Flying The Flag of Yonkers, New York
Yonkers is the fourth most populous city in the U.S. state of New York (behind New York City, Buffalo, and Rochester), and the most populous city in Westchester County, with a population of 195,976 (according to the 2010 Census). It is an inner suburb of New York City, directly to the north of the Bronx and approximately two miles (3 km) north of the northernmost point in Manhattan.
Yonkers' downtown is centered on a plaza known as Getty Square, where the municipal government is located.
The area also houses significant local businesses and non-profits, and serves as a major retail hub for Yonkers and the northwest Bronx.
The city is home to several attractions, including the Hudson River Museum; Saw Mill River Daylighting, wherein a parking lot was removed to uncover a river; Science Barge; Sherwood House; and Yonkers Raceway, a harness racing track that has renovated its grounds and clubhouse and added legalized video slot machine gambling in 2006 in a racino called Empire City.
Major shopping areas can be found in Getty Square, on South Broadway, at the Cross County Shopping Center and Westchester's Ridge Hill, and along Central Park Avenue, informally called Central Ave by area residents, a name it takes officially a few miles north in White Plains.
The land on which the city is built was once part of a 24,000-acre (97-square-kilometer) land grant called Colen Donck that ran from the current Manhattan-Bronx border at Marble Hill northwards for 12 miles (19 km), and from the Hudson River eastwards to the Bronx River.
This grant was purchased in July 1645 by Adriaen van der Donck, the first lawyer in North America. Van der Donck was known locally as the Jonkheer or Jonker (etymologically, young gentleman, derivation of old Dutch jong (young) and heer (lord); in effect, Esquire), a word from which the name Yonkers is directly derived.
Van der Donck built a saw mill near where the Nepperhan Creek met the Hudson; the Nepperhan is now also known as the Saw Mill River. Van der Donck was killed in the Peach War.
His wife, Mary Doughty, was taken captive and ransomed later.
Near the site of van der Donck's mill is Philipse Manor Hall, a Colonial-era manor house which today serves as a museum and archive, offering many glimpses into life before the American Revolution. The original structure (later enlarged) was built around 1682 by Frederick Philipse and his wife Margaret Hardenbroeck.
Frederick was a wealthy Dutchman who by the time of his death had amassed an enormous estate, which encompassed the entire modern City of Yonkers, as well as several other Hudson River towns.
Philipse's great-grandson, Frederick Philipse III, was a prominent Loyalist during the American Revolution, who, because of his political leanings, was forced to flee to England.
All the lands that belonged to the Philipse family were confiscated and sold.
For its first two hundred years, Yonkers was a small farming town with an active industrial waterfront. Yonkers's later growth rested largely on developing industry. In 1853, Elisha Otis invented the first safety elevator and the Otis Elevator Company, opened the first elevator factory in the world on the banks of the Hudson near what is now Vark Street. It relocated to larger quarters (now the Yonkers Public Library) in the 1880s. Around the same time, the Alexander Smith and Sons Carpet Company (in the Saw Mill River Valley) expanded to 45 buildings, 800 looms, and over 4,000 workers and was known as one of the premier carpet producing centers in the world.
The community was incorporated as a village in the northern part of the Town of Yonkers in 1854 and as a city in 1872. In 1874 the southern part of Yonkers, including Kingsbridge and Riverdale, was annexed by New York City as The Bronx.
In 1898, Yonkers (along with Brooklyn, Queens, and Staten Island) voted on a referendum to determine if they wanted to become part of New York City.
While the results were positive elsewhere, the returns were so negative in Yonkers and neighboring Mount Vernon that those two areas were not included in the consolidated city, and remained independent.
Still, some residents call the city the Sixth Borough referring to its location on the New York City border, its urban character, and the failed merger vote.
The New York City and Northern Railway Company (later the New York Central Railroad) connected Yonkers to Manhattan and points north from 1888. A three-mile spur to Getty Square existed until 1943
Aside from being a manufacturing center, Yonkers also played a key role in the development of entertainment in the United States. In 1888, Scottish-born John Reid founded the first golf course in the United States, St. Andrew's Golf Club, in Yonkers.
