<li id="notea">'''[[#inlinea|^]]''' ژنوا is located within both the counties of انتاریو and [[Seneca شهرستان، New York|Seneca]]، although the section in Seneca شهرستان has no population and is all water.<ref name="ژنواUSGS">{{cite map|url=http://mapper.acme.com/?ll=42.85857، -76.97120&z=15&t=T&marker0=42.86668%2C-76.98509%2Cژنوا%5C%2C%20New%20York|title=Overview of ژنوا city near شهرستان borders|publisher=USGS (ACME mapper)|accessdate=۲۰۰۹-۰۶-۲۵}}</ref></li>
<li id="noteb">'''[[#inlineb|^]]''' 1653 is the officially recognized date.<ref>{{Citation|publication-date = ۱۹۵۳1953-۰۲02-۰۲02|title = New York 1653–1953|periodical = [[نیویورک تایمز]]|publication-place = [[نیویورک سیتی]]|url = http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F30E15FF3D5B107A93C0A91789D85F478585F9|issn = ۰۳۶۲0362-۴۳۳۱4331|accessdate = ۲۰۰۹2009-۰۵05-۲۴24}}</ref> [[پتر استویوسانت]] convinced the [[States-General of the Netherlands]] to charter the city of [[نیو آمستردام]] in 1653.<ref>{{citation|last=Roosevelt|first=Theodore|authorlink=Theodore Roosevelt|title=New York: A Sketch of the City’s Social، Political، and Commercial Progress from the First Dutch Settlement to Recent Times|url=http://www.bartleby.com/171/|accessdate=۲۰۰۹2009-۰۵05-۲۴24|year=۱۸۹۱1891|publisher=[[Longman|Longmans، Green]]|location=[[نیویورک سیتی]]|oclc=۲۳۰۶۰۳۹2306039|page=۳۰30|quote=It was under Stuyvesant، in 1653، that the town was formally incorporated as a city}}
</ref> The English envoy، [[Richard Nicolls]]، renamed the city "New York" two days after capturing it in 1664.<ref>{{citation|last=Roosevelt|first=Theodore|authorlink=Theodore Roosevelt|title=New York: A Sketch of the City’s Social، Political، and Commercial Progress from the First Dutch Settlement to Recent Times|url=http://www.bartleby.com/171/|accessdate=۲۰۰۹2009-۰۵05-۲۴24|year=۱۸۹۱1891|publisher=[[Longman|Longmans، Green]]|location=[[نیویورک سیتی]]|oclc=۲۳۰۶۰۳۹2306039|page=۴۶46|quote=The expedition against New Amsterdam had been organized with the Duke of York، afterward King James II. ، as its special patron، and the city was rechristened in his honor.}}
</ref> Provincial governor [[Thomas Dongan]] rechartered the city under the auspices of the [[جیمز دوم انگلستان]] in 1683،<ref>{{citation|last=Roosevelt|first=Theodore|authorlink=Theodore Roosevelt|title=New York: A Sketch of the City’s Social، Political، and Commercial Progress from the First Dutch Settlement to Recent Times|url=http://www.bartleby.com/171/|accessdate=۲۰۰۹2009-۰۵05-۲۴24|year=۱۸۹۱1891|publisher=[[Longman|Longmans، Green]]|location=[[نیویورک سیتی]]|oclc=۲۳۰۶۰۳۹2306039|page=۵۶56|quote=Under the influence of Dongan، he did indeed grant to the city itself a charter of special rights and privileges}}</ref> though the charter was not published until 1686.<ref>{{citation|last=Dongan|first=Thomas|authorlink=Thomas Dongan|title=The charter of the city of New-York|url=http://www.archive.org/stream/dongancharterofc00newyrich/dongancharterofc00newyrich_djvu.txt|accessdate=۲۰۰۹2009-۰۵05-۲۴24|year=۱۶۹۴1694|publisher=William Bradford|location=[[نیویورک سیتی]]|oclc=۵۵۸۹۹۳۸۵55899385}}
</ref> Finally، New York was reincorporated to include all five of its present boroughs in 1898.</li>
