Why is New York still referred to as NEW where did the name come from anyway?Orbit?

Answer 1

Origianally, New York was called New Amsterdam becuase it was originally settled by the Dutch. Years later the British took control and renamed it New York after York in northern England.

Answer 2

New comes from the fact that people came from York and decided to name the new land New York...It is the same with New Hampshire, New Mexico and New Jersey. It is in a 7th grade history book. I remember reading it.

Answer 3

Because it is still NEW to most of us. Even not all the americans ever been there. So, it is still NEW.

May be when the British came to America a couple of hundreds years ago, this place resemble a place called York in northern England...They missed home and thus they called it "NEW" York.
Make sense ?

Answer 4

York is a city in northern England. Thus, New York is newer than the original York.

Same holds true for New Jersey, New Mexico, etc.

Here are name origins of the other states:
http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0854966.html

Answer 5

Even old New York was once New Amsterdam.
Why they changed it, I can't say.
(People just like it better that way.)

Anyway, York is a city in England, and New York is on the New World, man! Like, you know, New Hampshire.

Answer 6

Cause it was named after the English city of York.Originally the original Dutch settlers named it"New Amsterdam".

Answer 7

after yorkshire