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- Central Park

- Rockefeller Centre

- Madison Square Garden

- Little Italy

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- Saint Patrick Cathedral

- Ground Zero

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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.

• Manhattan is the most densely populated borough and its famous for its skyscrapers, including the Empire state Building, Central Park, business and financial centres, the Metropolitan Museum of Art which is one of the largest museums in the world, elegant shops and ethnic areas like Chinatown Little Italy and many other famous places.

The Five Boroughs of New York

Staten Island

Brooklyn

Queens

The Bronx

Manhattan

Manhattan

The Empire State BuildingThe 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.

The Chrysler Building The Chrysler Building is an skyscraper in New York City, located on the east side of Manhattan .Standing at 319 metres (it was the world's tallest building for 11 months before it was surpassed by the Empire State Building in 1931.

Flatiron Building

The Flatiron Building or Fuller Building, as it was originally called is located at 175 Fifth Avenue and is considered to be a groundbreaking skyscraper. The building sits on a triangular island-block formed by Fifth Avenue, Broadway and East 22nd Street, with 23rd Street grazing the triangle's northern (uptown) peak. As with numerous other wedge-shaped buildings, the name "Flatiron" derives from its resemblance to a cast-iron clothes iron.

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 on the 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. Formerly Longacre Square, Times Square 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.

Rockefeller Center

Rockefeller Centre is a complex of 19 commercial buildings covering 22 acres between 48th and 51st streets. Built by the Rockefeller family, it is located in the centre of Midtown Manhattan, spanning the area between Fifth Avenue and Sixth Avenue. It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1987.

Madison Square GardenMadison 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.

Little Italy

Little Italy is a general name for an ethnic enclave populated primarily by Italians or people of Italian ancestry, usually in an urban neighbourhood.

Chinatown

Manhattan's Chinatown home to one of the largest Chinese communities in the Western hemisphere. Manhattan's Chinatown is one of the oldest Chinese enclaves outside of Asia.

The Guggenheim MuseumThe Guggenheim museum is a well-known art museum located on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. It is the permanent home of a renowned and continuously expanding collection of Impressionist, Post-Impressionist, early Modern and contemporary art and also features special exhibitions throughout the year.

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 million works, divided among nineteen curatorial 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 all the European masters, and an extensive collection of American and modern art.

Saint Patrick’s CathedralThe 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 ZeroOn 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, Breede weg. A stretch of Broadway is known worldwide as the heart of the American theatre industry.

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Bibliography

Culture Talk , Susan Burns, Petrini, 2010

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pagina_principale

Song New York:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_L10fsKvQc&feature=fvwrel

Video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JDTkPU-sWk&feature=fvwrel