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|Bronx County, New York

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|Kings County, New York

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|Nassau County, New York

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|New York County, New York

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|Queens County, New York

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|Suffolk County, New York

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|Middlesex County, New Jersey

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2010 census

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! Racial composition !! 2010

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|White ||73.4%

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|&nbsp;—Non-Hispanic White ||51.7%

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|&nbsp;—Hispanic or Latino (of any race) ||21.7%

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|Black or African-American ||15.3%

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|Asian ||9%

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|Native American or Alaskan Native ||0.2%

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|Other || 0.5%

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|Two or more races ||1.6%

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As of the 2010 Census, the metropolitan area had a population of 22,085,649. The population density was 1,865 per square mile. The racial markup was 51.7% White (non-Latino), 21.7% Latino, 15.3% African-American, 9.0% Asian-American, 0.16% Native American and Alaskan Native, 0.03% Pacific Islands American, 0.5% Other, and 1.6% Multiracial. The median age was 37.9. 25.5% were under 18, 9.5% were 18 to 24 years, 28% were 25 to 44 years of age, 26.6% were 45 to 64 years old, and 13.2% were over the age of 65. Males composed 48.3% of the population while females were 51.7% of the population.

Approximately 97.7% of the population were in households, 2.3% were in group quarters, and 1% were institutionalized. There were 8,103,731 households, of which 30.2% or 2,449,343 had children. 46.1% or 3,736,165 were composed of opposite sex and married couples. Male households with no wife composed 4.9% or 400,534. 15.0% or 1,212,436 were female households with no husbands. 34% or 2,754,596 were non-family households. The household density was 684 per square mile. 91.9% of housing units were occupied with a 3.8% vacancy rate. The average household size was 2.65 per household. The average income for non-family households was $90,335, and the average income for families was $104,715. 13.3% or 2,888,493 of the population were below the

Also as of 2010, 26.7% or 5,911,993 of the population were born outside the United States. Out of this, most (50.6% or 2,992,639) were born in Latin America, 27.0% or 1,595,523 were born in Asia, 17.4% or 1,028,506 were born in Europe, 3.8% or 224,109 were born in Africa, and 0.2% or 11,957 were born in Oceania.

Population

thumb|The New York metropolitan area is home to the largest gay and bisexual community in the United States and one of the world's largest.

As of 2020, the United States Census Bureau estimated the population of the New York combined statistical area at 23,582,649, the most populous in the United States and one of the world's most populous urban agglomerations. The increase in the population of the combined statistical area was distributed across the portions of the states of New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, and Pennsylvania which together constitute the greater New York City metropolitan area.

The New York metropolitan region is ethnically diverse. Asians in New York City, according to the 2010 Census, number more than one million, greater than the combined totals of San Francisco and Los Angeles, New York contains the highest total Asian population of any U.S. city proper, and the New York metropolitan area is home to the largest Asian population outside Asia, at 2.6 million. The Han Chinese population constitutes the fastest-growing ethnicity in New York State; multiple satellites of the original Manhattan Chinatown (), in Brooklyn (), and around Flushing, Queens (), are thriving as traditionally urban enclaves, while also expanding rapidly eastward into suburban Nassau County. on Long Island, as the New York metropolitan region and New York State have become the top destinations for new Chinese immigrants, respectively, and large-scale Chinese immigration continues into New York City and surrounding areas.

In 2012, 6.3% of New York was of Chinese ethnicity, with nearly three-fourths living in either Queens or Brooklyn, geographically on Long Island. In particular, the New York area has over 100,000 Fuzhounese people. A community numbering 20,000 Korean-Chinese (Chaoxianzu () or Joseonjok ()) is centered in Flushing, Queens, while New York is also home to the largest Tibetan population outside China, India, and Nepal, also centered in Queens. Koreans made up 1.2% of the city's population, and Japanese 0.3%. Filipinos were the largest Southeast Asian ethnic group at 0.8%, followed by Vietnamese, who made up 0.2% of New York's population in 2010. Indians are the largest South Asian group, accounting for 2.4% of the city's population, with Bangladeshis and Pakistanis at 0.7% and 0.5%, respectively. Queens is the preferred borough of settlement for Asian Indians, Koreans, and Filipinos, as well as Malaysians while Brooklyn is receiving large numbers of both West Indian as well as Asian Indian immigrants.

