New York City

*"You mess with Spidey, you mess with New York! You mess with one of us, you mess with all of us!"*
―New Yorker on Bridge to Green Goblin[src]
**New York City** is the largest city of the state of New York and the largest metropolitan area in the United States of America.

## History

### Peter Parker's Arrival

At the mere age of four, Peter Parker was transferred to New York City from Wisconsin following his parents' death, residing with his aunt and uncle in their home in Forest Hills. He'd also come to meet the girl next door, Mary Jane Watson, two years later. Parker enjoyed her plays in pre-school.

### Rise of Spider-Man

Becoming the best friend of Harry Osborn, son of Norman Osborn who owns Oscorp Industries, based on Long Island, Parker attended Midtown High School in Forest Hills. He'd be acclaimed as the geek accompanied by his only friend, deeply in love with Watson, taken by the popular kid Flash Thompson.

In 2002, on a field trip to Columbia University, Morningside Heights, Peter was bitten by a radioactive spider, developed by the scientists at Columbia Genetic Research Institute who'd have been doing research for over five years. Peter would soon become the Spider-Man, a persona he invented to enter a wrestling ring he faked as the public library. Acclaiming fame, Parker would soon find his uncle dead on the sidewalk, hunting down the gunner he'd indirectly kill. Graduated, Peter now used his persona as a symbol for good, not greed, minimalizing the crime rates of New York, though newspapers, such as the *Daily Bugle*, persumed him a menace to the city.

Over the years, Spider-Man tackled the Green Goblin, Norman Osborn's alter that'd disrupt the World Unity Festival at Times Square and cause a deadly commotion at Queensboro Bridge, Doctor Octopus, Otto Octavius controlled by his mechanical arms capable of controlling the power of the sun that nearly evaporated all of New York City, robbing banks and causing a near train wreck in his quest to turn it back on, the Sandman, an escapee from Rikers Island that engaged a car chase during a celebration for the Spider-Man, meant to achieve the key to the city, Eddie Brock, Parker's rival photographer who bonded with Spider-Man's evil symbiote that shocked the city, and even his best friend "New Goblin".

Sandman, Brock and New Goblin would team up to try and eradicate Spider-Man at a construction site in New York City, as seen and reported by dozens, only for them to horribly fail. Parker would still attend his enemies' funerals, as he resonated with their alter-egos.

### To an Alternate New York

43 years of age, Parker is suddenly transported to an alternate New York City, where he senses someone is in need of his help. He is summoned in the home of a teenager's grandmother, and meets an alternate Spider-Man. Informed of another Spider-Man in need both Parkers ally with this universe's Peter Parker, who has recently lost his own aunt May. They awaited their opponents, displaced adversaries of the older Spider-Men, who this Spider-Man planned to cure before their meet their fates when going back to their original universes, at the Statue of Liberty.

Able to cure them after a tough fight, damaging the Statue, Spider-Man waves his variants farewell when returning to his own universe, an act performed by this Spider-Man's fellow Avenger Doctor Strange.

## Notable Inhabitants

* Aziz
* Ben Parker
* Bernard Houseman
* Betty Brant
* Caroline Mulder
* Curtis Connors
* Dennis Carradine
* Ditkovich
* Doctor Strange
* Eddie Brock
* Edward Leeds
* Emma Marko
* Flash Thompson
* Flint Marko
* George Stacy
* Gwen Stacy
* Harry Osborn
* Henry Jackson
* Isaacs
* Jennifer Dugan
* J. Jonah Jameson
* John Jameson
* Robbie Robertson
* Liz Allen
* Man in Fair
* Mary Jane Watson
* Maximilian Fargas
* May Parker
* McGraw
* Mendel Stromm
* Neil Garrett
* Norman Osborn
* Otto Octavius
* Penny Marko
* Peter Parker
* Rosalie Octavius
* Ted Hoffman
* Tony Targo
* Ursula Ditkovich
* Venom (temporarily)

## Layout

### Manhattan

#### Neighborhoods

*"I don't know what it's like at those fancy private schools, but at Midtown High..."*
―Teacher to Harry Osborn[src]
* Morningside Heights
* Midtown Manhattan
* Roosevelt Island
* SoHo, Manhattan
* Times Square

#### Landmarks

* Central Park
* Chrysler Building
* Columbia University
* *Daily Bugle* Building
* Empire State Building
* *Joe's Pizza*
* Midtown Hospital
* Osborn Penthouse

### Queens

#### Neighborhoods

*"They keep screaming: "Spider-Man! Spider-Man!" I don't know, I mean, I'm thinking to myself, "I'm just a nerdy kid from Queens. Do I deserve this?""*
―Peter Parker to Mary Jane Watson[src]
* Forest Hills

#### Landmarks

* Midtown High School
* Parker Residence

### Other Landmarks

* Long Island
	+ Oscorp Building
* Roosevelt Island

## Appearances

* *Spider-Man 3: Movie Prequel* (flashback)
* *Spider-Man*
* *Spider-Man: Your Friendly Neighbourhood Spider-Man*
* *Spider-Man 3: Movie Prequel*
* *Spider-Man: The New Animated Series*
	+ Season One
		- *Heroes & Villains* (alternate universe)
		- *Royal Scam* (alternate universe)
		- *Law of the Jungle* (alternate universe)
		- *The Sword of Shikata* (alternate universe)
		- *Keeping Secrets* (alternate universe)
		- *Tight Squeeze* (alternate universe)
		- *Head Over Heels* (alternate universe)
		- *The Party* (alternate universe)
		- *Flash Memory* (alternate universe)
		- *Spider-Man Dis-Sabled* (alternate universe)
		- *When Sparks Fly* (alternate universe)
		- *Mind Games, Part One* (alternate universe)
		- *Mind Games, Part Two* (alternate universe)
* *Spider-Man 2*
* *Spider-Man 3: Movie Prequel*
* *Spider-Man 3*
* *Spider-Man 3: The Black*
* *Spider-Man: No Way Home* (alternate universe)

## References

1. ↑ *Spider-Man*
2. ↑ 2.00 2.01 2.02 2.03 2.04 2.05 2.06 2.07 2.08 2.09 2.10 2.11 2.12 2.13 2.14 2.15 *Spider-Man*
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 *Spider-Man 2*
4. ↑ *Spider-Man 3*
5. ↑ *Spider-Man: No Way Home*

## External Links

* New York City on Wikipedia
* New York City on Marvel Database