Local time
Sun, 12:02 PM EDTAmerica/New_YorkCity
New York
40.75° N, 73.98° W
- Population
- 19,040,000
- Natural Earth
- Population rank
- 1 of 420
- Rank by Natural Earth population among the 420 cities of United States of America in Terratlasia that have a population figure. Terratlasia does not list every city of United States of America, so this is not a national ranking.
- State
- New York State
- Natural Earth marks this city as the capital of a first-level administrative unit; the state is the one whose boundary contains the city.
- Founded
- 1624
- Year of founding from Wikidata (P571). Only the year is known, not the day; a city whose sources give more than one year shows no row.
- Elevation
- 25 m
- Elevation above sea level from Wikidata (P2044), rounded to the metre. A city whose sources give two different elevations shows no row.
- Area
- 1,213 km²
- Total area from Wikidata (P2046). Where two statements differ by less than half a percent the smaller is shown; a larger disagreement (land area against total area, say) shows no row.
- Named after
- James II of England
- Wikidata · P138 · checked 2026-09-18
- Time zone
- America/New_York
- Places
- 34
- editorial
- Districts
- 5
Traveler brief
Only what this atlas can source — no hours, prices, visas or safety advice.
Practical bearings for New York, from the same records as the rest of this page.
City guide
Editorial selection — sources on every entry
Four ways in, then the places grouped by what you would actually go out to do.
First time in New York 7
- ≈ 4 h
Statue of LibertyLandmark
France's 1886 gift in the harbor, the first thing arriving ships saw — reached only by ferry, and a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
- ≈ 90 min
Empire State BuildingViewpoint
The 1931 tower that held the world's tallest title for forty years; two observatories still look out over the grid.
- ≈ 2 h
Central ParkPark
A designed landscape laid out from 1856 across the middle of Manhattan — lakes, meadows and bare rock, none of it accidental.
- ≈ 30 min
The crossroads where Broadway cuts Seventh Avenue, lit by advertising since the 1900s and now partly closed to cars.
- ≈ 60 min
Brooklyn BridgeLandmark
A steel-wire suspension span with a wooden promenade raised above the traffic — the walk, not the crossing, is the point.
- ≈ 3 h
Metropolitan Museum of ArtArt Museum
An encyclopedic collection on Central Park's edge, open since 1870 — Egyptian temples, European painting and American rooms under one roof.
- ≈ 30 min
Grand Central TerminalArchitecture
A 1913 terminal whose main concourse carries a painted night sky on its ceiling, open to anyone walking through.
One day, in order 6
- ≈ 50 min
Staten Island FerryViewpoint
A commuter ferry running since 1817 and free to ride, passing the Statue of Liberty on every crossing.
- ≈ 2 h
National September 11 Memorial & MuseumHistory Museum
Two square voids on the footprints of the towers, the names of the dead cut through the bronze around them.
- ≈ 60 min
High LinePark
A freight viaduct saved from demolition and planted as a walkway, opened in 2009 above the West Side streets.
- ≈ 30 min
Greenwich Village's square under a marble arch, public since 1827 and still the neighborhood's stage for musicians and chess players.
- ≈ 30 min
The crossroads where Broadway cuts Seventh Avenue, lit by advertising since the 1900s and now partly closed to cars.
- ≈ 2 h
Central ParkPark
A designed landscape laid out from 1856 across the middle of Manhattan — lakes, meadows and bare rock, none of it accidental.
Art and museums 7
- ≈ 3 h
Metropolitan Museum of ArtArt Museum
- ≈ 2 h
Museum of Modern ArtArt Museum
- ≈ 90 min
Solomon R. Guggenheim MuseumArt Museum
- ≈ 2 h
Whitney Museum of American ArtArt Museum
- ≈ 90 min
The Frick CollectionArt Museum
- ≈ 2 h
The Met CloistersArt Museum
- ≈ 2 h
Brooklyn MuseumArt Museum
History 7
- ≈ 4 h
Statue of LibertyLandmark
- ≈ 3 h
Ellis IslandHistory Museum
- ≈ 2 h
National September 11 Memorial & MuseumHistory Museum
- ≈ 75 min
Tenement MuseumHistory Museum
- ≈ 45 min
Federal HallHistorical
- ≈ 45 min
African Burial Ground National MonumentHistorical
- ≈ 30 min
Trinity ChurchChurch
Views and walking 8
- ≈ 60 min
Brooklyn BridgeLandmark
- ≈ 60 min
High LinePark
- ≈ 30 min
- ≈ 30 min
Grand Central TerminalArchitecture
- ≈ 60 min
Rockefeller CenterLandmark
- ≈ 90 min
Empire State BuildingViewpoint
- ≈ 75 min
One World Trade CenterViewpoint
- ≈ 50 min
Staten Island FerryViewpoint
With children 6
- ≈ 3 h
American Museum of Natural HistoryScience Museum
- ≈ 4 h
Bronx ZooFamily
- ≈ 2 h
Central ParkPark
- ≈ 3 h
Intrepid Sea, Air & Space MuseumScience Museum
- ≈ 3 h
- ≈ 3 h
Coney IslandEntertainment
Neighborhoods 6
- ≈ 90 min
- ≈ 90 min
- ≈ 90 min
- ≈ 30 min
- ≈ 60 min
- ≈ 2 h
Opening hours and admission prices are not shown: this atlas has no current, permissively licensed source for them. Each place links to its official site, where those are correct.
