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Long Island City Steinway Railway Company c 1894 Entrance to Court Square-23rd Street Ferry dock. The following New York City Subway stations serve Long Island City: [167] 21st Street–Queensbridge (F and <F> train) 21st Street (G train) 39th Avenue (N and W trains) Court Square–23rd Street (7, <7> , E, M , and G trains)
In addition to the three principal islands of New York City—Manhattan Island, Staten Island and part of Long Island—each borough contains several smaller islands. New York City contains about 36 to 42 islands in total. [1]
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 ...
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The earliest surviving map of the area now known as New York City is the Manatus Map, depicting what is now Manhattan, Brooklyn, the Bronx, Queens, Staten Island, and New Jersey in the early days of New Amsterdam. [7] The Dutch colony was mapped by cartographers working for the Dutch Republic. New Netherland had a position of surveyor general.
This is a list of colleges and universities entirely in, or with a campus in, Nassau or Suffolk County. For institutions in the Long Island sections of Brooklyn and Queens, two of New York City's five boroughs, see the separate List of colleges and universities in New York City.
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.
CUNY Law School, Long Island City; CUNY School of Medicine; CUNY School of Professional Studies; CUNY School of Public Health; CUNY William E. Macaulay Honors College; Hunter College, Upper East Side; John Jay College of Criminal Justice, Midtown Manhattan; Lehman College, The Bronx; Medgar Evers College, Crown Heights, Brooklyn