New York

New York is the most populous city in the United States and dropdown area, the premier gateway for legal immigration to the United States and one of dropdown The city is referred to as New York City or the City of New York to dropdown It has also been called by many nicknames such as the “City that Never Sleeps” and the dropdown But the Big Apple is the most famous nickname. A global power city, dropdown finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and entertainment. The home of the United Nations Headquarters, New York is an important center for international diplomacy and dropdown New York traces dropdown when it was founded as dropdown It was named New Amsterdam in 1626. dropdown New York served as the capital of the United States from 1785 until 1790. dropdown The Statue of Liberty, which is a colossal neoclassical sculpture on Liberty Island in the middle of New York Harbor, in Manhattan, dropdown It was a gift to the United States from the people of France. dropdown by ship in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and is a globally recognized as a symbol of the United States and its democracy.