New York has the largest European and non-Hispanic white population of any American city. At 2.7 million in 2012, New York's non-Hispanic white population is larger than the non-Hispanic white populations of Los Angeles (1.1 million), Chicago (865,000), and Houston (550,000) combined. The European diaspora residing in the city is very diverse. According to 2012 Census estimates, there were roughly 560,000 Italian Americans, 385,000 Irish Americans, 253,000 German Americans, 223,000 Russian Americans, 201,000 Polish Americans, and 137,000 English Americans. Additionally, Greek and French Americans numbered 65,000 each, with those of Hungarian descent estimated at 60,000 people. Ukrainian and Scottish Americans numbered 55,000 and 35,000, respectively. People identifying ancestry from Spain numbered 30,838 total in 2010. People of Norwegian and Swedish descent both stood at about 20,000 each, while people of Czech, Lithuanian, Portuguese, Scotch-Irish, and Welsh descent all numbered between 12,000 and 14,000 people. Arab Americans number over 160,000 in New York City, with the highest concentration in Brooklyn. Central Asians, primarily Uzbek Americans, are a rapidly growing segment of the city's non-Hispanic white population, enumerating over 30,000, and including over half of all Central Asian immigrants to the United States, most settling in Queens or Brooklyn. Albanian Americans are most highly concentrated in the Bronx.

The wider New York metropolitan area is also ethnically diverse. The New York metropolitan area is home the largest African American/Black population in the nation with nearly four million. The New York region continues to be by far the leading metropolitan gateway for legal immigrants admitted into the United States, substantially exceeding the combined totals of Los Angeles and Miami, the next most popular gateway regions. It is home to the largest Jewish as well as Israeli communities outside Israel, with the Jewish population in the region numbering over 1.5 million in 2012 and including many diverse Jewish sects from around the Middle East and Eastern Europe. the largest Asian Indian population in the Western Hemisphere; the largest Russian American, with the urban agglomeration consisting of a population of 819,527 uniracial overseas Chinese as of 2014 Census estimates, the largest outside of Asia.

Ecuador, Colombia, Guyana, Peru, and Brazil were the top source countries from South America for legal immigrants to the New York region in 2013; the Dominican Republic, Jamaica, Haiti, and Trinidad and Tobago in the Caribbean; and El Salvador, Honduras, and Guatemala in Central America. Amidst a resurgence of Puerto Rican migration to New York City, this population had increased to approximately 1.3 million in the metropolitan area as of 2013.

New York City has been described as the gay capital of the world, and is home to one of the world's largest LGBTQ populations and the most prominent. The New York metropolitan area is home to a self-identifying gay and bisexual community estimated at 568,903 individuals, three world's largest. The annual NYC Pride March (or Gay Pride Parade) traverses southward down Fifth Avenue in Manhattan, ending at Greenwich Village, and is the largest pride parade in the world, attracting tens of thousands of participants and millions of sidewalk spectators each June.

Religion

The 2014 Pew Religious Landscape Survey showed that the religious makeup of the New York metro area was as follows:

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Economy

thumb|[[Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory on the North Shore of Long Island, an internationally renowned biomedical research facility and home to eight scientists awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]]

The New York City regional economy is the largest in the world, with a GDP of US$2.5 trillion in 2022, which would rank 8th among sovereign countries. Many Fortune 500 corporations are headquartered in New York, as are a large number of foreign corporations. One out of ten private sector jobs in the city is with a foreign company. In 2012 and 2015, New York topped the first and second Global Economic Power Index lists, respectively, as published by The Atlantic, with cities ranked according to criteria reflecting their presence on five different lists as published by five separate entities. Finance, international trade, new and traditional media, real estate, education, fashion and entertainment, tourism, biotechnology, and manufacturing are the leading industries in the area. Along with its wealth, the area has a cost of living that is the highest in the United States.

