纽约城市的简介(英文)

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New York City
New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and entertainment. The home of the United Nations Headquarters, New York is an important center for international affairs and is widely deemed the cultural capital of the world. The city is also referred to as New York City or the City of New York to distinguish it from the state of New York, of which it is a part.
Architecture
New York has architecturally noteworthy buildings in a wide range of styles and from distinct time periods from the saltbox style Pieter Claesen Wyckoff House in Brooklyn, the oldest section of which dates to 1656, to the modern Freedom Tower, the modern skyscraper currently under construction at the World Trade Center in lower Manhattan.
Boroughs
New York City is composed of five boroughs:The Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens, and Staten Island.
The Bronx is the birthplace of rap and hip-hop culture. Except for a small section of Manhattan known as Marble Hill, the Bronx is the only section of the city that is part of the United States mainland. Brooklyn is known for its cultural, social and ethnic diversity, an independent art scene, distinct neighborhoods and a distinctive architectural heritage.
middle class.
Staten Island is the most suburban in character of the five boroughs. The Staten Island Ferry is one of the most popular tourist attractions in New York City.
Queens is geographically the largest borough and the
most ethnically diverse county in the United States, today the borough is predominantly residential and
Geography
. New York City is located in the Northeastern United States, in southeastern New York State, approximately halfway between Washington, D.C. and Boston. The location at the mouth of the Hudson River, which feeds into a naturally sheltered harbor and then into the Atlantic Ocean, has helped the city grow in significance as a trading city. Much of New York is built on the three islands of Manhattan, Staten Island, and Long Island, making land scarce and encouraging a high population density. .The city's total area is 468.9 square miles, 164.1 square miles of this are water and 304.8 square miles is land. .The area averages 234 days with at least some sunshine annually, Winters are cold and damp, and prevailing wind patterns that blow offshore minimize the moderating effects of the Atlantic Ocean.
2. The Battle of Long Island, the largest battle of the American Revolution took place in Brooklyn in 1776. 3. Bird's eye view print of Manhattan & New York City, 1873. 4. Midtown Manhattan, New York City, from Rockefeller Center, 1932 5. The Stonewall Inn in Greenwich Village, a designated National Historic Landmark as the site of the 1969 Stonewall Rebellion. 6. United Airlines Flight 175 hits the South Tower of the former World Trade Center on September 11, 2001
History
Time 1524 Event discovered
1624
1626 1664 In August 1673 In November 1674
founding as a trading post by colonists of the Dutch Republic
was named New Amsterdam under English control , were renamed New York The Dutch recovered the colonies, give the city changed "New Orange" the colony is permanently was ceded to Britain, renamed City of New York
New York City
Contents:
1.History 2.Geography 3.Boroughs 4. Architecture 5.Culture and contemporary life 6.Economy
About its name
Although general writing "New York City", but "the City of New York" is the official name. New York means "New York"(新约克)-is a place of York British place name. New York, also is in commemoration of the duke of York James. Because at the beginning of the twentieth century, New York is a new immigration of heaven and earth, opportunities everywhere, so New York is often dubbed the "Big Apple", is taking "goodlooking, delicious, everyone wants to bite" meaning. In the 20th century a named the "big apple" New York band is famous international, caused many to come to New York to tourists traditions point of the big apple watch performance, so its name.
Manhattan
Manhattan is the oldest and the most densely populated of the five boroughs of New York City. Located primarily on the island of Manhattan at the mouth of the Hudson River, the boundaries of the borough are identical to those of New York County, an original county of the state of New York. It is the home to Central Park and most of the city's skyscrapers. The borough is the financial center of the city and contains the headquarters of many major corporations, the UN, a number of important universities, and many cultural attractions. Manhattan is loosely divided into Lower, Midtown, and Uptown regions. Uptown Manhattan is divided by Central Park into the Upper East Side and the Upper West Side, and above the park is Harlem.
1788 until 1790 served as the capital of the Unhe country's largest city
1. New Amsterdam in 1664, the year Britain took control and renamed it "New York“.
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