The history of new york is very short, only over 300 years. The earliest settlement was at the southern tip of Manhattan Island, which was originally the residence of Indians. 1524, the Italian Frazzano first came to the estuary area. 1609, the British explored the upper reaches of the Hudson River, which was named after him. 1626, the Dutch bought Manhattan Island from the Indians with small objects worth about 60 guilders (equivalent to 24 US dollars) and turned it into a trading post, which was called "New Amsterdam". 1664, the Duke of York, the younger brother of King charles ii of England, occupied this place and renamed it new york (new york, England has Yorkshire). New york was founded on 1686. During the War of Independence, new york was the headquarters of George Washington, the place where he became the first president of the United States, and the temporary capital of the United States at that time. 1825, the Erie Canal connecting the Hudson River and the Great Lakes was opened to traffic, and later a railway was built to link new york with the central and western regions, which promoted the great development of the city. By the middle of19th century, new york had gradually become the largest port city in the United States and an international metropolis integrating finance, trade, tourism, culture and art.

When new york first colonized North America in Europe, Lenape people lived in this area. 16 13 years, the Dutch established "﹙New Amsterdam﹚" and "﹙New Netherland﹚" here. 1640, Peter Stuyvesant was appointed governor, 1652, the colony was granted autonomy. 1664, Britain conquered the colony and renamed it "﹙New York﹚" because a city in Britain was named York earlier. Later, the Dutch recovered the colony in August of 1673 and renamed the city "﹙New Orange﹚". Subsequently, the colony was ceded to Britain permanently in June of1/.

After the British recaptured the colony, they renamed it new york City again and surrounded it to prevent its development. Finally, the Battle of New York broke out, which was a series of major battles in the early days of the American War of Independence. From then on, new york was under British administration until the end of the war, and it was the last port from which Britain moved out.

According to the US Constitutional Convention, 1788, 13 September, new york was the temporary capital of the newly established United States until 1790. 1825, the Erie Canal was put into operation, and new york's economy also developed and became an economic center.

During the American Civil War, there were many riots and chaos in new york, such as new york ﹙Gangs in New York, 1863 conscription riots in new york and so on. Some of them became the deadliest riots in American history.

During the period of 1904, a series of new transportation services in new york began to operate, the most famous being the new york subway, which helped to consolidate new york. A large number of immigrants in Europe have brought great changes to society, while the anti-capitalist trade union IWW (world industrial workers) has been suppressed. Later, in the1920s, a large number of African-Americans moved from the southern United States to new york City, and some people began to build skyscrapers.

During the Great Depression, new york also suffered greatly, and during the Second World War, new york also played an important role.

After World War II, new york became the dominant city in the world. But from 65438 to 0950, new york declined, leaving only industry and commerce. In the 1970s, the crime rate rose to a dangerous level.

On 2001September 1 1 day, terrorists attacked the World Trade Center, killing almost 3,000 people. These include WTO staff, passengers of two commercial planes, and hundreds of firefighters, police and emergency personnel.

Manhattan Island is the core of new york, with the smallest area among the five districts, only 57.438+0 square kilometers. But this small island, narrow from east to west and long from north to south, is the financial center of the United States. More than one-third of the 500 largest companies in the United States are headquartered in Manhattan. Six of the seven major banks and the headquarters of major monopoly organizations have set up central strongholds here. It also concentrates the essence of the world's finance, securities, futures and insurance industries. Wall Street, located in the south of Manhattan Island, is a symbol of American wealth and economic strength, and also a stronghold of American monopoly capital and synonymous with financial oligarchy. On both sides of this narrow street, which is only 540 meters long, there are more than 2900 financial and foreign trade institutions. The famous new york Stock Exchange and American Stock Exchange are located here.

New york is also the city with the most skyscrapers. Representative buildings include the Empire State Building, Chrysler Building, Rockefeller Center and later the World Trade Center (the World Trade Center collapsed due to terrorist attacks on September 1 2006). The Empire State Building and the World Trade Center Building have 100 floors, which are majestic and spectacular. Therefore, new york is called "a city that stands tall". New york is also the center of American culture, art, music and publishing, with numerous museums, galleries, libraries, scientific research institutions and art centers. The headquarters of the three major American radio and television networks and some influential newspapers and news agencies are located here.

The permanent site of the skyscraper museum was completed in new york.

New york is also one of the industrial centers in the United States, with clothing, printing, cosmetics and other industries ranking first in the country, and machinery manufacturing, arms production, petroleum processing and food processing also occupy an important position. Most of the rivers in the city lead to the Atlantic Ocean, and the port is huge, well-equipped and not frozen all year round. New york is also an important hub of railway transportation. The length of the subway in new york is over 1000 km, which is the longest and fastest subway transportation system in the world. There are three international airports in new york, among which the famous Kennedy International Airport undertakes 50% of the national air transport business of import and export goods and 35% of the international passenger transport business.

New york is the region with the largest concentration of ethnic minorities in the United States. There are more than 6,543,800 blacks, mainly living in Harlem. The famous Chinatown has 1.5 million Chinese. There are also many Italians and Jews.