Gross domestic product by county

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| New York

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| Kings

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| Suffolk

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| Queens

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| Nassau

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| Fairfield

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| Westchester

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| Middlesex

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| Morris

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| Essex

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| New Haven

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| Hudson

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| Bronx

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| Mercer

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| Somerset

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| Monmouth

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| Union

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| Ocean

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| Passaic

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| Orange

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| Rockland

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| Richmond

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| Litchfield

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| Ulster

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| Hunterdon

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| Sussex

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| Pike

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Wall Street

thumb|[[NYSE on Wall Street, the world's largest stock market by total market capitalization of listed companies.]]

thumb|Manhattan's [[Flatiron District was the cradle of Silicon Alley, now metonymous for the New York metropolitan region's high tech sector, which has since expanded beyond the area.]]

The New York metropolitan area's most important economic sector lies in its role as the headquarters for the U.S. financial industry, metonymously known as Wall Street. Anchored by Wall Street, in the Financial District of Lower Manhattan, New York has been called both the most economically powerful city and the leading financial center of the world, and the city is home to the world's two largest stock exchanges by total market capitalization, the New York Stock Exchange and NASDAQ.

Manhattan had approximately 520 million square feet (48.1 million m<sup>2</sup>) of office space in 2013, making it the largest office market in the United States, while Midtown Manhattan is the largest central business district in the nation.

Lower Manhattan is the third-largest central business district in the United States and is home to both the New York Stock Exchange, on Wall Street, and the NASDAQ, at 165 Broadway, representing the world's largest and second largest stock exchanges, respectively, when measured both by overall average daily trading volume and by total market capitalization of their listed companies in 2013. while in 2013, senior New York bank officers who manage risk and compliance functions earned as much as US$324,000 annually.

In July 2013, NYSE Euronext, the operator of the New York Stock Exchange, took over the administration of the London interbank offered rate from the British Bankers Association.

Many Wall Street firms have added or moved auxiliary financial or technical operations into Jersey City, to take advantage of New Jersey's relatively lower commercial real estate and rental prices, while offering continued geographic proximity to Manhattan's financial industry ecosystem.

Tech and biotech

Silicon Alley, centered in New York, has evolved into a metonym for the sphere encompassing the metropolitan region's high technology industries involving the internet, new media, financial technology (fintech) and cryptocurrency, telecommunications, digital media, software development, biotechnology, game design, and other fields within information technology that are supported by its entrepreneurship ecosystem and venture capital investments. High technology startup companies and employment are growing in New York and across the metropolitan region, bolstered by the city's emergence as a global node of creativity and entrepreneurship, social tolerance, and environmental sustainability, as well as New York's position as the leading Internet hub and telecommunications center in North America, including its vicinity to several transatlantic fiber optic trunk lines, the city's intellectual capital, and its extensive outdoor wireless connectivity. Verizon Communications, headquartered at 140 West Street in Lower Manhattan, was at the final stages in 2014 of completing a US$3 billion fiberoptic telecommunications upgrade throughout New York City.

The biotechnology sector is also growing in the New York metropolitan region, based upon its strength in academic scientific research and public and commercial financial support. On December 19, 2011, then-New York mayor Michael Bloomberg announced his choice of Cornell University and Technion-Israel Institute of Technology to build Cornell Tech, a US$2 billion graduate school of applied sciences on Roosevelt Island, Manhattan with the goal of transforming New York into the world's premier technology capital. By mid-2014, Accelerator, a biotech investment firm, had raised more than US$30&nbsp;million from investors, including Eli Lilly and Company, Pfizer, and Johnson & Johnson, for initial funding to create biotechnology startups at the Alexandria Center for Life Science, which encompasses more than on East 29th Street and promotes collaboration among scientists and entrepreneurs at the center and with nearby academic, medical, and research institutions. The New York City Economic Development Corporation's Early Stage Life Sciences Funding Initiative and venture capital partners, including Celgene, General Electric Ventures, and Eli Lilly, committed a minimum of US$100&nbsp;million to help launch 15 to 20 ventures in life sciences and biotechnology. Westchester County has also developed a burgeoning biotechnology sector in the 21st century, with over US$1 billion in planned private investment as of 2016, earning the county the nickname Biochester.

Port of New York and New Jersey

thumb|[[Port Newark–Elizabeth Marine Terminal on Newark Bay is the busiest container terminal on the East Coast of the United States.]]

