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Facts About New York - New York
New York harbor was visited by Verrazano in 1524, and the Hudson River was first explored by Henry Hudson in 1609. The Dutch settled here permanently in 1624 and for 40 years they ruled over the colony of New Netherland. It was conquered by the English in 1664 and was then named New York in honor of the Duke of York.
The total length of the New York State boundary is 1,430 miles:
- Canadian line / 445 miles
- Vermont line / 171 miles
- Massachusetts line / 50 miles
- Connecticut line to Long Island Sound / 81 miles
- Along the ocean around Long Island to the New Jersey shore / 246 miles
- New Jersey line / 93 miles
- Pennsylvania line / 344 miles to the beginning of the Canadian line in the middle of Lake Erie.
State Song - "I Love New York"
"I Love New York"
Words and music by Steve Karmen
I LOVE NEW YORK (repeat three times)
There isn't another like it.
No matter where you go.
And nobody can compare it.
It's win and place and show.
New York is special.
New York is diff'rent' cause there's no place else
on earth quite like New York and that's why
I LOVE NEW YORK. (repeat three times)
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