The City That Never Sleeps (nickname)
Nickname for New York City and other cities
The skyline of New York City at night
The City That Never Sleeps is a ubiquitously used nickname for New York City . It has been applied to several other cities around the world.
Origin
Vinyl release of "Theme from New York, New York "
The phrase "the city that never sleeps" was popularized by Frank Sinatra in the song "Theme from New York, New York ":
I want to wake up in a city that never sleeps And find I'm a number one, top of the list...[1]
List of other cities
Although New York City is the most prominently recognized 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. Below is a list of cities that have also been called "the city that never sleeps":[5] [4]
Africa
Asia
Beirut , Lebanon[8] [9]
Dhaka , Bangladesh[10]
Dubai , UAE[11] [12] [13] [14]
Karachi , Pakistan[15]
Madurai , Tamil Nadu, India[16]
Manila , the Philippines[17] [18]
Mumbai , Maharashtra, India[19]
Shanghai , China[20] [21]
Tokyo , Japan
Europe
North America
New York City , New York, U.S.
Chicago , Illinois, U.S.
Las Vegas , Nevada, U.S.[3]
Los Angeles , California, U.S.
Toronto , Ontario, Canada
Vancouver , British Columbia, Canada
South America
Australia
Other 24/7 services
In many "24-hour" cities, plenty of eateries are open until 3 am, some clubs are open until 6 am,[3] and bars close at 2 am[4] 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.[34]
The people who make use of these facilities, studies have found, are nevertheless affected by sunrise and sunset .[35] [36]
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".[37]
See also
References
^ "Frank Sinatra – New York, New York Lyrics" .
^ "The original city that never sleeps"
^ a b c "World's best party cities: The top 10 cities that never sleep" . November 20, 2015.
^ a b c Justine Harrington (July 16, 2018). "Top 5 Cities That Never Sleep" .
^ "The Cities that never sleep" . March 29, 2012. >
^ "Cairo, the city that never sleeps, shuts for coronavirus night-time curfew" . Reuters. 6 March 2020.
^ "24 hours in Lagos: The city that never sleeps" . April 21, 2009.
^ "Beirut That Never Sleeps Has Now Another Story to Tell (PHOTOS)" . The961. 29 June 2015.
^ "Beirut City: The Real City That Never Sleeps" . Original Travel. 29 June 2015.
^ "Dhaka: The city that (still) never sleeps" . Dhaka Tribune . 2020-06-16.
^ "Dubai, the city that never sleeps" . Abitare . 2016-02-07. Retrieved 2023-10-21 .
^ Halligan, Neil. "5 cities that never sleep - Arabian Business" .
^ "The (other) city that never sleeps: say hello to Dubai" .
^ "Dubai - The City That Never Sleeps - UAE TIME SQUARE" . uaetimesquare.com . 2023-04-16. Retrieved 2023-10-21 .
^ "Karachi: The city that (still) never sleeps" . The Express Tribune . 2020-06-16. Retrieved 2020-07-31 .
^ "Madurai Thoonga Nagaram" . serendib.btoptions.lk . Archived from the original on 2021-02-18. Retrieved 2023-02-17 .
^ "Why Manila is Becoming One of The Best Party Cities" . British Thoughts Magazine. 10 March 2020.
^ Keller, Katrinka (9 September 2023). "31 Facts About MANILA" . Facts.net.
^ "India's city that never sleeps, will now never sleep" . TOI. 5 July 2011.
^ "Shanghai – a city that never sleeps" . November 20, 2020.
^ Ruqian, Lu (2005). Cognitive Systems: Joint Chinese-German Workshop, Shanghai, China . p. 1 .
^ "Barcelona Never Sleeps" . The Hoya. 23 March 2020.
^ "Berlin, Berlin, the city of sin. The city that never sleeps, or better yet, where you never have to sleep" . Decoded Magazine. 5 January 2017.
^ "Round-the-clock London: what it's like to live and work in city that never sleeps" . The Guardian . 11 July 2015.
^ "The real city that never sleeps: discovering nightlife in Madrid" . National Geographic. 17 February 2021.
^ "Moscow: The City That Never Sleeps" . The Moscow Times. 3 June 2019.
^ "Viva Valencia! Welcome to the European city that never sleeps" . Independent.ie. 10 January 2006.
^ Nicolás, Cócaro (April 1983). "Attractive, enigmatic Buenos Aires" . The Rotarian . Vol. 142, no. 4. p. 35. ISSN 0035-838X . Retrieved February 5, 2020 .
^ 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 .
^ Savidan, Dominique (May 6, 2019). "Voyages : Buenos Aires, la ville qui ne dort jamais" . Le Parisien (in French). Retrieved February 5, 2020 .
^ 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 .
^ "Usually, tourists like to do as locals do – milk the city's sun-soaked atmosphere for all it is worth" . BBC. 5 July 2011.
^ "São Paulo – the city that never sleeps" . CNN Business Traveller. 28 June 2010.
^ "9 P.M. Is the New Midnight" . 17 March 2022.
^ Veronique Greenwood (November 25, 2017). "Cities That Never Sleep Are Shaped by Sunrise and Sunset" . The New York Times .
^ 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."
^ Monsivais, D.; Ghosh, A.; Bhattacharya, K.; Dunbar RIM; Kaski, K. (2017). "PLOS Computational Biology" . 13 (11): e1005824. doi :10.1371/journal.pcbi.1005824 . PMC 5697809 . PMID 29161270 .