Arizona

The state hosts the following major league teams (called the Cactus league) for spring training:. New York has ten sister cities, as designated by Sister Cities International (SCI): Beijing, Budapest, Cairo, Jerusalem, Johannesburg, London, Madrid, Rome, Santo Domingo, and Tokyo. Arizona is a popular location for Major League Baseball spring training. See also: Tallest buildings in New York City. For a complete list, see List of people from Arizona.. The borough of Queens has also been developing its own skyline in recent years with a Citigroup office building (which is currently the tallest building in NYC outside Manhattan), and the City Lights development of several residential towers along the East River waterfront. Labor leader Cesar Estrada Chavez is from Yuma. The Downtown Brooklyn skyline is the smallest of the three, and is centered around a major transportation hub in Northwestern Brooklyn.

Film director Steven Spielberg grew up in Scottsdale, as did Wonder Woman star Lynda Carter. The Downtown skyline will also be getting notable additions soon from such architects as Santiago Calatrava and Frank Gehry. From the rock and roll world, both Alice Cooper and Stevie Nicks of Fleetwood Mac are from Phoenix; Linda Ronstadt is from Tucson. Today it is undergoing the rapid reconstruction of Lower Manhattan, and will some day include the new "Freedom Tower" which will rise to a height of 1,776 feet when it is completed in 2009. Famous Arizonans also include Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, author Zane Grey, former Governor and Secretary of the Interior Bruce Babbitt, architect Frank Lloyd Wright, Presidential candidate (1964) and former Senator Barry Goldwater, Presidential candidate (2000) and Senior Republican Senator John McCain, former senator Carl Hayden and former Solicitor General Rex E. Lee . The Downtown skyline was once characterized by the presence of the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center.
. The largest of these skylines is in Midtown, which is the largest central business district in the U.S., and also home to such notable buildings as the Empire State Building, the Chrysler Building, and Rockefeller Center.

Ranked by per capita income. In fact, New York actually has three separately recognizable skylines: Midtown Manhattan, Downtown Manhattan (also known as Lower Manhattan), and Downtown Brooklyn. Each city named in bold has a population greater than 100,000. New York City has by far the most famous skyline in the world; because of its high residential density, and the extremely high real estate values found in the city's central business districts, New York has amassed the largest collection of office and residential towers in the world. See: List of cities in Arizona, List of cities in Arizona (by population), List of Arizona counties. See also:. There is also a significant Mormon population. Dedication to the sciences starts early for many New Yorkers, who have the chance to attend such selective specialized high schools as the Bronx High School of Science (which boasts the largest number of graduates who are Nobel Laureates of any United States High School), and its rivals, Manhattan's Stuyvesant High School and Brooklyn Technical High School.

Four in five Arizonans are self-described Christians, with large numbers of both Catholics and Protestants living in the state. Brooklyn also hosts one of the country's leading urban medical centers: SUNY Downstate Medical Center, an academic medical center, the oldest hospital-based medical school in the United States. Professor Raymond Vahan Damadian, the discoverer of the MRI, was part of the faculty from 1967 - 1977 and built the first MRI machine, the Indomnitable, there. See also the list of Arizona Natives.. Jonas Salk, developer of the vaccine for polio, was an intern at Mount Sinai Medical Center in Upper Manhattan. 49.9% of the population is male, 50.1% is female. In the Bronx, the Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University is a major academic center. As of 2000, 74.1% of Arizona residents age 5 and older speak English at home and 19.5% speak Spanish. Navajo is the third most spoken language at 1.9%, followed by Other Native North American languages at 0.6% and German at 0.5%. Manhattan contains the campus of the world-class Rockefeller University and Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, as well as Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center and NYU Medical Center and their medical schools.

In 2003, for the first time, there were more Hispanic births in the state than white non-Hispanic births. New York City is also a major center of academic medicine. Arizona is likely to become a minority-majority state by the year 2035 at the latest. The city is also home to a number of other institutions of higher learning, some of national or even international reputation, including Columbia University, Fordham University, New School University, and New York University, among many others. Only California has more Indians than Arizona, and Arizona has slightly more Indians than Oklahoma [1] (http://eire.census.gov/popest/data/states/ST-EST2002-ASRO-03.php). New York City is served by the publicly-run City University of New York (CUNY), the largest urban university in the United States, which has a number of campuses throughout the five boroughs. 286,680 reportedly live in Arizona, this represents more than 10% of the country's total Indian population of 2,752,158. There is also the free Staten Island Ferry between Manhattan and Staten Island, operated by the New York City Department of Transportation.

