NEW YORK 2017EOI de Lugo – English Department

From 27th February to 6th March

STUDENT'S NAME: GROUP:

NEIGHBOURHOODS IN MANHATTAN

SUGGESTIONS TO IMPROVE YOUR ENGLISH DURING THE TRIP

• Speak in English at ALL times (even with the other students from your school)!

• Ask questions and talk with as many native speakers as possible.

• Take notes each day of what you see, what you do, what you eat, how you feel...

• Take photos of all the places that catch your attention.

• Write down the new words in English that you see written or that you hear.

IMPORTANT INFORMATION

Hotel → THE ROW NYC HOTEL 700 at 8th Avenue, New York, NY 10036, USA Phone: +1 212 869 3600

Teachers' contact number → Fátima Fugarolas López: +34 630480763Verónica Gaute Montes: +34 655672104

METRO IN NYC → *Remember that there are LOCAL trains (that make all the stops) and

EXPRESS trains (that only stop at the stations indicated with a white circle on the map).*Some stations have separate entrances depending if you are going UPTOWN or DOWNTOWN sopay attention before entering the station or you will go in the opposite direction.

*At the weekend, times may change so pay attention to the signs at the station.

DAY 1: Monday 27th February TRIP

– 3.30 am → Bus EOI de Lugo – A Coruña airport

– 6.40-8.00 → Flight A Coruña – Madrid

– 12.45-15.15 → Flight Madrid – New York

– Bus from NY airport to hotel

– Check in at The Row NY Hotel

– Visit: Times Square (1km)

– Dinner

DAY 2: Tuesday 28th FebruaryTOUR OF UPPER & LOWER MANHATTAN + DOWNTOWN

– 8.00-12.00 → Tour of Upper & Lower Manhattan (Visiting Columbus Circle, the Lincoln

Center and the Dakota building where John Lennon was assassinated. Walk to Central Parkto Strawberry Fields. The tour also includes the National History Museum, ColumbiaUniversity, Harlem, Millionaire's mile, Empire State Building and the Flatiron building.Towards the south, Greenwich Village, Soho, Little Italy, West Village, Chinatown, WallStreet and Battery Park).

Walk around downtown: 3km

– Battery Park + Statue of Liberty viewpoint

– Financial district: Charging bull, New York Stock Exchange, Wall Street, Federal Hall, statueof George Washington, Trinity church and cemetery, St Paul's Chapel, City Hall, ...

– 9/11 Memorial

– 9/11 Museum (access with CityPass or 24 dollars)

* METRO from 9/11 Memorial to hotel: Cortland Street – Times Sq 42St → line 1 (red)

DAY 3: Wednesday 1st March MIDTOWN

9.00 → Walk around midtown: 7km

– Empire State Building

– New York Public Library

– Bryant Park

– Chrysler Building

– Grand Central Terminal

– UN Headquarters

– St Patrick's Cathedral

– Top of the Rocks (access with CityPass or 24 dollars)

– Times Square (+TKTS office for tickets for Broadway shows)

DAY 4: Thursday 2nd March STATUE OF LIBERTY + ELLIS ISLAND + BROOKLYN

8.00am → METRO to South Ferry Station: Times Sq 42St – South Ferry → line 1 (red)

- Ferry to Statue of Liberty + visit to Ellis Island and Immigratin Museum (access withCityPass or 18 dollars)

Walk to Brooklyn: 5km- Pier 17 (views of Brooklyn Bridge)- Cross Brooklyn Bridge- Brooklyn: Jane's Carousel, DUMBO, Pier 1 (views of Manhattan)

– METRO from Brooklyn to hotel →

– High St – 42St Port Authority Bus Terminal Station → line A, C (blue)York St – 42 St Bryant Park → line F (orange)

DAY 5: Friday 3rd March

TOUR OF CONTRASTS + CHINATOWN + LITTLE ITALY + SOHO

- 7.50-12.00 → Tour of Contrasts (visit of the different boroughs of New York. In the Bronx, the

Yankee Stadium and the southern part of the borough. In Queens, Forest Hill, Flushing Meadowsand the US Open venue. In Brooklyn, the Jewish quarter and Brooklyn Heights).

