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  New York City is a city in the southern end of the state of New York, and is the most populous city in the United States of America. New York City is a global economic center, with its business, finance, trading, law, and media organizations influential worldwide. The city is also an important cultural center, with many museums and galleries. Home of the United Nations, the city is a hub for international diplomacy. With over 8.2 million residents within an area of 322 square miles (830 km²), New York City has the highest population density of major cities in the United States. The New York metropolitan area, with a population of 18.8 million, ranks among the largest urban areas in the world.
  
  Manhattan
  Bronx
  Brooklyn
  Staten Island
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  The five boroughs: 1: Manhattan, 2: Brooklyn, 3: Queens, 4: Bronx,
  5: Staten Island
  New York City consists of five boroughs.
  

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  Manhattan (pop. 1,593,200) is the most densely populated borough of New York City and home to most of the city's skyscrapers. The borough contains the major business and financial centers of the city and many cultural attractions, including numerous museums, the Broadway theatre district and Madison Square Garden. Manhattan is divided into Downtown, Midtown, and Uptown regions. Uptown Manhattan is divided by Central Park into the Upper East Side and the Upper West Side.
  

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  Wall Street is the major financial centre of the U. S. and symbolizes the money market and financiers of the U.S. Wall Street was called so because of a wall which extended along the street in Dutch times. It was built about 1650 from river to river (the Hudson and the East River) to protect the small colony living south of this street from attacks by Indians. Later the wall was removed, but the name remained.
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  New York City Hall is the seat of the government of New York City. The building houses the office of the Mayor of New York City and the chambers of the New York City Council. The building is the oldest City Hall in the United States that still houses its original governmental functions. Constructed from 1803 to 1812, New York City Hall is a National Historic Landmark and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
  Blue Room
  Governor’s Room
  City Hall
  

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  When the World Trade Center towers were completed in 1973 many they were called the monstrosities, even though they were the world's tallest buildings at that time. But most New Yorkers became fond of "The Twin Towers" and after the initial horror for the loss of life in the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks there came great sadness for the loss of the buildings. The complex, located in the heart of New York City's downtown financial district, contained 1.24 million m² of office space, almost four percent of Manhattan's entire office inventory.
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  Washington Square Park is one of the best-known of New York City's 1,700 public parks. At 39,000 m², it is a major landmark in the Manhattan neighborhood of Greenwich Village, as well as a popular meeting place and center for cultural activity. It is operated by the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation. Most of the buildings surrounding the park now belong to New York University. The university rents the park for its graduation ceremonies, and uses the Arch as a symbol.
  Garibaldi Monument
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  Greenwich Village is formerly known as the "Bohemian quarters" of the literary and artistic world. There are a lot of quaint streets, curio shops and outdoor shows. Artists, writers, sculptors, composers, poets, actors make their homes in the Village. The Outdoor Art Exhibits are a colourful affair held twice a year in the Village.
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  Greenwich Village
  

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  The Chinatown is an ethnic territory with a large population of Chinese immigrants, similar to other Chinatown districts in American cities. By 1870, there was a Chinese population of 200. By the time the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 was passed, the population was up to 2,000 residents. By 1900, there were 7,000 Chinese residents, but fewer than 200 Chinese women.
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  The city's 39 largest theatres are collectively known as "Broadway”. Broadway theatre is the most prestigious form of professional theatre in the U.S., as well as the most well known to the general public and most lucrative for the performers, technicians and others involved in putting on the shows.
  Broadway
  

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  The Brooklyn Bridge is one of the oldest suspension bridges in the United States, stretches 1825 m over the East River connecting the Manhattan and Brooklyn. On completion, it was the largest suspension bridge in the world and the first steel-wire suspension bridge. The bridge cost $15.1 million to build and approximately 27 people died during its construction. A week after the opening, on May 30 1883 a rumor that the Bridge was going to break down caused a panic which crushed and then killed twelve people.
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  Pennsylvania Station is the major intercity rail station. The station is located in the underground levels of Pennsylvania Plaza. Penn Station is at the center of the Northeast Corridor, an electrified passenger rail line extending south to Washington, D.C. and north to Boston.
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  Times Square is at the junction of Broadway and Seventh Avenue. Times Square consists of the blocks between Sixth and Eighth Avenues from east to west, and West 40th and West 53rd Streets from south to north, making up the western part of the commercial area of Midtown Manhattan. Smaller than Red Square in Moscow or Trafalgar Square in London, Times Square has nonetheless achieved the status of an iconic world landmark and has become a symbol of its home city. Times Square is principally defined by its animated, digital advertisements.
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  The Empire State Building rises to 381 m at the 102nd floor, and its full structural height (including broadcast antenna) reaches 443 m. The building has 85 stories of commercial and office space and an indoor and outdoor observation deck on the 86th floor. The remaining 16 stories represent the spire, which is capped by a 102nd floor observatory. The Empire State Building is the first building to have more than 100 floors. It has 6,500 windows, 73 elevators and there are 1,860 steps from street level to the 102nd floor. It has a total floor area of approximately 254,000 m².
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  The New York Public Library (NYPL) is one of the leading public libraries of the world and is one of America's most significant research libraries. It is composed of a very large circulating public library system combined with a very large non-lending research library system. NYPL consists of 86 libraries in the Bronx, Manhattan, and Staten Island: four non-lending research libraries, four main lending libraries, a library for the blind and physically handicapped, and 77 neighborhood branch libraries. All libraries in the NYPL system may be used free of charge by all visitors.
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  Rockefeller Center is "a city within a city“. It is the largest private building project ever undertaken in modern times. It is a complex of 19 commercial buildings with its own restaurants, stores, theatres, post-offices. In winter its plaza is transformed from an outdoor restaurant to an ice-skating pond Radio City Music Hall, where some of the nation's most popular movies have their first showing along with a spectacular stage show, is one of New York's greatest attractions.
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  Madison Square Garden has been the name of four arenas in New York City. It is the largest indoor stadium in the city, home of all kinds of sports, public events and elaborate entertainments.
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  The Chrysler Building is an Art Deco skyscraper. It has 77 stories. Standing 319 meters high, it was originally built to house the Chrysler Corporation. The spire, measuring 58.4 meters long and composed of Nirosta stainless steel was put to the top of the building on October 23, 1929. The lobby is very elegant. When the building first opened, it contained a public viewing gallery near the top, which a few years later was changed into a restaurant. The former observation floor became a private dining room called the Cloud Club. The very top stores of the building are narrow with low ceilings, useful only to hold radio broadcasting and other mechanical and electrical equipment.
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  The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is a famous art museum. It is regarded as the leading museum of modern art in the world. Its collection includes works of architecture and design, drawings, painting and sculpture, photography, prints and illustrated books, film, and media. MoMA's library and archives are a major resource and hold over 300,000 books, artist books, and periodicals, as well as individual files on more than 70,000 artists. The archives contain primary source material related to the history of modern and contemporary art.
  Museum of Modern Art
  

