New York City

NEW YORK CITY

New York is the principal town of the United States situated on the east coast. With its more than eighty million of inhabitants it is ranked at the second world place in particular thanks to its p.i.b. It has five boroughs which are the Bronx, Manhattan, the Queens, Brooklyn and Staten Island. Its nickname is the big apple or “the city that never sleeps”. It’s a metropole integrated in the globalization.

DEMOGRAPHY

New York is the most populated town of the USA. Its population represents fourty percent of the inhabitants of the state of New York.

It has known a development of trade and industry thanks to the arriving of million of migrants which provoqued a demographic increase. But after the Second World War, NY lost eighty hundred and thousand inhabitants. Now it is estimated to reach until nine point five (9,5) million in two thousand thirty.

The life expectancy is eighty point two (80,2) for women and seventy four point five (74,5) for men. The population is relatively young. In two thousand and five the median age was thirty five point eight (35,8) and there are more women than men.

The unemployment rate is lower than national’s and NY population is more graduated. However it exists disparities of wages, for example, they are richest in Manhattan than in Harlem. But Queens and Staten Island are middle classes.

New York is one of the metropole the most cosmopolitan of the world. We can heard one hundred seventy languages in the town because NY is the principal door of immigration.

ADMINISTRATION AND POLICY

Although NY City is dependant from NY State it benefits from a large legislative and executive autonomy. Its administration is definited by a charter. New Yorkers are in majority democrats and liberal. Sixty six percent of registered people are democrats. There are 3 branches: executive, legislative and judicial.

So, for the executive power it is represented by the mayor who is elected directly for four years.

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