- Walk around Chinatown, Little Italy, Soho (3.5km)

*Chinatown: Columbus Park, Eastern States Buddhist Temple, Mahayana Temple, Grand St

*Little Italy: Mulberry Street

*SOHO: Green Street, Houston Street, New York University, Washington Square Park

From here you have several options: MOMA (free entry on Fridays from 16.00 to 20.00); continueanother 2.5km walk to High Line Park and Chelsea Market; or shopping in SOHO and NOHO

*METRO to hotel:

-From Mulberry Street →

Grand St – 42 St Bryant Park → line B, C (orange)

Canal St Station – 42 St Port Authority Bus Terminal Station → line A, C, E (blue)

-From Washington Mews →

8 St NYU – 49 St Subway Station → line R, W (yellow)

West 4 St Washington Square Street – 42 St Port Authority Bus Terminal→ line A, C, E(blue)

-From Chelsea Market → 14 St Station – 42 St Port Authority Bus Terminal → line A, C, E (blue)

-From the end of the High Line Park →

34 St Hudson Yards Subway Station – Times Square 42St → line 7 (purple)

34 St Penn Station – 42 St Port Autority Bus Terminal → line E (blue)

MOMA is at METRO station 5Av/53St → line E (blue)

DAY 6: Saturday 4th March

CENTRAL PARK + MET/AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY

9.00 a.m. → Walk along 5th avenue to Central Park (6km)

– 5th avenue: Apple Store, Tiffany's, Trump Tower

– Central Park: The Pond, Gapstow Bridge, The mall and literary walk, Bethesda Terrace andfountain, Hans Christian Anderson's statue, Conservatory water, Alice in Wonderland'sstatue and Jaqueline Kennedy Onassis Reservoir.

– The Metropolitan Museum of Art (MET) or the American Museum of Natural History(access with CityPass or a donation of 25 dollars is recommended).

– *METRO from MET or from American Museum of Natural History →

81 St Museum of Natural History – 42 St Port Authority Bus Terminal → line C (blue)

DAY 7: Sunday 5th March

FREE TIME + BACK TO SPAIN

FREE TIME.

Options in the morning:

– Gospel mass in Harlem at 8.00am (Abyssinian Baptist Church)

– * METRO to Harlem and back to hotel → Times Sq 42 St – 135 St → line 2, 3 (red)

Exit the station, go north along Lenox Ave/Malcolm X Blvd towards W136th St. Turn left atW138th St/Odell Clark Pl. Church is on the left.

– 16.30 → Bus from hotel to airport

– 20.35-9.40 → Flight from NY to Madrid

DAY 8: Monday 6th March

TRIP TO LUGO

– 9.40 → arrival at Madrid airport

– 11.40-12.55 → Flight from Madrid to A Coruña

– Bus from A Coruña airport to EOI de Lugo (approximate time of arrival: 14.30h)

* The itineraries proposed may be modified slightly for a better organization of the group.

SCAVENGER HUNT

There is so much to see and do in NYC. Get ready! You’ll need your eyes, brain and ears tocomplete the challenges. You are going to have a great time exploring the city!

How it works: There are many fun challenges for you to complete during your trip to NYC! Workindividually or in teams to find the objects and answer the questions for each location. Takephotos (if the site allows) of each object to document what you find! Don’t forget to include teammembers in the photos!

Where to find help: -Pay very close attention to what the tour leader and your teachers tell you at each location. Theymay reveal an answer! -Ask the staff at the museum or site’s information desk to point you in the right direction. -Check out the maps at each location for clues.-Read signs and plaques very carefully.

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GENERAL QUESTIONS1. Why does the Flatiron building have the shape it has?2. What does SOHO stand for? And NOHO? What about NOLITA? And TRIBECA?3. What word do Newyorkers usually use to refer to American dollars?4. How are bagels prepared?5. What ingredients does a Manhattan cocktail have?6. How many metro lines are there in NYC?

ANSWERS1.________________________

2.________________________

TIMES SQUARE

- Nicknamed ‘The Crossroads of the World’.-This is the site of the annual ball-lowering on New Year’s Eve. The firstwas in 1907.

1. Find the 50-foot-wide, two-story-high wall of chocolate in M&M’sWorld, the largest candy store in NYC.

2. Sit on the bleachers in the center of Times Square and take in the sites.

ANSWERS1.________________________

2.________________________

BATTERY PARK- Battery Park is one of the oldest places in New York. Here Dutch settlerslanded in 1623 to establish New Amsterdam. It is named for the rows ofcannons (artillery batteries) that stood to protect the early settlement.

1. Before Ellis Island was founded, this sandstone fort served as theimmigration station. What is its name?

2. Find the sculpture The Immigrants by sculptor Luis Sanguino. Thesculpture depicts figures of various ethnic groups.

ANSWERS1.________________________

2.________________________

3.________________________

WALL STREET- Wall Street is the financial district of New York City and the financialcenter of the United States.-Wall Street got its name from the wall buildt in 1653 by Dutch coloniststo protect their settlement.

1. Why is there a bull in Wall Street?2. Have your picture taken in front of the New York Stock Exchange, thelargest stock exchange in the world.3. Find the Federal Hall National Memorial. Whose statue can we see infront of it?

ANSWERS1.________________________

2.________________________

3.________________________

9/11 MEMORIAL-This memorial is a tribute of rememberance and honor to the nearly3,000 people killed in the terror attacks of September 11, 2001 at theWorld Trade Center site, near Shanksville, Pa., and at the Pentagon, aswell as the six people killed in the World Trade Center bombing inFebruary 1993.-The twin reflecting pools are each nearly an acre in size and feature thelargest manmade waterfalls in North America. The pools sit within thefootprints where the Twin Towers once stood.

