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City of New York
New York City, officially named the City of New York, is the
most populous city in the United States, and the most densely
populated major city in North America. The city is at the center
of international finance, politics, entertainment, and culture,
and is one of the world's major global cities (along with
London, Tokyo and Paris) with a virtually unrivaled collection
of museums, galleries, performance venues, media outlets,
international corporations, and stock exchanges. The city is
also home to the United Nations, along with all of the
international missions associated with it.
History
Long before the arrival of European settlers, the New York City
area was inhabited by the Lenape people, including such tribes
as the Manahattoes, Canarsies and Raritan. Major events in New
York history include ? In 1524 the first European explorer
enters New York Harbor ? European settlement begins with the
following the 1609 voyage of Henry Hudson ? Founding of the
Dutch fur trading settlement in Lower Manhattan in 1613 later
called New Amsterdam ? English ships captured the city without
struggle in 1664 ? The Dutch formally ceded New York to the
English in the Treaty of Breda at the conclusion of the Second
Anglo-Dutch War in 1667 ? The city was renamed New York, after
James, Duke of York, and became a royal colony in 1685 ? After
the Civil War, the rate of immigration from Europe grew steeply,
and New York became the first stop for millions seeking a new
and better life in the United States, a role acknowledged by the
dedication of the Statue of Liberty in 1886 ? In two separate
actions in 1874 and 1895, New York City (and New York County)
annexed sections of southern Westchester County known as the
Bronx ? In 1898, New York City took the political form in which
it exists to this day. ? 9/11 changed the political map of the
world Place of interest
Tourism is a major local industry, with hundreds of attractions
and 39 million tourists visiting the city each year on average.
Many visitors make it a point to visit Ground Zero, the Empire
State Building, Times Square, Radio City Music Hall, the Statue
of Liberty, Ellis Island, Wall Street, United Nations
Headquarters, the American Museum of Natural History, St.
Patrick's Cathedral, Fifth Avenue, and the Brooklyn Bridge,
among other attractions. There are over 28,000 acres (113 km?)
of parkland found throughout New York City, comprising over
1,700 separate parks and playgrounds. The best known of these is
Central Park, which is one of the finest examples of landscape
architecture in the world, as well as a major source of
recreation for New Yorkers and tourists alike. Other major parks
in the city include Riverside Park, Battery Park, Bryant Park,
Prospect Park, Flushing Meadow-Corona Park, Washington Square
Park, and Forest Park.
Museums & Art Galleries
New York is a city of great museums with the Metropolitan Museum
of Art's assemblage of historic art, the Museum of Modern Art
and Guggenheim Museum's 20th century collection, and the
American Museum of Natural History and its Hayden Planetarium
focusing on the sciences. There are also many smaller specialty
museums, from El Museo del Barrio with a focus on Latin American
cultures to the Cooper-Hewitt National Museum of Design. A
number of the city's museums are located along the Museum Mile
section of Fifth Avenue.
In addition to these museums, the city is also home to a vast
array of spaces for opera, symphony, and dance performances. The
largest of these is Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts,
which is actually a complex of buildings housing 12 separate
companies, including the New York Philharmonic, the Metropolitan
Opera, the New York City Opera, the New York City Ballet, and
Jazz at Lincoln Center. Other notable performance halls include
Carnegie Hall, Radio City Music Hall, and the Brooklyn Academy
of Music. New York City boasts a highly active and influential
theater district, which is centered around Times Square in
Manhattan. It serves both as the center of the American theater
industry, and as a major attraction for visitors from around the
world. Broadway theaters are considered to be of the highest
quality in the world.
Shopping
Shopping is popular with many visitors, with Fifth Avenue being
a famous shopping corridor for luxury items. Macy's, the
nation's largest department store, and the surrounding area of
Herald Square are a major destination for more moderately-priced
goods. In recent years 23rd Street has become a major location
for "big-box" retailers. In southern Manhattan, Greenwich
Village is home to hundreds of independent music and book
stores, while the East Village continues to prevail as purveyors
of all things "strange" and unusual which you can't find
anywhere else. The "diamond district" (located on 47th Street
between Fifth and Sixth Avenues) is the city's main location for
jewelry shopping, and SoHo, formerly the center of the New York
art scene, is now famous for high-priced clothing boutiques, and
the art galleries are now concentrated in Chelsea. There are
also large shopping districts found in Downtown Brooklyn and
along Queens Boulevard in Queens.
