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|image =[[File:LibertyCity-GTAIII-montage.png|300px]]

|caption = From top left: [[Downtown Staunton]], [[Jefferson St. Credit Union building]], [[Portland Rock|Portland Lighthouse]] in Portland, [[Bedford Point]], the [[Cedar Ridge Observatory]] in Shoreside Vale, the [[Callahan Bridge]] and [[Torrington]] with the skyscrapers.

|official name = City of Liberty

|games = [[Grand Theft Auto III]]<br>[[Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories]]<br>[[Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas]]<br>[[Grand Theft Auto Advance]]

|country= [[United States]]

|state = [[Liberty State]]

|established = 1798

|name = Liberty City

|mayor = [[Miles O'Donovan]]

|pop = 4,000,000

|motto = "The worst place in America"

==History==

==About the city==

Liberty City is loosely based in [[wp:New York City|New York City]], but includes elements of other American cities such as Los Angeles, Chicago, Detroit, among others. The city area has a population of 4,000,000 people by 2001. Based on the official website, Liberty City's sister city is [[wp:Beirut|Beirut]], which may be a joke from the producers, considering Beirut is often bombed and is frequently chaotic, twinning it with Liberty City seeing how crime-ridden Liberty City is.

*'''[[Shoreside Vale]]''' is the western most section of the city and is primarily a residential district. The Suburban district does have its own industrial area, which is located within [[Pike Creek]]. The borough houses the city airport, [[Francis International Airport, Shoreside Vale|Francis International Airport]], a [[LCPD in GTA III Era|Liberty City Police Department]] police station and a hospital, called [[Hope Medical College]], both located in [[Pike Creek]], and a [[Liberty City Fire Department]] station in Francis International Airport. The island is the last accessible island to the [[protagonist|protagonists]] [[Claude]] in GTA III, [[Mike]] in GTA Advance and [[Toni Cipriani]] in GTA Liberty City Stories. Notable residents of Shoreside Vale include [[Colombian Cartel]] leaders [[Cisco]] and [[Catalina]].

Liberty City is located on the [[wp:East Coast of the United States|East Coast]] of the [[United States]] in the [[State of Liberty]]. It is north of [[Vice City in GTA III Era|Vice City]], east of the [[State of San Andreas]], and close to [[Carcer City]], with links to "[[Upstate]]" through a road tunnel connecting [[Cedar Grove]] and [[Cochrane Dam]] as seen in GTA Liberty City Stories.

{{wide image|LibertyCity-GTAIII-panorama.jpg|1300px|Panorama of Liberty City, see from Shoreside Vale mountains.|alt=}}

During the setting of GTA San Andreas, in [[1992]] Liberty City was going through a snowy winter, with snow on streets and structures visible. During the setting of GTA Liberty City Stories, in [[1998]] Liberty City experiences a pleasant autumn with rain and cloudy days. During the setting of GTA III, in [[2001]] the weather is cold with frequent rain and fog. The thermometer in [[Bedford Point]] indicates the city's current temperature, which usually reads as rather low. Liberty City is the only city in the series where falling snow is introduced.

File:SaintMark´s-GTASA-snow season.jpg|Liberty City in winter seasons, [[Saint Mark's]] 1992.

[[File:Love Media.png|right|75px|thumb|Love Media logo]]

* [[LCFR]] - Talk Radio

[[File:Cox Mascot Outfit.jpg|right|thumb|100px|Toni Cipriani in the [[Cox Mascot Outfit]]]]

File:Liberty City Cocks-GTA3.jpg|[[Liberty City Cocks]] fans in [[Grand Theft Auto III]]

File:Two-HandTossGTAA.jpg|[[Mike]] injuring the [[Vice City Mambas]] star quaterback during [[Two-Hand Toss]]

The Shoreside Lift Bridge is a four lane lift bridge, most likely based off George Washington Bridge connecting Manhattan to the New Jersey. In 1998, [[Toni Cipriani]] has to wait for a strike to end before using the bridge, whilst in 2001 [[Claude]] is forced to wait until a mechanical problem is fixed.

