New York City

New York (Lenape: Manaháhtaan, lit. "the place where wood is gathered to make bows"), often called New York City (NYC) to distinguish it from the State of New York, is the most populous city in the United States of America. The city is a center for worldwide banking and finance, and is typically regarded as the headquarters for the U.S. financial industry, metonymously known as Wall Street.

As of 2022, New York City was home to the highest number of billionaires of any city in the world at 107. Media mogul turned politician Michael Bloomberg, founder of Bloomberg, is the wealthiest individual in New York City, with a net worth of more than $82 billion. He was also mayor of New York City from 2002 to 2013, and was a candidate for the 2020 Democratic nomination for President of the United States.

The original World Trade Center (WTC) was a large complex of seven buildings, including the Twin Towers, in the Financial District of Lower Manhattan in New York City. It opened on April 4, 1973, and was destroyed in 2001 during the September 11 attacks.

The Stonewall uprising was a series of spontaneous protests by members of the LGBT+ community in response to a police raid that began in the early morning hours of June 28, 1969, at the Stonewall Inn in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Lower Manhattan in New York City. The rebellion erupted after a police raid on the Stonewall Inn.

Homelessness

The number of homeless people murdered in New York City rose by 300% from 2018 to 2021.

In 2022, following the end of the COVID eviction moratorium, landlords evicted over 100,000 families while keeping many available homes empty. In December 2022, 68,884 people, including 21,805 children, had to sleep in homeless shelters. 58% of people in New York's homeless shelters are Black and 31% are Latino. Since taking power in 2022, Mayor Eric Adams has funded the police to attack homeless people and cut the budget of the Department of Homeless Services by 20%.