where is new york city
NYC and New York, New York redirect here. For other uses, see New York City (disambiguation); NYC (disambiguation); and New York, New York (disambiguation). The City of New York, often called New York City or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States. With an estimated 2015 population of 8,550,405 distributed over a land area of about 302.6 square miles (784 km2), New York City is also the most densely populated major city in the United States.