the largest city in New York State and in the United States; located in southeastern New York at the mouth of the Hudson river; a major financial and cultural centre
a large city and port in the northeastern US, on the southeast coast of NEW YORK STATE and east of the Hudson River. New York City is the largest city in the US and its main business centre, but it is not the capital city of the US, which is Washington, D.C. The city is divided into five BOROUGH s : Manhattan, the Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens, and Richmond.
a special prize for excellent work in the theatre, given each year by a group of US theatre CRITIC s (= writers who give their judgement on the good or bad qualities of plays, actors etc)
a US daily newspaper produced in New York City, which includes a lot of GOSSIP (= information about famous people's private lives) and reports events in ways that make them seem as strange, exciting, or shocking as possible
a state in the northeastern US. Its capital is Albany and its largest city is NEW YORK CITY . It is famous for its beautiful countryside, especially its mountains and rivers, and it was one of the 13 original states of the US. The area in the centre and north of the state is often called upstate New York.