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City of New York

New York City, officially named the City ofBoulevard  in  Queens.
New York, is the most populous city in the
United States, and the most densely populatedFood  &  Drink
major city in North America. The city is at
the center of international finance,New York is the best restaurant town in USA
politics, entertainment, and culture, and isand one of the finest in the world. New York
one of the world's major global cities (alonghas literally thousands of restaurants to
with London, Tokyo and Paris) with achoose from (more than 25,000, in fact),
virtually unrivaled collection of museums,encompassing nearly every cuisine in the
galleries, performance venues, media outlets,world. Some of the big names are Eleven
international corporations, and stockMadison Park, The River Café, Boat
exchanges. The city is also home to theBasin Café, Veritas. Like restaurants,
United Nations, along with all of thethousands of bars and cafes are there in the
international  missions  associated  with it.city. A few old noteworthy among those are:
McSorleys Old Ale House, Revival, Push
HistoryCafé  and  White  Horse  Tavern.
Long before the arrival of European settlers,Universities
the New York City area was inhabited by the
Lenape people, including such tribes as theNew York City is served by the publicly run
Manahattoes, Canarsies and Raritan. MajorCity University of New York (CUNY), the
events in New York history include¢largest urban university in the United
In 1524 the first European explorer entersStates, which has a number of campuses
New York Harbor¢ European settlementthroughout the five boroughs. The city is
begins with the following the 1609 voyage ofalso home to a number of other institutions
Henry Hudson¢ Founding of the Dutchof higher learning, some of national or even
fur trading settlement in Lower Manhattan ininternational reputation, including Columbia
1613 later called New Amsterdam¢University, Fordham University, Manhattan
English ships captured the city withoutCollege, New York University, the Juilliard
struggle in 1664¢ The Dutch formallySchool, The Cooper Union, Marymount Manhattan
ceded New York to the English in the TreatyCollege and The New School. New York City is
of Breda at the conclusion of the Secondalso a major center of academic medicine.
Anglo-Dutch War in 1667¢ The city wasManhattan contains the campuses of the
renamed New York, after James, Duke of York,world-class Rockefeller University, Weill
and became a royal colony in 1685¢Cornell Medical College, and Memorial
After the Civil War, the rate of immigrationSloan-Kettering Cancer Center, as well as
from Europe grew steeply, and New York becameColumbia-Presbyterian Medical Center and NYU
the first stop for millions seeking a new andMedical Center and their medical schools. New
better life in the United States, a roleYork City is home to several of the nation's
acknowledged by the dedication of the Statuetop schools of art and design, including
of Liberty in 1886¢ In two separatePratt Institute, the School of Visual Arts,
actions in 1874 and 1895, New York City (andthe Fashion Institute of Technology, and
New York County) annexed sections of southernParsons  School  of  Design
Westchester County known as the
Bronx¢ In 1898, New York City tookSports
the political form in which it exists to this
day.¢ 9/11 changed the political mapAlthough in much of the rest of the country
of  the  worldPlace  of  interestAmerican football has become the most popular
professional sport, in New York City baseball
Tourism is a major local industry, witharguably still stirs the most passion and
hundreds of attractions and 39 millioninterest. A "Subway Series" between city
tourists visiting the city each year onteams is a time of great excitement, and any
average. Many visitors make it a point toWorld Series championship by either the New
visit Ground Zero, the Empire State Building,York Yankees or the New York Mets is
Times Square, Radio City Music Hall, theconsidered to be worthy of the highest
Statue of Liberty, Ellis Island, Wall Street,celebration, including a ticker-tape parade
United Nations Headquarters, the Americanfor  the  victorious  team.
Museum of Natural History, St. Patrick's
Cathedral, Fifth Avenue, and the BrooklynHotels  &  Accommodation
Bridge, among other attractions. There are
over 28,000 acres (113 km²) ofThe City of New York is known as the "city
parkland found throughout New York City,that never sleeps", but its visitors have to.
comprising over 1,700 separate parks andThe city hosts a large number of
playgrounds. The best known of these isaccommodations  options.
Central Park, which is one of the finest
examples of landscape architecture in theLuxury  Hotels
world, as well as a major source of
recreation for New Yorkers and touristsNew York has many "grand dames," classic
alike. Other major parks in the city includeelegant hotels that have been around for
Riverside Park, Battery Park, Bryant Park,years and endured majestically. The St.
