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New York City
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English
thumbnail|right|Manhattan, one of the five boroughs of New York City
Etymology
en When/how was the city given this name?
Pronunciation
/ˌnu jɔrk ˈsɪti/
en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-New York City.wav Southern England
Proper noun
New York city
en Q60en The <<largest city>> in the <<c/USA>>, situated in the <<s:pref/New York>> at the mouth of the Hudson River on the northeastern Atlantic Coast.
en Big Apple<id:Q14435><alt:the Big Apple><qq:informal> City of New York<id:Q60> New York<id:Q60> Gotham<id:Q60><qq:informal>
en Bronx Brooklyn Queens Manhattan Staten Island
en 1964 w:John F. Kennedy w:A Nation of Immigrants https://archive.org/details/nationofimmigran0000kenn/ Revised and Enlarged w:Harper & Row 64-7830 899031989 13544167M 1 https://archive.org/details/nationofimmigran0000kenn/page/1/ On May 11, 1831, Alexis de Tocqueville, a young French aristocrat, disembarked in the bustling harbor of New York City. He had crossed the ocean to try to understand the implications for European civilization of the new experiment in democracy on the far side of the Atlantic.
en 1971 w:Carole King; Toni Stern w:Where You Lead Tapestry (Carole King album) Tapestry Carole King I always wanted a real home with flowers on the window sill,But if you want to live in New York City, honey, you know I will. Ode Records
en 2012 October 31 David M. Halbfinger http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/01/nyregion/new-jersey-continues-to-cope-with-hurricane-sandy.html New Jersey Continues to Cope with Hurricane Sandy w:The New York Times 31 October 2012 New Jersey was reeling on Wednesday from the impact of Hurricane Sandy, which has caused catastrophic flooding here in Hoboken and in other New York City suburbs, destroyed entire neighborhoods across the state and wiped out iconic boardwalks in shore towns that had enchanted generations of vacationgoers. https://web.archive.org/web/20210106233733/https://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/01/nyregion/new-jersey-continues-to-cope-with-hurricane-sandy.html
en Richard H. Pildes The three words that can avert an election nightmare w:CNN https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/14/opinions/election-2020-vote-by-mail-absentee-pildes 2020-09-14 In recent primaries, for example, nearly 4% of absentees were rejected in Philadelphia; 8% in Kentucky; and 20% in parts of New York City. https://web.archive.org/web/20221106130810/https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/14/opinions/election-2020-vote-by-mail-absentee-pildes
Usage notes
New York City refers to the entire city spanning all five boroughs since its consolidation in 1898. Prior to that the city was primarily on Manhattan Island. The city’s official name is en New York but it is commonly referred to as New York City (en NYC), the en City of New York, or New York, New York (NY, NY), in order to distinguish it from the state of en New York.
Derived terms
en New York Shitty Jew York Shitty
Translations
largest city in the United States
Afrikaans: af New York, af New York-Stad
Albanian: sq New York City, sq Nju Jork m
Amharic: am ኒው ዮርክ
Arabic: ar نِيُويُورْك f, ar نِيُو يُورْك f
Hijazi Arabic: acw نيويورك f nyūyōrk, niyūyōrk
Armenian: hy Նյու Յորք
Aymara: ay New York
Azerbaijani: az Nyu-York
Bashkir: ba Нью-Йорк
Basque: eu York Berri
Belarusian: be Нью-Ёрк m, be Нью-Йо́рк m
Bengali: bn নিউ ইয়র্ক
Betawi: bew Niu-Yorek, bew Niu-Yorek Kota, bew Né-Yorek
Breton: br New York
Bulgarian: bg Ню Йо́рк m