ROUNDUP VIDEO: Learn The Truth About Yonkers
ROUNDUP VIDEO: Learn The Truth About Yonkers
The City of Yonkers, New York, located on the majestic Hudson River, in Westchester County, New York.
Yonkers is the fourth most populous city in the U.S. state of New York, behind New York City, Buffalo, and Rochester.
Green spaces include Untermyer Park and Gardens, with its formal Walled Garden, water features and river views.
The Hudson River Museum has American art, an 1876 mansion and a planetarium.
Presidential portraits are displayed at Philipse Manor Hall State Historic Site, a Georgian house.
The first historical society in Yonkers began in 1882 as “The Committee on the Historical Records of Yonkers.
The city of Yonkers may have eight high schools, but the number of football teams is now down to two.
Yonkers Public Schools is committed to challenging our city's youth to aspire to their highest potential, and to inspire a life-long love of learning.
The Yonkers Chamber of Commerce is the city's voice of business, aggressively promoting
Contrary to popular belief, Yonkers is one of the safest cities in the United States if you consider that Yonkers is about 200,000 strong
Empire City Casino and Raceway hosts horse races.
Population: 200,807 (2016)
Mayor: Mike Spano
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Story of the Enslaved African
IT ISN'T LOCAL UNLESS IT'S YONKERS VOICE!!!
Date: 11/10/17
Time: 6:00pm
Where: Yonkers Public Library
The Project:
In 2009, the “The Enslaved Africans’ Rain Garden” initiative for an urban-heritage sculpture garden began as a grass-roots aspiration of a community that reflects the community, a diverse population of nearly 200,000 people. It is a growing initiative that is a major element in an exciting revitalization of the Yonkers downtown-waterfront district. The City of Yonkers, ArtsWestchester (the largest non-profit arts council in New York State), New York State Department of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation, Yonkers Public Schools, historians, scholars, community-based organizations, community members and local artist, Vinnie Bagwell, are working together to develop the creation of the Enslaved Africans’ Rain Garden. Our mission is to honor, dignify and restore the humanity of enslaved Africans in America by transforming them from objects to subjects via art in a public place in Yonkers, New York.
The public artwork for this destination project will interpret the legacy of enslaved Africans who resided at the Philipse Manor Hall–six of whom were the first to be manumitted by law in the United States, 76 years before the Emancipation Proclamation. (The law was written in New York State in 1786 by John Jay, then future, first Chief Justice of the Unites States Supreme Court.) The design concept marries culture with nature, with a self-sustaining design that will retain diverse elements of the past and practice a conservation approach to environmental change.
The City of Yonkers has designated nearly an acre of land on the shore of the Hudson River for the construction of the Enslaved Africans’ Rain Garden. The idea of a rain garden has been chosen to demonstrate the aspects of sustainability and environmental responsibility that make up the design. A rain garden is a planted depression that is designed to allow rain-water runoff the opportunity to be absorbed from impervious urban areas like walkways and compacted lawn areas. A rain garden is appealing because they can mimic the natural absorption and pollutant-removal activities of a forest, or a meadow or or a prairie and can absorb runoff more efficiently, sometimes as much as 30–40% more then a standard lawn. It will also conserve municipal water resources by reducing the need for irrigation and can cut down on the amount of pollution reaching the Hudson River. This is the inspiration for a yet-to-be built public space that will invigorate the community, generate civic dialogue, and support environmental policy.
Today (11/10/17): We had Public Expo and an opportunity to speak with this great artist: Vinnie Bagwell about her work and vision and also to hear from Mr Ty Gray-El (Storyteller)
Great quote from Mr Ty Gray-El: Until the Lion is able to tell his story.....The Hunter will always get the Glory
Yonkers, New York
Yonkers is the fourth most populous city in the U.S. state of New York (behind New York City, Buffalo, and Rochester), and the most populous city in Westchester County, with a population of 195,976 (according to the 2010 Census). An inner suburb of New York City, Yonkers directly borders the Bronx and is located two miles (3 km) north of Manhattan at the municipalities' closest points.
