RyansWorld: New York City
From Future
In the year 2105, New York City, New York, United States of Earth will have a population of 25 million people. The city will be divided into several levels. There will be a surface city for the working class people and conservative corporations. Wealthy people will live in a floating community called Neo-Manhattan that soars over 1,000 feet from the Earth (although a sizable amount will choose to remain on the surface), and the middle classes will live in the futuristic underwater level of the city.
The World Trade Center will be rebuilt by the year 2031 and will once again be the largest building in New York City, showing its radiance on "Old Manhattan," as the people of the year 2105 will call the borough. The last Christian church will close just prior to the 22nd century due to attendance reasons and will be replaced by a movie theatre showing classic films from the 21st century in addition to vintage films from the year 1950 to the year 2000. All films created prior to the year 1950 will be completely inaccessible to the average person and in the possesion of wealthy collectors by the year 2049; nine years after television becomes illegal.
Out of the 25 million people living in New York City in the year 2105, 2.5 million of all New York City residents were not born on Earth. Most of them are friendly extraterrestrials while others are humans who were born on either Mars or Venus, looking for a better life in one of the "cultured" cities of planet Earth. While factories and manufacturing plants will still exist, the main industries in New York City by the year 2105 will be electronics and tourism.
Professional wrestling, zero-gravity skating, occasional monster movie festivals, and New York Red Bulls professional soccer will entertain tourists of the future both young and old, human and extraterrestrial. Taco Bell, once a fast food franchised based around Americanized Mexican food, will become a premier five star dining franchise with cocktail food and erudite music. The New York area will be the second region to have their restaurants converted from fast food to fine dining, with only Los Angeles beating out New York City for this honor.
