What is a historical fact about New York?
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General State History \n\nLess than a week after the Declaration of Independence was signed, the people of New York met in convention in Kingston to vote their support and form their own state government. Although their state was the scene of nearly a third of the battles fought in the American Revolution, and their major port and city was occupied, New Yorkers still managed to supply large quantities of food, clothing, lead and iron to General Washington, as well as to serve valiantly in the Continental Army. New Yorkers saw the christening of the American flag when the Stars and Stripes was first flown in battle at the defense of Ft. Stanwix in Rome.\n\nThe Colony of New York became a state on July 26, 1788 with the adoption of its first constitution - 12 years before the Federal Constitution. After the adoption of the Federal Constitution, New York City was chosen to be the nation's first capital and was the site of the inauguration of George Washington as President on April 30, 1789.\n\nGiovanni da Verrazano, an Italian-born navigator sailing for France, discovered New York Bay in 1524. Henry Hudson, an Englishman employed by the Dutch, reached the bay and sailed up the river now bearing his name in 1609, the same year that northern New York was explored and claimed for France by Samuel de Champlain. \n\nIn 1624 the first permanent Dutch settlement was established at Fort Orange (now Albany); one year later Peter Minuit is said to have purchased Manhattan Island from the Indians for trinkets worth about $24 and founded the Dutch colony of New Amsterdam (now New York City), which was surrendered to the English in.
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According to the legend, New York  was founded in 1626 by the Dutch in the southern part of Manhattan Island.  Some schoolbooks, history books, television broadcasts - and down to cigarettes makers -  even say that the founder of New York was named Peter Stuyvesant.\n\nHowever the truth is a bit more complex\n\nIt is in May 1624 that the "Nieu Nederlandt", a ship chartered by the West India Company, arrived in sight of  Manhattan Island. The vessel carried about thirty Belgian families: most of them were Walloons accompanied by a few Flemings.\n\nThe passengers were soon dispersed: after being left on Nut Island (today Governor’s Island), eight men moved quickly to the lower part of Manhattan and erected there a fort -  on the site of the present Battery Park. Four couples and eight men were sent to the Delaware River, where they also built a fort (near the present town of Gloucester, New Jersey). Two families and six men were sent to the Fresh River (now Connecticut), where a small fort was built, on the site of the present city of Hartford. About eighteen families remained on the "Nieu Nederlandt" and proceeded up the Hudson. They finally landed near the present city of Albany (capital of the State of New York).\n\nThose first steps in the colonization of this territory were actually the follow up of a process that started a century earlier.\n\nIt is indeed in 1524 that the French expedition led by the Florentine Giovanni Da Verrazzano discovered the New York bay for the first time. King Francis I being at war with Spain, the information was sent to the Record Office. During the next tens of years, the Spaniards were almost the only ones who showed interest for the New World and exploited its resources. \n\nNew York harbor was visited by Verrazano in 1524, and the Hudson River was first explored by Henry Hudson in 1609. The Dutch settled here permanently in 1624 and for 40 years they ruled over the colony of New Netherland. It was conquered by the English in 1664 and was then named New York in honor of the Duke of York.\n\nFor more details, check the sources below:
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New York Facts and Trivia\nThe first American chess tournament was held in New York in 1843. \n \nThe 641 mile transportation network known as the Governor Thomas E. Dewey Thruway is the longest toll road in the United States. \n \nA brewer named Matthew Vassar founded Vassar College in Poughkeepsie in 1861. \n \nIn 1979 Vassar students were the first from a private college to be granted permission to study in the People's Republic of China. \n \nThe Fashion Institute of Technology in Manhattan is the only school in the world offering a Bachelor of Science Degree with a Major in Cosmetics and Fragrance Marketing. \n \nUnion College in Schenectady is regarded as the Mother of Fraternities because Delta Phi is the oldest continually operating fraternity and Kappa Alpha and Sigma Phi Societies were started on the campus. \n \nThe Woodstock Music and Arts Fair was actually held in Bethel. \n \nDairying is New York's most important farming activity with over 18,000 cattle and or calves farms. \n \nIn 1807 The Clermont made its maiden voyage from New York City to Albany making the vessel the first successful steamboat. \n \nSam Schapiro began the Kosher wine industry on New York's Lower East side with their famous extra heavy original concord wine in 1899. \n \nNew York City has 722 miles of subway track. \n \nPower Mill Park situated outside Rochester has a house on Park Road shaped like a group of mushrooms. \n \nChittenago is the home of L. Frank Baum, author of the "Wizard of Oz". It features a yellow brick inlaid sidewalks leading to Aunti Em's and other Oz-themed businesses. Chittenago is the location of an annual Munchkins parade. \n \nOneida has the world's smallest church with the dimensions of 3.5' X 6'. \n \nThe first daily Yiddish newspaper appeared in 1885 in New York City. \n \nThe first international sports hero, boxer Bill Richmond of Staten Island, was born August 5, 1763. \n \nThe "New York Post" established in 1803 by Alexander Hamilton is the oldest running newspaper in the United States. \n \nJohn Babcock invented both the indoor rowing machine and the sliding seat during the winter of 1869/1870. \n \nThe first railroad in America ran a distance of 11 miles between Albany and Schenectady. \n \nThe first capital of the United States was New York City. In 1789 George Washington took his oath as president on the balcony at Federal Hall. \n \nHartsdale has a pet cemetery established in 1896 and containing 12,000 plots. \n \nIn November for Boy Scouts and in March for Girl Scouts the annual Urban Camp-Outs are hosted at the Empire State Building. \n \nThe Catskills are the home of the legend of Rip Van Winkle, brown trout and flycasting. \n \nThe first presentation of 3D films before a paying audience took place at Manhattan's Astor Theater on June 10, 1915. \n \nSam Wilson, a meatpacker from Troy who's caricature Uncle Sam came to personify the United States is buried at Troy's Oakwood Cemetery. During the War of 1812, he stamped "U.S. Beef" on his products which soldiers interpreted the U.S. abbreviation as meaning Uncle Sam. \n \nThe Genesee River is one of the few rivers in the world that flows south to north. \n \nRochester is known as both the Flour City and the Flower City. The community is home to the first abolitionist group, bloomers, marshmallows, Jell-O, French's Mustard, baby shoes, gold teeth and the mail chute. \n \nGennaro Lombardi opened the first United States pizzeria in 1895 in New York City. \n \nOn July 28, 1945 an Army Air Corps B-25 crashed into the Empire State Building at the 79th floor level. \n \nNew York's largest lake in Oneida measures 79.8 square miles. \n \nNew York's highest waterfall is the 215 foot Taughannock. \n \nThe Erie Canal, built across New York State in the 1820s, opened the Midwest to development and helped New York City become a worldwide trading center. \n \nThe first Boy's Club was es
