The City That Never Sleeps is a ubiquitously used nickname and advertising slogan for New York City. Photographer Jacob Riis describes the Bowery as never sleeping in his 1898 book Out of Mulberry Street: Stories of Tenement Life in New York City. A September 6, 1912 newspaper article in Indiana's Fort Wayne Daily first nicknamed New York City as a whole as "The city that never sleeps.". It has also been applied to several other cities around the world.

List of other cities

Although New York City is the most prominently recognized city termed "The City That Never Sleeps","The original city that never sleeps" and the city's subway system never closes, the term has also been applied to other cities. Below is a list of cities that have also been called "the city that never sleeps":>

Africa

Cairo, Egypt Lagos, Nigeria

Asia Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates Bangkok, Thailand Beirut, Lebanon Beijing, China Dhaka, Bangladesh Dubai, United Arab Emirates Jakarta, Indonesia Karachi, Pakistan Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Madurai, India Manila, Philippines Mumbai, India Shanghai, China Singapore Tel Aviv, Israel Tokyo, Japan

Europe Barcelona, Spain Berlin, Germany Belgrade, Serbia London, England, U.K. Madrid, Spain Moscow, Russia Valencia, Spain

North America Las Vegas, Nevada, United States

South America Buenos Aires, Argentina Rio de Janeiro, Brazil São Paulo, Brazil

Other 24/7 services In many "24-hour" cities, plenty of eateries are open until 3 am, some clubs are open until 6 am, and bars close at 2 am or a few hours later.

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, many 24-hour and late-night establishments began closing earlier. Coffee shops in lower Manhattan, in particular, began to close at 9:30 pm, whereas before the pandemic they had frequently closed at 12:30 am.

The people who make use of these facilities, studies have found, are nevertheless affected by sunrise and sunset.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." 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".

See also The City That Never Sleeps (film), a 1924 lost film City That Never Sleeps, a 1953 film noir set in Chicago, not New York City List of nicknames of New York City

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