The United States is the largest city in terms of population. Same name
Is located in New York State. Is more than a century of world trade and financial center is one of the most important. City, media, politics, education, entertainment and fashion because of the global impact is considered as a world city. United Nations General Assembly building is home to a very important center for foreign affairs in case. Poor and homeless living in the districts of the large number of unemployed.
The city is divided into five sections;
Manhattan
Brooklyn (Kings Country)
Queens (Queens Country)
Bronx and Staten Island (Richmond). 830 km ² with a population of 8.2 million living in an area of New York,
U.S. cities with the population density is greatest. With the suburbs surrounding New York metropolitan region has 21 million nufusa and one of the world's most populous residential area creates.
New York, is an immigrant city. Approximately 170 languages are spoken in the city and one of every three people born in a country outside the United States. English is spoken with different accents. English, Spanish or English, as well as intense as is spoken. Little Italy (Little Italy) in the Italian district, China Town (Chinatown) Chinese is spoken.
Many American cultural movement of the birthplace of New York City, literary and visual arts in the Harlem Renaissance, painting abstract expressionism (the New York School), in music, hip hop, punk, salsa and Tin Pan Alley as many mobile hosts has been. 24-hour traffic in the subway and took the name of the city that never sleeps.
Statue of liberty,
Empire State Building,
Central Park and
Times Square
Museum of Modern Art, the Guggenheim museum and the city's attractions are the Museum of Modern History. Skyscrapers, streets, restaurants, shopping centers and the people of New York is attracting tourists.
Born in New York City
New York by the Dutch in 1613 under the name New Amsterdam was founded. In 1664 the city passed to the United Kingdom and New York became known. In 1778 the city for two years, became the capital of the newly formed United States of America. After the capital moved to Washington, the city's importance continued to grow.
New York was discovered by Europeans in 1524 had a population of 5.000. The French navy, the Italian explorer Giovanni Verrazzano Royal Nouvelle Angoulême New Angoulême city (a city in France) was named. Then start the fur trade, the Dutch called New Amsterdam by the city of Manhattan from Native Americans in 1626 to $ 1000 with today's purchase price. The British conquered the city in 1664 by the British Duke of York and Albany in New York was named to the dedicated.
City 19 century was transformed by immigration and expansion movements. Central Park, between the cities of American landscape architecture in 1857 with the distinction of being the first park is a stone. In 1827, slaves used to be held in New York, New York, but after the 1830s, abolition of slavery in the north, became the center of the action.
New York City subway in 1904, the opening of his new city to come together. New York City 20In the first half of the century the world's commercial, industrial and contact center has become.This development was of course a price. By General Slocum steamboat fire at the 1.021 passengers, occurred in 1911 in New York City Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, the largest industrial disaster in the 146 garment workers lost their lives. New York City in the 1920s during the Great Migration of African Americans in South America was one of the main direction. In 1916 the city of New York with North America's largest urban African diaspora was the city.New York city in 1920s London, leaving behind became the most populous city and the Metropolitan Region in the early 1930s, over 10 million points in human history was the first mega-city.
Great Depression forced the reformers in the years to be elected mayor Fiorello La Guardia'nın Tammany Hall in New York for 80 years to establish political domination ended. Returning World War II veterans and immigrants from eastern Europe formed in Queens, large residential areas. New York went on a failed war, blood from the nose and the United States on the world's dominant economic power rises as Wall Street and give direction to the world has become a city. Completed in 1950, the United Nations Headquarters in New York's policy, the impact is clearly represented. Economic problems in New York in the 1960s, rising crime rates and racial tensions reached a peak in the 1970s. Occurring in the financial sector again in 1980 to strengthen the city's public finances improved. Common in the 1990s, racial tensions in the city focused, crime rates dropped dramatically, and crowds of people from Asia and Latin America, he emigrated to New York.
On September 11, 2001 the city witnessed America's greatest terrorist. September 11, 2001 attack during the incident known as the hijacked planes that New York's tallest skyscrapers, the World Trade Center buildings (Twin Towers) factors led to the deaths of terrorists in 3000.Twin tower in the region of the Freedom Tower and the memorial will be built with three office towers and the buildings will be completed in 2013 found.
New York's regions (districts)
New York, each in English, 'Borough' consists of five regions called. The
Manhattan is an island in itself constitute the center of the city. From Manhattan
East River (East River) and separated by Brooklyn
Queens and Long Island area constitutes the western end of the island.
Harlem River, Manhattan and
Separates the Bronx area. Bronx, is the only region not on an island on the mainland and North America. The fifth and final area of the city across the bay in New York, Staten Island consists of an island still solid. Manhattan, Brooklyn, with three bridges (Brooklyn, Manhattan and Williamsburg bridges); Queens bridge (59.uncu Street bridge) and a tunnel (Midtown-Ortaşehir tunnel) is optional. Between the Bronx and Manhattan bridges crossing the Harlem River connects. Manhattan is the only region without a direct connection to Staten Island, Brooklyn and Verrazano suspension bridge connects. Bronx, New York is a region in the north. Yankee Stadium and the New York Yankeeleri'nin center is located here. Here is also a small part of Marble Hill.
Tourism
New York nearly 47 million tourists visit annually, and usually destinations Empire State Building,
Times Square (Times Square)
Brooklyn Bridge
Broadway, Metropolitan Museum of Art,
MoMA,
Madison Avenue in the Bronx Zoo and the shopping centers. Halloween Parade and also the Tribeca Film Festival, which attracts tourists and an American cultural phenomenon. Central Park
U.S. is the most visited parks. New York's food culture is very wide. Especially New York style bagel and pizza are the most famous food. ((Fact) Middle Eastern foods that are easy to find.
Importance of the city
The heart of the financial world of
Wall Street Street, New York
Takes place in Manhattan.
New York Stock Exchange (
New York Stock Exchange) are here. Statue of Liberty (Statue of Liberty) is a small island in the harbor of New York. In the streets around the theater and Broadway musicals have been collected. John F. Kennedy International Airport passenger traffic, carrying most of the world is one of the airport. Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, the Guggenheim Museum as the museum has the world's most valuable art collections. New York Times newspaper of the city is one of the world's most respected newspapers. The three major U.S. television channel ABC, CBS, and NBC's centers are located in New York.
Sister cities
1923 Istanbul, Turkey
1960 Tokyo, Japan
1980 Beijing, China
1982 Cairo, Egypt
1982 Madrid, Spain
1983 Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
1992 Budapest, Hungary
1992 Rome, Italy
1993 Jerusalem, Israel
2001 London, United Kingdom
2003 Johannesburg, South Africa
2005 Santiago, Dominican Republic
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