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New York City is the centre of the largest urban agglomeration in the United States. It occupies Manhattan and Staten islands, the western end of Long Island, a portion of the mainland, and various islands in New York Harbor and Long Island Sound. Its urban area extends into neighbouring parts of New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut.
The city consists of five boroughs (Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx, and Staten Island), which correspond to five counties of New York state. All are located near the point where the Hudson River empties into Upper New York Bay of the Atlantic Ocean. The city's only land boundaries are Westchester county on the north and Nassau county on Long Island to the east. The city's waterfront is used for shipping and recreation.
The city is a collection of many neighbourhoods, each with its own character and life-style. Manhattan is the economic/cultural heart of the city and is often considered to be "the city." Manhattan, the magnet for tourists and businessmen, is at first glance a city of skyscrapers. The promenade of Fifth Avenue, the financial institutions of Wall Street, the residential mansions of Park Avenue, or the bohemian sections of the East Village and SoHo give impressions. Of the other boroughs, only Brooklyn has a similar heterogeneity and a range of social life, with commercial and industrial districts and residential areas ranging from the wealth of Brooklyn Heights to the most poverty of parts of Bedford-Stuyvesant. Queens is mainly residential and middle class, and Staten Island is suburban but still rural in some areas. In the Bronx residences and solid middle-class apartments prevail in some sections, but other areas, ,South Bronx, are the scene of urban blight.
New York City is a centre of world trade and finance, communications, art/entertainment, and fashion. The city is the financial capital of the United States and holds the headquarters of the world's largest corporations. Wall Street in Manhattan is home to the nation's largest stock exchange and is the headquarters of the country's largest brokerage firms. Printing and publishing are also of importance, and most of the nation's publishing houses are based in midtown Manhattan. The city's life also depends on the great diversity of its numerous small businesses and manufacturing establishments.
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