New York

American  

noun

1. Also called New York State. a state in the northeastern United States. 49,576 sq. mi. (128,400 sq. km). Albany. NY (for use with zip code), N.Y.

2. Also called New York City. a seaport in southeastern New York at the mouth of the Hudson: comprising the boroughs of Manhattan, Queens, Brooklyn, the Bronx, and Staten Island.

3. Greater New York, New York City, the counties of Nassau, Suffolk, Rockland, and Westchester in New York, and the counties of Bergen, Essex, Hudson, Middlesex, Morris, Passaic, Somerset, and Union in New Jersey: the metropolitan area as defined by the U.S. census.

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New York British  

noun

1. Abbreviation: N.Y.C., NYC. Also called: New York City. a city in SE New York State, at the mouth of the Hudson River: the largest city and chief port of the US; settled by the Dutch as New Amsterdam in 1624 and captured by the British in 1664, when it was named New York; consists of five boroughs (Manhattan, the Bronx, Queens, Brooklyn, and Staten Island, which was called Richmond until 1975) and many smaller islands, with its commercial and financial centre in Manhattan; the country's leading commercial and industrial city. Pop: 8 085 742 (2003 est)

2. Abbreviation: N.Y., NY. a state of the northeastern US: consists chiefly of a plateau with the Finger Lakes in the centre, the Adirondack Mountains in the northeast, the Catskill Mountains in the southeast, and Niagara Falls in the west. Capital: Albany. Pop: 19 190 115 (2003 est). Area: 123 882 sq km (47 831 sq miles)

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New York Cultural  

1. State in the northeastern United States bordered by Lake Erie, Lake Ontario, and Ontario, Canada to the north and west; Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean to the east; and New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south. Its capital is Albany, and its largest city is New York City.

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One of the thirteen colonies.

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• New Yorker
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New York

On Tuesday, it emerged she wrote a letter in 2016 to the New York judge in the Pham case describing him as "one of the kindest, honest, most sincere" people she had known.

From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026

After graduating from college in 1946, she lived with her family on Long Island in New York, appearing in commercials and acting in radio serials.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026

The securities industry is generating record tax revenue for New York, increasing the city’s and state’s vulnerability to a downturn, the state comptroller warns.

From Barron's ● Oct. 6, 2026

Here’s a nominee for anomalous story of the year: New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s administration is suing a personal injury law firm for phony injury claims.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

Most of all, he wanted to see her when he returned to New York.

From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock