New York

New York
Location information
Location	New York, United States of America, North America
Permanent residents	Porpentina Goldstein (formerly) Queenie Goldstein Jacob Kowalski Gilbert Bingley & his wife

New York is the most populous city in the United States of America and one of the most important world centres.

New York is also home to the Magical Congress of the United States or MACUSA, which presently meets in a hidden part of the famous Woolworth Building.

History

Newt running in New York

In 1926, Newton Scamander travelled to New York, while returning from a year long trip to research magical creatures that led to his authorship of wizarding bestseller Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, in 1927. He had originally intended to only stay for a few hours, but ended up staying in the city much longer.

An anti-witchcraft organisation called the New Salem Philanthropic Society held rallies in 1920s New York City, led by charismatic leader Mary Lou Barebone and her three adopted children.

While in New York Scamander brought a case full of fantastic beasts with him. When they escaped, he rounded them up again with the help of the Goldstein sisters and a No-Maj named Jacob Kowalski. Newt told Tina Goldstein that he came to New York to buy a rare Appaloosa Puffskein as a present for someone, but in reality he meant to travel on to the desert of Arizona to release his Thunderbird, which he rescued from captivity in Egypt.

The Obscurial is rampaging through the streets of New York

Dark Wizard Gellert Grindelwald was also present in 1926, although as a wanted criminal he kept his identity concealed as Percival Graves. At the same time, an Obscurial caused havoc around New York, committing murder and tearing up buildings and streets. Scamander and ex-Auror Tina Goldstein helped MACUSA solve the mystery of who the Obscurial was and why the dark power was unleashed.

During October of 1926, No-maj brooms were seeing a record breaking of sales, The New York Ghost saw this as a questionable investiment oppurtunity.

On 6 December, a entertainer was convicted after a public magical juggling display and a Idahoan foxtrot dancer was caught drunk while riding a broom after claiming a unknown brize. Also a family Poltergeist went missing after a house alteraction. The wizarding community entered in The New York Ghost, wondering if No-Maj literature was worth reading.

New York in 1932

Eulalie Hicks came in 1932 to New York with the aim of persuading Jacob Kowalski to join Dumbledore's army, Jacob at first resisted but Hicks convinced him to go with her. Later, likely in the same year, Queenie and Jacob's wedding took place in New York.

Behind the scenes

Steen National Bank front

• The façade of Steen National Bank pictured on the picture to the left of this paragraph seems to have been based on the that of the Appellate Division Courthouse of New York State, opposite Madison Square Park, in Manhattan, with minor differences (namely, the design of the doors, the length of the staircase, and the absence of the two statues flanking the stairs which are here replaced with elaborate streetlamps).

Appearances

• Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: The Original Screenplay (First appearance)
• Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (film)
• The Case of Beasts: Explore the Film Wizardry of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
• Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald - The Original Screenplay
• Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald
• The Archive of Magic: The Film Wizardry of Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald
• Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore - The Complete Screenplay
• Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore
• Pottermore
• Harry Potter (website)
• LEGO Dimensions
• Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery
• Harry Potter: Wizards Unite
• Harry Potter: Magic Awakened (Appears in the spell book)