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Borough (pop., 2000: 1,537,195) of New York City, southeastern New York, U.S. It includes all of Manhattan island and three smaller islands in the East River.Bounded by the Hudson River, Harlem River, East River, and Upper New York Bay, it is said to have been purchased by Peter Minuit in 1626 from the Manhattan Indians with trinkets valued at 60 guilders. Incorporated as New Amsterdam in 1653, it was obtained by Britain in 1664 and renamed New York City. In 1898 Manhattan was chartered as one of five boroughs making up Greater New York. It is one of the world's great commercial, financial, and cultural centres. Among its many points of interest are Central Park, the Empire State Building, the site of the former World Trade Center, the United Nations headquarters, Wall Street, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Carnegie Hall, Columbia University, the Juilliard School, and New York University. \n         Manhattan refers both to the Island of Manhattan which borders the lower Hudson River, and also to the Borough of Manhattan (one of the five boroughs of New York City), which includes the Island of Manhattan itself, as well as several other smaller islands and a small portion of the mainland (see geography). The borough is conterminous with New York County, and addresses within the borough of Manhattan are typically designated as New York, New York. As of 2000, the population comprised 1,537,195 people, but the county is geographically among the smallest in the United States with only 33 square miles (85 km²) of land. Thus, it is by far the most densely populated county in both the state and the entire United States.
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here you go this should help http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_New_York_City
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New York\nWebsite below will have more info for you.
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Babylon.\ncity of Ur\nshush of Persian empire,\nthere are more than one city with 6000 years history\nnow days beside Egypt(7000) the10000 years are hot.
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new york was originall new amsterdam which is to say the Dutch were the first colonists to settle the area, it was later captured by the British and renamed as present.
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NYC was founded by the Dutch (original NYC name was New Amsterdam).\n\nThe Dutch have a history and culture of tolerance going back hundreds of years.\n\nIn NYC that Dutch attitude still holds sway.\n\nWe many not love each-other -- we probably don't even like each-other.\n\nBut we know how to live and get along in peace with each-other.
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The city has 5 boros Manhattan,Brooklyn,the Bronx,Queens and Staten Island which are on 4 land regions. Manhattan is the smallest island with over a million people, Brooklyn and Queens are on Long Island, the Bronx is on North America,and \nStaten Island is an island (what?).\nThe state has a northern Great Lakes/St.Lawrence River Lowland ,an Appalachian Mountain middle ,and a southern Atlantic Coastal Plain.
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Dang!  I'm stumped, but I'm gonna go with New York.   Don't know the regt..
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New York is a state in the northeastern United States. It is sometimes called New York State when there is need to distinguish it from New York City, the most populous city in both the state and the nation. Because of the preponderance of the population concentrated in the southern portion around New York City, the state is often regionalized into Upstate and Downstate.\n\nFor more info, see below:
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Write about New york's participation in the civil war- you can talk about the construction of the ironclads(metal ships)
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York
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Ok, I am from Syracuse, NY  \n\nI can probably help. But I need more info. What kind of information do you want? Also which part of New york do you want the info on?\n\nNew York is so diverse that it is hard to guess what exactly you are looking for. There is the border that is shared with the wonderful country of Canada.  It stretches from Niagara Falls, a favorite of hopneymooners the world around,  through the St. Lawrence Seaway, to the Adirondack Mountains in the east, just above the NY State capoital of Albany.\n\nThen there is the section in the west that borders both Ohio and Pennsyvania in the west, through Syracuse, The Home of the Orangemen, Carrier Dome, and the world renown Syracuse University, producer of some of the finest Physicans in the world. It spawls across the state through  Ithaca, the home of Cornell University, another Ivy League institution of High Learning. It go across the beautiful farmlands of Cortland County, Delaware County (which boasts the very best trout fishing in the world) down throught the mountain range in the south, the Catskill Mountains.\n\nOf course you also have New York City and the five bouroughs to the furtherest south, which is arguably the absolute greatest city on the face of the earth. There is hardly a thing in the world that you can think of, that you can't find in New York City. There is also probably someone there to represent every country in the world. It is probably the most deversified city in the world.\n\nSo you see, without a bit more info on what you want to know, I would not know where to begin to tell you about New York.\n\nNote to FantasyAngel20;\n\nCentral Square is actually a village roughly 350 - 400 miles north of New York City. Also Albany is IN New York State.  It is the Capital.
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check this site out...fun facts\n\nhttp://www.netstate.com/states/symb/flags/ny_flag.htm
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New York is located in Northeast of the United States of America and it's West from the Atlantic Ocean