New York City
- Sobriquet: The Big Apple
- Vicinity: Far SE corner of New York state
| Place | Type | AsNotedIn |
|---|---|---|
| Brooklyn NYC | Borough | |
| Manhattan NYC | Borough | |
| Queens NYC | Borough | |
| Staten Island NYC | Borough | |
| The Bronx NYC | Borough |
| Y/M/D | Person | Association | Description | Composition | Food | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Y/M/D | Person | Association | Description | Composition | Food | Event |
| 1901/00/00 | Andrew Carnegie | Benefactor | Andrew Carnegie donates $5.2 million ($159,806,400 in 2019) to build 65 branch libraries in New York City, with the requirement that the City provide the land and maintain the buildings. | |||
| 2005/00/00 | Michael Bloomberg | Mayor | Mayor Michael Bloomberg makes a deal with the UF Teachers union that teachers without a classroom can sit in an empty office and continue to be paid their salary. It cost the city more than $100 million a year to pay the teachers not to work. | |||
| 2023/05/23 | New York City is sinking under the collective weight of all of its buildings, a new study has found. This gradual process could spell trouble for a city around which the sea level has been rising more than twice as fast as the global rate. - CNN | |||||
| 2026/05/19 | An annual salary of at least $100,000 is set to be implemented for NYC hotel cleaners after the labor agreement between the Hotel and Gaming Trades Council and the Hotel Association of New York was finalized on Tuesday. - Daily Mail | |||||
| 2026/07/18 | New York City doled out more than $2.6 billion in cash assistance to city residents in 2025.... The $2.6 billion figure represents a 71 percent increase from 2022's $1.57 billion, data showed. - Fox News |
| Particulars for New York City: | |
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| Locale Type | Metropolis |
| Work | Type | AsNotedIn | Creator | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blood and Guts in High School | Book | Kathy Acker | ||
| Croatoan (Short Story) | Short Story |
|
Harlan Ellison | |
| Fear City: New York's Fiscal Crisis and the Rise of Austerity Politics (book) | History Book | Kim Phillips-Fein | ||
| Requim for a Dream | Book | Hubert Selby | ||
| Sister Carrie | Book | Theodore Dreiser | ||
| Symbols and Signs (short story) | Short Story | Vladimir Nabokov | Her husband, who in the old country had been a fairly successful businessman, was now, in New York, wholly dependent on his brother Isaac, a real American of almost forty years' standing. | |
| The New York Trilogy | Book | Paul Auster | Setting | |
| The Simple Case of Susan (book) | Novel |
|
Jacques Futrelle | It's rather purposeless hanging around New York, and traveling is something to, you know. |
| The Web and the Rock | Book |
|
Thomas Wolfe | Setting |
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