X-Men New York

New York City

New York, often called New York City to distinguish it from New York State, or NYC for short, is the most populous city in the United States. With a 2020 population of 8,804,190 distributed over 300.46 square miles (778.2 km2), 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 area. With over 20 million people in its metropolitan statistical area and 23,582,649 in its combined statistical area as of 2020, New York is one of the world's most populous megacities. New York City has been described as the cultural, financial, and media capital of the world, significantly influencing commerce, entertainment, research, technology, education, politics, tourism, dining, art, fashion, and sports, and is the most photographed city in the world. Home to the headquarters of the United Nations, New York is an important center for international diplomacy, and has sometimes been called the capital of the world.

Setting

Situated on one of the world's largest natural harbors, New York City is composed of five boroughs, each of which is coextensive with a respective county of the State of New York. The five boroughs—Brooklyn (Kings County), Queens (Queens County), Manhattan (New York County), the Bronx (Bronx County), and Staten Island (Richmond County)—were created when local governments were consolidated into a single municipal entity in 1898.[15] The city and its metropolitan area constitute the premier gateway for legal immigration to the United States. As many as 800 languages are spoken in New York, making it the most linguistically diverse city in the world. New York is home to more than 3.2 million residents born outside the United States, the largest foreign-born population of any city in the world as of 2016. As of 2019, the New York metropolitan area is estimated to produce a gross metropolitan product (GMP) of $2.0 trillion. If the New York metropolitan area were a sovereign state, it would have the eighth-largest economy in the world. New York is home to the highest number of billionaires of any city in the world.

New York City traces its origins to a trading post founded on the southern tip of Manhattan Island by Dutch colonists in approximately 1624. The settlement was named New Amsterdam (Dutch: Nieuw Amsterdam) in 1626 and was chartered as a city in 1653. The city came under English control in 1664 and was renamed New York after King Charles II of England granted the lands to his brother, the Duke of York. The city was regained by the Dutch in July 1673 and was renamed New Orange for one year and three months; the city has been continuously named New York since November 1674. New York City was the capital of the United States from 1785 until 1790, and has been the largest U.S. city since 1790. The Statue of Liberty greeted millions of immigrants as they came to the U.S. by ship in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and is a symbol of the U.S. and its ideals of liberty and peace. In the 21st century, New York has emerged as a global node of creativity, entrepreneurship, and environmental sustainability, and as a symbol of freedom and cultural diversity. In 2019, New York was voted the greatest city in the world per a survey of over 30,000 people from 48 cities worldwide, citing its cultural diversity.

Many districts and monuments in New York City are major landmarks, including three of the world's ten most visited tourist attractions in 2013. A record 66.6 million tourists visited New York City in 2019. Times Square is the brightly illuminated hub of the Broadway Theater District, one of the world's busiest pedestrian intersections, and a major center of the world's entertainment industry. Many of the city's landmarks, skyscrapers, and parks are known around the world, as is the city's fast pace, spawning the term New York minute. The Empire State Building has become the global standard of reference to describe the height and length of other structures. Manhattan's real estate market is among the most expensive in the world. Providing continuous 24/7 service and contributing to the nickname The City That Never Sleeps, the New York City Subway is the largest single-operator rapid transit system worldwide, with 472 rail stations. The city has over 120 colleges and universities, including Columbia University, New York University, Rockefeller University, and the City University of New York system, which is the largest urban public university system in the United States. Anchored by Wall Street in the Financial District of Lower Manhattan, New York City has been called both the world's leading financial center and the most financially powerful city in the world, and is home to the world's two largest stock exchanges by total market capitalization, the New York Stock Exchange and NASDAQ.

