New York City York metropolitan area produced a gross metropolitan product (GMP) of US$1.73 trillion. If greater New York City were a sovereign state, it would have the 12th highest GDP in the world. New York City traces its origins to a trading post founded by colonists from the Dutch Republic in 1624 on Lower Manhattan; the post was named New Amsterdam in 1626. The city and its surroundings came under English control in 1664 and were renamed "New York" after King Charles II of England granted the lands to his brother, the Duke of York. New York served as the capital of
New York City English the (moribund) coil–curl merger, raising of to , a similar split in the short-"a" system, and "th"-stopping. Therefore, older New York City English also presumably influenced dialect evolution in Cincinnati, Ohio, and Albany, New York, whose older speakers in particular may still exhibit a short-"a" split system that appears to be an expanded or generalized variant of the New York City short-"a" system. Unsurprisingly, certain New York City dialect features also appear in New York Latino English. Though William Labov argued in 2010 that the New York accent is basically stable at the moment, some recent studies have revealed a