New York

New York

NEW YORK.

New York attract peopl from all over. Get on a subway in New York and

look at the newspapers that peopl around you are reading . One person is

reading a newspaper in Spanish , anouther in Chinese, yet others in Arabic

, Russian , Italian , Yiddish, and French . New York was always a city of

immigrants. It still is .

The are 5 boroughs in New York - Manhaptan , Brooklyn , Queens , the

bronx , and Staten Island. Brooklyn alone has so many people that if it

were a separate city , it would be the fourth largest in the United States.

Manhattan Geography.

Manhattan is an island just 13 miles long and 2 miles wide . It is the

centre of American finance, advertising , art theatre, publishing , fashion

- and much more. The borough of Manhatten is what most people think of New

York, one of the most exciting cities in the world.

Manhattan is divided into the East Side and the West Side. The

dividing line is Fifth Avenue. So, for example , East 47th Street begins at

Fifth Avenue, as does West 47th Street.

Manhattan is also divided , wuth less exactnes, into Lower (Downtown),

Midtown and Upper (Up-town) Manhattan. As you go North, or uptown, the

street numbers get higher. Lower Manhatta refers to street numbers below

14th Street and Central Park, and Upper Manhattan to the renaming,

northern, part of the island.

The Financial District .

The Dutch were the first Europeans to settle Manhattan. To protect

themselves from attacs, they built a sturdy wooden wall. Although it`s now

long gone, this wall gave it`s name to a street in Lower Manhattan and the

street, in turn, became synonymous with American capitalism. The street, of

course, is Wall Street. The New York Stock Exchange and the American Stokc

Exchange are both in the Wall Street area. So are many stokc brokers,

investment blanks and others bank, and headquarters of many large

corporations.

To escape the commotion of Wall Street you can visit the nearby South

Street Seaport, an open area of low buildings on the East River. In

addition to many shops and restaraunts, the seaport has a museum.

Two good ways to get the larger picture of New York are to circle it

in a bout and to hover over it in helicopter. In the financial district,

thogh, there`s anouther way to see New York. The twin towers of the World

Trade Centre rise 1,350 feet above the city. There`s an observation deck on

the 107th floor of one of the towers.

Appropriately, the very first business deal in Manhattan was made in

what became the financial district. As every American schoolchild knows,

the Dutch bought Manhattan from the Indians, for the rediculously low

price of 24 dollars worth of beads and trinkets. There is, however,

another, less known side of this: evidently, the Indians who had sold

Manhattan did not themselves live there or in any sense own it. The Dutch

and the Indians alike walked away pleased.

The Lower East Side.

The lower East Side was originali an ellegant neighborhood. When New

York was the capital of the United States, Presedent George Washington

lived on the Lower East Side.

By the mid-1880s the Lower East Side had changed greatly. It was

chracterized by crime and the poverty and hopes of it`s residents. By the

mid-1800s the Lower East Side had become an area in which immigrants

settled. First there were many Irish, then came many Jews from Easten

Europe.

Near the Lower East Side there are two other neighborhoods that also

attracted immigrants and that are famous for their food.The Italian

restaraurants of Little Italy remain popular to tourists and Italians

alike. Today Chinatown is the only immigrant community that`s still

growing. Chinatown has seven newspaper of it`s own. It also nearly 200

restaurants.

Greenwich Village and the East Village.

Greenwich Village and the East Village have always been at the centre

of New york`s excitement. Both have been places for people with different

and creative ideas. Both have an active nightlife with plenty of bars,

restaraurants and clubs.

In the early 1900s the charm Greenwich Village attracted bohemians -

writers and artists. By the 1920s, the streets of the Village were filled

with other peole, curious to see how these odd Villagers lived. The artists

and writers began moving out, some to the East Village. Today, the Village

has many elemets : students attending New York University ; an active jazz

scene; and in Washington Square - it`s centre - street performers, police.

Drug dealers, joggers, roller skates, and just about everyone else.

When bohemiams moved to the East Village 1920s, they found an area

similar to the Lower East Side. There were many immigrants, much dirt and

grime. The East Village has changed very little. Over the years it has been

a centre for many movements - for the beat poets of the 1950s, the hippies

of the 1960s, and, more recently, for New York`s punk scene.

Midtown Manhattan.

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