New York City is a cosmopolitan city on the east coast of the United States. It is located in the state of New York and is the most populous city in the United States with around 8.5 million inhabitants.

The 18.9 million metropolitan area of ​​New York is one of the world’s most important economic and trading centers, home to many international corporations and organizations such as the United Nations, as well as major seaports and inland ports on the US East Coast and Hudson. With its large number of sights, the 500 galleries, about 200 museums, more than 150 theaters and more than 18,000 restaurants, the city also enjoys world renown in the fields of art and culture and has about 50 million visitors every year, of which just under 12 million. from abroad. According to Forbes Magazine, New York City is the city with the highest cost of living in the United States and one of the most expensive cities in the world.

After 1524 Giovanni da Verrazano and 1609 Henry Hudson had explored the area of ​​today’s New York, settled from 1610 Dutch merchants on the southern tip of the island Manna -Hatta and soon after at the western tip of Long Island, today’s Brooklyn. It was not until 1626 that Peter Minuit bought the island “Manna-hatta” for goods worth 60 gulden from the locals, probably Lenni Lenape Indians. The settlement thus founded was then named Nieuw Amsterdam and was initially the capital of the colony Nieuw Nederland, until it was conquered by the British in 1664 and the city got the valid name since then. Their rise to the cosmopolitan city began in 1825 with the completion of the Eriekanals.

Source: translated Wikipedia (10/2016), CC BY-S