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 Geography

New York is situated at the mouth of

the Hudson River close to the Atlantic
Ocean. Its geographical position is
one of the reasons why the city has
developed so fast.
Most of the city stands on three
islands of Manahattan, Staten Island
and Long Island.
Land is limited and the city‘s
increasing population is very dense.
The skyscapers is the only real
solution to the problem of 8.2 million
people living in an area of only
830km2
Midtown
 The Five boroughs
New York has five areas called “boroughs”.
• The Bronx is the only borough not standing on an
island. Rap and hip hop were born here.
• Brooklyn is the most populous borough and was
separated city until 1898. Brooklyn has a long beach
called Coney Island.
• Queens, a residential area, was originally group of
towns and villages founded by the Dutch.
• Staten Island is connected to Brooklyn by the
Verrazano Bridge and to Manhattan via Staten Island
ferry.
• Manhattan is the most densely populated borough
and its famous for its skyscrapers, including the
Empire state Building, Central Park, business and
financial centres, the Metropolitan Museum of Art
which is one of the largest museums in the world,
elegant shops and ethnic areas like Chinatown Little
Italy and many other famous places.
The Five Boroughs of
New York The Bronx

Manhattan

Queens

Brooklyn

Staten Island
Manhattan
 The Empire State Building
The Empire State Building is a 102-story skyscraper located at the
intersection of Fifth Avenue and West 34th Street. It has a roof height
of 381 meters. It stood as the world's tallest building for 40 years, from
its completion in 1931 until construction of the World Trade Centre’s.
 The Chrysler Building
The Chrysler Building is an skyscraper in New York City, located on the
east side of Manhattan .Standing at 319 metres (it was the world's
tallest building for 11 months before it was surpassed by the Empire
State Building in 1931.
 Flatiron Building
The Flatiron Building or Fuller
Building, as it was originally
called is located at 175 Fifth
Avenue and is considered to be
a groundbreaking skyscraper.
The building sits on a triangular
island-block formed by Fifth
Avenue, Broadway and East
22nd Street, with 23rd Street
grazing the triangle's northern
(uptown) peak. As with
numerous other wedge-shaped
buildings, the name "Flatiron"
derives from its resemblance to
a cast-iron clothes iron.
 United Nations
The headquarters of the
United Nations is a complex in
New York City. The complex
has served as the official
headquarters of the United
Nations since its completion in
1952. It is located in the Turtle
Bay neighbourhood of
Manhattan, on spacious
grounds overlooking the East
River. Its borders are First
Avenue on the west, East
42nd Street to the south, East
48th Street on the north and
the East River to the east
 Statue of Liberty
The Statue of Liberty is a monument commemorating the centennial of the
signing of the United States Declaration of Independence, given to the
United States by the people of France to represent the friendship between
the two countries established during the American Revolution.
Statue of Liberty
 Brooklyn Bridge
The Brooklyn Bridge is a bridge in New York
City and is one of the oldest suspension
bridges in the United States. Completed in
1883, it connects the boroughs of
Manhattan and Brooklyn by spanning the
East River. With a main span of 486.3 m, it
was the longest suspension bridge in the
world from its opening until 1903, and the
first steel-wire suspension bridge.
 Times Square
Times Square is a major commercial
intersection in Midtown Manhattan, at
the junction of Broadway and
Seventh Avenue and stretching from
West 42nd to West 47th Streets.
Times Square iconified as "The
Crossroads of the World“ and the
"The Great White Way" is the brightly
illuminated hub of the Broadway
theatre district, one of the world's
busiest pedestrian intersections, and
a major centre of the world's
entertainment industry. Formerly
Longacre Square, Times Square was
renamed in April 1904 after The New
York Times moved its headquarters
to the newly erected Times Building
– now called One Times Square –
site of the annual ball drop on New
Year's Eve.
 Central Park
Central Park is a public park at
the centre of Manhattan. The
park initially opened in 1857,
on 843 acres (3.41 km2) of
city-owned land. In 1858,
Frederick Law Olmsted and
Calvert Vaux won a design
competition to improve and
expand the park with a plan
they entitled the Greensward
Plan. Construction began the
same year, continued during
the American Civil War, and
