Albany.
New Amsterdam.
The original name for New York was New Netherland.
It was named for the Duke of York.
New york
the English name for the Mannhattan colony was New York
New York was named after James, The Duke of York
Because they both have the word "new" in there name.
The Dutch colony of New Amsterdam became the English colony of New York.
If I am not mistaken, it takes place among the cinema colony in Hollywood, California and surrounding areas of Los Angeles. New York does not figure in the plot- certainly not of the movie.
The New York Colony was governed as a Royal Colony. The Colony of New York existed from 1609 to 1692.
New York Colony had no kings.
When the English captured the Dutch colonial town of New Amsterdam, the Duke of York was honored by having the city renamed after his city of York, thus New York, a city in the New World. The English colony in which the city was located was also called New York, so when the colony revolted and declared its independence it became the State of New York.