A group of well-known New Yorkers, including former Secretary of the Treasury Albert Gallatin, founded the “University of the City of New York,” which later became New York University, in 1831. NYU, a private nonprofit research university, is one of the top 30 colleges in the U.S., and sits on 230 acres of land in New York City. The school has produced 36 Nobel Laureates, 7 Turing Award winners, more than 30 Academy Award and Pulitzer Prize winners and four Fields Medalists. Notable alumni include film directors Woody Allen, Spike Lee and Martin Scorsese, musician Lady Gaga, actors Alec Baldwin and Adam Sandler, actresses Anne Hathaway and Angelina Jolie, co-founder and CEO of Twitter Jack Dorsey, singer Neil Diamond and Former Mayor of New York City Rudy Giuliani. Its motto is “Perstare et praestare” or “To persevere and to excel.” The school’s colors are white and purple and its mascot is a bobcat. Its sports affiliation is NCAA Division III – UAA, and varsity teams include men’s baseball, basketball and soccer, and women’s basketball, volleyball, swimming and diving and tennis. NYU boasts the highest number of international students out of any college in the U.S., and they send the most students abroad to study.
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 2017 population of 8,622,698 distributed over a land area of about 302.6 square miles , New York City is also the most densely populated major city in the United States. Located at the southern tip of the state of New York, the city is the center of the New York metropolitan area, the largest metropolitan area in the world by urban landmass and one of the world's most populous megacities, with an estimated 20,320,876 people in its 2017 Metropolitan Statistical Area and 23,876,155 residents in its Combined Statistical Area. More from Wikipedia...
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