What caused New York City to become a metropolis?

Question

cause, effects and origins of New York City becoming a metropolis

Answer 1

1) Location
2) Location
3) Location

Answer 2

Almost two hundred years ago, a canal was dug between the Hudson River and Lake Erie. This made New York City the first point on the Atlantic Ocean with access to the Great Lakes by water (the Saint Lawrence Seaway was not built until much later). As a result, ships traveling between Europe and the U.S. would dock there, so that goods heading inland could go up the Hudson, through the canal, and into the Great Lakes. This made NYC the central hub for transatlantic commerce and things grew from there.

Answer 3

Landwise, you have many islands to which waterways were a major mode of transportation back in the 1600's. With the waterways you have populations that started growing near it along with cities forming.

The first growth of NYC was in 1898 when Brooklyn (which was its own city), Queens (which consisted of many villages), The Bronx, and Staten Island merged with Manhattan to become Greater New York. Immigration happened at the same time and you had people from Europe and Asia coming to NYC via Ellis Island. And after World War II, many people from the city moved into the suburbs, causing huge growth in Long Island, Westchester and Northern New Jersey...since the car was becoming affordable and more people were using them, along with the opening of new highways, therefore making the commute to NYC easy (well..back then anyway)

Answer 4

According to NY State law, Section 1648 (I wil paraphrase here) - "....any City not wholly incorporated within 1 County and having a population in excess of 1,000,000 people shall be deemed a metropolis and have the right to create its own laws......"

Answer 5

i suspect that this is an exam question; for,have you
not heard of the "path through the forest"?
Its made by an animal;its used over time;it becomes
a track;much later it becomes a freeway.
Similarly a city.
(By the way;that this is an exam question could explain
why more is made of such a simple example.Continue
to be inquisitive,even critical;Lots of things are not what
they are explained/determined to be!)

Answer 6

Root cause - being a deep water port, being on one of the closest shipping routes to Europe, being Immigration center, being able to build the first sky scrappers on bedrock, medium temperature, central to east coast destinations

Answer 7

ellis Island mostly immigrants went through Ellis Island and were transported to NYC - since they didnt know where else to go settled here and started up businesses - they grew and therefore builded communities thus, little italy, chinatown ,etc.
so in essence location, location, location.

Answer 8

people

Answer 9

NO WAY...you're nuts...it is chaotic enough...

Answer 10

i'll tell you how new york became famous.....
because of that 6hour long power cut.