• New York City’s Hudson River is named after an Englishman, Henry Hudson, who sailed into New York in 1609.

• New York City is named after James, Duke of York, who later became James II of England.

• The United Nations headquarters in New York City has sculptures by two renowned British artists. Barbara Hepworth’s "Single Form" stands in front of the UN Secretariat building, and Henry Moore’s “Reclining Figure: Hand” is placed in the UN gardens.

• New York’s Central Park has several British connections. Calvert Vaux, an Englishman, and Frederick Law Olmsted, an American, were the landscape architects who designed Central Park. The Park is also home to statues of several famous Brits, including William Shakespeare, Robert Burns, and the fictional character ‘Alice” from Lewis Carroll’s book, Alice in Wonderland. A monument to Beatle member John Lennon can be found in the Park’s Strawberry Fields. In August, 2003, Liverpool, England donated a bench in Strawberry Fields honoring the victims of the 9/11 World Trade Center disaster.

• Gracie Mansion, the official home of New York City’s mayor, was originally designed in 1799 for a Scottish merchant, Archibald Gracie.

• Scottish industrialist Andrew Carnegie donated $5.2 million in 1901 to found the New York Public Library branch library system. At one of those branch libraries, Donnell Public Library, you can visit the original stuffed toys that inspired the Winnie-the-Pooh children’s books.

• The Chelsea Hotel became Dylan Thomas' New York home. It was from here, in November 1953, that he was taken to St. Vincent's Hospital and later died. A plaque on the front of the hotel reads. "Dylan Thomas lived and wrote at the Chelsea Hotel and from here sailed out to die." On the day before his death, Dylan famously returned to the hotel from a drinking binge and boasted of tossing down "18 straight whiskies." He died at noon on November 9th, 1953 and is buried at St. Martin's Church in Laugharne, Wales.

• Another Welshman who spent some time here was musician John Cale (Velvet Undergroud) who lived in the hotel in the 1960's with his soon-to-be-wife, the fashion designer, Betsey Johnson.

• Trinity Church is one of New York's oldest institutions. The grave of Francis Lewis from Llandaf, South Wales, can be seen to the right of the main door on  Broadway. Francis Lewis was a wealthy merchant and devout churchman who gave most of his money to Washington in the Revolutionary War. He is the only signer of the Declaration of Independence to be buried in Trinity churchyard.

• At least six of the signers of the Declaration of Independence were Welsh or of recent Welsh descent. Of the four New York signatories, three were Welsh; Lewis Morris, Francis Lewis and William Floyd. Two highways in modern-day New York are named after the latter two: Francis Lewis Boulevard and the William Floyd Parkway.

• The first specifically designed ocean-going steamship, the Robert Fulton, was built by Henry Eckford, who was born in Scotland and came to New York City in 1796.

• A section of FDR Drive on Manhattan's East Side is built on bombing rubble from British cities which was shipped over as ballast by merchant ships returning to the US during World War II. The section between East 23rd Street and East 30th Street was dubbed "Bristol Basin" at the time.

• New York Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton is of Welsh descent. Her father came from a long line of Welsh Methodists and he mother was a daughter of Welsh immigrants.

• Several Welsh people have been elected Governor of New York: Charles Evans Hughes was governor of New York from 1908-10; Morgan Lewis governed from 1804-8; Edwin Denison Morgan served as governor from 1858-62 and then became a senator from 1863-70.

• New York's Guggenheim Museum is one of architect Frank Lloyd Wright's most famous designs and crowning achievements. Frank Lloyd Wright celebrated his Welsh heritage with the motto "Y Gwir yn Erbyn y Byd" ("The Truth against the World") and the bardic three-pronged symbol adorns many of his buildings and works.

• Central Harlem was once home to a thriving Welsh community as attested to by the three Welsh chapels on 155th Street where Welsh congregations worshipped. The Greater File Baptist Church still holds memories of these long gone days. "Welsh Chapel" is engraved in the marble at the Church's steps and intricately carved wooden pulpit set within the nave bears the words from the Welsh bible, "Gwnewch hyn er cof andanaf" ("Do this in remembrance of me").

• Ellis Island is the place where millions of immigrants first set foot in the USA. Ellis Island is named after Samuel Ellis, who once owned the land where he kept a tavern during the late 1700s.

• The Korean War Memorial which was dedicated on June 25, 1991, is the first major monument dedicated to the Korean War in the United States. Mac Adams, the designer, was born in Brynmawr, South Wales.

• The New York Times was co-founded by George L Jones, the son of a Welsh weaver. Jones inaugurated the first issue of the New York Times on September 18, 1851, with the words: "We publish today the first issue of the New York Daily Times, and we intend to issue it every morning (Sundays excepted) for an indefinite number of years to come". George L Jones died in 1891, forty years after bringing one of the world's most respected newspapers to life.

• Built by J.P. Morgan, the financier of Welsh decent, The Pierpont Morgan Library houses a marvellous collection of books and other precious artifacts and is open to the public. The Morgan Library underwent extensive renovation in 2006/2007. The project was led by the Pritzker prize-winning architect Renzo Piano with the assistance of Beyer Bliner Belle, company of the Welsh architect, John Belle.

• Grand Central Terminal, South Street Seaport, Ellis Island, Rockefeller Center, Chrysler Building, and New York Botanical Gardens have all been renovated by Cardiff-born architect John Belle.

• The Welsh Assembly Government has an office on the 21st Floor of the Chrysler Building where staff are involved in the promotion of Welsh business, arts and academia in the USA.