Is Gotham City in New York or New Jersey?

You can see a modern version of Finger's "every-city" principle in director Christopher Nolan's Dark Knight trilogy, which incorporated chunks of Pittsburgh, Los Angeles, Chicago, New York City, and Newark, New Jersey into Gotham City limits. read more

Gotham City was originally a fictional version of New York City in the early Batman comics. At that point, each comics character existed in a separate “universe,” so Gotham City was just what NYC was called in Batman stories. But as shared superhero “universes” started forming, things got stranger. read more

Gotham was an early nickname for New York City first used in the year 1807 [1]. Gotham City is the Batman universe's analog of New York City. read more

"Gotham" was a nickname for New York City that became popular in the nineteenth century; Washington Irving had first attached it to New York in the November 11, 1807 edition of his Salmagundi, a periodical which lampooned New York culture and politics. read more