Not for nothing, it is an impressive city by any standards, with remarkable skyscrapers and multiple ... towns on the banks of the Hudson River in New York State. The city has a lot of history ...

The European settlement of what would become New York was led by the Dutch, settling along the Hudson River in 1624 ... and New York City served as the new nation’s first capital.

New York with more than 300,000 inhabitants, was almost ten times as populous. The city's economy had grown steadily since the opening of the Erie Canal connecting the Hudson River to the Great ...