1. The names of every person who died in the 2001 and 1993 attacks areinscribed into bronze panels around the Memorial pools. Why do someof them have a rose?2. Find the ‘Survivor Tree’ that withstood the attacks on the World TradeCentre.3. Find the Freedom Tower. How tall is it?

ANSWERS1.________________________

2.________________________

EMPIRE STATE BUILDING-The Empire State Building opened in 1931.-It is struck by lightning up to 100 times each year!-It has 103 floors and stands 1,453 feet tall. There are 73 elevators in thebuilding and they can travel up to 1,000 feet per minute!

1. What is the zip code of the Empire State Building?2. View the building at night. What colours are the floodlights?

ANSWERS1._________________________

2._________________________

3._________________________

NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY-The NY Public library, with nearly 53 million items, is the second largestpublic library in the US.-It opened in 1911 and had 50,000 visitors on its first day.-It is the largest building constructed in marble in the United States.

1. Which animals can we find in the entrance? What are their names?2. Visit the children's center. What famous bear can you find there?3. What famous manuscript written by Thomas Jefferson in 1776 can wefind here?

ANSWERS1._________________________

2._________________________

3._________________________

4._________________________

GRAND CENTRAL TERMINAL-Every day, more than 750,000 people pass through Grand Central, which ismore than the entire population of San Francisco.-The boards show wrong departure times. All trains leave one minute laterthan indicated!-Outside the station, the clock facing 42nd street is known for having theworld's largest example of Tiffany glass.

1. In the main concourse look up at the ceiling. What can you see?2. Grand Central Terminal was renovated in the 1990s as the ceiling wasblack due to smoking! Can you find the black brick in the ceiling that showshow dirty is was before?3. What does the acorn on top of the information booth clock represent?4. Find the Whispering Arch and share a secret.

ANSWERS1.____________________________

2.____________________________

3.____________________________

SAINT PATRICK’S CATHEDRAL- Largest gothic style Catholic cathedral in the United States.- The cathedral is made of white marble and is longer than afootball field!- The Cathedral has 21 altars and 19 bells, each named after adifferent saint.

1. Find St. Patrick in the enormous bronze cathedral doors.2. Find the replica of Michelangelo’s Pieta sculpture. It’s three timesthe size of the original in St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome.3. What can you find in the basement of St. Patrick's Cathedral?

ANSWERS1.____________________________

2.____________________________

3.____________________________

ROCKEFELLER CENTER-This building complex was developed during the Great Depressionand was named after its developer, John D. Rockefeller Jr.-Home to Radio City Music Hall, NBC studios, and the seasonal iceskating rink.

1. Find the statue of the Greek god Prometheus.2. Find the Atlas statue. What does he have on his shoulders?3. Find the plaque in the plaza with John D. Rockefeller Jr.’sprinciples. Complete: ‘I believe that ……………….. is the gretest thingin the world; that it alone can overcome .…..…….…….; that right canand will triumph over might.’

ANSWERS

1.______________________________

2.______________________________

STATUE OF LIBERTY AND LIBERTY ISLAND- In 1886, the statue was given as a gift to the United States fromthe people of France.- The green colour of the Statue of Liberty’s copper is the result ofoxidation, a chemical reaction between metal and water.

1. Take a picture of the Statue of Liberty from a ferry.2. Find out what Lady Liberty is holding in her left hand.

ANSWERS

1.______________________________

2.______________________________

ELLIS ISLAND- From 1892 to 1954, Ellis Island was the immigrantgateway to America. More than 40% of all Americanshave a relative who passed through Ellis Island.

1. Visit the Ellis Island Immigration History Museumand find the Great Hall, where immigrants wereprocessed.2. Find the statue of Annie Moore, the first immigrantto pass through Ellis Island in 1892.

ANSWERS

1.______________________________

2.______________________________

BROOKLYN BRIDGE-It was the first bridge in the United States to be made of steel, itwas once the largest suspension bridge in the world.-When first completed in 1883, it included two outer lanes forhorse-drawn carriages, two middle lanes for cable cars, and anelevated center walkway.-Con man William McCloundy ‘sold’ the Brooklyn Bridge to atourist in 1901 and was sentenced to 2.5 years in prison.

1. How long is Brooklyn Bridge?2. Photograph the NYC skyline from the elevated walkway.

ANSWERS

1.______________________________

2.______________________________

CHINA TOWN- In the 1800s immigrants from China began settling in this area.Today, Chinatown is home to one of the highest concentration ofChinese people in the Western hemisphere.

