Huge, always great, New York
- It is the largest city in USA , with an area of 783.8 km2. Also the most populous in the country (tenth in the world), with 8.6 million inhabitants and 10.9 people per kilometer2.
- It has five districts (boroughs): Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, Bronx and Staten Island.
- This year has broken its annual tourist record with almost 67 million, almost two million more than in 2018. Of the total, 51.6 million are national and 13.5 international.
- The flight route with the highest income in the world is that of British Airways linking NYC's JFK with Heathrow, in **London** ($27,159/hour).
The Empire State in data
- The city has more than 121,000 hotel rooms. By 2021 it hopes to have nearly 139,000.
- The price of rent in manhattan is around the $3,400.
- The metro is one of the largest public transport systems in the world: It has 34 lines and 469 stops.
- The New York Post, Created by Alexander Hamilton in 1803, it is the oldest newspaper in the United States.
- More than 200 languages are spoken (some rare, like Quechua or Garífuna) . Nearly 50% of New Yorkers use a language other than English at home.
- The oldest building dates from around 1642. It is Wyckoff Farm in Brooklyn which now functions as a museum dedicated to the city's Dutch heritage.
- There are 275 species of birds in Central Park.
- The Statue of Liberty was a gift from France to the United States in 1886. to commemorate the centennial of the American Declaration of Independence. It arrived divided into 350 pieces on board a frigate.
To go up to the Empire State you will have to wait between 20 and 45 minutes
It weighs 225 tons and measures 46 meters, 93 meters if you count from the ground to the torch. It is visited by an average of 4.5 million tourists a year, who climb 377 steps to look out of the 25 windows in its crown, whose seven points represent the seven continents and the seven seas.
- America's first pizzeria opened in New York in 1895 (or 1905, according to sources). Today there are about 1,600 pizzerias in the city. The price of a portion and that of a metro ticket always cost more or less the same ($2.75).
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New York, movie city