The Port of New York and New Jersey is the port district of the New York metropolitan area, encompassing the region within approximately a radius of the Statue of Liberty National Monument. A major economic engine for the New York metropolitan area, the port includes the system of navigable waterways in the estuary along of shoreline in the vicinity of New York and the Gateway Region of northeastern New Jersey, as well as the region's airports and supporting rail and roadway distribution networks. The Port of New York and New Jersey handled a maritime cargo volume in the ten months through October 2022 of over 8.2&nbsp;million TEUs, benefitting post-Panamax from the expansion of the Panama Canal, and accelerating ahead of California seaports in monthly cargo volumes.

Water purity and availability

Water purity and availability are a lifeline for the New York metropolitan region. New York City is supplied with drinking water by the protected Catskill Mountains watershed. As a result of the watershed's integrity and undisturbed natural water filtration system, New York is one of only four major cities in the United States the majority of whose drinking water is pure enough not to require purification by water treatment plants. The Croton Watershed north of the city is undergoing construction of a US$3.2 billion water purification plant to augment New York's water supply by an estimated 290 million gallons daily, representing a greater than 20% addition to the city's current availability of water. The ongoing expansion of New York City Water Tunnel No. 3, an integral part of the New York City water supply system, is the largest capital construction project in the city's history, with segments serving Manhattan and The Bronx completed, and with segments serving Brooklyn and Queens planned for construction in 2020. Much of the fresh water for northern and central New Jersey is provided by reservoirs, but numerous municipal water wells exist which accomplish the same purpose.

Education

thumb|upright=1.15|[[Low Library, the Neoclassical centerpiece of the Columbia University campus]]

The New York metropolitan area is home to many prestigious institutions of higher education. Three Ivy League universities: Columbia University in Manhattan, New York City; Princeton University in Princeton, New Jersey; Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut – all ranked amongst the top 3 U.S. national universities as per U.S. News & World Report as of 2018 – reside in the region, as well as New York University and The Rockefeller University, both located in Manhattan; all of the above have been ranked amongst the top 35 universities in the world. Rutgers University, a global university located southwest of Manhattan in New Brunswick and Piscataway, New Jersey, is by far the largest university in the region. New York Institute of Technology is located on two campuses, one in Old Westbury, Long Island and one near Columbus Circle in Manhattan. Hofstra University is Long Island's largest private university. Fordham University, also a Tier-1 university, is the oldest Catholic institution of higher education in the northeastern United States, and the third-oldest university in New York State. The New York City Department of Education is the largest school district in the United States serving over 1.2 million students. The overall region also hosts many public high schools, some of which have been described as among the most prestigious in the country.

Attainment

According to the 2010 American Community Survey, of the 14,973,063 persons in this area over 25 years of age, 14.8% (2,216,578) had a graduate or professional degree, 21.1% (3,166,037) had a bachelor's degree, 6.4% (962,007) had an associate degree, 16.0% (2,393,990) had some college education but no degree, 26.8% (4,009,901) had a high school diploma or equivalent, 14.8% (2,224,557) had less than a high school education. In 2010, CNN Money ranked the area as one of the top 10 smartest regions in the United States.

Transportation

thumb|The [[New York City Subway is the world's largest rapid transit system by length of routes and by number of stations.]]

right|thumb|The [[Port Authority Trans-Hudson|Port Authority Trans-Hudson (PATH) rapid transit rail system connects Manhattan and metropolitan North Jersey beneath the Hudson River.]]

thumb|right|An [[Acela Express train going to New York. The Acela Express, operated by Amtrak through the Northeast Corridor, is the sole high-speed rail service in the country.]]

The depth and intricacy of the transportation network in the New York region parallels the size and complexity of the metropolis itself.

In 2013, the New York-Newark-Jersey City metropolitan statistical area (New York MSA) had the lowest percentage of workers who commuted by private automobile (56.9 percent), with 18.9 percent of area workers traveling via rail transit. During the period starting in 2006 and ending in 2013, the New York MSA had a 2.2 percent decline of workers commuting by automobile.

Rail

About one in every three users of mass transit in the United States and two-thirds of the nation's rail riders live in the New York metropolitan area.

