Metro New York
Metro New York or Greater New York, also called the Tri-State Area, is the massive metropolitan area around New York City in the states of New York, Connecticut, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. It is the biggest and wealthiest metro area in the United States.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Gateway National Recreation Area.
Gateway National Recreation Area
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Gateway National Recreation Area is a national recreation area in Metro New York. This 26,607 acre park has four separate areas located in three boroughs of New York City and on Sandy Hook in central New Jersey.
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Places of Interest
Highlights include LaGuardia Airport and Museum of the Moving Image.
LaGuardia Airport
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LaGuardia Airport is the third major airport in the New York area. While JFK and Newark Airport are major international airports, LaGuardia mostly serves domestic flights.
Museum of the Moving Image
Museum
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The Museum of the Moving Image is a media museum located in a former building of the historic Astoria Studios, in the Astoria neighborhood of Queens in New York City.
Noguchi Museum
Museum
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The Noguchi Museum is a museum and sculpture garden at 32-37 Vernon Boulevard in the Long Island City neighborhood of Queens in New York City, designed and created by the Japanese American sculptor Isamu Noguchi.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Long Island City and Astoria and Jackson Heights.
Long Island City and Astoria
Long Island City is a neighborhood within the New York City borough of Queens. It is bordered by Astoria to the north; the East River to the west; Sunnyside to the east; and Newtown Creek, which separates Queens from Greenpoint, Brooklyn, to the south.
Jackson Heights
Jackson Heights is a neighborhood in Queens, a borough of New York City. Woodside, Elmhurst and Corona are also covered in this article. To an increasing number of travelers and curious New York natives, the area offers a diversity of mostly reasonably-priced restaurants representing many of the world's cuisines, including Indian, Thai, Korean, Mexican, Peruvian, Italian, and Argentine.
Upper East Side
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The Upper East Side of Manhattan is one of the city's wealthiest districts. Spanning the stretch of island between 59th Street to 96th Street east of Central Park, the neighborhoods of Lenox Hill, Yorkville, and Carnegie Hill are full of luxurious townhouses and apartment buildings on some of the most affluent addresses in New York.
Metro New York
- Type: Economic region with 19,000,000 residents
- Description: most populous metropolitan area in the United States
- Also known as: “Greater New York”, “New York metropolitan area”, “New York-Newark-Jersey City metro area”, “New York-Newark-Jersey City metropolitan area”, “New York-Newark-Jersey City metropolitan statistical area”, “New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ Metro Area”, “New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ Metropolitan Statistical Area”, “New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ MSA”, “New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA Metro Area”, “New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA Metropolitan Statistical Area”, “New York-Northern New Jersey-Long Island”, and “Tri-state area”
- Categories: metropolitan statistical area and megacity
- Location: Queens, New York, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yiddish—“Metro New York” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “منطقة نيويورك الحضرية”
- Arabic: “منطقة نيويورك الكبرى”
- Asturian: “Área metropolitana de Nueva York”