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Theodore Roosevelt return to New York in 1910 from African Safari - Part 1 of 2
On June 18, 1910, Theodore Roosevelt returned to New York City after a fifteen-month tour abroad, having travelled through Africa and western Europe. An elaborate city celebration drawing a million people marked his homecoming. Aboard the ocean liner Kaiserin Auguste Victoria ex-President and Mrs. Roosevelt were met by a revenue cutter, the Manhattan, carrying the Roosevelt children. TR then went aboard a larger cutter, the Androscoggin, and officially became a guest of the city. After boating up the Hudson River along the New Jersey shore to West Fifty-Ninth St., the Androscoggin moved back along the Manhattan shore to Battery Park, followed by a water parade of almost one hundred vessels. TR was greeted by Mayor William J. Gaynor at the Park, where both briefly spoke to an assembled crowd, with notables seated on a flag-draped stand expanded for the occasion to hold 600 people. Battery ceremonies were followed by a parade up Broadway and Fifth Avenue to the Fifty-Ninth St. plaza, where it dispersed. In the parade TR, Mayor William J. Gaynor, and chairman of the city's welcoming committee, Cornelius Vanderbilt, together rode in an open carriage, preceded by TR's regiment of Rough Riders, First United States Volunteer Cavalry. Also in the parade were approximately 2000 other veterans of the Spanish-American War. On the film are views of the open harbor, with various vessels assembled for TR's visit, including the Kaiserin Auguste Victoria, the Androscoggin, and the Manhattan; TR alone on the lookout station of what appears to be the Androscoggin as it moves into port; street scene in which photographers scramble to get clear view of carriages as notables pass through street cordoned off with greenery; TR and Vanderbilt move toward Battery speakers platform, beside which is visible the stand erected for TR's family and dignitaries; TR and Mayor Gaynor, who steps forward to greet TR, ascend platform; men mill around base of platform; side view of TR speaking from written notes, with Gaynor behind him; scenes of crowds and tents in what appears to be Central Park south; parade moves toward camera and passes in front of decorated stands; TR, standing in carriage, pauses in front of stands; shots of mounted police, mounted band, carriages, marching band.
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Located in Westchester County, Lyndhurst is America's finest Gothic Revival mansion and a remarkable example of the Hudson River's grand and historic estates.
5 Best Things To Do In Troy, New York | US Travel Guide
5 Best Things To Do In Troy, NY
During the Industrial Revolution, Troy was wealthy and on the move. The Erie Canal, Hudson River, and several major rail road lines all came together in this small town that once sparkled with the wealth and trappings of the Gilded Age. Troy, because of its geographic centrality to the technology at the heart of the changes that drove the Industrial Revolution, was a force to be reckoned with and a city to behold. Here five thing to do in Troy, New York
1. The Hart-Cluett Historic House Museum
2. The Kate Mullany National Historic Site
3. The Burden Iron Works Museum
4. Take a tour of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
5. Enjoy a walk around Washington Park
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Places to see in ( Bronx - USA )
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The Bronx is a borough of New York City. It's known for Yankee Stadium, the home field of the New York Yankees baseball team. Dating from 1899, the vast Bronx Zoo houses hundreds of species of animals. Nearby, the sprawling New York Botanical Garden features a landmark greenhouse with rainforest and cactus displays. By the Hudson River, Wave Hill is a landscaped public garden with wooded paths and a cultural center.
The Bronx - sometimes abbreviated as BX in the city, and nicknamed The Boogie Down - with a population of 1,455,444 (2015 Est), is the only one of the five New York City boroughs that is mainly on the mainland of the United States, and not on an island (there are smaller adjacent islands that are part of the Bronx, and also an extremely small portion of Manhattan, called Marble Hill, lies on the mainland). The Bronx was originally part of Westchester County but was gradually annexed by New York City. The Bronx was completely incorporated into the city in 1898.
The Bronx is the only borough with the word “The” commonly associated with its name. That’s because in the early 1600’s, a Swedish settler named Jonas Bronck bought the land from the Native Americans who occupied the territory at the time. Whenever other land owners in the area wanted to travel to that area they would call it “The Bronck’s Land”, after his family name. At first he planned to use the land to grow tobacco crops, but it had a marshy terrain and hills, and therefore couldn’t grow anything on it.
