New York

NEW YORK

Location and people

• New York is situated on the Atlantic coast, at the mouth of the Hudson River. It is in the state of New York.
• Over 8 million people live in the City.
• There are several districts and many communities. Greenwich Village, Chelsea and Soho are the artistic areas. Harlem is where the Afro-American community lives. There is China Town and Little Italy.
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A city... many names!

• New York City is the financial and cultural capital of the USA.
• It is known as "the Big Apple" because it offers huge opportunities to people who settle or work there.
• Another nickname is "the city that never sleeps" because of its frantic and exciting life night and day.
• New York is also called "the melting pot" because it is a cosmopolitan multiethnic and multicultural city, where about 200 languages are spoken.

History

• It was founded between 1620 and 1640 as a Dutch colony.
• It was called New Amsterdam until 1664 when the Dutch settlement was taken by the English fleet.
• The English changed the name to New York to honour the Duke of York.
• New York quickly grew to become a large and important port city.
• Thanks to the masses of immigrants who came from many European countries, New York grew enormously in the 19th century.
• From the 1890s to the 1950s more than 12 million immigrants travelled from Europe to North America to begin a new life. The first place they arrived was at Ellis Island, a small island at New York Harbour. The people passed through a huge immigration centre where their documents and their health were checked before entering the country.

The Boroughs

• New York is divided
• into five boroughs:
• Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, Staten Island and The Bronx.
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The Statue of Liberty

• Lady Liberty is the symbol of New York.
• This huge statue is located on Liberty Island in New York harbour.
• She is Libertas, the Roman goddes of freedom and she has the broken chains of tyranny at her feet. The statue was a gift of friendship to the USA from France for the 100th anniversary of the Independence of the USA.
• The seven rays of her crown symbolise the seven seas and the seven continents. The torch in her right hand is a symbol of liberty.
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• Caption: Manhattan map by Robin Boyden

Manhattan

• It is the heart of New York.
• Its name comes from the Native American word Manna-hata, meaning "island of many hills".
• Despite its small area, there is the highest concentration in the world of restaurants, hotels, museums and theatres.
• Fifth Avenue, with its elegant buildings and shops is one of the most famous streets in the world.
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Manhattan

• Another well-known place is Times Square, the heart of the theatre district, Broadway.
• In the financial district, Wall Street, there is the most important Stock Exchange in the world.
• The Empire State Building is one of the highest skyscrapers in the world.
• In Manhattan there are also the headquarters of the United Nations.
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Central Park

• Central Park is a large public, urban park.
• It is the most visited park in the US. It is very large and has a zoo.
• On warm weekdays office workers have lunch there and families go to picnic, jog and roller-skate at weekends.
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The MOMA

• MoMA is the Musuem of Modern Art in Manhattan. The museum first opened in 1929.
• It has the world's largest collection of modern painting and sculpture.
• The museum collects and develops Modern Art, which is art from the 1860s to the 1970s.
• There are also architecture and design, drawings, photography, film and electronic media in the museum.
• At MoMa you can see van Gogh's Starry Night, Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon and Warhol's Campbell's Soup Cans.
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Frank Sinatra's New York

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