1. Find the Kim Lau Memorial Arch erected in 1962 in memory ofthe Chinese Americans who died in WWII and fighter pilotBenjamin Ralph Kim Lau, the first reported casualty.2. Find Columbus Park. You can often see people doing Tai Chi inthe morning or playing table games.

ANSWERS

1.______________________________

2.______________________________

LITTLE ITALY- Unemployment and poverty in Italy in the late 1800s forcedmany Italians to start a new life in America.- At the end of the 19th century Little Italy was populated withmore than 40,000 Italians who lived in cramped houses.

1. Visit an Italian grocery and take in the aromas of cheeses,olives and ham.2. Indulge in a cannoli, gelato, or tiramisu from one of the streetvendors or one of the more than three dozen Italian restaurants.3. Find Lombardi’s, the first pizzeria in the US.

ANSWERS

1.______________________________

2.______________________________

3.______________________________

FIFTH AVENUE- Located in the heart of Midtown Manhattan.- Home to many well known shops.

1. Find a building with an apple on it.2. Have your picture taken with a street performer on FifthAvenue.3. Have your picture taken with a real-life Toy Soldier at FAOSchwarz (the oldest toy store in the US).

ANSWERS

1.______________________________

2.______________________________

3.______________________________

4.______________________________

CENTRAL PARK- First Public Park built in America and the most visited urbanpark in the United States.- Declared a National Historic Landmark in 1965 and a New YorkCity Landmark in 1974.

1. Take a picture on or of Gapstow Bridge. It is located on ThePond.2. Find the historic Carousel and take a ride on one of the 57hand-carved horses or two decorative chariots. When it firstopened in 1871, it was powered by horses or mules that werekept underground. The animals were trained to start and stopwith a foot tap from the ride’s operator above ground!3. Find the 11-foot tall statue of Alice in Wonderland. Meet theCheshire Cat and Mad Hatter and climb on the statue for aphotograph. What is Alice trying to get from the White Rabbit?4. Find the Bethesda Fountain in the center of Bethesda Terrace.What figure sits atop the Bethesda Fountain?

ANSWERS

1.______________________________

2.______________________________

3.______________________________

METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART (THE MET)- One of the premier art institutions in the world, containingworks from prehistoric times to the present. It includes twomillion works of art, including Picasso and Van Gogh.

1. Visit the Temple of Dendur that once stood on the bank of theNile River in Egypt around 15 B.C.2. Find the painting of George Washington’s crossing of theDelaware River on December 25, 1776.3. Find Gilbert Stuart’s painting of George Washington. Thisimage has been on the US one dollar bill for over 100 years.

ANSWERS

1.______________________________

2.______________________________

3.______________________________

AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY- This museum opened in 1871 and has 25 interconnectedbuildings that cover four city blocks.- This museum has over 32 million specimens in its collection!

1. Find the slice of the giant sequoia in the Hall of NorthAmerican Forests. How tall did it stand before it was cut down bylumberjacks in 1891?2. Find the Star of India, the world’s largest gem-quality blue starsapphire. What mineral gives the gem its milky quality and stareffect?3. Find the world’s largest fish (clue: don’t be fooled by itsname!). What is the name of this fish?

MY TRAVELOGUE OF NEW YORK

Each day, write a summary of what you've done, what you've seen, what you've learnt, yourfavourite moments, the food and drinks you've had, etc.

DAY 1 → Monday 27th February

DAY2 → Tuesday 28th February

DAY 3 → Wednesday 1st March

DAY 4 → Thursday 2nd March

DAY 5 → Friday 3rd March

DAY 6 → Saturday 4th March

DAY 7 → Sunday 5th March

Overall opinion

The best of the trip was....

The worst of the trip was...

Back home...Once back at home, take a look at your notes and think about the things you have learnt during your time in New York. Enter the 'aula virtual' of the EOI de Lugo and share your experience (you can add a photo too!). Simply go to the following link: https://www.edu.xunta.gal/centros/eoilugo/aulavirtual2/course/view.php?id=92

LANDMARKSTimes Square

Known colloquially as the Crossroads of the World and The Great White Way, Times Square properencompasses 42nd to 47th Streets, from Broadway to Seventh Avenue—but people commonlyrefer to the area from around 40th to 53th Streets, between Sixth and Eighth Avenues, as TimesSquare.Times Square is big, bright and unforgettable. Its main junction is filled with popular retailers—plusthe TKTS discount booth, which offers up to 50 percent off theater tickets. Walk to the top of itsred steps—you may know them from the "Empire State of Mind" video—for a sweeping view ofthe area, including One Times Square, the building from which the ball drops on New Year's Eve. It acquired its name in 1904 when Albert Ochs, publisher of The New YorkTimes, moved the newspaper's operations to a new skyscraper on whatwas then known as Longacre Square. The name stuck, even after thenewspaper moved their headquarters across Broadway in 1913.

