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Albany is the capital of New York State, but New York City is the “Big Apple”.
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New York is called The “Big Apple”, because in the 1920’s and 1930’s jazz musicians said that the city was the best and most attractive place.
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Eight million people live in New York City
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New York has five boroughs:
Manhattan, Brooklyn, the
Bronx, Queens and Staten Island
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Manhattan is the most famous
borough and it’s where the
tourists go!
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Four hundred years ago, the Algonquin Indians owned the island of Manhattan.
In 1626, a Dutchman called Peter Minuit gave the Indians 24 dollars to
buy the island.
In about 1650, five hundred people lived there and it was called New
Amsterdam.
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In 1664 the British took the town from the Dutch and changed its name to New York.
At the end of the eighteenth century, many immigrants started to come to
America..
They first came from Germany and Ireland, later from Italy, Poland, Russia,
Africa and China.
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In Manhattan you can travel on
subway trains…..
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…on buses or in a taxi. Here taxis are called “cabs”.
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You can take the Water Taxi around
the island of Manhattan…
…or take the free ferry from Battery Park to the Statue of Liberty and Ellis
Island.
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Ellis Island
the Statue of Liberty
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Ellis Island was an immigration station in the past; it was the first stop for nearly 17 million
immigrants
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Many famous people came through Ellis Island, for example Sigmund Freud, Charlie
Chaplin and Walt Disney.
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The Statue of Liberty is the first
thing many immigrants see.
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It was a gift from the French people in 1886. It is 93 meters high and it’s arm is 14 meters long.
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People from the same origin often live in the same area and create
their own communities. The Chinese community is
in “CHINATOWN”
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Little Italy is the Italian
community
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Most of the theatres in New York are near
Times Square…
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…and on Broadway, between 41st and 53rd streets. There
are more than thirty theatres on Broadway.
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The Brooklyn Bridge connects Manhattan to Brooklyn. When it opened in 1883, it
was the world’s longest bridge.
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Central Park is 6%
of Manhattan.
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It has a big lake, hundreds of trees and beautiful gardens
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The Empire State Building is NY’s
tallest skyscraper. It’s 381 meters tall
and it has 102 floors
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The Chrysler building was built by the famous car
maker. It was finished in 1930.
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The Rockefeller Center includes
many buildings, but it is most visited in
winter.
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A huge Christmas tree and a crowded skating rink attract New
Yorkers and tourists.
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But on the 11th of September 2001, (9/11) for Americans, radical Islamists crashed two planes into the towers. Today this site is called “Ground Zero”.
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