The Bronx has a strong character all its own. It is the birthplace of rap/hip hop music and home to one of the country's most storied professional baseball teams, the New York Yankees, also known as the Bronx Bombers. Many ethnic groups have called the Bronx home over the years. Arthur Avenue is still a center of Italian American culture in New York, and many claim it has a more authentic feel than Manhattan's Little Italy. The South Bronx is more of a struggling area, but is the center of Puerto Rican culture and life. University Heights and Morris Heights are largely Dominican neighborhoods, while Woodlawn maintains a large population of Irish immigrants.
While the southern and central Bronx are mostly comprised of apartment buildings and densely built, the physical environment of the Bronx is more varied than what is normally portrayed in the popular media. For instance, Riverdale is a residential neighborhood of mostly detached single family homes located on bluffs overlooking the Hudson River. It looks more like a quiet suburb in The Bronx. Bronx Park and Van Cortlandt Park are two large and notably tranquil green spaces. City Island, located in Long Island Sound but officially part of the Bronx reminds people more of a small New England fishing village and is worth a visit. And there is a traditional downtown area called The Hub at 149 St. and Third Avenue. While not as large or extensive as the downtown area of major city, a lot of stores are in that location and it is more than just a neighborhood shopping district.
A lot to see in Bronx New York such as :
Bronx Zoo
New York Botanical Garden
Yankee Stadium
City Island
Van Cortlandt Park
Wave Hill Public Gardens
Pelham Bay Park
Orchard Beach
Arthur Avenue
North Brother Island
Pelham Bay
Hart Island
Woodlawn
Broadway
Highbridge
The Bronx Museum of the Arts
Grand Concourse
North and South Brother Islands
The Woodlawn Cemetery and Conservancy
Enid A. Haupt Conservatory
Bronx Little Italy
Spuyten Duyvil
Bartow-Pell Mansion Museum
The Edgar Allan Poe Cottage
Kingsbridge
Fordham
Yankee Stadium Tours
Throgs Neck Bridge
Crotona Park
Belmont
Ferry Point Park
Concourse, Bronx
The Van Cortlandt House Museum
St. Mary's Park
Middletown - Pelham Bay
Roberto Clemente State Park
Parkchester
Yankee Stadium
Soundview Park
Westchester Square, Bronx
West Farms
Barretto Point Park
Pelham Bay
Castle Hill
Tremont
Trump Golf Links, Ferry Point
Hunters Island
Wild Asia Monorail
Morris Park
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Top 9 Tourist Attractions in Tarrytown, State New York
Top 9 Tourist Attractions and Beautiful Places in Tarrytown, State New York
Tarrytown Music Hall, Lyndhurst, Sunnyside, The Tarrytown Lighthouse, Tappan Zee Bridge, Pierson Park, Reformed Church of the Tarrytowns, Kykuit the Rockefeller Estate, The Old Dutch Church of Sleepy Hollow
Abandoned, Vacant, and Re-purposed places in the Northeast
Here are the stories of these places:
Dunkirk Generating Station: Closed at the end of 2015
Lake Street Bridge: Closed in 2011 due to structural deficiencies, but is going to reopen in the future to pedestrians and cyclists once repairs occur.
St. Cabrini Novitiate: Directly behind the St. Cabrini nursing home, built in the early 1900's.
Steel Point: This vacant lot has plans to be redeveloped in the future.
Centralia: Near-ghost town in Columbia County, PA, due to an underground mine fire directly underneath the borough. The fire started in 1962, and after several failed attempts to extinguish it, most residents were moved out, and most buildings were razed in 1992.
Graffiti Highway: One road leading into Centralia was damaged by the mine fire, and the state eventually built another road around it, and stopped repairing it.
Flight 93 National Memorial: One of the four hijacked flights from September 11th, 2001 landed here. The visitor center opened in 2015.
Water Tower: This is the last remaining building/structure from the Anaconda Wire and Cable Company factory on the waterfront in Hastings-on-Hudson. There are plans to redevelop the area in the future, and possibly with keeping the water tower.
Wilmington Riverwalk: Old cranes were placed on the Riverwalk at Dravo Plaza.
Hermit Ruins: Irvington Hermit Johann Stolting built small buildings in the Irvington Woods in the 1880's. Many ruins, as well as his grave, are still there.
GM Plant: The land between Kingsland Point and downtown Sleepy Hollow was filled in for a General Motors plant, which closed in the 1990's. It is currently being redeveloped.