According to 2003 Census esimates, Arizona has the second highest number of Native Americans of any state in the Union. Many private ferries are run by NY Waterway, which provides several lines across the Hudson River, New York Water Taxi, with lines connecting Brooklyn and Manhattan, and other operators. The racial breakdown of the state is as follows:. The T&LC also regulates and licenses "car services," which are legally permitted to pick up only those customers who have called the car service's dispatcher and requested a car, although most of these pick up hailing passengers as well. As of 2003, Arizona had a population of 5,580,811 according Census Bureau estimates. "Medallion taxis," the familiar yellow cabs, are legally permitted to pick up passengers hailing them on the street. High-tech employment was led by software and computers, with 34,314; electronics components manufacturing, 30,358; aerospace manufacturing, 25,641; architectural and engineering services, 21,378; telecommunications, 21,224; and instruments manufacturing, 13,056. There are two officially recognized car services in the city.

High-tech payroll in 2001 was $2.2 billion, or 14.7 percent of the private-sector total. Taxicabs are operated by private companies and licensed by the New York City Taxi & Limousine Commission. In 2001, 161,166 Arizonans were employed in the high-tech sector, accounting for about 8.3 percent of total private-sector employment of more than 1.9 million. The first airport in the city was Floyd Bennett Field, now closed as an airport and today part of Gateway National Recreation Area. The Port Authority also operates the AirTrain service, a train which connects the JFK and Newark airports to local subway and heavy rail systems. Arizona lost much of its advantage as a high-technology industry leader between 1990 and 2001, according to a state Department of Commerce (http://www.commerce.state.az.us/) report. JFK tends to handle international traffic, whereas La Guardia tends to handle shorter domestic flights, and Newark handles both international and domestic; Teterboro is New York's primary general aviation airport, handling heavy business jet traffic together with cargo and medevac flights and some light plane traffic. The state government is the state's largest employer, while Wal-Mart is the state's largest private employer, with 17,343 employees in 2003. The Port Authority also owns and operates the four major airports in the New York City area, JFK International Airport in Jamaica, Newark Liberty International in Newark, New Jersey, La Guardia Airport in Flushing, and Teterboro Airport in Teterboro, New Jersey.

Copper is still produced in abundance from many giant open-pit mines and underground mines. Short-distance rail, primarily for commuters from the suburbs, is operated by New Jersey Transit, the MTA (serving Long Island, Connecticut and regions in New York north of the city as the Long Island Rail Road and Metro-North Railroad), and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which also operates regional bus terminals. At one point Arizona was the largest producer of cotton in the country. Responsibility for providing public transportation falls to a variety of government agencies and private corporations. Amtrak provides long-distance rail service. Its per capita income was $27,232, 39^th in the United States. Early in its history, Arizona's economy relied on the "five C's": copper, cotton, cattle, citrus and climate (i.e., tourism). Because of the extensive mass transit system, many New Yorkers do not possess cars or even driver's licenses. The 2003 total gross state product was $182 billion. In addition to these, city residents rely on hundreds of bus lines, both publicly and privately operated (many to be taken over by the MTA sometime in 2005), which serve nearly all areas of the five boroughs.

It is rare for tornadoes to occur in Arizona. The city is also served by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey's PATH subway system, which connects the borough of Manhattan to New Jersey. The monsoons bring lightning, thunderstorms, wind and torrentious, if usually brief, evening downpours. The subway system connects all boroughs except Staten Island, which is served by the Staten Island Railway via the free Staten Island Ferry (which connects to the 1 and 9 subway lines). Monsoon season in Arizona is from the end of July through August. It is the most extensive subway system in the world when measured by mileage of track (656 miles of mainline track), and the fifth largest when measured by annual ridership (1.4 billion passenger trips in 2004). Extreme cold temperatures are not unknown, cold air systems from the northern states and Canada occasionally push into the state bringing temperatures below -20C ( subzero Fahrenheit) temperatures in the higher parts of the state. The world famous New York City Subway is operated by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA).