New York City Subway

The New York City Subway is the largest rapid transit system in the world when measured by stations in operation, with , and by length of routes. In 2006 it was the third largest when measured by annual ridership (1.5&nbsp;billion passenger trips in 2006), However, in 2013, the subway delivered over 1.71 billion rides, but slipped to being the seventh busiest rapid transit rail system in the world. New York's subway is also notable because nearly the entire system remains open 24 hours a day, in contrast to the overnight shutdown common to systems in most cities, including Hong Kong, London, Seoul, Tokyo, and Toronto.

PATH

PATH is a rapid transit system connecting the cities of Newark, Harrison, Hoboken, and Jersey City, in metropolitan northern New Jersey, with the Lower and Midtown sections of Manhattan in New York City. The PATH is operated by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. PATH trains run 24 hours a day and 7 days a week. The system has a total route length of , not double-counting route overlaps.

Commuter rail

The metropolitan area is also fundamentally defined by the areas from which people commute into New York. The city is served by three primary commuter rail systems, and is provided intercity rail transit with Amtrak.

The Long Island Rail Road (LIRR), the busiest commuter railroad in the United States as of 2015, is operated by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA), an agency of the State Government of New York that focuses on New York City-area transit). It has two major terminals at Pennsylvania Station in Midtown Manhattan and Atlantic Terminal in Downtown Brooklyn, with a minor terminal at the Long Island City station and a major transfer point at the Jamaica station in Queens.

New Jersey Transit (NJT), the second busiest commuter railroad in the United States as of 2015, Interstate 95 and U.S. Route 1/9 cross the river via the bridge, while U.S. Route 46, which lies entirely within New Jersey, ends halfway across the bridge at the state border with New York.]]

thumb|The [[Poughkeepsie Bridge|Walkway over the Hudson, the world's longest pedestrian bridge, connects Ulster and Dutchess counties in New York.]]

Interstates

right|thumb|The [[Long Island Expressway|Long Island Expressway (I-495), viewing eastbound in Corona, Queens.]]

  • – serves as southern beltway around New York City
  • – serves as northern beltway around New York City
  • – serves as a northern partial beltway around Trenton in Mercer County, NJ
  • − also known as Long Island Expressway or LIE
  • – unsigned

U.S. Routes

State Routes

thumb|[[Governor Alfred E. Driscoll Bridge in Middlesex County connects Woodbridge and Sayreville, New Jersey across the Raritan River.]]

thumb|[[Merritt Parkway southbound in Fairfield County, Connecticut.]]

Other limited-access roads

thumb|View south along the northbound lanes of the [[Garden State Parkway from the overpass for the Capital to Coast Trail in Wall Township, Monmouth County, New Jersey.]]

Some of these roads have a numerical designation assigned to it:

  • (part of I-95)
  • (formerly: Interboro Parkway)
  • (part of Route 15)
  • (part of I-95)
  • (part of I-87)

Named bridges and tunnels

thumb|The [[Brooklyn Bridge connects Manhattan and Brooklyn.]]

thumb|[[Verrazzano–Narrows Bridge, one of the world's longest suspension bridges,

