The City That Never Sleeps (nickname)

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The City That Never Sleeps is a well-known nickname for New York City that was popularized by Frank Sinatra, in the Theme from New York, New York's words:

  • I want to wake up in a city that never sleeps
    And find I'm a number one, top of the list ...[1]

Although New York City may have been the first well known city termed "The City That Never Sleeps",[2][3] and the city's subway system never closes,[4] the term has been applied to other cities. Here is a list, in alphabetical order, of cities that have also been called "the city that never sleeps":[5][4]

Other 24/7 services[]

New York City's free[13] 25 minute Staten Island Ferry operates 24 hours a day,[14] 7 days a week, with boats leaving every 15 to 20 minutes during peak hours and every 30 minutes at other times.[15][16]

Moreover, in many "24 hour" cities plenty of eateries are open until 3am, several clubs are open until 6am[3] and bars close 2am[4] or a few hours later.

The people who make use of these facilities, studies have found, are nevertheless affected by sunrise and sunset.[17][18] In other words: "that most humans aren’t as influenced by Earth’s light-dark cycle as we used to be" is not fully supported; there is an observed annual shift for "a stretch of three or four months" and "then, the process reversed direction".[19]

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  1. ^ "Frank Sinatra – New York, New York Lyrics".
  2. ^ "The original city that never sleeps"
  3. ^ Jump up to: a b c "World's best party cities: The top 10 cities that never sleep". November 20, 2015.
  4. ^ Jump up to: a b c Justine Harrington (July 16, 2018). "Top 5 Cities That Never Sleep".
  5. ^ "The Cities that never sleep". March 29, 2012.>
  6. ^ Nicolás, Cócaro (April 1983). "Attractive, enigmatic Buenos Aires". The Rotarian. Vol. 142 no. 4. p. 35. ISSN 0035-838X. Retrieved February 5, 2020.
  7. ^ Sebreli, Juan José (April 1, 2011). Buenos Aires, vida cotidiana y alienación: seguido de Buenos Aires, ciudad en crisis (in Spanish). Penguin Random House. p. 149. ISBN 9789500734257. Retrieved February 5, 2020.
  8. ^ Savidan, Dominique (May 6, 2019). "Voyages : Buenos Aires, la ville qui ne dort jamais". Le Parisien (in French). Retrieved February 5, 2020.
  9. ^ Cullen, Lucía (January 21, 2020). "Con mantras, a ciegas o en altura: cinco experiencias culinarias en la ciudad". La Nación (in Spanish). Retrieved February 5, 2020.
  10. ^ "Karachi: The city that (still) never sleeps". The Express Tribune. 2020-06-16. Retrieved 2020-07-31.
  11. ^ "Shanghai – a city that never sleeps". November 20, 2020.
  12. ^ Ruqian, Lu (2005). Cognitive Systems: Joint Chinese-German Workshop, Shanghai, China. p. 1.
  13. ^ Opened 1817, became free 180 years later (1997)
  14. ^ "Staten Island Ferry". September 18, 2017.
  15. ^ For a few budget-crisis years it was only hourly from midnight to 7am
  16. ^ "An Assessment of Staten Island Ferry Service and Recommendations for Improvement" (PDF).
  17. ^ Veronique Greenwood (November 25, 2017). "Cities That Never Sleep Are Shaped by Sunrise and Sunset". NYTimes.com.
  18. ^ Cell phones: "the times of day when they are active grew longer and shorter over the course of the year, waxing and waning with the daylight."
  19. ^ "PLOS Computational Biology".
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