All rights reserved. Types of contractions. When we think of a muscle contracting normally, we tend to think of the muscle shortening as it generates force. While it's true that this is a way of muscle contracting, there are many different ways that a muscle can generate force, as seen in Figure 1 below.
New York City is the most-populous city in the United States, with an estimated record high of 8,491,079 residents as of 2014, incorporating more immigration into the city than outmigration since the 2010 United States Census.
Greater New York's official population for its U.S.-designated metropolitan statistical area is 19,949,502. That includes cites and counties in other states: Newark, Jersey City, the NY-NJ-PA Metro Area, Dutchess County, Putnam County, Nassau County, Suffolk County, and even White Plains. Wow.