  • Bear Mountain Bridge (part of US 6 and US 202)
  • Bronx–Whitestone Bridge (part of I-678) – connects the boroughs of Bronx and Queens.
  • Brooklyn Bridge, iconic of New York and designated a National Historic Landmark by the U.S. National Park Service on January 29, 1964. Connects Brooklyn and lower Manhattan (at Park Row and City Hall).
  • Brooklyn–Battery Tunnel (part of I-478), officially renamed the Hugh L. Carey Tunnel, in honor of the former New York State governor – connects Brooklyn and lower Manhattan (financial district).
  • Delaware Water Gap Toll Bridge (part of I-80 crossing the Delaware River)
  • Driscoll Bridge (part of the Garden State Parkway), with a total of 15 travel lanes and 6 shoulder lanes, the widest motor vehicle bridge in the world by number of lanes and one of the world's busiest.
  • Ed Koch Queensboro Bridge (part of NY 25) – renamed in honor of former New York Mayor Edward I. Koch, also known informally as the "59th Street Bridge". Connects Queens and the east side of Manhattan.
  • George Washington Bridge (part of I-95 and US 1-9/46), the world's busiest motor vehicle bridge
  • Thomas Alva Edison Memorial Bridge (part of US 9)
  • Throgs Neck Bridge (part of I-295) – connects the boroughs of Bronx and Queens (at the western end of Long Island Sound).
  • Trenton–Morrisville Toll Bridge (part of US 1)
  • Triborough Bridge (part of I-278), officially renamed the Robert F. Kennedy (RFK) Bridge – connects the three boroughs of Manhattan, Bronx and Queens (hence its name).
  • Verrazzano–Narrows Bridge (part of I-278), the longest suspension bridge in the Americas and one of the longest in the world (formerly the world's longest) – connects the boroughs of Staten Island and Brooklyn.
  • William A. Stickel Memorial Bridge (part of I-280)
  • Williamsburg Bridge, carries 2 tracks of the of the New York City Subway, in addition to 8 lanes of traffic – connects Williamsburg, Brooklyn, and the Lower East Side or Manhattan.

Commuter bus

New Jersey Transit, Academy Bus, Coach USA, Spanish Transportation, Trailways of New York, and several other companies operate commuter coaches into the Port Authority Bus Terminal in Manhattan, and many other bus services in New Jersey. Bus services also operate in other nearby counties in the states of New York and Connecticut, but most terminate at a subway terminal or other rail station.

Major airports

thumb|right|The [[AirTrain (JFK)|AirTrain at JFK International Airport in Jamaica, Queens in April 2007]]

thumb|right|View of [[Manhattan from the Airtrain at Newark Liberty International Airport in November 2015]]

The three busiest airports in the New York metropolitan area are John F. Kennedy International Airport, Newark Liberty International Airport, and LaGuardia Airport; 130.5 million travelers used these three airports in 2016, and the metropolitan area's airspace is the busiest in the nation.

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| John F. Kennedy International Airport

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| New York

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| Newark Liberty International Airport

| EWR

| KEWR

| Essex/Union

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| LaGuardia Airport

| LGA

| KLGA

| Queens

| New York

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The following smaller airports are also in the metro area and provide daily commercial service:

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| Long Island MacArthur Airport

| ISP

| KISP

| Suffolk

| New York

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| Stewart International Airport

| SWF

| KSWF

| Orange

| New York

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| Trenton–Mercer Airport

| TTN

| KTTN

| Mercer

| New Jersey

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| Westchester County Airport

| HPN

| KHPN

| Westchester

| New York

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Commuter usage

According to the 2010 American Community Survey, 54.3% (5,476,169) of commuters used a car or other private vehicle alone, 7.0% (708,788) used a carpool, 27.0% (2,721,372) used public transportation, 5.5% (558,434) walked to work, 2.0% (200,448) used some other means of transportation such as a bicycle to get to work.

Culture and contemporary life

thumb|[[Metropolitan Museum of Art, part of Museum Mile in the Carnegie Hill neighborhood of Manhattan's Upper East Side, is one of the largest and most visited museums in the world.]]

thumb|[[Citi Field in Flushing, Queens, home of the New York Mets]]

thumb|[[Yankee Stadium in the South Bronx, home of the New York Yankees and New York City FC]]

thumb|[[MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey, home to the New York Giants and New York Jets, was the most expensive stadium ever built,]]

thumb|[[Travel + Leisure magazine's October 2011 survey named Times Square in Midtown Manhattan, iconified as the "Crossroads of the World", the world's most visited tourist attraction with over 39 million visitors annually.]]

New York has been described as the cultural capital of the world by the diplomatic consulates of Iceland and Latvia and by New York's own Baruch College. A book containing a series of essays titled New York, culture capital of the world, 1940–1965 has also been published as showcased by the National Library of Australia. Tom Wolfe has quoted regarding New York's culture that "Culture just seems to be in the air, like part of the weather."

Although Manhattan remains the epicenter of cultural life in the metropolitan area, the entire region is replete with prominent cultural institutions, with artistic performances and ethnically oriented events receiving international attention throughout the year.

