New York City
40.7128°N -74.0061°W · Q60
4 English words in this atlas trace back to New York City. It sits in United States.
Impatience has a city attached to it.
The phrase contrasts the pace of New York with everywhere else, and is usually said by people who do not live there.
The shortest measurable interval, defined by the driver behind you.
The joke circulated in American speech before Terry Pratchett fixed it in print as the smallest unit of time known to science. It flatters and insults the city in the same breath, which is why New Yorkers repeat it themselves.
The same steak becomes a Kansas City strip once you leave New York.
The name is usually traced to Delmonico's in Manhattan, which built its reputation on beef in the nineteenth century. Butchers elsewhere sell the identical cut as a Kansas City strip, a strip loin, or simply a sirloin, depending on local habit.
The famous it-is-the-water explanation has never actually been demonstrated.
Lombardi's in Manhattan, traditionally credited as the country's first pizzeria, opened in 1905, and the coal-oven style spread outward from lower Manhattan. New Yorkers credit the city's tap water for the crust, a claim nobody has managed to show; oven temperature and flour do far more of the work.