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New York is the largest city in the
United States. It is situated in the

natural harbour at the mouth of the
Hudson River. In 1626 the Dutch
Trade Company bought
Manhattan Island from the local
Indians for twenty four dollars.
Here the Dutch founded their
colony and gave it the name of
New Amsterdam. Forty years later
the English fleet entered the
harbour, captured the city and
renamed it New York.
New York City is comprised of
five boroughs, an unusual
form of government used to
administer the five
constituent counties that
make up the city.
The five boroughs:

1: Manhattan,
2: Brooklyn,
3: Queens,
4: Bronx,
5: Staten Island
Manhattan (pop. 1,593,200) is the most densely populated borough
of New York City and home to most of the city's skyscrapers. The
borough contains the major business and financial centers of the
city and many cultural attractions, including numerous museums,
the Broadway theatre district and Madison Square Garden.
Manhattan is loosely divided into Downtown, Midtown, and Uptown
regions. Uptown Manhattan is divided by Central Park into the
Upper East Side and the Upper West Side, and above the park is
Harlem.
Wall Street is the major financial centre of
the U. S. and symbolizes the money market
and financiers of the U.S. Wall Street was
called so because of a wall which extended
along the street in Dutch times. It was built
about 1650 from river to river (the Hudson
and the East River) to protect the small
colony living south of this street from attacks
by Indians. Later the wall was removed, but
the name remained.
Governor’s Room
New York City Hall is the seat of the government

of New York City. The building houses the
office of the Mayor of New York City and the
chambers of the New York City Council. The
building is the oldest City Hall in the United
States that still houses its original
governmental functions. Constructed from
1803 to 1812, New York City Hall is a National
Historic Landmark and is listed on the National
Register of Historic Places.
Blue Room
When the World Trade Center towers were completed in
1973 many felt them to be sterile monstrosities, even
though they were the world's tallest buildings at that time.
But most New Yorkers became fond of "The Twin Towers"
and after the initial horror for the loss of life in the
September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks there came great
sadness for the loss of the buildings. The complex, located
in the heart of New York City's downtown financial district,
contained 1.24 million m² of office space, almost four
percent of Manhattan's entire office inventory.
The Manhattan Municipal Building is a 40-story building built to accommodate
increased governmental space demands after the 1898 consolidation of New York
City from The Five Boroughs. Standing 580 feet (177 m) tall, its highest point is
the second largest statue in Manhattan. The Municipal Building is one of the
largest governmental buildings in the world. Thirteen civic agencies of New York
City and a public radio station are located in the building, and 28,000 New Yorkers
are married inside of it each year. There are 25 floors of work space (served by 33
elevators), with an additional 15 stories in the tower.
Arch of Constantine
Civic Fame
Garibaldi Monument
Washington Square Park is one of the best-known of

New York City's 1,700 public parks. At 39,000 m², it
is a major landmark in the Manhattan neighborhood
of Greenwich Village, as well as a popular meeting
place and center for cultural activity. It is operated
by the New York City Department of Parks and
Recreation. Most of the buildings surrounding the
park now belong to New York University. The
university rents the park for its graduation
ceremonies, and uses the Arch as a symbol.
The Woolworth Building, at 55 stories, is one of the oldest and one of the
most famous skyscrapers in New York City. With splendor and a
resemblance to European Gothic cathedrals, the structure was labeled the
Cathedral of Commerce. The structure has a long association with higher
education, housing a number of Fordham University schools in the early
20th century. Today the building houses, among other tenants, Control
Group Inc, and the New York University School of Continuing and
Professional Studies' Center for Global Affairs.
The Brooklyn Bridge is one of the oldest
suspension bridges in the United States,
stretches 1825 m over the East River
connecting the Manhattan and Brooklyn. On
completion, it was the largest suspension
bridge in the world and the first steel-wire
suspension bridge. The bridge cost $15.1
million to build and approximately 27 people
died during its construction. A week after the
opening, on May 30 1883 a rumor that the
Bridge was going to break down caused a
stampede which crushed and then killed twelve
people.
Columbia University is a private research university in the United
States. It has the most Nobel Prize affiliations of any institution in the
USA. It is home to the prestigious Pulitzer Prize, which, for over a
century, has rewarded outstanding achievement in journalism,
literature and music. It has been the birthplace of FM radio, the first
American university to offer anthropology and political science as
academic disciplines, and where the foundation of modern genetics
was discovered. Its Morningside Heights campus was the first North
American site where the uranium atom was split.
Butler Library
St. Patrick's Cathedral is the largest decorated
Neo-Gothic-style Catholic cathedral in North
America. It is the seat of the archbishop of the
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York, and a
parish church, located just across the street
from Rockefeller Center. The eight deceased
archbishops of New York, six of them Cardinals,
are buried in a crypt under the former high
altar, visible from the entrance to the Lady
Chapel in the rear of the cathedral.

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New York is the largest city in the

United States. It is situated in the

The five boroughs:

New York City Hall is the seat of the government

Washington Square Park is one of the best-known of

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