New York metropolitan area
The New York metropolitan area, broadly referred to as the Tri-State area and often also called Greater New York, is the largest metropolitan area in the world by urban landmass,[12][13][14] encompassing 4,669.0 sq mi (12,093 km2).[15] The New York metropolitan area is one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world, the largest metropolitan area in the U.S, and the only U.S. metropolitan area larger than 20 million residents as of the 2020 United States census.
This article is about the area surrounding New York City. For other such areas in the state, see New York State metropolitan areas.
New York metropolitan area
- Allentown
- Asbury Park
- Babylon
- Basking Ridge
- Bayonne
- Beacon
- Bethlehem
- Brick
- Bridgeport
- Bridgewater
- Brookfield
- Brookhaven
- Carmel
- Clifton
- Danbury
- Darien
- Denville
- Edison
- Elizabeth
- Flemington
- Fort Lee
- Franklin Lakes
- Freehold
- Glen Cove
- Greenwich
- Hackensack
- Hamilton
- Hawthorne
- Hempstead
- Hopewell Junction
- Huntington
- Islip
- Jackson
- Jersey City
- Kent
- Lake Success
- Lakewood
- Long Beach
- Long Branch
- Mahwah
- Mamaroneck
- Middletown, NJ
- Middletown, Orange County, NY
- Montauk
- Montclair
- Morristown
- Mount Kisco
- Mount Vernon
- New Brunswick
- New Haven
- New Rochelle
- Newark
- Newburgh
- Newtown
- North Bergen
- North Hempstead
- Norwalk
- Old Bridge
- Oyster Bay
- Paramus
- Parsippany–Troy Hills
- Paterson
- Peekskill
- Plainfield
- Port Chester
- Poughkeepsie
- Princeton
- Red Bank
- Rhinebeck
- Rye
- Sleepy Hollow
- Smithtown
- Stamford
- Summit
- Toms River
- Torrington
- Trenton
- Union
- Waterbury
- Wayne
- White Plains
- Woodbridge
- Yonkers
3,450.2 sq mi (8,936 km2)
8,294.21 sq mi (21,481.9 km2)
5,318/sq mi (2,053/km2)
19,426,449
5,630.52/sq mi (2,173.95/km2)
2,428.25/sq mi (937.55/km2)
19,617,869
Metro New Yorker
$2.163 trillion (2022)
$2.504 trillion (2022)
The vast metropolitan area includes New York City, the nation's most populous city, Long Island, the mid- and lower-Hudson Valley in New York state, 14 counties and eleven of the largest cities in New Jersey, and six of the seven largest cities in Connecticut. The phrase Tri-State area is usually used to refer to New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut, although an increasing number of people who work in New York City commute from Pennsylvania, particularly from the Lehigh Valley, Bucks County, and Poconos regions in eastern Pennsylvania, making the metropolitan area span four states. The New York metropolitan area is the geographic and demographic hub of the larger Northeast megalopolis.
The New York metropolitan area is the most populous metropolitan statistical area in the United States with 20.1 million residents, or slightly over 6% of the nation's total population, as of 2020.[8] The combined statistical area includes 23.6 million residents as of 2020.[16][17] It is one of the largest urban agglomerations in the world.[18][19][20] The New York metropolitan area continues to be the premier gateway for legal immigration to the United States,[21][22][23][24] having the largest foreign-born population of any metropolitan region in the world. The metropolitan statistical area covers 6,720 sq mi (17,405 km2) while the combined statistical area is 13,318 sq mi (34,493 km2), encompassing an ethnically and geographically diverse region. The New York metropolitan area's population is larger than that of the state of New York, and the metropolitan airspace accommodated over 130 million passengers in 2016.[25]
As of 2022, the New York metropolitan area is the largest metropolitan economy in the world, with a gross metropolitan product of over US$2.5 trillion.[11] Greater New York is the hub of multiple industries, including finance, health care, pharmaceuticals, and scientific output in life sciences,[26][27] international trade, publishing, real estate, education, fashion, entertainment, tourism, law, and manufacturing; and if the New York metropolitan area were an independent sovereign state, it would constitute the eighth-largest economy in the world. New York City is also considered the cultural capital of the world.[28][29][30][31] It is the most prominent financial,[32][33][34] diplomatic, and media hub[35][36] in the world.[37][38]
According to Forbes, in 2014, the New York metropolitan area was home to eight of the top ten ZIP Codes in the United States by median housing price, with six in Manhattan alone.[39] The New York metropolitan area is known for its varied landscape and natural beauty, and contains five of the top ten richest places in America, according to Bloomberg. These are Scarsdale, New York; Short Hills, New Jersey; Old Greenwich, Connecticut; Bronxville, New York; and Darien, Connecticut.[40] The New York metropolitan region's higher education network comprises hundreds of colleges and universities, including campuses of four Ivy League universities: Columbia, Princeton, Yale, and Cornell (at Cornell Tech and Weill Cornell Medicine); the flagship campuses of the largest public universities systems at SUNY Stony Brook and Rutgers; and globally-ranked New York University, Rockefeller University, and Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.
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