| Albany |
the capital of New York. |
| Bedford Stuyvesant |
a neighborhood in the the New York City borough of Brooklyn, sometimes referred to as "Bed Stuy." |
| borough |
one of the administrative divisions of New York City. [1/2 definitions] |
| bowery |
a Dutch settler's farm or country residence in early New York. [1/2 definitions] |
| Broadway |
a major north-south New York City street, part of which is the core of the theater district in midtown. [2 definitions] |
| Bronx |
the northernmost New York City borough. |
| Brooklyn |
a New York City borough on the western end of Long Island. |
| Cayuga |
a member of a tribe of North American Indians that formerly lived near Cayuga and Seneca Lakes in upstate New York, and that belongs to the Six Nations. [1/2 definitions] |
| Central Park |
the first urban park in the U.S., developed in 1873, located in the Manhattan borough of New York City. |
| Chautauqua |
a lake in southwestern New York, or the village located on this lake. [1/3 definitions] |
| Cornell University |
an Ivy League university in Ithaca, New York, founded in 1865. |
| Dow Jones industrial average |
trademark for the index of prices of thirty industrial stocks traded on the New York Stock Exchange and averaged daily. |
| Ellis Island |
an island in Upper New York Bay where, from 1892 to 1943, millions of incoming immigrants to the U.S. were processed. The facility on the island is now a museum that illuminates the immigration experience. |
| Erie Canal |
a U.S. canal that runs through New York State and connects the Great Lakes with the Atlantic Ocean. After many years of work, the canal was completed and opened in 1825. |
| Frederick Olmsted |
U.S. park designer considered the founder of American landscape architecture, whose achievements include New York City's Central Park and major U.S. national parks; born Frederick Law Olmsted (b.1822--d.1903) |
| Harlem |
a section of northern Manhattan in New York City, mostly African American since the early 1900s and with a substantial Hispanic population, known for both its poverty and its cultural richness. |
| Iroquois |
a member of an American Indian confederacy of New York State that includes the Cayuga, Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Seneca, and Tuscarora tribes. [1/3 definitions] |
| Knickerbocker |
a descendant of the Dutch settlers of New York. [2/3 definitions] |
| Lake Erie |
one of the Great Lakes of North America, bordering the province of Ontario in Canada and the states of New York, Pennyslvania, Ohio, and Michigan in the United States. |
| Lake Ontario |
the smallest of the Great Lakes, lying between the state of New York in the United States and the province of Ontario in Canada. |
| Long Island |
an island in southeastern New York State that includes two of the boroughs of New York City. |