New York

The city of New York is placed on the east coast of The United States of North America, bathed by the Atlantic Ocean in which there ends the river Hudson that crosses the whole condition. It borders in the western part on New Jersey, to the Northwest on Connecticut and to the South-east on Long Island. The city gives name to the condition which capital is Albany. Until 1898 the city was formed only by Manhattan which he was joined the same year by Kings's counties (Brooklyn), Queens, Bronx and Richmond (Staten Island).