However, the northern third of Arizona is a plateau at signficantly higher altitudes than the lower desert, and has an appreciably cooler climate, with cold winters and mild summers. New York City boasts the most extensive network of public transportation in the United States. Due to the primarily dry climate, large temperature swings often occur between day and night temperatures, with temperature swings as large as 10 C (50 F) in the summer months. The city is served by an extensive network of parkways and expressways, including four primary Interstate Highways enter the New York/New Jersey metropolitan area: I-78, I-80, I-87 and I-95. Interstate 287 serves as a partial beltway around the city, and there are numerous three-digit Interstates of I-78 and I-95. The summer months of May through August bring a dry, heat ranging from 35 to 40 degrees Celsius (the high 90-100s), with occasional high temperatures exceeding 50C (125 F) have been observed in the desert area. Unlike most of America's car-oriented urban areas, public transportation is the common mode of travel for the majority of New York City residents. About midway through February, the temperatures start to rise again with sunny warm days, and cool breezy nights. See also: List of New York City sports teams.

November through February are the coldest months with temperatures typically ranging from 4 - 24 degrees Celsius (40-75 degrees Fahrenheit), although occasional frosts are not uncommon. Both of these construction proposals have stirred considerable opposition, and may have an impact on the City's bid to host the 2012 Summer Olympics. Typically, from late fall to early spring, the weather is mild, averaging a minimum of 15 degrees Celsius (60 degrees Fahrenheit). Current sports issues include Bruce Ratner's proposal to move the New Jersey Nets to a new Brooklyn Nets Arena, and a proposal to build a West Side Stadium in Manhattan for the New York Jets in 2008. In the lower elevations, the climate is primarily desert, with mild winters and hot summers. Also, many outsiders are unaware that the current Madison Square Garden is actually the fourth separate building to use that name; the first two were near Madison Square, hence the name, and the third was at 50th Street and Eighth Avenue. Due to its large area and variations in elevation, the state has a wide variety of climates. New York has also buried more sports history than most American cities ever experience: Ebbets Field, home of the Brooklyn Dodgers from 1913 until 1957, was torn down in 1960, and the Polo Grounds in northern Harlem, just across the river from the Bronx's Yankee Stadium, was the home of the New York Giants of Major League Baseball from 1911 to 1957 (and the first home of the New York Mets) before being demolished in 1964.

Several major Hollywood films, such as U-Turn, Waiting to Exhale, and Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure have been made there (as indeed have many Westerns). The Brooklyn Cyclones are a New York Mets affiliate, and the Staten Island Yankees are affiliated with the New York Yankees. Many tourist souvenirs produced in Arizona or by its residents display immediately characteristic images, such as sunsets, coyotes, and desert plants. New York City is also home to two minor league baseball teams that play in the short-season Class A New York - Penn League. Sedona and Tubac are known as budding artist colonies, and small arts scenes exist in the larger cities and near the state universities. Also playing in Nassau Coliseum are the New York Dragons of the Arena Football League. The state is a recognized center of Native American art, with a number of galleries such as the Heard Museum showcasing historical and contemporary works. At the Continental Airlines Arena also in the meadowlands the New Jersey Nets play NBA basketball and the New Jersey Devils play NHL hockey. The New York Islanders are the third NHL team in the Metro area; they play their home games in Nassau Coliseum in Long Island.

Arizona has witnessed a continuous string of dancing and performing groups of many ethnicities. New York's NFL teams, the New York Giants and New York Jets, play at Giants Stadium in New Jersey's Meadowlands. Nearly 2 billion years of the Earth's history has been exposed as the Colorado River and its tributaries cut through layer after layer of sediment as the Colorado Plateaus have uplifted. At Madison Square Garden, 'the world's most famous arena,' New Yorkers can see the New York Knicks play NBA basketball, the New York Rangers play hockey, and the New York Liberty of the WNBA. The canyon, created by the Colorado River cutting a channel over millions of years, is about 277 mile (446 km) long, ranges in width from 6 to 29 kilometers (4 to 18 miles) and attains a depth of more than 1,6 km (1 mile). The New York metropolitan area is the only one in the United States with more than one team in each of the four major sports, with nine such franchises. President Theodore Roosevelt was a major proponent of the Grand Canyon area, visiting on numerous occasions to hunt mountain lion and enjoy the breathtaking scenery. Outsiders are frequently unaware that few baseball fans in New York are fans of both teams at once.

The canyon is one of the seven natural wonders of the world and is largely contained in the Grand Canyon National Park - one of the first national parks in the United States. For most American baseball fans, the most intense rivalry is between the Yankees and the Boston Red Sox, but in the city the rivalry between the Yankees and the Mets is just as fierce. The Grand Canyon is a colorful, steep-sided gorge, carved by the Colorado River, in northern Arizona. A "Subway Series" between city teams is a time of great excitement, and any World Series championship by either the New York Yankees or the New York Mets is considered to be worthy of the highest celebration, including a ticker-tape parade for the victorious team. The Mogollon Rim, a 600-meters (2000-foot) escarpment, cuts across the central section of the state and marks the southwestern edge of the Colorado Plateau, where the state experienced its worst forest fire ever in 2002. Although in much of the rest of the country American football has become the most popular professional sport, in New York City baseball arguably still stirs the most passion and interest. More than half of the state features mountains and plateaus and contains the largest stand of Ponderosa pine in the United States. Despite the name, many "Broadway" theaters do not lie on Broadway the street, and the distinction with Off-Broadway and Off-Off-Broadway (which tend more toward experimental theater) is simply a reference to the seating capacity of the theater.

Like other states of the Southwest, Arizona has an abundance of topographical characteristics in addition to its desert climes. Along with those of London’s West End theater district, Broadway theaters are considered to be of the highest quality in the world. Arizona gained two seats in the House of Representatives due to redistricting based on Census 2000. The dozens of theaters in this district are responsible for tens of thousands of jobs, and help contribute billions of dollars every year to the city's economy. Hayworth (R-5), Jeff Flake (R-6), Raul Grijalva (D-7), and Jim Kolbe (R-8). It serves both as the center of the American theater industry, and as a major attraction for visitors from around the world. Arizona's representatives in the United States House of Representatives are Rick Renzi (R-1), Trent Franks (R-2), John Shadegg (R-3), Ed Pastor (D-4), J.D. New York City boasts a highly active and influential theater district, which is centered around Times Square in Manhattan.

The two Arizona US Senators are Senator John McCain (Republican) and Senator Jon Kyl (Republican). See also:. She has been governor since 2003. See:List of Arizona Governors. The city has served as an important center for many different genres of music ranging from Big Band Era and jazz, to punk rock and hip-hop (the latter of which is generally acknowledged as having originated in the Bronx around 1973). The current Governor of Arizona is Janet Napolitano, a Democrat. With its connection to media and communications and its mix of cultures and immigrants, New York City has had a long history of association with American music. The governor may serve any number of terms, though no more than two in a row. New York City is also the home of the four major television networks, ABC, CBS, the Fox Network, and NBC, and while the local film industry is dwarfed by that of Hollywood, its billions of dollars in revenue make it the second largest in the nation.

Arizona's executive branch is headed by a governor elected for a four-year term. New York City boasts over forty daily newspapers in several different languages, including such national heavyweights as the Wall Street Journal (daily circulation of 2.1 million) and The New York Times (1.6 million), and America's oldest continuously-published newspaper, the New York Post, founded in 1801 by Alexander Hamilton. However, no more than four terms may be served consecutively. New York has also been the setting for countless works of literature, many of them produced by the city’s famously large population of writers (including Jonathan Franzen, Don Delillo, Thomas Pynchon, Susan Sontag, David Foster Wallace, and many others). Arizona state senators and representatives are elected for two year terms and there are no terms limits. New York’s portrayal on television is similarly varied, with a disproportionate number of crime dramas taking place in the city despite the fact that it is one of the safest cities in which to live in the United States. The executive budget has allocated money to previously passed legislation. From the sophisticated and worldly metropolis seen in many Woody Allen films, to the chaotic urban jungle depicted in such movies as Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver, New York has served as the unwitting backdrop for virtually every conceivable viewpoint on big city life.

Besides the money spent on state agencies, money has also been allocated for tax cuts, pay raises for government employees, and health insurance for government employees. Because of its sheer size and cultural influence, New York City has been the subject of many different, and often contradictory, portrayals in mass media. The 2002 budget of the Arizona state legislature was $14.3 billion, while the executive budget was $13.8 billion. Main article: Media of New York City. The majority party is the Republican party, which has held power since 1950. See also: List of museums and cultural institutions in New York City. Arizona's legislature consists of a thirty-member Senate and a 60-member House of Representatives. Other notable performance halls include Carnegie Hall, Radio City Music Hall, and the Brooklyn Academy of Music.

See: List of Congressmen. The largest of these is Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, which is actually a complex of buildings housing 12 separate companies, including the New York Philharmonic, the Metropolitan Opera, the New York City Opera, the New York City Ballet, and Jazz at Lincoln Center. Arizona was admitted into the Union on February 14, 1912. In addition to these museums, the city is also home to a vast array of spaces for opera, symphony, and dance performances. The site was purchased after the war by the Maytag family, and is currently the Phoenix Zoo. A number of the city's museums are located along the Museum Mile section of Fifth Avenue. Arizona was also the site of a German and Italian prisoner of war camp during WWII. There are also many smaller specialty museums, from El Museo del Barrio with a focus on Latin American cultures to the Cooper-Hewitt National Museum of Design.

With the encouragement of Brigham Young, Mormons went to Arizona from Utah in the mid to late 1800s to the Phoenix Valley (or "Valley of the Sun"), Mesa, Tempe, Prescott, Snowflake, Heber, and many other Arizona towns to settle there. New York is a city of "great museums" with the Metropolitan Museum of Art's assemblage of historic art, the Museum of Modern Art and Guggenheim Museum's 's 20th century collection, and the American Museum of Natural History and its Hayden Planetarium focusing on the sciences. Arizona was administered as part of the Territory of New Mexico until it was organized into a separate territory on February 24, 1863. See also: List of New York City parks. In 1853 the land below the Gila River was acquired from Mexico in the Gadsden Purchase. Flushing, Queens is home to the legacy of the 1964 New York World's Fair (including the Unisphere), the US Open in tennis and Shea Stadium. The United States took possession of most of Arizona at the end of the Mexican War in 1848. The Bronx Zoo is world-famous, and the Bronx Bombers don't play in Manhattan.

All of what is now Arizona became part of Mexico's northwest frontier upon the Mexican assertion of independence from Spain in 1810. Brooklyn's old Coney Island is still a center of seaside recreation, with its beach, boardwalk, and amusement parks. Many enjoy the spectacular views available from the deck of the Staten Island Ferry. Father Kino developed a chain of missions and taught the Indians Christianity in Pimería Alta (now southern Arizona and northern Sonora) in the 1690's and early 1700's. Spain founded fortified towns (presidios) at Tubac in 1752 and Tucson in 1775. Many tourists only think of "New York" in terms of Manhattan, but there are four other boroughs which, if they can't compete in skyscrapers, still offer other kinds of attractions. Coronado's expedition entered the area in 1540–42 during its search for Cibola. Now the World Trade Center site has itself become an important place for visitors to see. Beyond its original native inhabitants, Marcos de Niza, a Franciscan, explored the area in 1539. The city was nearly devoid of tourists for months, and it took two years for the numbers to fully rebound with fewer international, but more domestic visitors.

USS Arizona was named in honor of this state. The World Trade Center was an important tourist destination before the September 11, 2001 attacks, which devastated the city and its tourist industry. Three possible derivations are:. Annually on New Year's Eve, hundreds of thousands of people congregate in Times Square to watch the ball drop as millions watch on television. Historians disagree about the origin of the name "Arizona" and its attachment to the region. Since then this has been an annual event drawing tens of thousands of spectators and in later years millions of television viewers. Besides the Grand Canyon, a number of other National Forests, Parks, Monuments, and Indian reservations are located in the state. The first Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade was held in New York on November 27, 1924.

Its major cities are Phoenix, Tucson, Yuma, and Flagstaff. There are also large shopping districts found in Downtown Brooklyn and along Queens Boulevard in Queens. It is also the name of a US Battleship, the USS Arizona. The "diamond district" (located on 47th Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues) is the city's main location for jewelry shopping, and SoHo, formerly the center of the New York art scene, is now famous for high-priced clothing boutiques, and the art galleries are now concentrated in Chelsea. It is one of the Four Corners states, south and east of the Colorado River, bordering New Mexico, Utah, Nevada, California and Mexico, and touching Colorado. In southern Manhattan, Greenwich Village is home to hundreds of independent music and book stores. Arizona was the 48th state admitted to the United States and is part of the Southwest United States. In recent years 23rd Street has become a major location for "big-box" retailers.

Texas Rangers in Surprise. Macy's, the nation's largest department store, and the surrounding area of Herald Square are a major destination for more moderately-priced goods. Seattle Mariners in Peoria. Shopping is popular with many visitors, with Fifth Avenue being a famous shopping corridor for luxury items. San Francisco Giants in Scottsdale. Maritime attractions include the South Street Seaport, site of a historic port, and the Intrepid Sea-Air-Space Museum, housed in a World War II aircraft carrier docked on the Hudson River. San Diego Padres in Peoria. The city also has 578 miles of waterfront and over 14 miles of public beaches.