Hell's Kitchen

It's a gayborhood and prime budget-dining destination. Its origins are unclear, but they are know tohave aroused from an Irish-mob-dominated neighborhood in the 19th century.

Columbus Circle

Opposite the four corners of rectangular Central Park, four individual plazas and squares markunique transition points between city and park. In the southwest corner, across from the MaineMonument (1912-13) is the Columbus Circle rotary.

About ten thousand people—including Italian, Spanish, and American dignitaries—gathered inColumbus Circle on October 12, 1992, the 400th anniversary of the arrival of ChristopherColumbus (1451-1506) in the New World. Together they dedicated the Columbus Monument,designed by Sicilian sculptor Gaetano Russo and donated to the City of New York by the Italian-American community. The monument consists of a statue of Columbus posed on a columnmounted on a base surrounded by fountains; an allegorical figure depicting the Genius ofDiscovery stands on the base. Both Columbus and the latter figure are carved of Carrara marble.Columbus Circle is remarkable not only for its central monument but also for the subways beneathit and the collection of buildings clustered around it.

Lincoln Center for the Performing Acts

It is a complex of buildings in the Lincoln Square neighborhood, in the Upper West Side of theborough of Manhattan. It is the world's largest art centre and it hosts many notable performingarts organizations, which are nationally and internationally renowned, including the NYPhilarmonic, The Metropolitan Opera and the NY City Ballet.

Dakota Building

Also known as Dakota Appartments, it is a Gothic-Style cooperative apartments building located onthe northwest corner of 72nd street and Central Park West in the Upper West side of Mahnattan.Built in 1884, it is considered to be one of Manhattan's most pretigious and exclusive cooperativeresidential buildings. It got its name from its far-west location and It is famous as the home offormer Beatle John Lennon from 1973 to his death outside the building in 1980. Yoko Ono is stillliving there.

Strawberry fields

Located near Central Park West between 71st and 74th streets, it is a 2.5 acre area of the Park thatpays tribute to the late Beatle, John Lenon. Lenon and his wife Yoko Ono lived in the DakotaApartments adjacently located to this area of the park. It was here, walking home, o DeCember 8,1980, that John Lenon was shot dead. To commemorate his life, talents and memory, on March 26,1981 a City Council Member, designated the area as Strawberry Fields. Named after the title of theBeatles song “Strawberry Fields”.

In the centre of SF lies a black and white Imagine mosaic, designed by ateam of artists from the Italian City of Naples. Named after anotherfamous song by John Lenon, “Imagine” evokes a vision and hope for anew world without war. Additionally, there is a bronze plaque that lists the more than 120countries that planted flowers and donated money for themaintenance of the area. They have also endorsed Strawberry Fields asa Garden of Peace.

Museum of Natural History

It is the largest museum of natural history in the world spanding 4 city blocks and consisting of 25interconnected buildings. Though today the phrase "natural history" is restricted to the study ofanimal life, the museum—founded in 1869 on the heels of discoveries by Darwin and otherVictorians—uses it in its original sense: that is, the study of all natural objects, animal, vegetableand mineral.

Columbia University

Located on the Upper West Side of Manhattan Columbia University is a private Ivy League*research University. It was established in 1754 as King’s College by royal charter of George II, butafter the American Revolutionary war, King’s College became a state entity, and was namedColumbia University in 1784. Famous alumni of this university inculde: Warren Buffet, Chelsea Clinton, Barack Obama, AliciaKeys, Amelia Earhart, Sean Lennon, Allen Ginsberg, Neil de Grasse Tyson, J.D Salinger, LangstonHughes, Anthony Perkins, Lauryn Hill, Mario Puzo and many others.

*Ivy League is a collegiate athletic conference comprising sports teams from eight privateinstitutions of higher education in the Northeastern US. It includes: Brown U. Columbia U., CornellU., Dartmouth U., Harvard U., the University of Pennsylvania, Princeton U. and Yale U. The term IvyLeague has connotations of academic excellence, selectivity in admissions, and social elitism.

Harlem

It’s a large neighbourhood in the northern section of the New York City borough of Manhattan. Thefirst settlers of the area were Dutch pioneers, and it got its name after the Dutch city of Haarlem.In 1873 it became part of the city of New York.Since the 1920s it has been known as a major African- American residential, cultural and businesscentre. In fact in the 20s and 30s it witnessed an outpouring of artistic work without precedent inthe African American community known as Harlem Renaissance*.However, with job losses in the Time of the Great Depression and the deindustrialization of NY Cityafter WWII, rates of crime and poverty increased.

*Harlem Renaissance aka the New Negro Movement, it is considered to be a re-birth of African-American Arts. The renaissance was mainly literary with figures such as: Langston Hughes, AlainLocke, Rudolf Fisher… Despite not being included in the Renaissance some prominent figures of jazzmusic contributed to push art to its limits at this time, to name a few: Duke Ellington, Billie Holiday,Ella Fitzgerald or Louis Armstrong.

