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:
And find I'm a number one, top of the list...
Although New York City may have been the first well known city termed "The City That Never Sleeps", and the city's subway system never closes,
the term has been applied to other cities. Here is a list, in alphabetical order, of cities that have also been called "the city that never sleeps":
New York City's free
25 minute Staten Island Ferry operates 24 hours a day, 7 days a week,
with boats leaving every 15 to 20 minutes during peak hours
and every 30 minutes at other times.
Moreover, in many "24 hour" cities plenty of eateries are open until 3am, several clubs are open until 6am and bars close 2am or a few hours later.
The people who make use of these facilities, studies have found, are nevertheless affected by sunrise and sunset.
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".