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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
Thank you for your attention.
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