Why New York City is so Huge

Three reasons why this city became so huge
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Johnny Harris is a filmmaker and journalist. He currently is based in Washington, DC, reporting on interesting trends and stories domestically and around the globe. Johnny's visual style blends motion graphics with cinematic videography to create content that explains complex issues in relatable ways. He holds a BA in international relations from Brigham Young University and an MA in international peace and conflict resolution from American University.

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[johnnyharris]

Hey Friends. Corrections/clarifications:
1. yes indeed the Erie Canal was built way after the british left. I should have made that clear.
2. "Bronx" isn't dutch. i must have been thinking "Harlem" and should have double checked. Whoops
3. (Old) York has lots to do with water and regularly floods (thank you all for telling me about that. I had no idea!)
4. I wont apologize for misspellings cuz being pedantic about typos is not a good use of our time here on earth. im dyslexic and will mispell things until the day I die. If you can't handle it, maybe best not to watch my videos?
5. k im done. Im doing my best with these vids and sometimes mis things here and there. that will likely always happen as long as I don't have a team to help fact check and comb thru everything I write. Hope you learned a bit about the growth of NYC!
-Johnny

[krateproductions]

NYC is so popular, I see “I ♥️ NYC” shirts in Rural India with people who don’t even know where New York is...
These shirts are also Made in China 😆

[BestEverFoodReviewShow]

Really profound point about the type of people who went to New York. The risk takers.

[verdatum]

Also, Manhattan is largely a giant hunk of basalt, so you can built skyscrapers on it, and you can build subway tunnels under it. Lots of places around the world can't handle that sort of building; especially not when skyscrapers were new.

[WDC]

5:02 As a Yorkshireman I feel I need to report that sadly York has a lot more to do with water than its people would like. It sits on the confluence of two rivers and gets horrific floods almost every year that cause all kinds of damage to the beautiful, old homes there and people's livelihoods.

[Matthew-qxdh]

New York’s smaller than some mega cities but what makes it so different and popular from the others in my opinion is the culture. New York is such a diverse city you can meet all types of people from around the world

[SupremeLeaderKimJong-un]

I sure hope you talk about Pyongyang, best city in the world

[ElenaTaber]

honored to make a 2 second appearance🥳

[LashanR]

"Immigrants tend to be a self-selecting group of risk takers." This is so perfectly well put I love it

[Kyzix]

This would make a really cool series, looking at various megacities around the world and how they got to be that way.

[ahnafj]

Risk taker immigrant business man perfectly describes my dad who immigrated in 1985 from bangladesh to New York. Before my dad immigrated, he traveled the world working on a ship. I asked him why he chose New York over every other place he could have gone to and he said something like, it is a nice place unlike any other city. This video connected very deeply to me.

[Arin-droid]

Whenever I see old footage from 1900s or before, it makes me sad thinking nobody is alive anymore. Makes me appreciate life even more.

[AverytheCubanAmerican]

NYC certainly feels like the epicenter of the world. Center for world finance and media, the UN is there, over 600 languages are spoken within its borders, food from a different country at every corner, it's truly an international city.

[mfvieira]

Correction: If I'm not mistaken, New York was named like that by the English in honor of the Duke of York, not because of the city of York (directly at least)

[markncl]

I would like to say how interesting and informative I found this video. Living in the England, it is real hard to get my head around how vast the USA is. To link up the Great Lakes and Atlantic ocean in that would must have taken a huge amount of foresight and been engineering nightmare. Thoroughly gripping.

[chid]

Dutchie here, Bronx isn't a Dutch name! It's derived from a swedish farmer! Brooklyn is though!
There are also a lot of other names derived from dutch, like Broadway or Harlem for example.

[DrPOP-jpeb]

The Bronx isn't named after a Dutch city, Harlem is (and as mentioned in the video: Brooklyn). The Bronx is named after some Swedish dude called Bronck.

[pjg_]

This is fast becoming my fave channel, my ex partner used to think I was weird for spending hours just looking at maps & ordnance survey pathfinder maps. Glad to see like minded people uploading super interesting content. Thanks Johnny

[aconcernedfan]

People: NYC is so crowded
Asians: *laughs in overpopulated megacities*

[robertv.]

As native Dutch I have to say: 'Our obsession with water is directly tied to preventing mass death by uncontrollable flooding. In fact the Netherlands is by origin a swampy marshland but has been terraformed, especially the past 200-300 years'