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The town of New York City is located in the eastern half of North America. It has had an extensive history in the first few months of Aurora, and dozens of influential players have called it home. It is the capital of the New York nation.

'''Early Days'''

The town was founded by Tafffy, 32tjaayy, and Skunked on May 15th 2022, 15 days after the beginning of Aurora. Surprisingly, it did not originally start out as New York. It started as the town of Connecticut, and the goal was for it to act as a suburb of the town that was called New York at the time. However, things began to change as time went on. The development and growth of Connecticut far outpaced the original New York and its neighbours. Soon after, the town of Paterson (a Connecticut associate) was sold by LovelyPeach2001 to another player. The town was renamed to NYC. The region got even more chaotic in the days that followed. New York was disbanded for no apparent reason, and another town named NewYorkCity was created right next to it. To make things even more confusing, Brooklyn was created by Boxolmo right next to that. This meant that in a 6x6 chunk area there were 3 towns each claiming to be New York, as well as Brooklyn and Connecticut.

Connecticut eventually had enough of the discord exchanges that weren't going anywhere, and decided to take some action. With the gold saved up, the town claimed across the Hudson, breaking the claim agreement that was in place. They were confident enough to do this because by this point they were working with the USA. At the time, the USA also was sick of NYC and wanted a group in charge who had a better chance of making New York a reality. NYC was now entirely blocked on the north east as a result of the expansion, and it got even worse for them as Connecticut finally proclaimed they would make the nation of New York. At this point, the town of Connecticut will be referred to as New York, since that's what they renamed to at this time. Following the creation of the nation in early June, NYC was sold for 400g to New York. Now, there was only one town left in the region.

'''June-July'''

Now that the nation had been grinded for and all claim disputes had been resolved, New York could finally focus on their major goals.  

New members began joining, many of whom were old friends of the founding members. The ruling group of players now consisted of DiamondTuxedo, Lovelypeach2001, Tafffy, lazyrighteye, and 32tjaayy. Tafffy put out an announcement that no new councillors would be added from this point onwards, as there had been a few incidents of small thefts and other suspicious activity. Instead, influential players would be given Builder rank, and were trusted to projects that they wanted to help with. A very basic government system was created, with the priority of not making useless positions that overcomplicated things. It consisted of two councils, and chairman Tafffy. One council consisted of the original founders, and players who had contributed an exceptional amount. The other consisted of all the other influential players and builders. There would be no elections, but players would be promoted to each council with the approval of 3/4 of the members.

Built many iconic skyscrapers herself, and helped New York with countless other projects.

New York City is the most multicultural and religiously diverse town on the server. Citizens from all over the world from many different backgrounds and ethnicities have established businesses and places of worship to serve their communities, effectively to contributing to the thriving nature of New York City.  

For example, New York City is home to the highest concentration of Chinese players outside of China proper, who have made their homes in Chinatown (Manhattan) and suburban New Jersey. Other significant populations include but are not limited to immigrants from India (Edison), Mexico (Queens), Italy (Bronx), Philippines (Edison), Russia (Brooklyn), Turkey (Queens), Colombia (Queens), Dominican Republic (Paterson), Jamaica (Queens), Pakistan (Brooklyn), France (Manhattan), Albania (Bronx), and Nigeria (Bronx) all of whom have greatly contributed to the exceptional diversity of New York City.