Museum Mile

It is a lovely stretch along 5th Avenue full of museums and other fine arts institutions. Themuseums to be found along the Mile are: El museo del Barrio, Museum of the City of New York,Jewish Museum, Cooper-Hewitt National Museum of Design, National Academy Museum andSchool of Fine Arts, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art,Goethe House German Cultural Centre.

Empire State Building

It’s a 102 story skyscraper located on Fifth Avenue in Midtown Manhattan. Ithas a roof height of 381m, and with its antenna spire included, it stands atotal of 443m high. Its name derived from the nickname for New York, theEmpire State. It stood as the world’s tallest building for nearly 40 years, from its completionin early 1931 until the topping out of the original World Trade Centre’s NorthTower in late 1970. It is an American cultural icon. It is designed in the distinctive Art Deco style.

Flatiron

The Flatiron building was originally named the Fuller Building and it is atriangular 22 story steel-framed landmarked building located at 175 FifthAvenue. It was completed in 1902 and it sits on a triangular block formed byFifth Avenue, Broadway, and East 22nd Street.

Greenwich village

Often simply referred to as The Village is a largely residential district of Manhattan, one of theboroughs of the City of New York. The neighbourhood is roughly bounded by Broadway on the east,the Hudson River on the west, Houston Street on the south, and 14th St on the north. Theneighborhoods surrounding it are the East Village to the east, SoHo to the south, and Chelsea tothe north.

Note that the "East Village" was not historically part of Greenwich Village and is still considered bymany New Yorkers to be part of the Lower East Side, but the term "West Village" is synonymouswith Greenwich Village, or at least that part of the neighborhood that is west of 6th Avenue or so.In the 19th century, the Greenwich Village district was better known as Washington Square.Washington Square Park remains a neighborhood landmark, but the terms "The Village,"

"Greenwich Village," and "West Village" are practically interchangeable.

It was once a large industrial park but later on it was colonized by bohemians, beatniks, artists andliterary greats squatting in abandoned factories. It was also the main setting for the TV seriesFriends.

Soho

The historic SoHo neighbourhood (South of Houston) is bounded by Houston street to the northand Canal Street to the south. Originally known as the Cast Iron District due to the many buildingswith such facades, its historic roots date back to the mid-19th century,, when cast iron wasdiscovered as an architectural material that was cheap, flexible yet sturdy enough to use to builddecorative building facades.

SoHo today still exhibits the greatest concentration of cast iron architecture in the world. SoHo’sdecorative facades, ornate fire escapes, Corinthian columns, oversized windows, and beautifullobbies are its signature features.

Little Italy

Immigrants from Naples and Sicily ventured to Little Italy, a neighbourhood in lower Manhattan-NYC in the 1880s, and the area once stretched from Canal to Houston Streets, between LafayetteStreet and the Bowery, and Mulberry Street.

It was the locale of the fictional Corleone family depicted in the novel The Godfather and the threemovies based on it.

West Village

Much of the West Village’s charm rests in its 19th-century townhouses and cobblestone streets,which look much the same as they did when the neighborhood was at the center of some ofhistory's most influential social and countercultural movements.

Just over the past half century or so, those have included thebreakthrough of experimental theater and Beat literature in the 1950s;the fight for housing preservation in the '60s; and, in 1969, the StonewallRiots that spurred the national gay liberation movement. Thosemoments still characterize the West Village today, as the neighborhoodproudly displays its diversity and dedication to tolerance and inclusion.

Chinatown

Home to a dense population of Asian immigrants, Manhattan’sChinatown is one of NYC's most evocative neighborhoods. Walkingits busy, narrow streets reveals surprise after surprise: ChathamSquare’s statue of Lin Zexu, a Qing dynasty official who led thefight against Britain’s illegal importation of opium; the oddpagoda-style roof and Buddhist temple; and atmospheric DoyersStreet, with its basement bars and a speakeasy among them.

Financial district

Aka FiDi is a neighbourhood located at the southern tip of the borough of Manhattan in NY Citywhich comprises the offices and headquarters of many of the city’s major financial institutions,including the New York Stock Exchange and the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

Anchored on Wall Street, New York City has been called both the mostfinancially powerful city and the leading financial centre of the world,and the NY Stock Exchange is the world’s largest stock exchange bymarket capitalization. The neighborhood roughly overlaps with theboundaries of the New Amsterdam settlement in the late 17th century.

Battery Park

It’s a 25 acre (10ha) public park located at the Battery, the southern tip of Manhattan Island in NewYork City, facing New York Harbour. The area and park are named for the artillery batteries thatwere positioned there in the city’s early years to protect the settlement behind them.

