New York City

**New York City** is a real-life city in New York State. New York City is a prominently featured location in both Marvel Comics and the Marvel Cinematic Universe, being home to countless heroes and villains.

## Description

New York City is a large city located on the islands of New York State.

### Features

* **Avengers Tower**: Avengers Tower was a base for *Stark Industries*, repurposed as a base for the Avengers. It is unknown if they continued using the Tower as a base later on in their history.
* **Big John's Clothiers**:
* **Empire State University**:
* **Hotel New York**: An art-deco hotel connected to various superheroes.
* **Johnny's Jazz Club**:
* **Oscorp Tower**: The headquarters for Oscorp Industries.
* **Sanctum Sanctorum**: The Sanctum Sanctorum was the headquarters for the Sorcerer Supreme, Doctor Strange. The Sanctum was located at 177A Bleecker Street and is disguised as the, "Atlas Book Store".
* **Shawarma Palace**: Shawarma Palace was a shawarma restaurant gimmicked around the Avengers, run by a man named Jimmy.
* **Web Headquarters, New York**:

#### Harlem

Harlem was a neighbourhood which was home to vigilante, Luke Cage.

#### Hell's Kitchen

Hell's Kitchen was a crime infested part of New York.

* **15th Precinct Police Station**:
* **797, 9th Avenue**: This building served as the headquarters for the legal-firm *Nelson and Murdock Attorneys at Law*.

#### Midtown

* **Midtown High School**:
* **Midtown Tunnel**:

#### Queens

* **Flushing Meadows–Corona Park**: Flushing Meadows is a public-park in Queens, known for hosting the Stark Expos of Stark Industries, and historic World's Fairs.

## History

### Stark Expos

In 1954, Howard Stark arranged for Stark Industries' first Stark Expo. This expo was held in Flushing Meadows, **New York**. Another expo was held ten years later in Flushing Meadows. At this world's fair, Stark became affiliated with fellow businessman, Walt Disney. Howard created a the first Arc Reactor in the 1970s and in 1974, he unveiled his flying car *M.A.R.I.A.* at the 1974 World's Fair.

### Battle of New York

In 2012, the Asgardian Loki lead an alien, Chitauri army against Earth to try and conquer the planet and steal a powerful artifact known as the Tesseract. This resulted in the *Battle of New York* which caused the formation of the Avengers and Loki's arrest. Following his defeat at the hands of the Avengers, Loki was imprisoned below the palace of Asgard.

## Appearances

### Avengers Campus (DCA)

#### Web Slingers: A Spider-Man Adventure

The descriptions for Doreen Green and Lunella Lafayette mention being recruited for the *Worldwide Engineering Brigade* from New York City. WEB member Peter Parker also famously originates from New York.

### Avengers: Power the Night

The Hollywood Tower Hotel has a changed appearance at the end to resemble Queens in the MCU, before Spider-Man swings across it.

### Disney’s Hotel New York – The Art of Marvel

This hotel is themed around Disney's New York City. The city landscape is visible from the Skyline Bar.

### Doctor Strange: Journey into the Mystic Arts

In this attraction on the Disney Cruise Line, guests are transported into the Sanctum Sanctorum.

### FAN-tastic Food Truck

The food truck has photographs outside of Avengers Tower and the Sanctum Sanctorum.

### Hollywoodland

The Marvel meet 'n' greet area was set in New York, outside of the 15th Precinct.

### Marvel Super Hero Academy

The newspaper covering the academy's opening is from the New York newspaper, The Daily Bugle.

### Stark Expo

#### Ant-Man and the Wasp: Nano Battle!

A clock in the queue shows the time in New York.

#### Iron Man Experience

There are references to New York's history with Stark Industries in the queue such as the World's Fairs in *Flushing Meadows*.

### Other connections

#### Guardians of the Galaxy - Mission: BREAKOUT!

In Hollywoodland, the 15th Precinct has wanted posters for Cosmo the Spacedog and the Abilisk, referencing their escapes from Mission: Breakout!.

#### Jock Lindsey's Hangar Bar

Barkeeper Jock Lindsey is a big fan of the *New York Yankees* and keeps various pieces of their memorabilia in the bar.

#### Skipper Canteen

New York City's fictional *Hotel Hightower* is mentioned in the description for the Shiriki Noodle Salad.

## Other appearances

### American Waterfront

Part of the American Waterfront in Tokyo DisneySea is set in New York City.

## Gallery

The 15th precinct of Hell's KitchenAvengers Campus and the New York skyline on the Shawarma Palace logo
## References

1. ↑ https://www.endorexpress.net/parks/disneyparks/disneyland-disneyland/disney-california-adventure/2016/04/marvel-finds-new-home-in-dca/
2. ↑ https://www.laughingplace.com/w/articles/2019/03/29/hong-kong-disneyland-goes-big-for-ant-man-and-the-wasp-nano-battle-opening/