Old Croton Aqueduct: The first aqueduct carrying water from the Croton River to New York City was built in 1837 and operated until 1955, when a new aqueduct rendered it obsolete.
Asbury Park Casino: The building fell into ruins, and the carousel was moved out in the 1980's. It is still being fixed up.
Long Point: Former fishing town. All residents had moved out by the end of the 1950's, by sailing their houses across the harbor into downtown Provincetown. The lighthouse remains, but the area is only used as a beach.
Ellis Island: Major US immigration station from 1892 to 1964. Became a museum in 1990. A 1998 Supreme Court ruling determined that most of the island is officially in New Jersey.
Godfrey Windmill: Built in 1797, but was mostly shut down in the early 1900's. Repaired several times, and is now part of Chase Park in Chatham.
Knobley Tunnel: Former railway tunnel, reopened in 2011 to pedestrian and cyclist traffic.
SteelStacks: Former home of Bethlehem Steel, which closed in 2003. It has been transformed into a museum.
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History of Southeast Pt. #1; open & Circus.dv
The History of Southeast, including the town of Brewster New York, offers a comprehensive history of the area. This portion of the video includes the opening, and the Circus segment. Camera & Editing by Andrew Stein, Andrew Stein Videography 914-788-4678. drewvideo.com
Eagle at harriman state park ny zoo 2012 .. close to bear mountain bridge on hudson river
Frohawk Two Feathers: Kill Your Best Ideas
Frohawk, artist and storyteller, paints and writes stories about battles, conquests, and the cast of characters that make up his imaginary Republic of Frengland. In ink, acrylic and tea, on paper and on canvas, Frohawk, born Umar Rashid in 1976, creates a fictional world that looks quite a bit like our real one.
Kill Your Best Ideas opens at the Hudson River Museum on February 7, 2015 through May 10, 2015. The exhibition is the fifth and last in Frohawk’s series The American Proteus: An Invocation and the Wars Between the Rivers.
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Finishing the Empire State Trail
Finishing the Empire State Trail
POTUS in Marine One flying up the Hudson River over Yonkers, NY May 14 2014
POTUS in Marine One flying up the Hudson River over Yonkers, NY May 14 2014
Places to see in ( New York - USA ) Broadway
Places to see in ( New York - USA ) Broadway
Broadway is a road in the U.S. state of New York. Broadway runs from State Street at Bowling Green for 13 mi (21 km) through the borough of Manhattan and 2 mi (3.2 km) through the Bronx, exiting north from the city to run an additional 18 mi (29 km) through the municipalities of Yonkers, Hastings-On-Hudson, Dobbs Ferry, Irvington, and Tarrytown, and terminating north of Sleepy Hollow in Westchester County.
It is the oldest north–south main thoroughfare in New York City, dating to the first New Amsterdam settlement, although most of it did not bear its current name until the late 19th century. The name Broadway is the English language literal translation of the Dutch name, Brede weg. Broadway in Manhattan is known widely as the heart of the American theatre industry, and is used as a metonym for it.
The section of lower Broadway from its origin at Bowling Green to City Hall Park is the historical location for the city's ticker-tape parades, and is sometimes called the Canyon of Heroes during such events. West of Broadway, as far as Canal Street, was the city's fashionable residential area until circa 1825; landfill has more than tripled the area, and the Hudson River shore now lies far to the west, beyond Tribeca and Battery Park City.
Because Broadway preceded the grid that the Commissioners' Plan of 1811 imposed on the island, Broadway crosses midtown Manhattan diagonally, intersecting with both the east-west streets and north-south avenues. Broadway's intersections with avenues, marked by squares (some merely triangular slivers of open space), have induced some interesting architecture, such as the Flatiron Building.
At the southwest corner of Central Park, Broadway crosses Eighth Avenue (called Central Park West north of 59th Street) at West 59th Street and Columbus Circle; on the site of the former New York Coliseum convention center is the new shopping center at the foot of the Time Warner Center, headquarters of Time Warner. Broadway then passes the campus of Columbia University at 116th Street in Morningside Heights, in part on the tract that housed the Bloomingdale Insane Asylum from 1808 until it moved to Westchester County in 1894.
