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''There is only one city in the world.''|'''[[They Might Be Giants (band)|They Might Be Giants]]''', "P.S.O.K."}}

In other words, everything is better with a side helping of [['''Big Applesauce]]'''.

There ''is'' a reason for this: the skyline is just so darn recognizable. In addition, New York City is the most populous metropolitan area in the United States (and the 4th13th most populous in the world in 2023 according to [https://www.statista.com/statistics/912263/population-of-urban-agglomerations-worldwide/ ''Statista'']), possibly justifying the frequency with which events of great significance occur there in fiction. Further justification for this is New York's diversity. Very close to every single ethnic, racial and religious group is is represented to some degree or another on the streets of the five boroughs, and nearly every language spoken on Planet Earth can be heard there. Although most US cities ''are'' cosmopolitan to one degree or another, New York is particularly noticeable due to the larger population, thus making the diversity more obvious.

* IsAs pointed out in ''[[Mad Men]]'', New York City is the home to the famous (or [[Mad Man|infamous]]) Madison Avenue ad agencies. Accordingly, an extremely large number of national commercials are filmed and set here.

* New York City becomes the background of the climatic showdown in ''[[Blood Plus+]].''

** Until recently, there was a giant, crowded, vibrant, multicultural ghetto of Mutants in lower Manhattan, known as Mutant Town, occupying roughly the space of our world's Alphabet City. Given that this overpopulated ghetto full of superpowered, alienated freaks was barely even mentioned outside its own book, District X (swiftly cancelled), it might perhaps have made more sense to set it down in a city that wasn't already swarming with superheroes, and the subject of 99% of Marvel's comics output. But, hey, New York is just -- that -- specialjust—that—special.

** Superheroes that have lived in [[The DCU]]'s New York include the [[Green Lantern|Green Lanterns]]s Alan Scott (originally based in Gotham), Guy Gardner, John Stewart, and Kyle Rayner; [[Power Girl]] (when she's not living in Metropolis); [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|the Manhattan Guardian]]; the [[Teen Titans (Comic Book)|Teen Titans]] before they removed to San Francisco; and the original Sandman. Though they originally met in Gotham, today the [[Justice Society of America]] operates out of New York City, their headquarters located on the site of the Sandman's old brownstone.

** Also the film stars [[Big Applesauce|Long Island]] native: Billy Joel

* There are eight million stories in ''[[The Naked City]]'' -- all—all of them in New York.

* Ever notice that in ''[[Ghostbusters]]'', as well as its sequel and [[Animated Adaptation]], that nearly ''everything'' paranormal -- includingparanormal—including the end of the world -- tendsworld—tends to happen somewhere in or near New York City?

* The 2008 remake of ''[[The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951 film)|The Day the Earth Stood Still]]'' is set in New York, even though the original was set in Washington D.C.

* The Coen brothers' ''[[The Hudsucker Proxy]]'', a period piece (1958-591958–59) screwball comedy, takes place here.

* The fourth season midseason finale of ''[[Battlestar Galactica Reimagined(2004 TV series)|Battlestar Galactica]]'' featured a {{spoiler|devastated planet, the "original Earth". The ruins of the city where the crew makes landfall were designed to be reminiscent of a destroyed New York City to help the sequence resonate with American viewers.}}

* The PBS-BBC children's series ''[[Ghostwriter (TV series)|Ghostwriter]]'' was set in Brooklyn.

* The ''[[Doctor Who]]'' episodes "[[Doctor Who/Recap/NS/S3S29/E04 Daleks in Manhattan|Daleks in Manhattan]]" and "[[Doctor Who/Recap/NS/S3S29/E05 Evolution of the Daleks|Evolution of the Daleks]]".

* [[Billy Joel]] was born and raised on Long Island; as such, his more autobiographical songs (of which there are a lot) discuss New York City. "New York State of Mind" is the most blatant example; another one is "Miami 2017 (Seen the Lights Go Out on Broadway)," which is about the destruction of New York City and the survivors living in Miami in the year 2017--it2017—it was written during the 1975 bankruptcy of the city government. His songs may possess a few subversions. "Leningrad," "Allentown," and "Say Goodbye to Hollywood" come to mind.

* [[They Might Be Giants (band)|They Might Be Giants]] are New York-based, and apparently their songs are packed with obscure references, especially Village landmarks and personalities

* "Empire State Of Mind," performed by New York natives [[Jay- Z]] and [[Alicia Keys]].

* [[John Lennon]] and [[Yoko Ono]]'s 1972 album ''Some Time In New York City'' was recorded and released not long after the two moved to New York, where Lennon would spend the rest of his life. Partly subverted, in that most of the songs deal with wider political issues; however, a couple -- suchcouple—such as "New York City" and "Attica State", about the then-recent riots at the nearby prison -- areprison—are about their experiences in New York and some of the issues they encountered there.

** However it's worth noting that the ''[[World Wrestling Entertainment|WWE]]'', which is the last major wrestling organization left standing from the old regional days had New York in its territory back then and New York and its Madison Square Garden arena was long considered home away from home for the McMahon family. Given that the Garden is only about a 35 mile drive from WWE headquarters, this is quite understandable.

* The original [[Mario Bros.]] and presumably the original [[Donkey Kong]] (seeing as the [[King Kong|source material has this]]) take place in New York, the former taking place in the [[Absurdly Spacious Sewer|dense underground sewer network]] as [[Word of God]] states. This explains the show and movie expanding it to Mario and Luigi living in Brooklyn, and partially explaining their Italian roots.

* Guess where ''[[Duke Nukem: Manhattan Project]]'' takes place?

* One of the early levels of ''[[Ninja Gaiden II]]'' (both the NES game and the entirely different Xbox360 / [[PlayStationPlay Station 3]] game) has Ryu traversing the Big Apple.

* Manehattan in ''[[My Little Pony: Rise of Vicis]]'' appears to be this.

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* [[John Lennon]] famously gave this as a justification for why he abandoned his British roots to make his permanent home in NYC. "If I'd lived in Roman times, I'd have lived in Rome. Where else? Today America is the Roman Empire and New York is Rome itself."

* After the [[American Revolution]], and before [[Washington DC|Washington D.C.]] was built, New York City served as the capital city of the United States.

** Before being replaced by the more central [[Philadelphia (useful notes)|Philadelphia]], which hosted the Continental Congress before the Revolution as well.

* New York City is called the "Financial Capital of the World". There is a reason why when you say, "Wall Street", everyone knows you are talking about money. While there are others, according to [[wikipedia: List of major stock exchanges|listings]] on [[The Other Wiki]] the New York Stock Exchange is by far the world's largest stock exchange by market capitalization of its listed companies at over US$13.3925 trillion as of Dec2023. The second largest world stock exchange, NASDAQ, is ''also'' based in New York 2010City.

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