New York

Martin SisákIII.E

Basic facts

Most populous city in USACenter of New York Metropolitan

AreaCapital city of State of New YorkIt has been described as a cultural

capital city

History

New York was found in 1624 by Dutch colonizers, they called it New Amsterdam

Since 1790 it‘s the biggest city of United States

Metro was built and started in 1904In 1916 was New York a biggest

center of black community in whole North America

In 1960s was New York hit by wave of criminality, racism and economic problems

History

• All problems were calmed down in 1990s, and number of asian and latin american immigrants started to grow

• New York is also a center of international relationships and diplomacy , because the World center of OSN is right here

Culture

Most of local buildings are famous all over the world

For example Statue of liberty, Wall street (centre of bourse in south Manhattan), Empire State Building, Times Square and so on

Nowadays, cultural centre of New York is Broadway

11.9.2001, World Trade Center was destroyed by terrorist attack

• Musical on Broadway

• Times Square

Geography

New York lies on North East of USAThrough the city is flows a river

Hudson (Hudson is a border between New York and New Jersey)

Major part of New York lies on three islands: Manhattan, Long Island and Staten Island

Sports

• New York has its team in every american popular sport

• For example, basketball team New York Knicks or football team New York Redbulls

• And the most famous New York sport team is a baseball team New York Yankees

Sources

www.wikipedia.org www.americapictures.net www.topworldcities.net

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