- Azerbaijani: “Böyük Nyu-York”
- Azerbaijani: “Nyu-York aqlomerasiya regionu”
- Balinese: “Wawengkon métropolitan New York”
- Basque: “New Yorkeko metropolitar eremua”
- Belarusian: “Нью-Ёрская аглямэрацыя”
- Belarusian: “Нью-Ёрская мэтрапольная тэрыторыя”
- Bengali: “নিউ ইয়র্ক মহানগর অঞ্চল”
- Bengali: “নিউ ইয়র্ক মহানগর এলাকা”
- Bulgarian: “Голям Ню Йорк”
- Bulgarian: “Метрополис Ню Йорк”
- Catalan: “àrea metropolitana de Nova York”
- Catalan: “Àrea metropolitana de Nova York”
- Catalan: “Tri-state Area”
- Chinese: “大紐約都會區”
- Chinese: “大纽约地区”
- Chinese: “紐約大都會區”
- Chinese: “紐約都會區”
- Chinese: “纽约大都会区”
- Chinese: “纽约都会区”
- Czech: “Metropolitní oblast New York”
- Czech: “Newyorská metropolitní oblast”
- Danish: “New Yorks storbyområde”
- Dutch: “New York City metropolitan area”
- Dutch: “New York Metropolitan Area”
- Dutch: “New York”
- Esperanto: “Metropola areo de Novjorko”
- Esperanto: “Metropola regiono de Novjorko”
- Estonian: “New Yorgi suurlinnapiirkond”
- Finnish: “New Yorkin metropolialue”
- Finnish: “New Yorkin suurkaupunkialue”
- French: “Grand New York”
- Galician: “área metropolitana de Nova York”
- German: “Metropolregion New York”
- German: “New York Metropolitan Area”
- German: “Tri States Area”
- German: “Tri States Region”
- Greek: “Μητροπολιτική περιοχή της Νέας Υόρκης”
- Hakka Chinese: “Néu-yok Tû-fi-khî”
- Hakka Chinese: “New York Tû-fi-khî”
- Hebrew: “המטרופולין של ניו יורק”
- Hebrew: “מטרופולין ניו יורק”
- Hebrew: “ניו יורק רבתי”
- Indonesian: “Kawasan metropolitan New York”
- Indonesian: “Tri-State Region”
- Indonesian: “Wilayah metropolitan New York”
- Irish: “Mórcheantar Nua-Eabhrac”
- Italian: “area metropolitana di New York”
- Italian: “Area metropolitana di New York”
- Italian: “Grande New York”
- Japanese: “ニューヨーク圏”
- Japanese: “ニューヨーク大都市圏”
- Japanese: “ニューヨーク都市圏”
- Korean: “그레이터 뉴욕”
- Korean: “그레이터뉴욕”
- Korean: “뉴욕 도시권”
- Korean: “뉴욕 메트로폴리탄 지구”
- Korean: “뉴욕 메트로폴리탄 지역”
- Malay: “Kawasan metropolitan New York”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “New York metropolitan area”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “New York storbyområde”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Storbyområdet New York”
- Norwegian: “Storbyområdet New York”
- Ossetian: “Нью-Йорчы агломераци”
- Persian: “منطقه کلانشهری نیویورک”
- Polish: “Obszar metropolitalny Nowego Jorku”
- Portuguese: “Grande Nova York”
- Portuguese: “Região Metropolitana de Nova Iorque-Newark”
- Portuguese: “Região Metropolitana de Nova Iorque”
- Portuguese: “Região Metropolitana de Nova York”
- Romanian: “zona metropolitană New York”
- Russian: “Большой Нью-Йорк”
- Russian: “Нью-Йоркская агломерация”
- Russian: “Нью-Йоркский метрополитенский статистический ареал”
- Scots: “New York metropolitan area”
- Scots: “New York metropolitan aurie”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Njujorško metropolitansko područje”
- Slovak: “Greater New York”
- Slovak: “Metropolitná oblasť New York”
- Slovak: “Veľký New York”
- Slovenian: “metropolitansko območje New York”
- Spanish: “Area metropolitana de Nueva York-Norte de Nueva Jersey-Long Island”
- Spanish: “Área metropolitana de Nueva York-Norte de Nueva Jersey-Long Island”
- Spanish: “Area metropolitana de Nueva York”
- Spanish: “Área metropolitana de Nueva York”
- Swahili: “Eneo la jiji la New York”
- Swedish: “New Yorks storstadsregion”
- Tagalog: “Kalakhang Bagong York”
- Tatar: “Нью-Йорк агломерациясе”
- Turkish: “New York metropolitan alanı”
- Turkish: “New York metropoliten alanı”
- Ukrainian: “Нью-йоркська агломерація”
- Ukrainian: “Нью-Йоркська агломерація”
- Urdu: “نیو یارک میٹروپولیٹن علاقہ”
- Vietnamese: “New York metropolitan area”
- Vietnamese: “Vùng đô thị New York”
- Vietnamese: “Vùng đô thị Thành phố New York”
- Welsh: “ardal fetropolitan Efrog Newydd”
- Western Panjabi: “نیو یارک میٹروپولیٹن علاقہ”
- Yiddish: “ניו יארק מעטראפאליטען שטח”
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