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

Romer grew up in a trailer park in New York but moved to Lafayette, La., as a young adult with her partner.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026

The radio company, headquartered in New York, reaches roughly 255 million listeners and has 33 million subscribers, making it one of North America’s leading audio companies.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2026

Homes in New York City and Los Angeles were the second- and third-most viewed by prospective international home buyers.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 29, 2026

While New York and Los Angeles remain DSA’s center of gravity, chapters are opening in spots like Catawba Valley in North Carolina and Concho Valley in West Texas.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026

He’d been devoted to his diary, documenting everything that he had witnessed since he left New York, including details of the Japanese invasion.

From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly