Geography
So good they named it twice? Not quite so. While New York State and New York City are synonymous for many people, they are not one and the same. The State of New York was one of the 13...
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History
From the indigenous tribes to the western European trials and tribulations of colonialism, from onions to apples, Amsterdam windmills to the British Duke of York, New York City arguably...
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New York Timeline
1524 Giovanni de Verrazzano sails into New York, renames it after a French king and sails right back out
1613 The Dutch Fur Settlement was established, and the Dutch West India Company...
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