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  St. Patrick's Cathedral is the largest decorated Neo-Gothic-style Catholic cathedral in North America. It is the seat of the archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York, and a parish church, located just across the street from Rockefeller Center. The eight archbishops of New York are buried in a crypt of the cathedral.
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  Central Park is a large public park (3.41 km). With about twenty-five million visitors annually, Central Park is the most visited city park in the United States, and its appearance in many movies and television shows has made it among the most famous city parks in the world. Central Park contains several lakes, two ice-skating rinks, grassy areas and playgrounds for children. The park is a popular oasis for migrating birds.
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  The Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, which includes Jazz at Lincoln Center, the Metropolitan Opera, the New York City Opera, the New York Philharmonic, the New York City Ballet, the Vivian Beaumont Theatre, is the largest performing arts center in the United States.
  New York State Theater
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  The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, founded in 1937, is a modern art museum. It is the last major work of Frank Lloyd Wright, one of the world's most prominent and influential architects. From the street, the building looks approximately like a white ribbon curled into a cylindrical stack, slightly wider at the top than the bottom. Paintings are displayed along the walls. The Guggenheim was founded to showcase avant-garde art by early modernists such as Wassily Kandinsky and Piet Mondrian.
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  The American Museum of Natural History has a scientific staff of more than 200, and sponsors over 100 special field expeditions each year. The Museum has habitat groups of African, Asian and North American mammals, the "Star of India", the largest blue sapphire in the world, an interesting illustration of the growth and development of man. The Planetarium, connected to the museum, is now part of the Rose Center for Earth and Space, housed in a glass cube containing the spherical Space Theater.
  Museum of Natural History
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  The Metropolitan Museum of Art is one of the world's largest and most important art museums. The main building is located on the eastern edge of Central Park. The Met's permanent collection contains more than two million works of art.
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  Columbia University is a private research university in the United States. It is home to the prestigious Pulitzer Prize, which, for over a century, has rewarded outstanding achievement in journalism, literature and music. It has been the birthplace of FM radio, the first American university to offer anthropology and political science as academic disciplines, and where the foundation of modern genetics was discovered.
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  Test your knowledge:
  1.New Youk City is a city in the_____end of the state of NY:
  a)southern b)nothern c)eastern
  
  2.How many boroughs are there in NYC:
  a)3 b)4 c)5
  
  3.What is the mostly densely populated borough of NYC:
  a)Brooklyn b)Bronx c)Manhatten
  
  4.Wall Street is the main ____centre of US:
  a)cultural b)sports c)financial
  
  5.The World Trade Center towers were called:
  a) «the Twin Towers» b) «the Sister Towers» c) «The Brother Towers»
  
  
  
  
  
  

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  6. The terrorist attack took place in:
  a) November 12, 2001 b)September 11, 2001
  c)December 13, 2001
  
  7. Greenwich Village is known for its:
  a) curio shops and outdoor shows
  b) restaurants and cafe
  c) market
  
  8.The Chinatown is an ethnic territory with a large population of___immigrants.
  a) Japanese b)Chinese c)Indian
  
  9.The city's ___ largest theatres are known as «Broadway».
  a)40 b)39 c)41
  
  
  
  
  

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  10.The Brooklyn Bridge is made of:
  a)wood b)steel c)brick
  
  11.Times Square is:
  a) as big as red Square
  b)bigger than Red Square
  c)smaller than Red Square
  
  12.Empire State Building has:
  a) more than 100 floors
  b) 100 floors
  c) less than 100 floors
  
  
  
  

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  14.Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum is a museum of:
  a) classical art b)avant-garde art
  
  15. Pulitzer Preize is an award for archievements in:
  a)engeneering b)art c)journalism
  
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  13. Rockfeller buiding is a __:
  a)state building
  b) private building
  c)government building
  
  

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