Airport, both in Queens County (in New York City), and the Long Island MacArthur Airport, (sometimes referred to as the "Islip Airport"), a smaller airport ...

  6. Kensington, Brooklyn - Wikipedia

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    Although New York City Deputy Municipal Reference Librarian Thelma E. Smith described the Kensington tracts from McDonald Avenue to Coney Island Avenue as a "sub-neighborhood" of Flatbush in a 1966 annotated bibliography of neighborhood histories and reportage for city officials, [26] The New York Times would characterize Ocean Parkway as the ...

  7. List of New York area codes - Wikipedia

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    New York City: Manhattan only; overlays with 212, 332, and 917 680: 2017: Syracuse, Utica, Watertown, and north central New York; overlay of 315 716: 1947 Buffalo, Dunkirk-Fredonia, Olean, Jamestown, Niagara Falls, Tonawanda and western New York; will be overlaid by 624 in 2024 718: 1984 New York City: all except Manhattan; overlays with 347 ...

  8. History of New York City (1855–1897) - Wikipedia

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    The modern city of Greater New York — the five boroughs — was created in 1898, with the consolidation of the cities of New York (then Manhattan and the Bronx) and Brooklyn with the largely rural areas of Queens and Staten Island.

  9. The Bronx - Wikipedia

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    The Bronx (/ b r ɒ ŋ k s /) is a borough of New York City, coextensive with Bronx County, in the U.S. state of New York.It is south of Westchester County; north and east of the New York City borough of Manhattan, across the Harlem River; and north of the New York City borough of Queens, across the East River.