New York Police Department

The New York City Police Department (NYPD), officially the City of New York Police Department, is the primary law enforcement agency within the City of New York, United States. Established on May 23, 1845, the NYPD is the largest and one of the oldest police departments in the United States. The NYPD headquarters is at 1 Police Plaza, located on Park Row in Lower Manhattan near City Hall. The NYPD's regulations are compiled in title 38 of the New York City Rules. The NYC Transit Police and NYC Housing Authority Police Department were fully integrated into the NYPD in 1995. Dedicated units of the NYPD include the Emergency Service Unit, K9, harbor patrol, air support, bomb squad, counter-terrorism, criminal intelligence, anti-organized crime, narcotics, public transportation, and public housing units.

The NYPD employs around 55,000 people, including almost 35,000 uniformed officers. According to the official CompStat database, the NYPD responded to nearly 500,000 reports of crime and made over 200,000 arrests during 2019. In 2020, it had a budget of US$6 billion. However, the NYPD's actual spending often exceeds its budget.

The NYPD has a history of police brutality, corruption, and discrimination on the basis of race, religion and sexuality, which critics argue persists to the present. Due to its high-profile location in the largest city and media center in the United States, fictionalized versions of the NYPD and its officers have frequently been portrayed in novels, radio, television, motion pictures, and video games.

Lieutenant Rafael Scarfe	Lieutenant William Lamont	Lieutenant Yuriko Watanabe	Detective Ashley Kondo	C.S.I. Carlie Cooper

Officer Ryan Trent	Officer Samuel Sykes

11th Precinct Station House

The 11th Precinct Station House was the headquarters of the NYPD in Mutant Town, and had to deal with the social and criminality problems present in that area.

Captain Randolph Esposito	Detective Izzy Ortega	Officer Gustave Kucharsky

Locations of Note

New York is the largest City in the United States. As such, it has a lot of places of interest to the mutant race in general, and the X-Men in particular.

Mutant Town

The rise in Manhattan's mutant population, coupled with racism among normal humans, led to mutants forming their own community in a ghetto established in the Alphabet City area of the East Village neighborhood of Manhattan. District X was the official title for the region; however, the region was more commonly referred to as Mutant Town. Mutant Town was very similar to, and served much the same purpose as, other minority ghettos in New York City like Chinatown, Harlem, Little Italy, or Greenwich Village. Soon the neighborhood was primarily populated by mutants, although some humans lived there as well.

The neighborhood was poor, overcrowded, and violent, with a high rate of crime, narcotics use, prostitution, burglary, and warring mutant gangs. It was once described as having the "highest unemployment rate in the United States, the highest rate of illiteracy and the highest severe overcrowding outside of Los Angeles."

Gang wars, such as the one between Daniel Kaufman and Frankie Zapruder, were frequent.

Many of its inhabitants possessed physical mutations that prevented them from blending in with human society. It also had a large underground population, inhabiting tunnels beneath the neighborhood similar to those of the Morlocks years before, or the Tunnel Rats.

Mutant Town was particularly notorious for the street drugs Kick, Toad, and MGH, sold by dealers such as Jazz and Charlie Hustle, or by Shaky Kaufman's and Filthy Frankie's gangs.

Center of Mutant Art & Culture

Despite the poverty and crime, Homo superior culture thrived here more than anywhere in the world outside of Genosha. Mutant Town quickly became a cultural center and population hub for a disenfranchised minority.
There was a range of mutant-owned businesses, clubs, and restaurants, including The Double Helix restaurant, X-Factory clothing, Café Des Artistes, Frankie's lounge, The Power Plant bar, and Mutatoo tattoo parlor. Mutant bands such as Sentinel Bait, Juggernaut and Cerebrastorm, along with nightclubs such as Daniel's Inferno, Wildkat Klub, Shakespeare's, and Wannabees created a vibrant, mutant-oriented nightlife. Many mutants used to work at such night-clubs, using their mutant powers or appearances, such as Lara King, Lorelei Travis, or Patricia Hamilton.

Mutant artists began to emerge, such as Nemesio Pietri, while mutant fashion designers like Jumbo Carnation became celebrities and mutant clothing line like BuFu were founded.

Mutant Town also gave rise to mutant spiritual leaders, such as Mr. M and Gregor Smerdyakov. X-Factor Investigations was founded to help fight crime, and X-Man Lucas Bishop was commissioned to police the area.