was completed in 1873. The
park, which receives
approximately thirty-five million
visitors annually,[8] is the most
visited urban park in the
United States.
Rockefeller Center
Rockefeller Centre is a complex of 19
commercial buildings covering 22 acres
between 48th and 51st streets. Built by
the Rockefeller family, it is located in
the centre of Midtown Manhattan,
spanning the area between Fifth
Avenue and Sixth Avenue. It was
declared a National Historic Landmark
in 1987.
 Madison Square Garden
Madison Square Garden (MSG), known colloquially as the Garden, is a
multi-purpose indoor arena in Manhattan and located at 8th Avenue,
between 31st and 33rd Streets, situated on top of Pennsylvania Station.
The present Garden hosts approximately 320 events a year. It is the
home of the New York Rangers of the NHL, the New York Knicks of the
NBA, and the New York Liberty of the WNBA.
 Little Italy
Little Italy is a general name for an ethnic enclave populated primarily
by Italians or people of Italian ancestry, usually in an urban
neighbourhood.
 Chinatown
Manhattan's Chinatown home to one of the largest Chinese
communities in the Western hemisphere. Manhattan's Chinatown is
one of the oldest Chinese enclaves outside of Asia.
The Guggenheim Museum
The Guggenheim museum is a well-known art museum located on the
Upper East Side of Manhattan. It is the permanent home of a renowned
and continuously expanding collection of Impressionist, Post-
Impressionist, early Modern and contemporary art and also features
special exhibitions throughout the year.
Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
(colloquially The Met) is an art
museum in New York City. Its
permanent collection contains
more than two million works,
divided among nineteen curatorial
departments. The main building,
located on the eastern edge of
Central Park along Manhattan's
Museum Mile, is by area one of
the world's largest art galleries.
Represented in the permanent
collection are works of art from
classical antiquity and Ancient
Egypt, paintings and sculptures
from nearly all the European
masters, and an extensive
collection of American and
modern art.
 Saint Patrick’s Cathedral
The Cathedral of St. Patrick is a decorated Neo-Gothic-style Roman
Catholic cathedral church in the United States. It is the seat of the
archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York, and a
parish church, located on the east side of Fifth Avenue between 50th
and 51st Streets in midtown Manhattan.
 Ground Zero
On September the 11th 2001 the city of New York suffered a
shocking attack. Nearly 3000 people died when terrorists
deliberatly crashed two aeroplanes into the Twin Towers of the
World Trade Centre, causing them to collapse. The Site is
presently known as Ground Zero.
Ground Zero
 Wall Street
Wall Street refers to the financial
district of New York City, named after
and cantered on the eight-block-long
street running from Broadway to
South Street on the East River in
Lower Manhattan. It is the home of
the New York Stock Exchange, the
world's largest stock exchange by
market capitalization of its listed
companies. Several other major
exchanges have or had headquarters
in the Wall Street area, including
NASDAQ, the New York Mercantile
Exchange, the New York Board of
Trade, and the former American
Stock Exchange. Anchored by Wall
Street, New York City is one of the
world's principal financial centres.
 Ellis Island

Ellis Island is an island in New

York Harbour and was the
gateway for millions of
immigrants to the United States
as the nation's busiest
immigrant inspection station
from 1892 until 1954. The
island was greatly expanded
with landfill between 1892 and
1934. Before that, the much
smaller original island was the
site of Fort Gibson. The island
was made part of the Statue of
Liberty National Monument in
1965, and has hosted a
museum of immigration since
1990.
 Broadway

Broadway is one of the

avenues in the borough of
Manhattan which runs
through almost the entire
length of Manhattan island
and continues northward
through the Bronx borough
before terminating in
Westchester County, New
York.
The name Broadway is the
English literal translation of
the Dutch name, Breede
weg. A stretch of
Broadway is known
worldwide as the heart of
the American theatre
industry.
Click on the black rectangular to watch the video
 Bibliography

Culture Talk , Susan Burns, Petrini, 2010

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pagina_principale

Song New York:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_L10fsKvQc&feature=fvwrel

Video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JDTkPU-sWk&feature=fvwrel