New York City was the undisputed leader of world-wide night life from the end of Prohibition into the 1960s. In countless nightclubs revelers could eat and drink to their hearts’ content.
There are cities across the landscape that are joined by commerce, social convention, and history. Often the U. S. Census Bureau honors such places with a designation called a Combined Statical Area. Many such places include a world class university. The University of North Carolina is within North Carolina’s com-stat-area called the Research Triangle.