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The Palisades Sill as seen from the Palisades Interstate Parkway. The Hudson River is the background. The Palisades Sill is a Triassic, 200 Ma diabase intrusion. It extends through portions of New York and New Jersey. It is most noteworthy for The Palisades, the cliffs that rise steeply above the western bank of the Hudson River.
North of Fort Lee, the Palisades are part of Palisades Interstate Park and are a National Natural Landmark. [2] The Palisades are among the most dramatic geologic features in the vicinity of New York City, forming a canyon of the Hudson north of the George Washington Bridge, as well as providing a vista of the Manhattan skyline.
This is a list of towns in New York. As of the 2020 United States population census , [ 1 ] [ 2 ] the 62 counties of the State of New York are subdivided into 933 towns , 62 cities , and 10 American Indian reservations .
This is a list of municipalities in New York other than towns, which includes all 531 villages and 62 cities of New York. Of the total 593 municipalities, 588 are non-town municipalities, while five are coterminous town-villages , villages that are coterminous with their town.
New York City was originally confined to Manhattan Island and the smaller surrounding islands that formed New York County. As the city grew northward, it began annexing areas on the mainland, absorbing territory from Westchester County into New York County in 1874 and 1895 . During the 1898 consolidation, this territory was organized as the ...
The five boroughs of New York City. New York City is located on the coast of the Northeastern United States at the mouth of the Hudson River in southeastern New York state. It is located in the New York–New Jersey Harbor Estuary, the centerpiece of which is the New York Harbor, whose deep waters and sheltered bays helped the city grow in significance as a trading city.
California's Palisades Fire is the largest of the deadly wildfires that ignited in the Los Angeles area and maps show how it compares to the size of 13 U.S. cities.
The following is a series of lists sorted alphabetically of current cities, towns, unincorporated communities, counties, and other recognized places in the U.S. state of New York. They also include information on the number and names of counties in which the places lie and their lower and upper ZIP code bounds, if applicable. Click a letter to ...