New York (state)
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New York, also called New York State, is a state located in the northeastern United States. Bordering New England to its east, Canada to its north, and Pennsylvania and New Jersey to its south, it ext
Illustration of British general John Burgoyne surrendering at Saratoga on October 17, 1777
An illustration of the Erie Canal at Lockport in 1839
United Airlines Flight 175 hitting the South Tower during the September 11 attacks
Flooding on Avenue C in Lower Manhattan caused by Hurricane Sandy in October 2012
Manhattan
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Manhattan is the most densely populated and geographically smallest of the five boroughs of New York City. Coextensive with New York County, Manhattan is the smallest county by area in the U.S. state
New Amsterdam, centered in what eventually became Lower Manhattan, in 1664, the year England took control and renamed it New York
Statue of George Washington in front of Federal Hall on Wall Street, where in 1789 he was sworn in as the first U.S. president.
Manhattan's Little Italy on the Lower East Side, c. 1900