Prospect Park, Flushing Meadow-Corona Park,Regis, the Waldorf, Tribeca Grand Hotel,
Washington  Square  Park,  and  Forest  Park.Ritz-Carlton New York, Sheraton New York
Hotel and Towers - are some to mention about.
Museums  &  Art  Galleries
Budget  Hotels
New York is a city of great museums with the
Metropolitan Museum of Art's assemblage ofBesides all those luxury hotels, a large
historic art, the Museum of Modern Art andnumber of budget hotels are available in New
Guggenheim Museum's 20th century collection,York City. They are comfortable, homely and
and the American Museum of Natural Historylight weight for the pocket. Some of them to
and its Hayden Planetarium focusing on themention are - The Whitehouse Hotel of New
sciences. There are also many smallerYork, The Pioneer, Chelsea Center, Guesthouse
specialty museums, from El Museo del Barrioand Harlem YMCA. Except these hotels and
with a focus on Latin American cultures toguesthouses, Skyline Hotel and Travel Inn are
the Cooper-Hewitt National Museum of Design.rare exception among affordable hotels for
A number of the city's museums are locatedtheir  services  and  facilities.
along the Museum Mile section of Fifth
Avenue.Tours  and  Sightseeing
In addition to these museums, the city isTo know and see the New York City with no
also home to a vast array of spaces fortension way, a number of tour operators are
opera, symphony, and dance performances. Thethere for travelers help. These tours contain
largest of these is Lincoln Center for thecity and outskirt of the city sightseeing.
Performing Arts, which is actually a complexTours may vary from its contents or theme. It
of buildings housing 12 separate companies,may be a helicopter tour of Big Apple or may
including the New York Philharmonic, thebe a double-decker bus tour. Some fair tour
Metropolitan Opera, the New York City Opera,agencies are there in the city. Tours can be
the New York City Ballet, and Jazz at Lincolnbooked from tour agencies or some hotels
Center. Other notable performance hallsarrange them for its patrons. Another easy
include Carnegie Hall, Radio City Music Hall,way to book any of these tours is online tour
and the Brooklyn Academy of Music. New Yorkticket booking. Some helpful websites for
City boasts a highly active and influentialthis  purpose  are:
theater district, which is centered around
Times Square in Manhattan. It serves both asTransport
the center of the American theater industry,
and as a major attraction for visitors fromThe airport authority owns and operates the
around the world. Broadway theaters arefour major airports in the New York City
considered to be of the highest quality inarea, John F. Kennedy International Airport
the  world.(JFK) in Jamaica, Newark Liberty
International Airport in Newark, New Jersey,
ShoppingLa Guardia Airport in Flushing, and
Teeterboard Airport in Teeterboard, New
Shopping is popular with many visitors, withJersey.Taxicabs are operated by private
Fifth Avenue being a famous shopping corridorcompanies and licensed by the New York City
for luxury items. Macy's, the nation'sTaxi & Limousine Commission. Other than
largest department store, and the surroundingcabs, New York City has a mass transit
area of Herald Square are a major destinationsystem. Unlike most of America's car-oriented
for more moderately-priced goods. In recenturban areas, public transportation is the
years 23rd Street has become a major locationcommon mode of travel for the majority of New
for "big-box" retailers. In southernYork City residents. The city is served by an
Manhattan, Greenwich Village is home toextensive network of parkways and
hundreds of independent music and bookexpressways, including four primary
stores, while the East Village continues toInterstate Highways enter the New York/New
prevail as purveyors of all things "strange"Jersey metropolitan area. The world-famous
and unusual which you can't find anywhereNew York City Subway is operated by the
else. The "diamond district" (located on 47thMetropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA).
Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues) isIt is the most extensive subway system in the
the city's main location for jewelryworld. The subway system connects all
shopping, and SoHo, formerly the center ofboroughs except Staten Island, which is
the New York art scene, is now famous forserved by the Staten Island Railway via the
high-priced clothing boutiques, and the artfree Staten Island Ferry. In addition to
galleries are now concentrated in Chelsea.these, city residents rely on hundreds of bus
There are also large shopping districts foundlines, both publicly and privately operated.
in Downtown Brooklyn and along Queens



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