Sports teams

The New York metropolitan area is home to the headquarters of the National Football League, Major League Baseball, the National Basketball Association, the National Hockey League, and Major League Soccer. Four of the ten most expensive stadiums ever built worldwide (MetLife Stadium, the new Yankee Stadium, Madison Square Garden, and Citi Field) are located in the New York metropolitan area. The New York metropolitan area has the highest total number of professional sports teams in these five leagues.

Listing of the professional sports teams in the New York metropolitan area:

Baseball

  • Major League Baseball (MLB)
  • New York Mets (Queens, New York City)
  • New York Yankees (The Bronx, New York City)
  • Minor League Baseball (MiLB)
  • Eastern League (AA)
  • Trenton Thunder (Yankees) (Trenton, New Jersey)
  • South Atlantic League (A)
  • Jersey Shore BlueClaws (Phillies) (Lakewood Township, New Jersey)
  • Brooklyn Cyclones (Mets) (Brooklyn, New York City)
  • Hudson Valley Renegades (Rays) (Fishkill, New York)
  • Atlantic League of Professional Baseball (ALPB)
  • Staten Island FerryHawks (Staten Island, New York City)
  • Bridgeport Bluefish (Bridgeport, Connecticut)
  • Long Island Ducks (Central Islip, New York)
  • Somerset Patriots (Bridgewater Township, New Jersey)
  • Canadian American Association of Professional Baseball (CanAm League)
  • New Jersey Jackals (Little Falls, New Jersey)
  • Newark Bears (Newark, New Jersey)
  • Rockland Boulders (Pomona, New York)

Basketball

  • National Basketball Association (NBA)
  • Brooklyn Nets (Brooklyn, New York City)
  • New York Knicks (Manhattan, New York City)
  • Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA)
  • New York Liberty (Brooklyn, New York City)

Football

  • National Football League (NFL)
  • New York Giants (East Rutherford, New Jersey)
  • New York Jets (East Rutherford, New Jersey)

Hockey

  • National Hockey League (NHL)
  • New Jersey Devils (Newark, New Jersey)
  • New York Islanders (Elmont, New York)
  • New York Rangers (Manhattan, New York City)
  • American Hockey League (AHL)
  • Bridgeport Sound Tigers (Islanders) (Bridgeport, Connecticut)
  • Professional Women's Hockey League (PWHL)
  • New York Sirens (Newark, New Jersey)

Lacrosse

  • Major League Lacrosse (outdoor) (MLL)
  • New York Lizards (Hempstead, New York)

Soccer

  • Major League Soccer (MLS)
  • New York City FC (The Bronx, New York City)
  • New York Red Bulls (Harrison, New Jersey)
  • National Women's Soccer League (NWSL)
  • NJ/NY Gotham FC (Harrison, New Jersey)

College sports

  • College sports (NCAA Division I)
  • Army Black Knights (West Point, New York)
  • Columbia University Lions (Manhattan, New York City)
  • Fairfield University Stags (Fairfield, Connecticut)
  • Fairleigh Dickinson University Knights (Teaneck, New Jersey)
  • Fordham University Rams (The Bronx, New York City)
  • Hofstra University Pride (Hempstead, New York)
  • Iona College Gaels (New Rochelle, New York)
  • Long Island University Blackbirds (Brooklyn, New York City)
  • Manhattan College Jaspers and Lady Jaspers (The Bronx, New York City)
  • Marist College Red Foxes (Poughkeepsie, New York)
  • Monmouth University Hawks (West Long Branch, New Jersey)
  • New Jersey Institute of Technology Highlanders (Newark, New Jersey)
  • Princeton University Tigers (Princeton, New Jersey)
  • Quinnipiac University Bobcats (Hamden, Connecticut)
  • Rider University Broncs (Lawrenceville, New Jersey)
  • Rutgers University Scarlet Knights (Piscataway / New Brunswick, New Jersey)
  • Sacred Heart University Pioneers (Fairfield, Connecticut)
  • Saint Peter's University Peacocks (Jersey City, New Jersey)
  • St. John's University Red Storm (Queens, New York City)
  • Seton Hall University Pirates (South Orange, New Jersey)
  • Stony Brook University Seawolves (Stony Brook, New York)
  • Wagner College Seahawks (Staten Island, New York City)
  • Yale University Bulldogs (New Haven, Connecticut)

