The City That Never Sleeps (nickname)

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]
For other uses, see The City That Never Sleeps (disambiguation).

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. Below 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[14] 25 minute Staten Island Ferry operates 24 hours a day,[15] 7 days a week, with boats leaving every 15 to 20 minutes during peak hours and every 30 minutes at other times.[16][17]

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.[18][19] 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".[20]

See also

References
  1. "Frank Sinatra – New York, New York Lyrics".
  2. "The original city that never sleeps"
  3. "World's best party cities: The top 10 cities that never sleep". November 20, 2015.
  4. 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. "24 hours in Lagos: The city that never sleeps". April 21, 2009.
  12. "Shanghai – a city that never sleeps". November 20, 2020.
  13. Ruqian, Lu (2005). Cognitive Systems: Joint Chinese-German Workshop, Shanghai, China. p. 1.
  14. Opened 1817, became free 180 years later (1997)
  15. "Staten Island Ferry". September 18, 2017.
  16. For a few budget-crisis years it was only hourly from midnight to 7am
  17. "An Assessment of Staten Island Ferry Service and Recommendations for Improvement" (PDF).
  18. Veronique Greenwood (November 25, 2017). "Cities That Never Sleep Are Shaped by Sunrise and Sunset". NYTimes.com.
  19. 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."
  20. 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. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
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