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NEW YORK SPECIAL 2/2020 Business Spotlight 21

GOOD TO KNOW

⋅ An estimated 40 percent of Amer-

icans have an ancestor who first

entered the country through New

York Harbor.

⋅ The Endangered Language Alli-

ance estimates that more than 600

languages and dialects are spoken

in New York City. Spanish (includ-

ing Spanish Creole) is the second

most widely spoken language after

English.

⋅ New York City’s GDP growth of

2.4 percent for the third quarter

of 2019 was well ahead of the US

figure of 1.9 percent.

⋅ The New York City subway, which

opened in1904, has 722 miles of

track.

⋅ The average residential real estate^

sale in the third quarter of 2019 in

NY was highest in Manhattan, at

$1.656 million. The next highest

was Brooklyn, at $977,259.

⋅ There were 292 murders in New

York in 2017, a dramatic reduction

from the 2,245 in 1990. The city’s

murder rate of 3.4 homicides

per 100,000 people is below the

national average.

⋅ As the publishing capital, New

York has been home to a multitude

of famous writers, including Paul

Auster, Dorothy Parker, Stephen

Sondheim, Kurt Vonnegut, and

Edith Wharton.

⋅ Among the city’s popular festivals

are the three-day Governors Ball

Music Festival and Summerstage,

a series of events in the summer.

⋅ New York City is home to a host of^

world-renowned museums, such

as The Met, The Guggenheim,

MoMA and the American Muse-

um of Natural History.

⋅ New York State has the fourth-^

largest population in the US, with

almost 20 million people.

⋅ New York State has the fourth-^

largest Hispanic population in the

US, with around 3.7 million.

⋅ Pew Research suggests that 60

percent of adults in New York

State are Christian, seven percent

Jewish, and two per cent Muslim.

⋅ New York State has resettled

58,500 refugees since 2002, beaten

only by California and Texas. In

2019,the state took in 1,800.

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10,000 BC The first indigenous people arrive in

the area of today’s New York

by 1100 Two distinct indigenous cultures had

emerged: Iroquoian and Algonquian

1609 English explorer Henry Hudson

explores today’s Hudson River

1624 The Dutch settle along the Hudson

River, naming it New Amsterdam, part

of New Netherland

1626 Dutch buy Manahatta (Manhattan)

Island for the value of $24 from the

indigenous population, the Lenape,

naming it New Amsterdam. The Dutch

import first slaves to New Amsterdam

1650s– First New Amsterdam slave auctions

1660s

1664 The English conquer the area and

rename it New York

1775 – 1783 The American Revolutionary War, to

gain independence from England

17 76 New York State becomes one of

13 colonies to declare independence

from Britain

1777 George Clinton is elected first gover-

nor

1788 New York becomes a US state

1792 Founding of the New York State Stock

Exchange on today’s Wall Street

1799 State law gradually abolishes slavery.

Slavery officially ends in 1829

1807 On the Hudson River, the North River

Steamboat of Clermont is the world’s

first successful commercial steamboat

to carry passengers

ca. 1840s– More than 50 million Europeans

1940s emigrate to the US, millions via New

York’s Ellis Island

1860s New York State joins the Union side in

the Civil War

1886 The 300-foot-high Statue of Liberty, a

present from France, opens

1901 US President William McKinley is

assassinated in Buffalo, NY

1904 The New York City subway opens with

its first 22 miles of track

1913 The Woolworth Building becomes the

tallest building in the world (792 feet)

1929 The Wall Street stock market crashes,

affecting economies across the world,

leading to the Great Depression

1931 The Empire State Building is complet-

ed, the tallest building in the world, at

1,250 feet.

1972 The World Trade Center towers

become New York’s tallest buildings i.

2001 Terrorists fly two planes into the

World Trade Center, killing around

2,977 people. A couple of months later,

260 are killed when an American Air-

lines plane crashes in the city’s Belle

Harbor area

2008 Lehman Brothers investment bank

goes bankrupt

2009 A plane with 155 passengers crash-

lands in the Hudson River, miraculous-

ly with no deaths

2011 New York becomes the sixth state to

legalize same-sex marriage

2017 The final edition of the weekly news-

paper The Village Voice is printed

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Wall Street: scene of the 1929 crash

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