[[Porter Tunnel]] is an underground and underwater road tunnel connecting the city's three boroughs. The tunnel may be based on the [[:wp:Holland Tunnel|Holland Tunnel]] or the [[:wp:Lincoln Tunnel|Lincoln Tunnel]]. The tunnel has four lanes, apart from the exit at Staunton Island, which only has two lanes. The tunnel entry/exit points include [[Harwood]] (in Portland), [[Rockford]] (in Staunton Island), and [[Francis International Airport, Shoreside Vale|Francis International Airport]] and [[Wichita Gardens]] (both in Shoreside Vale). Construction for the tunnel begins in 1998, however, numerous delays cause the tunnel to finally open in October 2001, with Claude having to wait for the tunnel to be fully constructed.

File:RoadTunnel-GTALCS-interior(2).jpg|Inside the tunnel in 1998, with a very different design before it was closed in 2001 to change the interior.

The inter-borough subway system is an underground system linking the three boroughs of the city. The subway stations are located at the border of the [[Red Light District]]/[[Chinatown, Portland|Chinatown]] in Portland, at [[Liberty Campus]] and [[Bedford Point]] in Staunton Island, and [[Francis International Airport, Shoreside Vale|Francis International Airport]] in Shoreside Vale. At some point, Liberty City had another subway system, which was abandoned after the construction of the new subway. [[Toni Cipriani]] uses an old subway entrance to destroy [[Fort Staunton]] in "[[Bringing the House Down]]."

The public transport seen on the streets is a [[taxi]]. There are two types

{{double image|center|Taxi-GTAIII-front.jpg|260|Cabbie-GTAIII-front.jpg|260|Comparison between the clssic taxi and the cabbie}}

*[[Cabbie]]: While others are more modern taxis, the cabbie is its counterpart, since these are slower, heavier and with an older, boxier design.

These can be operated by [[Mean Street Taxis]], which is based in [[Trenton]] and also while working in Vice City, and [[Borgnine Taxis]] in [[Harwood]], the only companies that operate throughout the city

The Liberty City´s [[ferry]] was the most used service until some time before [[2000]], which connected to Portland and Staunton Island with docks located in [[Harwood]] and [[Rockford]]. The ferry service was canceled by [[Miles O'Donovan]], despite his promise to maintain the service. In [[1998]], workers across the city went on strike to protect the ferry service, which only provoked the closure, leaving Portland off the rest of the city. Already for 2000, the ferry service had been replaced by the [[Callahan Bridge]] and [[Porter Tunnel]].

File:Take a vacation in LibertyCity-GTAVC-cartel.png|A billboard in [[Vice City in GTA III Era|Vice City]], with indicating the phrase.

Liberty City appears in [[The Introduction]] DVD and during the mission [[Saint Mark's Bistro]], as well as being mentioned on a number of occasions during [[Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas]]. The Introduction DVD shows shows the games [[Protagonist|protagonist]] [[Carl Johnson]] attempting to steal cars in the [[Red Light District]] and later receiving a phone call from his brother [[Sean Johnson|Sweet Johnson]] regarding his [[Beverly Johnson|mother's death]] whilst in the city. After arriving back in [[Los Santos]] for his mother's funeral, he was asked by [[Ryder]] about when he would be returning to Liberty City. Carl Johnson tells [[Salvatore Leone]] that he worked for Salvatore's son [[Joey Leone|Joey]] in Liberty City to gain Salvatore's trust during the mission [[Freefall]]. The mission [[Saint Mark's Bistro]] involves Carl Johnson returning to Liberty City to perform a hit at [[Marco's Bistro]]. Hidden code in the game proves that a 100% accessible Liberty City was created, and it is unknown why Rockstar chose to remove it.

File:Red Light District - GTA San Andreas.jpg|Portland, Liberty City in The introduction.

File:GTA A Liberty City Map.png|A map of Liberty City in GTA Advance.

==See also==

*[[Liberty City]]

*[[Liberty City in GTA 1]]

*[[Liberty City in GTA IV]]

*[[Tallest Buildings in GTA III Era#Liberty City|Tallest buildings in GTA III Era]]

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