Oakland Athletics in Phoenix. Other major parks in the city include Riverside Park, Battery Park, Prospect Park, Flushing Meadow-Corona Park, and Forest Park. Milwaukee Brewers in Phoenix. The best known of these is Central Park, which is one of the finest examples of landscape architecture in the world, as well as a major source of recreation for New Yorkers and tourists alike. Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim in Tempe. There are over 28,000 acres (113 km²) of parkland found throughout New York City, comprising over 1,700 separate parks and playgrounds. Kansas City Royals in Surprise. Patrick's Cathedral and the Brooklyn Bridge, among other attractions.

Colorado Rockies in Tucson. Many visitors make it a point to visit the Empire State Building, Times Square, Radio City Music Hall, the Statue of Liberty, Ellis Island, Wall Street, United Nations Headquarters, the American Museum of Natural History, St. Chicago White Sox in Tucson. Tourism is a major local industry, with hundreds of attractions. Chicago Cubs in Mesa. See also: List of famous New Yorkers. Arizona Diamondbacks in Tucson. Drastic reductions in crime have changed "the ungovernable city" of the past into a remarkably civilized place, and recent polls show that a vast majority of New Yorkers think the city "is moving in the right direction.".

Phoenix Suns (National Basketball Association). Today, there is a palpable sense of optimism in New York, fear of terrorism has lessened dramatically, and a massive confluence of transportation infrastructure projects promises to greatly expand the city's economic potential. Phoenix Mercury (Women's National Basketball Association). Nationally, Americans felt increased solidarity with New Yorkers. Phoenix Coyotes (National Hockey League). After the September 11, 2001 attacks, pride in the city and the New York way of life increased for many, though others may have shown signs of paranoia. Arizona Sting (National Lacrosse League). Although gentrification generally has led to lower crime, more business activity, and higher land values, many of the native residents of these communities have been adversely affected by the skyrocketing housing costs associated with these rapid changes.

Arizona Rattlers (Arena Football League). This process is exemplified by the cases of Williamsburg in Brooklyn and Manhattan's Lower East Side. Arizona Diamondbacks (Major League Baseball). Beginning primarily in the 1990s, although in some cases earlier, neighborhoods that had been seen as less desirable or unsafe became entirely transformed by the arrival of young professionals, often preceded by artists and “hipsters’. Arizona Cardinals (National Football League). No other American city has experienced the effects of gentrification to the same degree that New York City has. Arizona Music Educators Association. With space at a premium, lack of closet space is a common problem, and self-storage is a strong local industry.

Western International University. Many residents rent apartments, and some areas are under rent control and rent stabilization laws. University of Phoenix. The median sale price of a Manhattan apartment in 2004 was $670,000 [1] (http://citi-habitats.com/press/viewarticle.php?article_id=432), with prices in the outer boroughs lower but rising. Thunderbird - The Garvin School of International Management. The great majority of Manhattan residents live in apartments in what is usually seen as a very overpriced and difficult housing market, although there are immense neighborhoods of suburban-style homes in the outer boroughs. Southwestern College. Even the city's billionaire mayor, Michael Bloomberg, is a "straphanger," (subway commuter), and can be encountered on the train to City Hall each morning.

Prescott College. This pattern is strongest in Manhattan, where subway service is better and traffic is worse than in the outer boroughs. Grand Canyon University. Because of traffic congestion and the well-designed New York Subway, six in ten residents, including many middle class professionals, commute to work via public transportation, making the everyday lifestyle and "pedestrian culture" of New Yorkers substantially different from the "car culture" that dominates most American cities. Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. Some celebrated ethnic/racial neighborhoods include Harlem, Little Italy, Chinatown, Washington Heights, and the Lower East Side. DeVry University, Phoenix. Regardless of ethnic origin, all groups share a common identity as New Yorkers.

