Do the cities in the DC Universe correspond to real world cities? Gotham is known to be architecturally modeled after New York City, but with exaggerated elements of the styles and derives its name from a sobriquet for that real world city, first popularized by the author Washington Irving in his satirical work Salmagundi (1807) As the quote says in 1807 Salmagundi nicknamed New York City "Gotham "
dc - Where is Gotham City located? - Science Fiction Fantasy Stack . . . Gruenwald suggested that Gotham City is located somewhere in the state of New Jersey while Metropolis is located in close vicinity to Washington, D C There are several other comics which place Gotham City in New Jersey, with references to proxity to the Jersey Shore and Hudson County
What colleges and universities are located in Gotham City? 4 I was reading an answer to Where did Mr Freeze go to school? that mentioned Mr Freeze meeting his wife while he was in college in Gotham, and extrapolated that the school was probably Gotham City University