New York City

Cultural

City in New York state and largest city in the United States. (See Bowery, Broadway (see also Broadway), Bronx, Brooklyn, Fifth Avenue, Greenwich Village, Harlem, Madison Avenue, Manhattan, Park Avenue, September 11 attacks, Times Square, and Wall Street.)

Discover More

One of the key financial, communications, and arts centers of the world.

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

It is the only House district in New York City held by a Republican.

From The Wall Street Journal

“It happened on March twenty-fifth in the year 1911 in New York City,” I said, slipping happily back into my role of top student with all the answers.

From Literature

But a New York City Department of Investigation report found the SRG’s tactics during the protests “may have unnecessarily provoked confrontations between police and protesters.”

From The Wall Street Journal

It was meant to resemble Murray’s Cheese, the famous cheesemonger in New York City’s Greenwich Village, which Kroger bought in 2017.

From The Wall Street Journal

“Nimbyism was stopping us from being able to build,” said Annemarie Gray, who served at the New York City Economic Development Corporation when the Sunnyside Yard project was in the works.

From The Wall Street Journal

Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023