Chapter 7 Gotham
“Gotham” is a nickname for New York City that first became popular when writer Washington Irving attached it to New York in 1807. Irving took the name from the village of Gotham, Nottinghamshire in England: a place inhabited, according to folklore, by fools. Gotham City is the home of Batman. It is claimed to be in New Jersey, but is visually depicted as Manhattan.
The New York metropolitan area is the city and suburbs of New York City, and Long Island and the Mid- and Lower Hudson Valley in the state of New York. It also includes north and central New Jersey, three counties in western Connecticut, and five counties in northeastern Pennsylvania. About 24 million people populate metropolitan New ...
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