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Places 34
- Statue of LibertyFrance's 1886 gift in the harbor, the first thing arriving ships saw — reached only by ferry, and a UNESCO World Heritage Site.UNESCOLandmark
- Central ParkA designed landscape laid out from 1856 across the middle of Manhattan — lakes, meadows and bare rock, none of it accidental.Park
- Brooklyn BridgeA steel-wire suspension span with a wooden promenade raised above the traffic — the walk, not the crossing, is the point.Landmark
- Empire State BuildingThe 1931 tower that held the world's tallest title for forty years; two observatories still look out over the grid.Viewpoint
- Metropolitan Museum of ArtAn encyclopedic collection on Central Park's edge, open since 1870 — Egyptian temples, European painting and American rooms under one roof.Art Museum
- Museum of Modern ArtFounded in 1929 to collect what museums then refused: modern painting and sculpture, and also design, film and photography.Art Museum
- Times SquareThe crossroads where Broadway cuts Seventh Avenue, lit by advertising since the 1900s and now partly closed to cars.
- American Museum of Natural HistoryDinosaur halls, a blue whale hung overhead and a planetarium, in a museum that has been collecting since 1869.Science Museum
- National September 11 Memorial & MuseumTwo square voids on the footprints of the towers, the names of the dead cut through the bronze around them.History Museum
- Ellis IslandThe harbor station where arriving immigrants were inspected, registered, and admitted or sent back; the main building is now its museum.History Museum
- Grand Central TerminalA 1913 terminal whose main concourse carries a painted night sky on its ceiling, open to anyone walking through.Architecture
- High LineA freight viaduct saved from demolition and planted as a walkway, opened in 2009 above the West Side streets.Park
- Solomon R. Guggenheim MuseumFrank Lloyd Wright's spiral ramp on Fifth Avenue, where visitors descend past the art instead of walking room to room.UNESCOArt Museum
- One World Trade CenterCompleted in 2014 on the World Trade Center site; its observatory looks down the harbor toward the Statue of Liberty.Viewpoint
- Rockefeller CenterA private complex of Art Deco towers around a sunken plaza, with a rooftop deck that faces the Empire State Building.Landmark
- Greenwich VillageCrooked streets that ignore Manhattan's grid, long the address of the city's writers, folk singers and gay rights movement.
- Bronx ZooOpen since 1899 and built around habitats you walk through rather than cages you look into; a full day if you take all of it.Family
- SoHoCast-iron loft buildings raised for industry, taken over by artists when the industry left, and now a shopping grid.
- Whitney Museum of American ArtAmerican art only, in a collection begun in 1931 by a sculptor whose own gift the Metropolitan had declined.Art Museum
- ChinatownA dense quarter of shops, temples and restaurants that has been Manhattan's Chinese neighborhood since the 1870s.
- Coney IslandA beach, a boardwalk and an amusement district at the end of the subway line — Brooklyn's summer edge.Entertainment
- DumboCobblestone streets between two bridges, where the Manhattan Bridge frames the city at the end of Washington Street.
- Staten Island FerryA commuter ferry running since 1817 and free to ride, passing the Statue of Liberty on every crossing.Viewpoint
- The Frick CollectionA steel magnate's Fifth Avenue house kept as a home: Vermeer, Bellini and Holbein hang in rooms with fireplaces.Art Museum
- Brooklyn MuseumBrooklyn's own encyclopedic museum, open since 1897 and strongest in Egyptian art and American painting.Art Museum
- Intrepid Sea, Air & Space MuseumAn aircraft carrier moored on the Hudson, carrying a space shuttle and a Concorde on and beside its flight deck.Science Museum
- New York Botanical GardenA garden of 1891 in the Bronx, holding a Victorian glasshouse and a stand of forest never cleared for the city.Nature
- The Met CloistersMedieval European cloisters taken apart in France, shipped across the Atlantic and rebuilt above the Hudson as one museum.Art Museum
- WilliamsburgA former industrial waterfront facing Midtown across the East River, rebuilt as Brooklyn's music, food and design district.
- Tenement MuseumOne Lower East Side tenement, its apartments restored to the years particular immigrant families lived in them; entry is by guided tour.History Museum
- Washington Square ParkGreenwich Village's square under a marble arch, public since 1827 and still the neighborhood's stage for musicians and chess players.Park
- African Burial Ground National MonumentA colonial burial ground for free and enslaved Africans, found under Lower Manhattan during construction and made a national monument in 2006.Historical
- Federal HallThe site where Washington took the first presidential oath; the building standing there today is an 1842 customs house.Historical
- Trinity ChurchAn Episcopal parish at the head of Wall Street since 1698; its churchyard is older than the finance around it.Church
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