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[[File:Nyc1.jpg|thumb|450px|the center of the metropolitan area, which stretches into Connecticut (to the northeast) and New Jersey (to the west)]]
'''New York City''', officially the '''City of New York''', is a city and metropolis in the state of [[New York]], located on the East coast of the [[United States of America]]. New York City is known best for the [[New York Stock Exchange]] and financial district, its [[liberal media]], its [[liberal]] [[Broadway]] shows, and its high cost of living. Shows broadcast from New York City include ''The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon'', ''The Late Show with Stephen Colbert'', ''Saturday Night Live'' and Fox News; New York City is also where the major networks grew in influence: [[Fox News]], [[ABC]], [[CBS]] and [[NBC]].
With a population of 19 million in the three-state metropolitan area (and 8,140,000 in the city as in 2005), it is the most populous urban area in the [[United States]]. The city is divided into five different counties, called boroughs. Manhattan is the financial, commercial, and tourist center. Brooklyn is the most populous of the boroughs, and suburban Queens is the largest in area. The other two boroughs are [[The Bronx]], a predominantly minority residential area, and suburban Staten Island. The modern city was formed in 1898 through a merger of the original New York City with Brooklyn.
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Shows broadcast from New York City, if they can be considered "culture", include ''The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon'', ''The Late Show with Stephen Colbert'', and ''Saturday Night Live''.
==Boroughs==