Reading the SBA Resource Guide for NYC is a great way to become familiar with state regulations and local agency contact information for all five boroughs and the 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 NYC area are the City of New York (by far), the New York Public Schools, Merrill Lynch, JFK International Airport, and the Goldman Sachs Group.
The climate can be hot and humid in the summer and freezing cold in the winter, with the possibility of every variation of weather in the spring and fall.
New York City is actually made up of five separate counties, or boroughs: Queens (Queens County), Brooklyn (Kings County), the Bronx (Bronx County), Staten Island (Richmond County), and Manhattan (New York County).
TRADITIONS
The city's street vendors are part of local culture. Almost everyone agrees that this is a fine way to get good, inexpensive food quickly.
The annual Easter Parade is probably more about clothes than about Easter, since its unusual hats and costumes are what distinguishes this parade from any other.
Every once in a while, New Yorkers decide that a momentous occasion deserves a ticker tape parade. The "ticker tape" comes from the leftover stock ticker tape that was used as an impromptu substitute for confetti when they decided to celebrate the dedication of the Statue of Liberty. People don't use stock tickers or the ticker tape anymore, but the name stuck, and now refers to any parade down a major New York City street with confetti thrown in celebration of 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 conversation is at a lull, and you are with a baseball fan or two, get them to tell you the history of baseball stadiums in New York. From a good storyteller, you can hear all about Ebbets Field, the emigration of the Brooklyn Dodgers, and the end of an era at Yankee Stadium.
TRIVIA
The corner of 54th Street and Broadway is called "Big Apple Corner" because that's where the gentleman who coined the term "Big Apple" used to live. A 1997 city ordinance says so.
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 be given veto power over the vote. The city's mayor didn't want to disrupt the budget or the city services, so he denied Staten Island's request.
Legend has it that Peter Minuit purchased the entire island of Manhattan from the Algonquin Indians for the equivalent of $24.00 USD in 1626.
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