New York City

New York City c. 1912 as shown in Tokyo DisneySea

**New York City** often referred to simply as **New York** is a real-world city located in New York State in the United States of America. It also has nicknames such as **"The Big Apple"**, **"The City That Never Sleeps"** and **"NYC"**.

## Description

New York City is the largest metropolitan city in the USA and is composed of five Burroughs: Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, Bronx and Staten Island.

### Features

* **Central Park**:
* **Coney Island**:
* **Empire State Building**:
* **Hotel Hightower**:
* **New York Globe Telegraph headquarters**:
* **Statue of Liberty**:
* **Times Square**:

## History

### Background

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## Jungle Cruise appearances

### Disney Parks

#### Adventureland Treehouse

Aya Kouame-Beauciel's letter mentions them having just finished constructing an observatory in New York City.

#### Adventure Trading Company

The baseball cap for the *New York Yankees* belonging to Wan "Short Round" Li hung on the bulletin-board for the Adventure Trading Company in Adventureland.

#### Bengal Barbecue

There is a miniature portrait in the possession of Professor Blauerhimmel, depicting the 1899 meeting of S.E.A. in the Hotel Hightower.

#### Indiana Jones Adventure: Temple of the Forbidden Eye

The newspaper, "New York Register" appears on *Eye on the Globe* newsreel on the subject of tourists lost in tours of the *Temple of the Forbidden Eye*.

#### Jungle Cruise

During the 2021 refurbishment, Alberta Falls mentioned New York City in an edition of *The Daily Gnus* newspaper. She mentioned having travelled there along with Cairo and London due to her father's frequent travels prior to 1919. New York resident Duke Ellington's song Flamingo is played by Nigel Greenwater in Disneyland's Jungle Cruise and *The Mooche* and an instrumental of *Diga Diga Doo* is played by Albert Awol in the Magic Kingdom's version of the ride, the latter of whom having been supplied with the music by the *Library of Lost American Melodies* in Manaus, Brazil. Both the American rides also contain crates from *Hightower Industries*.

#### Skipper Canteen

The Hotel Hightower is mentioned in the menu description for Shiriki Noodle Soup, stating the dish was served at the Hotel Hightower's 1899 New Year's Eve party. There are various other allusions to Harrison Hightower III within the establishment.

#### Trader Sam's Enchanted Tiki Bar

A feature of this bar was a portrait of Trader Sam's alleged grandfather Billamongawonga AKA Trader Bill, sent to him in 1912 by the *New York City Preservation Society* when they recovered it from the Hotel Hightower. Sam is also shown to have been good friends with New York resident and later governor, Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt and has art from *The* *New Yorker* cartoonist *Charles Addams* decorating the establishment.

### Film

#### Indiana Jones

##### Raiders of the Lost Ark

Jock Lindsey wears a New York Yankees cap.

##### Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom

Short Round wears a New York Yankees cap.

##### Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

Indiana Jones' enemy Walther Donovan recruited Indy to search for his father while in Donovan's Manhattan apartment.

### Other connections

#### 1964 World's Fair

The 1964 New York World's Fair held attractions such as Ford's Magic Skyway from which Big Bertha's animatronic originates and It's a Small World which the Jungle Cruise frequently references.

#### Casablanca

Rick Blaine is mentioned as having been born in New York.

#### Mystic Manor

There is a portrait in Mystic Manor of Lord Henry Mystic, Albert and several members of S.E.A. attending a New Year's Eve Party in the Hotel Hightower the December 31 of 1899.

#### Pleasure Island

Teddy Roosevelt was a founding member of the Adventurers Club.

#### Walt Disney's Enchanted Tiki Room

In *Enchanted Tiki Room: Get the Fever!*, some of the birds were mentioned as originating from New York.

## Other appearances

### American Waterfront

Much of this area of Tokyo DisneySea is set in New York, including the attractions *Tower of Terror, Turtle Talk, McDuck's Department Store* and the *S.S. Columbia*.

### Avengers Campus

There are various allusions to New York City in the history of the Avengers and Stark Industries with events such as the first appearances of Iron Man, the 1974 World's Fair, and the Battle of New York. The city's Sanctum Sanctorum is visited in the attraction The Sanctum via a mystical transportation site in Orange, California.

### Jock Lindsey's Hangar Bar

There are assorted connections to New York in this bar, mostly via Jock Lindsey's love of the New York Yankees.

### Stark Expo

The New York World's Fairs are referenced as having been attended by Stark Industries.

### Streets of America

This area of Disney's Hollywood Studios had an in-universe faux street depicting New York City.

## References

1. ↑ https://www.syfy.com/syfy.com/avengers-campus-mcu-easter-eggs-hidden-everywhere