Collins College, Tempe. The five boroughs are home to many distinct ethnic enclaves of Irish, Italians, Greeks, Chinese, Koreans, Puerto Ricans, Dominicans, Jamaicans, African-Americans, Iranians, Arabs, Jews, South Asians and many others, and there are also many multi-ethnic neighborhoods where people of different backgrounds coexist comfortably. American Indian College of the Assemblies of God. cities except Los Angeles, giving New York an international flavor, and making it the archetype of the American ideal of a "nation of immigrants." The city government employs translators in 180 languages. Northland Pioneer College. New York absorbs a greater diversity of immigrant groups than any other American city, and it absorbs a larger number of immigrants every day than all other U.S. Arizona Western College. Other nicknames attributed to New York City include "the Big Apple", "Gotham", "the Naked City", "the Capital of the World", and the slogan introduced in 2005 by Mayor Bloomberg in an effort to win a bid for the 2012 Olympics, "the World's Second Home.".

South Mountain Community College. Residents of the metropolitan area generally refer to New York City (or sometimes just Manhattan) as "The City," or "New York," and the acronym "NYC", as opposed to just "NY", help to avoid confusing references to the State of New York and the City. Mohave Community College. New York City residents are called "New Yorkers," although this term may also refer to suburbanites, and there is some use of borough-specific identifications, such as Manhattanites, Bronxites, Brooklynites, Queensites and Staten Islanders. Cochise College. New York City, sometimes called "The City That Never Sleeps," is famously fast-paced and active, and the American idiom "in a New York minute" means "immediately." The stereotypical "hard-boiled New Yorker" has a reputation as self-centered, rude, and impatient, and takes pride in the crowds, noise, and hardships of city life. Prescott College. See also: List of major corporations based in New York City.

Yavapai Community College. The city also has a large tourism industry. Eastern Arizona College. New York also has the most important scenes for art, music, and theater in the U.S., with an increasingly active artist's community. Pima Community College. Manhattan's Madison Avenue is synonymous with the American advertising industry, while Seventh Avenue is nicknamed "fashion avenue" as it serves as an important center for the fashion industry. South Mountain Community College. The city is by far the most important center for American mass media, journalism and publishing.

Scottsdale Community College. New York is also the center of many of the service sector industries in the U.S., with more Fortune 500 companies headquartered in the city than anywhere else in the country (including companies as prominent and diverse as Altria Group, Time Warner, American International Group, Pfizer, Bristol-Myers Squibb, JetBlue, DC Comics, Estée Lauder, Sony Music Entertainment, and many others). Rio Salado Community College. Many corporations also have their headquarters in New York. Phoenix College. Financial markets based in the city include the New York Stock Exchange, NASDAQ, American Stock Exchange, New York Mercantile Exchange, and New York Board of Trade. Paradise Valley Community College. Today, New York City is the chief center of finance in the world economy, with Wall Street in Lower Manhattan's Financial District.

Mesa Community College. The city was also the first center of the American film industry, until it moved to Hollywood, California, and still has some television and movie production. Glendale Community College. New York was formerly a national center for clothing manufacture, and some continues, sometimes in sweatshops. Like international shipping, though, manufacturing gradually declined in the late-twentieth century with rising land values. GateWay Community College. Manufacturing first became a major economic base for New York City in the mid-nineteenth century with the advent of industrialization and the railroad. Estrella Mountain Community College. But despite changes in international shipping, trade and the tertiary sector have always remained the real basis of New York's economy.

Chandler-Gilbert Community College. Since the 1950s, most shipping activity in the area has shifted to Port Newark-Elizabeth Marine Terminal in New Jersey. Northern Arizona University. The old port facility was at the South Street Seaport in Manhattan, but today there is only residual activity remaining at Red Hook in Brooklyn, and the Howland Hook Marine Terminal in Staten Island. University of Arizona. The value of this port was greatly expanded upon in 1819 with the opening of the Erie Canal, which gave New York an enormous advantage over the competing ports of Boston and Philadelphia. Arizona State University. Historically, the city developed because of New York Harbor, widely considered one of the finest natural ports in the world.

18% No Religion. New York City's unemployment rate in March of 2005 was 5.2%, identical to the nationwide rate. 2% Non-Christian religions. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 85.9 males. 6% Mormon. For every 100 females there are 90.0 males. 25% Other Protestants. The median age is 34 years.

4% Lutheran. In the city the population is spread out with 24.2% under the age of 18, 10.0% from 18 to 24, 32.9% from 25 to 44, 21.2% from 45 to 64, and 11.7% who are 65 years of age or older. 5% Methodist. 21.2% of the population and 18.5% of families are below the poverty line, of whom 30.0% are under the age of 18 and 17.8% are 65 and older. 9% Baptist. Per capita income is $22,402; men and women have a median income of $37,435 and $32,949 respectively. 43% Protestant