Burmese: my နယူးယောက်
Catalan: ca Nova York f
Chechen: ce Нью-Йорк
Cherokee: chr ᏄᏯᎩ, chr ᏄᏯᎩ ᎦᏚᎲ, chr ᏄᏯᎩ ᎦᏚᎲᎢ
Chinese:
Cantonese: yue 紐約 nau2 joek3
Mandarin: cmn 紐約 Niǔyuē
Cornish: kw Evrek Nowydh
Corsican: co New York f, co Nova York f
Crimean Tatar: crh Nyu York
Czech: cs New York
Danish: da New York
Dutch: nl New York n
Elfdalian: ovd Nev Jork
Esperanto: eo Novjorko
Estonian: et New York
Faroese: fo New York City, fo Nýjorvík
Fijian: fj Niu Ioka
Finnish: fi New York
French: fr New York f, fr Ville de New York f, fr Nouvelle-York f obsolete
Frisian:
West Frisian: fy New York n, fy New York-Stêd n
Galician: gl Nova Iorque f
Georgian: ka ნიუ-იორკი
German: de New York City n, de New York n, de Neuyork n obsolete
Greek: el Νέα Υόρκη
Guarani:
Paraguayan Guarani: gug Táva Nueva York
Gujarati: gu ન્યૂયોર્ક n
Haitian Creole: ht Nouyòk
Hawaiian: haw Nuioka, haw Kūlanakauhale o Nuioka
Hebrew: he נְיוּ יוֹרְק nyu york
Hindi: hi न्यूयॉर्क m, hi न्यू यार्क m
Hungarian: hu New York
Icelandic: is Nýja-Jórvík f
Ido: io Nova-York
Indonesian: id New York
Ingrian: izh Nju-Jorkka
Inuktitut: iu ᓂᐅ ᐃᐅᕐᒃ ᓯᑎ
Irish: ga Nua-Eabhrac
Italian: it New York f, it Nuova York f, it Nuova Iorca f
Jamaican Creole: jam Nyuu Yaak Siti
Japanese: ja ニューヨーク Nyūyōku, ja 紐育 Nyūyōku, ja ニューヨークシティ Nyūyōkushiti, ja ニューヨーク市 Nyūyōku-shi
Kalmyk: xal Шин Йорк
Kannada: kn ನ್ಯೂ ಯಾರ್ಕ್
Karachay-Balkar: krc Нью-Йорк
Kazakh: kk Нью-Йорк
Khmer: km ញូវយ៉ក
Korean: ko 뉴욕 Nyuyok
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: kmr Nû York f, kmr New York f
Kyrgyz: ky Нью-Йорк, ky Жаңы Йорк
Lao: lo ນີວຢອກຊິຕິ, lo ນີວຢອກ
Latin: la Novum Eboracum n, la Nova Eboraca f, la Neo-Eboracum n
Latvian: lv Ņujorka f
Limburgish: li New York n
Lithuanian: lt Niujorkas m
Low German: nds New York
Luxembourgish: lb New York n, lb New York City n
Macedonian: mk Њу Јорк m, mk Њујорк m
Malagasy: mg New York
Malay: ms New York
Malayalam: ml ന്യൂയോർക്ക്
Maltese: mt New York City
Māori: mi Niu Ioka
Marathi: mr न्यू यॉर्क
Mari:
Eastern Mari: mhr Нью-Йорк
Western Mari: mrj Нью-Йорк
Mongolian: mn Нью-Йорк, mn ᠨᠢᠶᠤᠶᠣᠷᠻ
Nahuatl: nah Altepetl Yancuic York
Navajo: nv Nííyóó sídii, nv Kin Yótʼááh Deezʼá
Nepali: ne न्यू योर्क
Norwegian:
Bokmål: nb New York
Nynorsk: nn New York
Occitan: oc Nòva York f, oc Nuòva York f
Odia: or ନ୍ୟୁ ୟୋର୍କ
Ossetian: os Нью-Йорк
Pannonian Rusyn: rsk Нюйорк m, rsk Ню Йорк m
Papiamentu: pap New York City
Pashto: ps نیو یارک
Pennsylvania German: pdc Nei Yarrick Schtadt, pdc Nei Yarrick
Persian: fa نْیویورک nyuyork
Polish: pl Nowy Jork m-in
Portuguese: pt Nova Iorque f
Punjabi: pa ਨਿਊਯਾਰਕ
Quechua: qu New York
Romanian: ro New York n
Russian: ru Нью-Йо́рк m
Samoan: sm Niu Ioka
Sardinian: sc New York f, sc Noa York f
Scots: sco New York Ceety, sco New York
Scottish Gaelic: gd Eabhraig Nuadh
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: sh Њујорк m
Latin: sh Njujork m
Sicilian: scn Nova York f, scn Nova Jorca f
Sinhalese: si නිව්යෝක්
Slovak: sk New York
Slovene: sl New York
Somali: so New York, so Niyuu Yoork
Spanish: es Nueva York f
Swahili: sw New York
Swedish: sv New York c
Tagalog: tl New York
Tahitian: ty New York
Tajik: tg Ню-Йорк
Tamil: ta நியூயார்க், ta நியூயார்க்கு நகரம்
Tatar: tt Нью-Йорк
Telugu: te న్యూయార్క్
Thai: th นิวยอร์กซิตี, th นครนิวยอร์ก, th นิวยอร์ก
Northern Thai: nod ᨶᩥ᩠ᩅᩀᩬᨠ
Tibetan: bo ནེའུ་ཡོར་ཀ
Turkish: tr New York
Turkmen: tk Nýu-Ýork
Udmurt: udm Нью-Йорк
Ukrainian: uk Нью-Йо́рк m
Urdu: ur نْیُو یارْک m
Uyghur: ug نيۇ-يورك
Uzbek: uz Nyu-York
Vietnamese: vi Niu Oóc
Welsh: cy Newydd
Yakut: sah Нью Йорк
Yiddish: yi ניו־יאָרק, yi ניו יאָרק
See also
en New York State
Further reading
en Cities in New York, USA