Food & Drink
New York is the best restaurant town in USA and one of the
finest in the world. New York has literally thousands of
restaurants to choose from (more than 25,000, in fact),
encompassing nearly every cuisine in the world. Some of the big
names are Eleven Madison Park, The River Caf?, Boat Basin Caf?,
Veritas. Like restaurants, thousands of bars and cafes are there
in the city. A few old noteworthy among those are: McSorleys Old
Ale House, Revival, Push Caf? and White Horse Tavern.
Universities
New York City is served by the publicly run City University of
New York (CUNY), the largest urban university in the United
States, which has a number of campuses throughout the five
boroughs. The city is also home to a number of other
institutions of higher learning, some of national or even
international reputation, including Columbia University, Fordham
University, Manhattan College, New York University, the
Juilliard School, The Cooper Union, Marymount Manhattan College
and The New School. New York City is also a major center of
academic medicine. Manhattan contains the campuses of the
world-class Rockefeller University, Weill Cornell Medical
College, and Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, as well as
Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center and NYU Medical Center and
their medical schools. New York City is home to several of the
nation's top schools of art and design, including Pratt
Institute, the School of Visual Arts, the Fashion Institute of
Technology, and Parsons School of Design
Sports
Although in much of the rest of the country American football
has become the most popular professional sport, in New York City
baseball arguably still stirs the most passion and interest. A
"Subway Series" between city teams is a time of great
excitement, and any World Series championship by either the New
York Yankees or the New York Mets is considered to be worthy of
the highest celebration, including a ticker-tape parade for the
victorious team.
Hotels & Accommodation
The City of New York is known as the "city that never sleeps",
but its visitors have to. The city hosts a large number of
accommodations options.
Luxury Hotels
New York has many "grand dames," classic elegant hotels that
have been around for years and endured majestically. The St.
Regis, the Waldorf, Tribeca Grand Hotel, Ritz-Carlton New York,
Sheraton New York Hotel and Towers - are some to mention about.
Budget Hotels
Besides all those luxury hotels, a large number of budget hotels
are available in New York City. They are comfortable, homely and
light weight for the pocket. Some of them to mention are - The
Whitehouse Hotel of New York, The Pioneer, Chelsea Center,
Guesthouse and Harlem YMCA. Except these hotels and guesthouses,
Skyline Hotel and Travel Inn are rare exception among affordable
hotels for their services and facilities.
Tours and Sightseeing
To know and see the New York City with no tension way, a number
of tour operators are there for travelers help. These tours
contain city and outskirt of the city sightseeing. Tours may
vary from its contents or theme. It may be a helicopter tour of
Big Apple or may be a double-decker bus tour. Some fair tour
agencies are there in the city. Tours can be booked from tour
agencies or some hotels arrange them for its patrons. Another
easy way to book any of these tours is online tour ticket
booking. Some helpful websites for this purpose are:
http://www.newyork.com/ http://www.allnewyorktours.com/
http://www.thereservationcenter.com/
Transport
The airport authority owns and operates the four major airports
in the New York City area, John F. Kennedy International Airport
(JFK) in Jamaica, Newark Liberty International Airport in
Newark, New Jersey, La Guardia Airport in Flushing, and
Teeterboard Airport in Teeterboard, New Jersey. Taxicabs are
operated by private companies and licensed by the New York City
Taxi & Limousine Commission. Other than cabs, New York City has
a mass transit system. Unlike most of America's car-oriented
urban areas, public transportation is the common mode of travel
for the majority of New York City residents. The city is served
by an extensive network of parkways and expressways, including
four primary Interstate Highways enter the New York/New Jersey
metropolitan area. The world-famous New York City Subway is
operated by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA). It
is the most extensive subway system in the world. The subway
system connects all boroughs except Staten Island, which is
served by the Staten Island Railway via the free Staten Island
Ferry. In addition to these, city residents rely on hundreds of
bus lines, both publicly and privately operated. Many private
ferries are run by NY Waterway, which provides several lines
across the Hudson River, New York Water Taxi, with lines
connecting Brooklyn and Manhattan, and other operators
About the author:
Name: Nivedita Balamurugan Occupation: Traveler Website:
www.thereservationcenter.com Biography: Nivedita is with The
Reservation Center - providers of discounted tours to make your
vacations and sightseeing trips in various cities across the
world as comfortable and enjoyable as possible
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