Reading the SBA Resource Guide for New York City is a great way to become familiar with state regulations and local agency contact information for the five boroughs and surrounding counties.
The state income tax rate ranges from 4.0% to 7.7%, and the local income tax rate ranges from 2.907% to 4.45%. The state sales tax rate is 4% and the local sales tax rate is 4.375%.
According to city-data.com, the five largest employers in the New York City area are New York City (by far), New York Public Schools, Merrill Lynch, JFK International Airport, and the Goldman Group. Sachs.
The weather can be hot and humid in the summer and freezing in the winter, with the possibility of any weather variation in the spring and fall.
New York City is actually made up of five separate boroughs or boroughs: Queens (Queens County), Brooklyn (Kings County), Bronx (Bronx County), Staten Island (Richmond County), and Manhattan (New York County). York).
TRADITIONS
Street vendors in the city are part of the local culture. Almost everyone agrees that this is a good way to get good, cheap food fast.
The annual Easter Parade is probably more about clothing than Easter, as its unusual hats and costumes are what set this parade apart from any other.
From time to time, New Yorkers decide that a momentous occasion deserves a ticker-tape parade. “Ticker tape” comes from leftover ticker tape that was used as a makeshift substitute for confetti when they decided to celebrate the dedication of the Statue of Liberty. People don’t use stock tickers or stock tape anymore, but the name stuck, now referring to any parade down a major New York City street with confetti thrown to celebrate the occasion.
SPORTS
NFL Football: New York Giants (at Giants Stadium in East Rutherford, NJ)
NBA Basketball: New York Knicks (at Madison Square Garden in Manhattan, NY)
MLB Baseball: New York Mets (at Shea Stadium/Citi Field in Flushing, NY) and New York Yankees (at Yankee Stadium in Bronx, NY)
NHL Hockey: New York Rangers (at Madison Square Garden in Manhattan, NY)
MLS Soccer: New York Red Bulls (at Giants Stadium in East Rutherford, NJ)
If the conversation is at a lull and you’re with one or two baseball fans, ask them to tell you about the history of the ballparks in New York. From a good storyteller, you can hear all about Ebbets Field, the Dodgers’ emigration from Brooklyn, and the end of an era at Yankee Stadium.
TRIVIA
The corner of 54th Street and Broadway is called “Big Apple Corner” because the gentleman who coined the term “Big Apple” lived there. This is what a municipal ordinance of 1997 says.
Residents of Staten Island (Richmond County) had once voted to secede from New York City, but the state of New York required that the city have veto power over the vote. The city’s mayor didn’t want to disrupt the city’s budget or services, so he turned down Staten Island’s request.
Legend has it that Peter Minuit bought the entire island of Manhattan from the Algonquin Indians for the equivalent of $24.00 USD in 1626.
