Short answers, pulled from the story.
The New York metropolitan statistical area held 19.9 million people in 2024 Census estimates. This figure represents roughly one out of every seventeen Americans living within its borders.
Hurricane Sandy struck on October 29 and 30, 2012 ravaging portions of the Atlantic shoreline. Damage estimates for physical infrastructure and private property reached several tens of billions of dollars following that event.
Queens County holds the largest Asian population of any U.S. city proper exceeding one million residents according to 2010 Census data. Han Chinese populations constitute the fastest-growing ethnicity in New York State expanding rapidly eastward into suburban Nassau County.
The region's gross metropolitan product exceeded US$2.6 trillion making it the largest metropolitan economy in the world. Manhattan held approximately 520 million square feet of office space in 2013 making it the largest office market in the United States.
Same-sex marriages legalized on the 24th of June 2011 authorized to take place beginning thirty days thereafter. Annual NYC Pride March traverses southward down Fifth Avenue ending at Greenwich Village attracting millions of sidewalk spectators each June.