_{New York}

_{New york is one of the largest cities of the world. You can get to New york by sea or by air. It has several airports serving both international and domestic lines.}

_{New York Bay at the mouth of the Hudson River was first seen by an italian navigator Giovanni Verrazano in 1525. Later, in 1609, it was captured by Captain Henry Hudson, who discovered the Hudson River and Manhattan Island. In 1626 a group of Dutch colonists arrived and settled there. In 1664 the colony was captured by the British under Duke of York and renamed New York. Its name before had been New Amsterdam .}

_{If you arrive by boat, your first view of the city is a line of skycrapers. You pass the Statue of Liberty on the Liberty Island. The statue is about 50m high. Its torch is about 60 metres over the harbour and can be seen at the night for many kilometres. North of the statue is Ellis Island, used from 1892 to 1954 to examine the documents of the immigrants, If these weren´t in order, the immigrants used to be send back. This is why the island was called „the island of tears“ in those days.}

_{New York City consists of five boroghs, spelt boros in American English. They are: Manhattan, the Bronx, Queens, Brooklyn and Richmond or Staten Island. Brooklyn is inhabitated mostly by working people. So is Queens with its many factories. The Bronx is more residential then industrial. Manhattan, which is a rocky island, is the heart of the city.}

_{Wall Street is America´s financial center. It is the home of the world´s largest corporations. It was called so because of a wall which extended along the street in Dutch times and was built to protect the amll colony from atack Indians. Later the wall was removed, but the name remained.}

_{Greenwich Village was inhabitated by writers, dramatists and other literary and artistic people.}

_{Manhattan is crossed from north to south by avenues and from east to west by streets. They are numbered. There are 11 avenues and about 300 streets. Some avenues have also names, e. g. Broadway, Park Avenue, Madison Avenue, etc. Broadway si the only avenue, that isn´t straight. It bands and curves diagonaly through Manhattan. It´s called the Great White Way.}

_{Fifth Avanue is vary fashionable. It´s symbol of wealth and elegance.}

_{Seventh Avenue is the center of women´s clothing industry.}

_{Broadway near Times Square is a place where most theaters are located. The btilliant illumination at night makes this section known as „the Great White Way“. The word Broadway has come to mean American theater, altough some excellent theaters can be found „off-Broadway“.}

_{World Trade Center was damaged and then destroyed by two aeroplanes sent by Al-Kaida under leading of Osama-bin-Laden. It was great tragedy that will be never forgotten.}

_{Empire State Building has 102 stories. Empire State is the name used for New York State.}

_{United Nations Headquarters is a block of buildings belonging to the UNO. The sessions of the General Assembly may be visited by individual visitors on tickets.}

_{Central Park has playgrounds, tennis courts, and paths for riding. It´s full of people in the day but rather dangerous at night.}

_{Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts has as its center the Metropolitan Opera, called the Met.}

_{This part of New York contains some very fine and rich museums. The „uptown New York“ is the site of Columbia University and of Harlem, the overcrowded part with non-white ghettoes. Besides black people a lot of Puerto Ricans and other Spanish speaking people live there.}

_{Altough New York attracts most visitors, it´s rather international and „is just not America“.}

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