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City of New York New York City, officially named the City of Boulevard  in  Queens. New York, is the most populous city in the United States, and the most densely populated Food  &  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 is and one of the finest in the world. New York one of the world's major global cities (along has literally thousands of restaurants to with London, Tokyo and Paris) with a choose 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 stock Madison Park, The River Café, Boat exchanges. The city is also home to the Basin Café, Veritas. Like restaurants, United Nations, along with all of the thousands 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 History Café  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 the New York City is served by the publicly run Manahattoes, Canarsies and Raritan. Major City University of New York (CUNY), the events in New York history include¢ largest urban university in the United In 1524 the first European explorer enters States, which has a number of campuses New York Harbor¢ European settlement throughout the five boroughs. The city is begins with the following the 1609 voyage of also home to a number of other institutions Henry Hudson¢ Founding of the Dutch of higher learning, some of national or even fur trading settlement in Lower Manhattan in international reputation, including Columbia 1613 later called New Amsterdam¢ University, Fordham University, Manhattan English ships captured the city without College, New York University, the Juilliard struggle in 1664¢ The Dutch formally School, The Cooper Union, Marymount Manhattan ceded New York to the English in the Treaty College and The New School. New York City is of Breda at the conclusion of the Second also a major center of academic medicine. Anglo-Dutch War in 1667¢ The city was Manhattan 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 immigration Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, as well as from Europe grew steeply, and New York became Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center and NYU the first stop for millions seeking a new and Medical Center and their medical schools. New better life in the United States, a role York City is home to several of the nation's acknowledged by the dedication of the Statue top schools of art and design, including of Liberty in 1886¢ In two separate Pratt Institute, the School of Visual Arts, actions in 1874 and 1895, New York City (and the Fashion Institute of Technology, and New York County) annexed sections of southern Parsons  School  of  Design Westchester County known as the Bronx¢ In 1898, New York City took Sports the political form in which it exists to this day.¢ 9/11 changed the political map Although in much of the rest of the country of  the  worldPlace  of  interest American football has become the most popular professional sport, in New York City baseball Tourism is a major local industry, with arguably still stirs the most passion and hundreds of attractions and 39 million interest. A "Subway Series" between city tourists visiting the city each year on teams is a time of great excitement, and any average. Many visitors make it a point to World 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, the considered to be worthy of the highest Statue of Liberty, Ellis Island, Wall Street, celebration, including a ticker-tape parade United Nations Headquarters, the American for  the  victorious  team. Museum of Natural History, St. Patrick's Cathedral, Fifth Avenue, and the Brooklyn Hotels  &  Accommodation Bridge, among other attractions. There are over 28,000 acres (113 km²) of The 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 and The city hosts a large number of playgrounds. The best known of these is accommodations  options. Central Park, which is one of the finest examples of landscape architecture in the Luxury  Hotels world, as well as a major source of recreation for New Yorkers and tourists New York has many "grand dames," classic alike. Other major parks in the city include elegant 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 of Besides all those luxury hotels, a large historic art, the Museum of Modern Art and number 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 History light weight for the pocket. Some of them to and its Hayden Planetarium focusing on the mention are - The Whitehouse Hotel of New sciences. There are also many smaller York, The Pioneer, Chelsea Center, Guesthouse specialty museums, from El Museo del Barrio and Harlem YMCA. Except these hotels and with a focus on Latin American cultures to guesthouses, 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 located their  services  and  facilities. along the Museum Mile section of Fifth Avenue. Tours  and  Sightseeing In addition to these museums, the city is To know and see the New York City with no also home to a vast array of spaces for tension way, a number of tour operators are opera, symphony, and dance performances. The there for travelers help. These tours contain largest of these is Lincoln Center for the city and outskirt of the city sightseeing. Performing Arts, which is actually a complex Tours 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, the be 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 Lincoln booked from tour agencies or some hotels Center. Other notable performance halls arrange 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 York ticket booking. Some helpful websites for City boasts a highly active and influential this  purpose  are: theater district, which is centered around Times Square in Manhattan. It serves both as Transport the center of the American theater industry, and as a major attraction for visitors from The airport authority owns and operates the around the world. Broadway theaters are four major airports in the New York City considered to be of the highest quality in area, John F. Kennedy International Airport the  world. (JFK) in Jamaica, Newark Liberty International Airport in Newark, New Jersey, Shopping La Guardia Airport in Flushing, and Teeterboard Airport in Teeterboard, New Shopping is popular with many visitors, with Jersey.Taxicabs are operated by private Fifth Avenue being a famous shopping corridor companies and licensed by the New York City for luxury items. Macy's, the nation's Taxi & Limousine Commission. Other than largest department store, and the surrounding cabs, New York City has a mass transit area of Herald Square are a major destination system. Unlike most of America's car-oriented for more moderately-priced goods. In recent urban areas, public transportation is the years 23rd Street has become a major location common mode of travel for the majority of New for "big-box" retailers. In southern York City residents. The city is served by an Manhattan, Greenwich Village is home to extensive network of parkways and hundreds of independent music and book expressways, including four primary stores, while the East Village continues to Interstate 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 anywhere New York City Subway is operated by the else. The "diamond district" (located on 47th Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA). Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues) is It is the most extensive subway system in the the city's main location for jewelry world. The subway system connects all shopping, and SoHo, formerly the center of boroughs except Staten Island, which is the New York art scene, is now famous for served by the Staten Island Railway via the high-priced clothing boutiques, and the art free 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 found lines, both publicly and privately operated. in Downtown Brooklyn and along Queens 1 A B C D 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104