More than twenty million people from all over the world visit New York every year. Most of them say, 'It's the most exciting city in the world!' They know many of the streets, avenues, and famous buildings before they come How do they know them? From American movies, old and new King Kong, On the Town, Annie, Manhattan, Spiderman, and many more. New York is not the capital of New York State. Albany, 154 miles to the north of the city, is the capital. But New York is much more famous than Albany. People often call it "The Big Apple'. Why? In the 1920s and 1930s, jazz musicians in the United States all wanted to work in New York.