The area’s strategic location was recognized by Native Americans andDutch settlers. Near this point, the colonists of the Dutch West IndiaCompany began the settlement of New Amsterdam in 1625. As thecolony grew and its commerce expanded, piers, wharves, and slipsrose along the coastline. The Dutch constructed Fort Amsterdam asearly as 1626, and around 1683, the first of a series of gun batterieswas constructed around the shore.

9/11 Memorial PlazaA tribute to the past and a place of hope for the future- the 9/11 Memorial Plaza is alive with twinspirits of remembrance & renewal. The 8-acre park is a supremely contemplative sanctuary,composed of a grove of nearly 400 white oak trees, and the largest manmade waterfalls in the US.

Set within the footprints of the original Twin Towers, each pool isaprox. 1 acre in size. The names of every person who perished in theterror attacks of February 26, 1993 and September 11, 2001 arehonored in bronze around the twin memorial pools.

9/11 Memorial Museum The National 9/11 Memorial Museum is located within the archaeological heart of the originalWTC site. The Museum serves as the country’s principal institution concerned with exploring thehistoric implications of the tragic date, through state-of-the-art multimedia exhibits, archives andmonumental artifacts. Paying reverent homage to the nearly 3.000 victims of the attacks, themuseum also recognizes the thousands who survived, and all who showed extraordinary courage& compassion in the catastrophe’s aftermath.

Radio City Music Hall

Radio City Music Hall is an entertainment venue located in Rockefeller Center inNew York City. Itsnickname is the Showplace of the Nation, and it was for a time the leading tourist destination inthe city. Its interior was declared a city landmark in 1978.

Radio City Music Hall is the largest indoor theatre in the world. Its marquee is a full city-block long.

Its auditorium measures 160 feet from back to stage and the ceiling reaches a height of 84 feet.The walls and ceiling are formed by a series of sweeping arches that define a splendid andimmense curving space.

Rockefeller CentreIt is a large complex consisting of 19 highrise Art Deco commercial buildings covering 22 acres(89,000 m2) between 48th and 51st Streets in New York City. Commissioned by the Rockefellerfamily, it is located in the center of Midtown Manhattan, spanning the area between Fifth Avenueand Sixth Avenue. It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1987. It is famous for its annualChristmas tree lighting.

Built in 1939, Rockefeller Center was the vision of famous NYbusinessman and philanthropist, John D. Rockefeller. This iconicNYC landmark has been featured in dozens of films and TV showsover the past century, and is home to the legendary NBC Studiosand Saturday Night Live. With its serene statues and beautiful artnouveau murals, Rockefeller Center is also a popular destinationfor art enthusiasts in NYC. With so much history and culturesurrounding it, the Rockefeller Center in Midtown Manhattan is amust-see NYC attraction for first-time visitors in New York City.

Saint Patrick’s Cathedral

The Cathedral of St. Patrick (commonly called St. Patrick's Cathedral) is a decorated Neo-Gothic-style Roman Catholic cathedral church in the United States and a prominent landmark of NYC. It isthe seat of the archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of NY and a parish church, locatedon the east side of Fifth Avenue between 50th and 51st Streets in Midtown Manhattan, directlyacross the street from Rockefeller Center and specifically facing the Atlas statue.

It is the largest gothic Roman Catholic Cathedral in the US and thecornerstone of the Cathedral was laid in 1858 and was named afterSaint Patrick, the patron saint of Ireland, in response to theincreasing number of Irish immigrants in the city. Its new organ,which was replaced in 1930, has 7,855 pipes. The Cathedral has 21altars, 19 bells and more than 2800 stained glass panels.

Gran Central Terminal

It is a commuter, rapid transit (and former intercity) railroad terminal at 42nd Street and ParkAvenue in Midtown Manhattan in NYC. Built by and named for the New York Central and HudsonRiver Railroad in the heyday of American long-distance passenger rail travel, it covers 48 acres (19ha) and has 44 platforms, more than any other railroad station in the world.

Its platforms, all below ground, serve 41 tracks on the upper leveand 26 on the lower, though thetotal number of tracks along platforms and in rail yards exceeds 100. Grand Central Terminal hasintricate designs both on its inside and outside. In addition, it contains a vast interior mainconcourse. The terminal is one of the world's most visited tourist attractions, with 21.9 million

visitors each year. Unlike other Metro-North stations, Grand Central Terminal is not owned by theMetropolitan Transportation Authority, but by a private company known as Midtown TDRVentures.

Chrysler building

It is an office building in NYC, designed by William Van Alen andoften cited as the epitome of the Art Deco skyscraper. Itssunburst-patterned stainless steel spire remains one of themost striking features of the Manhattan skyline. Built between1928 and 1930, the Chrysler Building was briefly the tallest inthe world, at 1,046 feet (318.8 metres). It claimed this honourin November 1929—when the building was topped off with a180-foot (55-metre) spire—and held the record until theEmpire State Building opened in 1931. The decorative schemeof the facade and interior is largely geometric.