Broadway is lined with many famous and otherwise noted and historic buildings, such as:
2 Broadway
280 Broadway (also known as the Marble Palace, the A.T. Stewart Company Store, or The Sun Building)
Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House (at the southern foot of Broadway, facing Bowling Green Fence and Park)
American Surety Building (100 Broadway)
Bowling Green Fence and Park (at the southern foot of Broadway, between 25 and 26 Broadway)
Bowling Green Building, later the White Star Line Building (11 Broadway)
Corbin Building (196 Broadway)
Cunard Building (25 Broadway)
Equitable Building (120 Broadway)
Morgan Stanley Building (1585 Broadway)
Paramount Building (1501 Broadway)
Standard Oil Building (26 Broadway, on the east side of Broadway, facing the Cunard building)
Trinity Church (79 Broadway)
United States Lines-Panama Pacific Line Building (1 Broadway)
Winter Garden Theatre (1634 Broadway)
Woolworth Building (233 Broadway)
Historic buildings on Broadway that are now demolished include:
Appleton Building
Alexander Macomb House
Barnum's American Museum
Equitable Life Building
Grand Central Hotel (673 Broadway)
Mechanics' Hall
Singer Building (Liberty Street and Broadway)
St. Nicholas Hotel
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New York is a state in the Northeastern United States. New York was one of the original Thirteen Colonies that formed the United States. With an estimated 19.85 million residents in 2017, it is the fourth most populous state. To distinguish the state from the city in the state with the same name, it is sometimes called New York State.
The state's most populous city, New York City, makes up over 40% of the state's population. Two-thirds of the state's population lives in the New York metropolitan area, and nearly 40% lives on Long Island. The state and city were both named for the 17th century Duke of York, the future King James II of England. With an estimated population of 8.55 million in 2015, New York City is the most populous city in the United States and the premier gateway for legal immigration to the United States. The New York metropolitan area is one of the most populous in the world. New York City is a global city, home to the United Nations Headquarters and has been described as the cultural, financial and media capital of the world, as well as the world's most economically powerful city. The next four most populous cities in the state are Buffalo, Rochester, Yonkers, and Syracuse, while the state capital is Albany.
New York, the 27th largest U.S. state in land area, has a diverse geography. The state is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south and Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Vermont to the east. The state has a maritime border with Rhode Island, east of Long Island, as well as an international border with the Canadian provinces of Quebec to the north and Ontario to the northwest. The southern part of the state is in the Atlantic Coastal Plain and includes Long Island and several smaller associated islands, as well as New York City and the lower Hudson River Valley. The large Upstate New York region comprises several ranges of the wider Appalachian Mountains, and the Adirondack Mountains in the Northeastern lobe of the state. Two major river valleys – the north-south Hudson River Valley and the east-west Mohawk River Valley – bisect these more mountainous regions. Western New York is considered part of the Great Lakes Region and borders Lake Ontario, Lake Erie, and Niagara Falls. The central part of the state is dominated by the Finger Lakes, a popular vacation and tourist destination.
New York had been inhabited by tribes of Algonquian and Iroquoian-speaking Native Americans for several hundred years by the time the earliest Europeans came to New York. French colonists and Jesuit missionaries arrived southward from Montreal for trade and proselytizing. In 1609, the region was visited by Henry Hudson sailing for the Dutch East India Company. The Dutch built Fort Nassau in 1614 at the confluence of the Hudson and Mohawk rivers, where the present-day capital of Albany later developed. The Dutch soon also settled New Amsterdam and parts of the Hudson Valley, establishing the multicultural colony of New Netherland, a center of trade and immigration. England seized the colony from the Dutch in 1664. During the American Revolutionary War (1775–1783), a group of colonists of the Province of New York attempted to take control of the British colony and eventually succeeded in establishing independence. In the 19th century, New York's development of access to the interior beginning with the Erie Canal, gave it incomparable advantages over other regions of the U.S. east-coast and built its political and cultural ascendancy.Many landmarks in New York are well known, including four of the world's ten most-visited tourist attractions in 2013: Times Square, Central Park, Niagara Falls (shared with Ontario), and Grand Central Terminal. New York is home to the Statue of Liberty, a symbol of the United States and its ideals of freedom, democracy, and opportunity. In the 21st century, New York has emerged as a global node of creativity and entr ...