New York City

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-The Empire State Building
- Saint Patrick Cathedral
-The Chrysler Building - Ground Zero
- Flatiron Building - Wall Street
- United Nations - Ellis Island
- Statue of Liberty - Broadway
- Brooklyn Bridge - Video
- Times Square - Bibliography
- Central Park
Geography
New York is situated at the mouth of the

Hudson River close to the Atlantic
Ocean. Its geographical position is one
of the reasons why the city has developed
so fast.
Most of the city stands on three islands
of Manahattan, Staten Island and Long
Island.
Land is limited and the city‘s increasing
population is very dense. The skyscapers
is the only real solution to the problem of
8.2 million people living in an area of
only 830km2
Midtown
The Five boroughs
New York has five areas called “boroughs”.
• The Bronx is the only borough not standing on an island.
Rap and hip hop were born here.
• Brooklyn is the most populous borough and was separated
city until 1898. Brooklyn has a long beach called Coney
Island.
• Queens, a residential area, was originally group of towns
and villages founded by the Dutch.
• Staten Island is connected to Brooklyn by the Verrazano
Bridge and to Manhattan via Staten Island ferry.
• Manhattanis the most densely populated borough

and its famous for its skyscrapers, including the
Empire state Building, Central Park, businessand
financial centres, the Metropolitan Museum of
Art whichis one of thelargest museums in
the world, elegant shops and ethnic areas like Chinatown
Little Italy and many other famous places.
The Five Boroughs of
New York The Bronx
Manhattan
Queens
Brooklyn
Staten Island
Manhattan
The Empire State Building
The Empire State Building is a 102-story skyscraper located at the intersection
of Fifth Avenue and West 34th Street. It has a roof height of 381 meters. It
stood as the world's tallest building for 40 years, from its completion in 1931
until construction of the World Trade Centre’s.
United Nations
The headquarters of the United
Nations is a complex in New
York City. The complex
has served as the official
headquarters of the United
Nations since its completion in
1952. It is located in the Turtle
Bay neighbourhood of
Manhattan, on spacious grounds
overlooking the East
River. Its borders are First
Avenue onthe west, East
42nd Street to the south, East
48th Street on the north and the
East River to the east
Statue of Liberty
The Statue of Liberty is a monument commemorating the centennial of the
signing of the United States Declaration of Independence, given to the United
States by the people of France to represent the friendship between the two
countries established during the American Revolution.
Statue of Liberty
Brooklyn Bridge
The Brooklyn Bridge is a bridge in New York
City and is one of the oldest suspension bridges
in the United States. Completed in 1883, it
connects the boroughs of Manhattan and
Brooklyn by spanning the East River. With a
main span of 486.3 m, it was the longest
suspension bridge in the world from its opening
until 1903, and the first steel-wire suspension
bridge.
Times Square
Times Square is a major commercial
intersection in Midtown Manhattan, at
the junction of Broadway and Seventh
Avenue and stretching from West 42nd
to West 47th Streets. Times Square
iconified as "The Crossroads of the
World“ and the "The Great White Way"
is the brightly illuminated hub of the
Broadway theatre district, one of the
world's busiest pedestrian intersections,
and
a major centre of the world's
entertainment industry.
Longacre Square, Times Square Formerly
was
renamed in April 1904 after The New
York Times moved its headquarters to
the newly erected Times Building
– now called One Times Square –
site of the annual ball drop on New
Year's Eve.
Central Park
Central Park is a public park at
the centre of Manhattan. The
park initially opened in 1857, on
843 acres (3.41 km2) of
city-owned land. In 1858,
Frederick Law Olmsted and
Calvert Vaux won a design
competition to improve and
expand the park with a plan they
entitled the Greensward Plan.
Construction began the same
year, continued during the
American Civil War, and was
completed in 1873. The park,
which receives approximately
thirty-five million visitors
annually,[8] is the most visited
urban park in the United States.
Madison Square Garden
Madison Square Garden (MSG), known colloquially as the Garden, is a multi-
purpose indoor arena in Manhattan and located at 8th Avenue, between 31st
and 33rd Streets, situated on top of Pennsylvania Station. The present Garden
hosts approximately 320 events a year. It is the home of the New York Rangers
of the NHL, the New York Knicks of the NBA, and the New York Liberty of
the WNBA.
Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
(colloquially The Met) is an art
museum in New York City. Its
permanent collection contains
more than two works,
million among nineteen curatorial
divided
departments. The main building,
located on the eastern edge of
Central Park along Manhattan's
Museum Mile, is by area one of the
world's largest art galleries.
Represented in the permanent
collection are works of art from
classical antiquity and Ancient
Egypt, paintings and sculptures
from nearly the European
all
masters, and an extensive of
collection American and
modern art.
Saint Patrick’s Cathedral
The Cathedral of St. Patrick is a decorated Neo-Gothic-style Roman
Catholic cathedral church in the United States. It is the seat of the
archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York, and a parish
church, located on the east side of Fifth Avenue between 50th and 51st
Streets in midtown Manhattan.
Ground Zero
On September the 11th 2001 the city of New York suffered a shocking
attack. Nearly 3000 people died when terrorists deliberatly crashed two
aeroplanes into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Centre, causing
them to collapse. The Site is presently known as Ground Zero.
Ground Zero
Wall Street
Wall Street refers to the financial district
of New York City, named after and
cantered on the eight-block-long street
running from Broadway to South Street
on the East River in Lower Manhattan. It
is the home of the New York Stock
Exchange, the
world's largest stock exchange by
market capitalization of its listed
companies. Several other major
exchanges have or had headquarters in
the Wall Street area, including
NASDAQ, the New York Mercantile
Exchange, the New York Board of Trade,
and the former American Stock
Exchange. Anchored by Wall Street,
New York City is one of the world's
principal financial centres.
Ellis Island
Ellis Island is an island in New

York Harbour and was the
gateway for millions of
immigrants to the United States
as the nation's busiest
immigrant inspection station
from 1892 until 1954. The
island was greatly expanded
with landfill between 1892 and
1934. Before that, the much
smaller original island was the site
of Fort Gibson. The island was
made part of the Statue of Liberty
National Monument in 1965, and
has hosted a museum of
immigration since 1990.
Broadway
Broadway is one of the

avenues in the borough of
Manhattan which runs
through almost the entire
length of Manhattan island
and continues northward
through the Bronx borough
before terminating in
Westchester County, New
York.
The name Broadway is the
English literal translation of
the Dutch name,
weg. Breedestretch
A of
Broadway is known
worldwide as the heart of the
American theatre industry.
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• Manhattanis the most densely populated borough

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Broadway is one of the

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