Locations of Note

Wildkat Klub: The Wildkat Klub was located in the district of New York City commonly referred to as Mutant Town. Residents were constantly exposed to the harassment of rival mutant gangs, bigoted humans, and capricious members of the NYPD.
Daniel's Inferno: Another mutant club.
McCarthy Avenue: One Batiment only, with many mutant residents.
11th Precinct Station House: The 11th Precinct Station House was the headquarters of the NYPD in Mutant Town, and had to deal with the social and criminality problems present in that area.
Power Plant: The Power Plant was a mutant-owned and operated bar located in Mutant Town and was directly across the street from the original X-Factor Investigations Headquarters. The Power Plant was a longtime bar in the heart of Mutant Town. Because it was located across the street from X-Factor Investigations Headquarters, the X-Factor Investigations crew frequentented the bar. After being recruited to XXX Investigations by Madrox, Wolfsbane met Strong Guy at the Power Plant for drinks. The fun was cut short when a dying dupe entered the bar and Jamie was forced to reabsorb him. To celebrate closing their first cases, the XXX Investigations crew went to have drinks at the Power Plant with their client Carol Campbell. Things got a bit dicey when Carol met Kim (her dead husband's male lover) and burst into flames. The Power Plant stayed open for after M-Day,[7] but business was never as good with many of the regulars moving away from the area. While Siryn was meeting a client in the Power Plant, the bar was gunned down and her client was murdered. After it was discovered that Multiple Man and/or one of his dupes slept with both Siryn and Monet on the same night, Jamie and Rictor had a heart to heart conversation over drinks at the Power Plant. While drinking alone (with a dupe), Madrox was approached by The Isolationist in the Power Plant. Following confession, Siryn told Monet about her unplanned pregnancy at the Power Plant.

Residents of Mutant Town

Detective Izzy Ortega	Armena Ortega	Chamayra Ortega	Esteban Ortega	Laline Ortega

Andrea Hobbes	Walker Hobbes	Worm Winston Hobbes	Daniel Kauffman	Felon

Filthy Frank Frankie Zapruder	Gregor Smerdyakov	Hanna Levy	Jazz	Johnny Dee

Jumbo Carnation	Kiden Nixon	Lara King	Layla Miller	Carrie

Lefty	Lil' Bro	Lonnie Shakespeare	Lorelei Travis	Mister M

Mister Punch	Mrs. Berdereaux	Toad Boy Tarquin Berdereaux	Nathan Patrofsky	Amazing Mer-Woman Patricia Hamilton

The Comedian Paula	Siren	Sylvette Lauziere	Catiana Tatiana Cabian	Zippermouth

Melek	Sarah	Ahmed	Nemesio Pietri	Dzemal

Counselor Evangeline Whedon	Billy Bates	Machine	Carol Campbell	Ned Campbell

Viktor	Trickster Jae-Hwan Kim	Mimic

• For information on Mutants, and Mutants in America, look at X-Men Mutants.
• For Mutants in the rest of the world, look at X-Men International Mutants.

Baxter Building

The Baxter Building, home of the World-Famous Fantastic Four.

The Baxter Building is a 35-story building located at 42nd Street and Madison Avenue, Manhattan, New York City in the United States of America just a few blocks from the United Nations Headquarters.[3] It has been home to many individuals and organizations. The most famous being the Fantastic Four.
In recent years the Baxter Building had become world famous as home to the super-heroes known as the Fantastic Four. When the Fantastic Four's military liaison suggested the building as their new headquarters, team leader Mister Fantastic agreed that it fit the needs of his group.[10]. Reed had purchased the building outright,[11] Reed tapped his former professor Noah Baxter, a former part owner of the building, to assist him in reconstructing the top five floors of the Baxter Building to suit their needs. Much of the equipment originally installed in the Fantastic Four's headquarters was a collaborative project between the two men.[12] The group moved in shortly after reconstruction began.

