It's not called that anymore
New Amsterdam
New York City (or Manhattan or lower manhattan)
The current mayor of New York City
Zohran Mamdani
The Brooklyn Bridge
The East River
Paul Stanley and Gene Simmons formed this face-painted rock band in New York City in 1973.
KISS
This company has hosted the July 4th hot dog eating contest in Coney Island since 1972
Nathan's Famous
The GE Building and The RCA Building
Comcast Building
NYC's wealthiest mayor by far, he controversially served for 3 terms
Michael Bloomberg
The George Washington Bridge
The Hudson River
This Brooklyn hip-hop trio started as a hardcore punk band before releasing Licensed to Ill, the first rap album to hit #1 on the Billboard charts.
The Beastie Boys
Hard to say if it's more famous for its pastrami sandwich or an iconic scene in When Harry Met Sally
Katz's Delicatessen
Idlewild
JFK Airport
NYC's first African American mayor
David Dinkins
Williis Avenue Bridge
Third Avenue Bridge
High Bridge
Harlem River
This Queens hip-hop collective's 1991 album The Low End Theory is widely considered one of the greatest rap records ever made.
Tribe Called Quest
Russ & Daughters, Ess-a and Liberty are all iconic places to get this New York specialty
Bagels
Blackwell's Island
Welfare Island
Roosevelt Island
Known as "The Little Flower", he also has an airport named after him
Fiorello La Guardia
The Kosciuszko Bridge
The Pulaski Bridge
Newtown Creek
This Brooklyn dance-punk/electronic project had a legendary three-hour farewell concert at Madison Square Garden in 2011 (shocker: they're touring again)
LCD Soundsystem
New Yorkers in a rush might call shorten this order to BECSPK
Bacon, Egg and Cheese. Salt, Papper, Ketchup
Long Acre Square
Times Square
Famous for asking New Yorker's on the street "How'm I doin'?", today you might know him for for his bridge
Ed Koch
Verrazzano–Narrows Bridge
The Narrows (or the New York Bay/Harbor)
Brian Eno once said this band's banana-covered debut only sold 30,000 copies, but everyone who bought one started a band.
The Velvet Underground
The pizza joint where Michael Scott gets "a New York slice" in an episode of The Office
Sbarro