New York City is the largest city in the United States by land mass and population. Its Wall Street served as a filming location for The Dark Knight Rises. In the DC Universe, New York City is the home of Firestorm and the Teen Titans. It is also in most of the Elf film which is filmed during Christmastime.
In Batman's earliest appearances it is said that he operated in New York City. Later it is changed to Gotham City, which is revealed to be located in New Jersey on the Lower New York Bay.
The Teen Titans are based in New York City with the first Robin (later Nightwing), Dick Grayson famously being the team leader. The Titans operate out of Titans Tower, a "T" shaped building on a small island in the East River in Manhattan. The Titans also have a history with Deathstroke and Ravager in this city.
Harvey Dent's wife Gilda Dent may have moved to H---'s Kitchen, New York although the canonicity is questionable. Gilda most notably appeared in the story Batman: The Long Halloween which was created by Tim Sale and Jeph Loeb. This duo also created a story for Marvel comics very similar to the Long Halloween called Daredevil: Yellow where despite being a DC character, Gilda made an appearance. A woman heavily implied to be Gilda is shown to have moved to New York while going under the name of "Grace", trying to get away from certain crimes she commits for her husband. She comes to be blackmailed by the Daredevil villain "The Owl" who learns of her past but is later saved by Daredevil.
In DC's Earth-31, Batman traveled to New York City to investigate a serial killer who decapitated the homeless to use their heads for weaponized robots. Here he comes into conflict with the Image Comics character Spawn, a supernatural vigilante. After fighting, the two wind up teaming up to track down their serial killer.
Batman has had several crossovers with the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles who operate out of New York City's sewers.
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For many of Batman's earliest appearances in issues of Detective Comics, Batman's city of residence was said to be New York City. At times it may also be viewed that Batman/Bruce Wayne merely traveled from Gotham City to New York City.
New York City was used as a filming location for The Dark Knight Rises. Notably, Wall Street was used for the Gotham Stock Exchange.
In real life, Gotham is the original name and among one the lesser-known nicknames for New York City, translated from Old English as “a homestead where goats are kept”, from New York City's initial surrounding origins as rural farmland before its rapid urbanization by 1909, and to how goats and sheep were used as natural lawn tamers by being tended at Central Park.