Future Foundation & Fantastic Four

Mister Fantastic Reed Richards	Invisible Woman Susan Richards	Human Torch Johnny Storm	The Thing Benjamin J. Grimm

Franklin Richards	Valeria Richards	Luna Maximoff

Stark Tower

Stark Tower.

Following the destruction of the original Stark Tower|Avengers Tower at the hands of Angrir, Tony Stark was disinclined to rebuild it, mainly due to lack of resources. Captain America convinced him to reconstruct it, arguing it could serve as a statement of the Avengers's resiliency, additionally suggesting they used the Asgardian treasure room riches Thor once had offered them.
The new Avengers Tower was built quite rapidly in the same location as the previous one, in the intersection of 58th and Broadway,[5] which is in the vicinity of Columbus Circle, approximately 10 blocks north of the Fantastic Four's Baxter Building. The inauguration ceremony, attended by several members of both the Avengers and the New Avengers, amassed thousands of people in the streets.

Stark Industries

Stark Industries (NYSE: SIA, NASDAQ: STRK) is an american global aerospace, defense, security and advanced technologies corporation with worldwide interests. Currently headquartered in its Manhattan offices,[3] the company's current President and Chief Executive Officer is Tony Stark, direct descendant of the founder Isaac Stark Sr.

C.E.O. Tony Stark	C.O.O. Virginia 'Pepper' Potts	Vice-President James 'Rhodey' Rhodes	Secretary Bambina 'Bambi' Arbogast

Nelson & Murdock, Attorneys at Law

This law firm was established after Matt Murdock and Foggy Nelson graduated, thanks to Foggy's dad's money. Karen Page was quickly hired by Nelson as a secretary.[2] Nelson and Murdock became high profile attorneys with numerous cases and clients.
Murdock sensed than Foggy Nelson would lose his election. In advance of the results, he had printed business cards for the "Storefront" with Nelson's name on it. He stated that they would "always" be partners. The "Storefront" prospered for some time. Becky Blake was hired as the Clinic's secretary. Nelson appeared to be in charge of day to day operations. Eventually, the Storefront lost it's government funding and grants. Nelson and Murdock's relationship again became strained. Nelson lamented that there were few, if any paying clients. Of course, Murdock spent a great deal of his personal time as the crime fighter Daredevil. Murdock and Nelson were also both mutually absent for crucial court cases involving their clients. The Storefront met its final demise when the Hand bombed the clinic in an attempt to assassinate Matt Murdock.
During Mysterio's plot against Daredevil, Foggy Nelson was accused of the murder of their client, a divorcee (actually a porn star Mysterio hired) who hired their firm to help settle her divorce case and was sent to prison. Rosalind Sharpe, fearing the bad publicity this will bring to their firm and her career, fires Foggy to sever his ties to the firm. Matt quits the firm after Rosalind makes it clear he is forbidden from helping Foggy in this case. After Mysterio is unmasked as the mastermind of this plot and Foggy is released, despite Karen Page having been killed in this incident, Matt is named as the sole beneficiary of her will and the money he inherited from it allows the two to re-establish Nelson and Murdock as their own business again.

Nelson & Murdock have a long history of acting as defense attorneys for superheroes, and many mutants as well, making them an official legal resource for the X-Men.

Attorney at Law Matt Murdock	Attorney at Law Franklin 'Foggy' Nelson

The Daily Bugle

The Daily Bugle.

The Daily Bugle later DB!, is an American tabloid newspaper based in New York City. It operates from the Daily Bugle Building located on 39th Street and Second Avenue. It was once one of the most read newspapers in the United States of America.
Toward the end of the superhero Civil War, Sally Floyd quit the Alternative and joined with Ben Urich, who left the Daily Bugle, to create a truly independent newspaper. When it almost failed, a mysterious benefactor (in fact J. Jonah Jameson) bought out the Alternative and handed it over to Ben Urich, who renamed it Front Line and became its editor-in-chief. Sally Floyd became the lead reporter.
Dexter Bennett bought the Daily Bugle off Jameson while Jameson was ill. After buying the Bugle, Bennett renamed the Bugle as "The DB!" and transformed it into a scandal sheet. This led Peter Parker, Robbie Robertson, and many others who worked at the Daily Bugle to leave the DB and move to Front Line, especially after the DB! Building was destroyed by Electro, and Bennett didn't bother to rebuild.
Sometime after, Marla Jameson was able buy back the Daily Bugle shares from Bennett, and Jameson gave the money to Robertson to remake the Front Line into the new Daily Bugle.

