The City That Never Sleeps is a ubiquitously used 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]

Although New York City may be 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, in alphabetical order, of cities that have also been called "the city that never sleeps": ^{[5] [4]}

• Barcelona ^[6]
• Beirut ^{[7] [8]}
• Belgrade ^[9]
• Berlin ^[10]
• Buenos Aires ^{[11] [12] [13] [14]}
• Chicago, in the film City That Never Sleeps
• Karachi ^[15]
• Lagos ^[16]
• Las Vegas ^[3]
• Madrid ^[17]
• Moscow ^[18]
• Mumbai ^[19]
• Rio de Janeiro ^[20]
• Sao Paulo ^[21]
• Shanghai ^{[22] [23]}
• Valencia ^[24]
• Cairo

Other 24/7 services

New York City's free ^[25] 25-minute Staten Island Ferry operates 24 hours a day, ^[26] 7 days a week, with boats leaving every 15 to 20 minutes during peak hours and every 30 minutes at other times. ^{[27] [28]}

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.

Post COVID-19 pandemic, many 24 hour and late-night establishments have begun closing earlier. Coffee shops in particular have been left closing by 9:30PM in downtown Manhattan - previously these shops had been closing at 12:30AM commonly. ^[29]

The people who make use of these facilities, studies have found, are nevertheless affected by sunrise and sunset. ^{[30] [31]} 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". ^[32]

See also

• The City That Never Sleeps (film), a 1924 drama
• City That Never Sleeps, a 1953 film noir set in Chicago, not New York City
• List of nicknames of New York City

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