New York

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New York
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Some facts

• the biggest city
• 365 square miles
• 8 mln people
• striking social contrasts

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History

• Giovanni de Verrazano (1525)
• Captain Henry Hudson (1609)
• Peter Minuit (1626)
• Duke of York (1664)

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New York Gateway to the USA

• The biggest transport center
• City of islands
• The richest sea port
• Several airports

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Bridges

• 60 bridges 4 tunnels
• Some of them are owned and toll is to
• be paid
• Brooklyn Bridge
• Verrazano Narrow Bridge
• George Washington Bridge

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The symbol of New York

• Statue of Liberty
• 152 feet high
• A new American Museum of Immigration

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5 boroughs

• Richmond

• Queens

• Manhattan

• Brooklyn

• Bronx

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Manhattan

• 13 miles long, 2 miles wide
• Lower Manhattan
• Midtown
• Upper Manhattan

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Lower Manhattan

• the Wall Street Area
• the Lower East Side
• Little Italy
• the Lower West Side

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Midtown

• skyscrapers
• Rockefeller Center
• Times Square
• the Theatre District

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Upper Manhattan

• Central Park
• the Eastern Side
• the Western Side
• Harlem

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New York-the city of museums.

• more than 30 museums
• Frick Collection.(European masters of 14th-19th
  centuries).
• Solomon R.Guggenheim Museum (in 1959)
• Metropolitan Museum of Art.
• American Museum of Natural History

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The symbol of capitalism

• The financial center
• money making is the main law of life
• Wall Street - a nickname for American monopolies
  and finance
• The N.Y. Stock Exchange

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New York is the city, which never sleeps . The
bright illuminations from night clubs, cafes,
restaurants, hotels, and shops make it one of the
most beautiful cities in the world.
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Tragedy

• September, 11, 2001
• two planes crashed
• the World Trade Center
• 3000 victims

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• On every anniversary, in New York City, the names
  of the victims who died there are read out
  against a background of somber music.
• New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani proclaimed,
  "We will rebuild. We're going to come out of this
  stronger than before, politically stronger,
  economically stronger. The skyline will be made
  whole again."

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Memory

• Numerous memorials
• the National September 11 Memorial
• Museum in New York
• the Pentagon Memorial
• Flight 93 National Memorial

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• The terrible tragedy changed the city and it's
  citizens greatly. Though 10 years passed New York
  is still recovering after the shock.
• But in spite of it, New York remains one of
  the biggest financial, cultural and political
  cities in the world.