Publisher J. Jonah Jameson	Editor In Chief Robbie Robertson	Senior Editor Sally Floyd	Reporter Ben Urich	Reporter Betty Brant

Reporter Jennie Sheldon	Reporter Melita Garner	Reporter Norah Winters	Reporter Rubylyn Bato	Photographer Peter Parker

Photographer Randy Robertson	Photographer Samantha Chan

Central Perk

It is situated in New York City's Greenwich Village, in the same apartment block as Monica's apartment. It was where they spent much of their free time conversing. There are 97 steps away from Chandler and Joey's apartment as Joey counts in "The One With George Stephanopoulos". In every episode, the gang somehow always ends up getting the same set of chairs, and the couch. In many episodes fans have noticed a "Reserved" sign on the main table of the area. This is also sometimes on the side table (on the left of screen).
Phoebe Buffay was also a regular fixture in Central Perk, and played songs such as Smelly Cat to often bemused audiences. Phoebe was, at one point, replaced by Stephanie Schiffer, a professional who was hired by Terry. Ross also performed his keyboard music from there twice in "The One With Phoebe's Uterus". Phoebe's former singing partner Leslie also performed there at least once.
Throughout the coffee shop are small tables with chairs that extras on the show usually occupy. These, from the main camera angle, are behind the large orange sofa in the middle of the shop. The green chair on the right, the coffee table and the table and chair on the left are nearly always used as the main setting for any scenes in Central Perk. In the earlier episodes, irrespective of how busy the coffee shop became, those seats were always available. The writers turned this into a joke and, in the first episode of season three, the six main characters arrive in the shop to find their seats taken, apparently by Kevin Bright, Marta Kauffman and David Crane, the show's creators and the writers of Season Three. They then look at each other, dejected, and walk out. The artwork in the back of Central Perk was changed every three episodes (including images of King Kong and Uncle Sam), but the layout of the furniture remained largely unchanged for the entire series.

Manager Gunther	Barista Varia Seta

People of Note

New York is a city with over ten million people. There are bound to be at least a few worthy of note. Whether or not they wear a mask, or have a permanent location, or are otherwise just random denizens of the largest city in North America. After Mexico City.

Daredevil Matt Murdock	Spider-Man Peter Parker	Doctor Strange Stephen Strange	Power Man Luke Cage	Iron Fist Danny Rand

The Avengers

Avengers Assemble!

The Avengers are a team of extraordinary individuals with special abilities and the will to do good in the world. The team's purpose is to protect the planet Earth and its people from both domestic and extraterrestrial threats. They are a nonprofit organization privately funded by industrialist Tony Stark's Maria Stark Foundation. The group is recognized as a peacekeeping force by the National Security Council of the United States of America, the United Nations Security Council, and S.H.I.E.L.D.. The team functions with the peaceful interests of the whole world rather than a specific country or organization as stated in the Avengers Charter.

Captain America Steve Rogers	Iron Man Tony Stark	Thor Thor Odinson	Ms. Marvel Carol Danvers	Hawkeye Clint Barton

Vision	Scarlet Witch Wanda Maximoff	Wasp Janet Van Dyne	Giant Man Hank Pym	Wonder Man Simon Williams

Ant-Man Scott Lang	Black Widow Natasha Romanov	Black Panther T'Challa	Mockingbird Barbara 'Bobbi' Morse	She-Hulk Jennifer Walters

Trivia

By and large this is the real world NYC, but with shades of the Marvel Universe. I mean. It's in the Marvel Universe, so.