Media

The New York metropolitan area is home to the headquarters of several well-known media companies, subsidiaries, and publications, including Thomson Reuters, The New York Times Company, the Associated Press, Warner Bros. Discovery, NBCUniversal, the Hearst Corporation, Paramount Global, News Corp, the Fox Corporation, The Wall Street Journal, Fox News, ABC, CBS, and NBC. Local television channels broadcasting to the New York market include WCBS-TV 2 (CBS), WNBC 4 (NBC), WNYW 5 (FOX), WABC-TV 7 (ABC), WWOR-TV 9 (MyNetworkTV), WPIX 11 (CW), WNET 13 (PBS), WNYE-TV 25 (NYC Media) and WPXN-TV 31 (Ion). NY1 is a 24/7 local news provider available only to cable television subscribers. Radio stations serving the area include: WNYC, WKCR, WFMU, WABC, and WFAN. Many television and radio stations use the top of the Empire State Building to broadcast their terrestrial television signals, while some media entities broadcast from studios in Times Square.

The New York metropolitan area is extensive enough so that its own channels must compete with channels from neighboring television markets (including Philadelphia, Scranton/Wilkes-Barre, and Hartford) within its outlying counties. Cable companies offer such competition in the Pennsylvania portion, Connecticut, and a few counties in central New Jersey.

Theme parks

In New Jersey

thumb|center|upright=3.65|Skyline of [[Six Flags Great Adventure in Jackson Township, New Jersey, the world's largest theme park To the far left is Kingda Ka, the world's tallest roller coaster until its closure in 2024.]]

{|class="wikitable"

|-

!Main Park

!Other Parks

!Location

!Year Opened

|-

|Six Flags Great Adventure

|Six Flags Wild Safari, Six Flags Hurricane Harbor

|Jackson

|1974

|-

|Land of Make Believe

|None

|Hope

|1954

|-

|Mountain Creek Waterpark

|None

|Vernon

|1998

|}

In New York State

Coney Island, in Brooklyn, is considered one of America's first amusement parks.

Playland, in Rye, Westchester County, has been open since 1928.

Legoland New York, in Goshen, Orange County, opened in 2021.

Plans were unveiled by New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg on September 27, 2012, for the New York Wheel, a giant Ferris wheel, to be built at the northern shore of Staten Island, overlooking the Statue of Liberty, New York Harbor, and the Lower Manhattan skyline.

Area codes

The area is served by at least 26 area codes:

  • 212: Serves Manhattan and is overlaid with 646, 917, and 332.
  • 718: Serves all other boroughs of New York City and is overlaid with 347, 917, and 929.
  • 917: Serves all of New York City.
  • 516 & 363: Serve Nassau County.
  • 631 & 934: Serve Suffolk County.
  • 914: Serves Westchester County.
  • 845: Serves the Hudson Valley counties of southern New York State.
  • 570 & 272: Serves Pike County in Pennsylvania.
  • 203 & 475: Serves southwestern Connecticut.
  • 860 & 959: Serves the rest of Connecticut not served by 203 or 475.
  • 201: Serves most of Bergen County, as well as parts of Essex, Hudson, and Passaic in Northern New Jersey, and is overlaid with 551.
  • 973: Serves portions of Bergen, Essex, Hudson, Morris, Passaic, Sussex, and portions of Union County in Northern New Jersey, and is overlaid with 862.
  • 908: Serves communities in Union County, Somerset County, northern parts of Middlesex County, Hunterdon County, Warren County, and Morris County as well as some cell phones in Monmouth County in Central New Jersey.
  • 732: Serves Middlesex County, Somerset County, portions of Union County, Monmouth and northern Ocean counties in Central New Jersey; overlaid with 848.
  • 609 & 640: Serves Mercer County and parts of Middlesex, Monmouth, and Ocean Counties in Central New Jersey.

See also

  • Biotech and pharmaceutical companies in the New York metropolitan area
  • Regional Plan Association
  • Tech companies in the New York metropolitan area
  • Transportation in New York City

Notes

References

  • Government Census, Table 1.