The City that never sleeps

PowerPunk Earth: New York City Circa 20xx
Five boroughs make up the largest city in America; Brooklyn, Bronx, Queens, Staten Island and Manhattan. The five jewels that we fight to etch into our crowns. Places like this need compromise in order for those on top to stay there but that ain't the case here. When the dust clears, the people will be hailing new saviors; Executive monarchs, Federal messiahs or underworld masters. Don’t matter which one wears the crown, it's all of us that’ll be paying for it. I don't plan on hailing the wealthiest, charismatic or most ruthless. I plan on being the body they’ll have to cross to wear the crown.

Kid Crow

Geography

A densely populated archipelago consisting of; two islands (Manhattan, Staten Island), part of an island (Queens and Brooklyn) and a small piece of the mainland (Bronx).
Modern day Manhattan exists as a metropolis clinging to it's past as it is thrust in parts towards the future. Classic skyscrapers and traffic lights of the Big Apple retrofitted with AR displays, many streetlights capped with drones customized to the NYPD. While Staten Island has abandoned it's past and reaches forward with both hands towards tomorrow, undertaking a grand project to convert half the island (for now) into one self sustained mega-structure. Homes, shopping centers, schools; all the amenities of a neighborhood found within the grand mega-complex. New Yorkers in others boroughs have already started calling Staten Island by the project name: Mega-structure Zero.
Out on Long Island, is Queens. With the most parks, it is arguably the "greenest" part of New York. Many wide, flat open parts surrounded by chain-link fences, homes and small businesses. The landscape near Manhattan mimics it's neighbor, with skyscrapers but soon elevated train-tracks that loom over the streets separate the massive glass and steel spires from the one or two story homes, apartments and strip malls that are prevalent more inward the closer one gets to Long Island proper. Many businesses however seem to be installing new ATMs that accept "Foundation Funds".
Brooklyn had reinvented itself in the early 21st century, becoming a hip "in" place of high-rise skyscrapers and townhouses but in nearly every hip locale and quaint brownstone home there is a symbol that no one outside of Brooklyn understands. One wolf with three heads, two of it's eyes crossed out. The message is clear, people see no evil and answer no questions and if an outsider is lucky they will get a warning; all secrets belong to the three bad wolves and the wolves keep their secrets well. Finally there is the Bronx. Visibly the Bronx is more domestic, with more brick high rise residential buildings and less sleek skyscrapers than it's neighbors. Trees enhance the sidewalks throughout but the streets are dominated by imposing dark, armored vans with drones that cling atop them like electronic gargoyles.
These parts are called boroughs; each borough is generously decorated with sun blocking skyscrapers, residential buildings ranging from high rise apartment building to single family dwellings, factories of all types, warehouses, docks, malls, hidden dives, inconspicuous clubs, bustling streets and a night life just as active as the day.
Several rivers run around through and under the boroughs and are in one way or another connected to the ocean.

Fauna & Flora

Mostly pests infest the city; cockroaches, pigeons, rats and squirrels are most prevalent. With occasional hawks, abandoned and now near feral domestic animals like cats and dogs along with a small number of escaped zoo animals and wild humans roaming the streets as well. Seven botanical gardens, at least one for each borough. Dozens of parks, a hand full of marshes and miles of interconnected asphalt.

Natural Resources

The City itself has become a metropolis and the natural resources (drinking water, lumber, farmland, lakes, estuaries) have been left to the mainland to manage. However, a particularly durable granite is native to Manhattan and is known as Manhattan granite.

Alternative Name(s)

NYC, The Big Apple

Type

Archipelago

Included Locations

• Queens, New York

Owning Organization

The Trinity of power