Fifth Avenue

It starts just north of Washington Square and goes all the way north up to 143rd street in Harlem.It is one of the world's most expensive streets, in particular the area between 49th and 59thStreets where some of the most prestigious stores can be found. However, Fifth Avenue is not justa shopping street. Along Central Park, which borders Fifth Avenue, the street becomes moreresidential. Here you'll find palatial homes, grand churches and other historic buildings. You'll alsocome across numerous museums. In fact, there are so many of them that the area between 82ndand 104th Streets is known as the 'Museum Mile'. In addition, you'll find many other interestingsights along Fifth Avenue, such as the magnificent St Patrick's Cathedral, located between 50th and51st streets.

New York Public Library

The New York Public Library (NYPL) is a public library system in NYC.With nearly 53 million items, it is the second largest public library inthe United States (behind the Library of Congress), and fourth largestin the world. It is a private, non-governmental independentlymanaged, nonprofit corporation operating with both private andpublic financing.

Bryant ParkIt's a 9.603-acre (38,860 m2) privately managed public park locatedin the NYC borough of Manhattan. It is located between Fifth andSixth Avenues and between 40th and 42nd Streets in MidtownManhattan. The Main Branch of the New York Public Library islocated within the park. Bryant Park is located entirely over anunderground structure that houses the library's stacks, which werebuilt in the 1980s when the park was closed to the public andexcavated; the new library facilities were built below ground levelwhile the park was restored above it.

Bank of America TowerThe Bank of America Tower at One Bryant Park was designed to set a newstandard in high-performance buildings, for both the office workers whooccupy the tower and for a city and country that are awakening to themodern imperative of sustainability. Drawing on concepts of biophilia—orhumans’ innate need for connection to the natural environment—the visionat the occupant scale was to create the highest quality modern workplace byemphasizing daylight, fresh air, and an intrinsic connection to the outdoors.At the urban scale, the tower addresses its local environment as well as thecontext of midtown Manhattan, to which it adds an expressive new silhouetteon an already-iconic skyline

Statue of Liberty

Sculptor Frederic Auguste Bartholdi was commissioned to design a sculpture with 1876 in mind forcompletion, to commemorate the centennial of the American Declaration of Independence. TheStatue was named “Liberty Enlightening the World” and was a joint effort between America andFrance. It was agreed that the American people were to build the pedestal, and the French peoplewere responsible for the Statue and its assembly here in the United States. However, lack of fundswas a problem on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean. In France Alexandre Gustave Eiffel (designer ofthe Eiffel Tower) was commissioned to design the massive iron pylon and secondary skeletalframework which allows the Statue's copper skin to move independently yet stand upright.

Architect Richard Morris Hunt designed the Statue of Liberty'sgranite pedestal in 1884, donating his fee to help fund the Statue. TheStatue was completed in France in July 1884 and arrived in New YorkHarbor in June 1885 onboard the French frigate "Isere." In transit, theStatue was reduced to 350 individual pieces and packed in 214 crates.The Statue was reassembled on her new pedestal in four months’time. On October 28, 1886, President Grover Cleveland oversaw thededication of the Statue of Liberty in front of thousands of spectators.She was a centennial gift ten years late.

Ellis Island

Upper New York Bay, was the gateway for over 12 million immigrants to the US nation's busiestimmigrant inspection station for over sixty years from 1892 until 1954. The island was made part ofthe Statue of Liberty National Monument in 1965, and has hosted a museum of immigration since1990.

South Street Sea Port and pier 17

The South Street Seaport is a historic area in the NYC borough of Manhattan, centered whereFulton Street meets the East River, and adjacent to the Financial District. The Seaport is adesignated historic district, and is distinct from the neighboring Financial District. It features someof the oldest architecture in downtown Manhattan, and includes the largest concentration ofrestored early 19th-century commercial buildings in the city. This includes renovated originalmercantile buildings, renovated sailing ships, the former Fulton Fish Market, and modern touristmalls featuring food, shopping, and nightlife, with a view of the Brooklyn Bridge.

Brooklyn Bridge

The Brooklyn Bridge is a hybrid cable-suspension bridge in NYC and isone of the oldest bridges in the United States. Completed in 1883, itconnects the boroughs of Manhattan and Brooklyn by spanning theEast River. It has a main span of 1,595.5 feet (486.3m) and was thefirst steel-wire suspension bridge constructed.

Central Park

Central Park is an urban park in Manhattan. It's themost visited urban park in the US, with 38 millionvisitors a year and one of the most filmed locations inthe world. It was designed by Frederick Law Olmstedand Calvert Vaux. It took 20 years and thousands ofworkers transporting 10 million carts of soi totransform the original rocky terrain into today's oasis.Today it counts with more than 24,000 trees, 500m2 offorests, 21 leisure areas and 7 bodies of water.