City Of New York
City Of New York By Nivedita Balamurugan Bala
New York City, officially named the City of New York, is themost populous city in the United States, and the most denselypopulated major city in North America. The city is at thecenter of international finance, politics, entertainment, andculture, and is one of the world's major global cities (alongwith London, Tokyo and Paris) with a virtually unrivaledcollection of museums, galleries, performance venues, mediaoutlets, international corporations, and stock exchanges. Thecity is also home to the United Nations, along with all of theinternational missions associated with it.
History
Long before the arrival of European settlers, the New York Cityarea was inhabited by the Lenape people, including such tribesas the Manahattoes, Canarsies and Raritan.
Major events in New York history include:
¢ In 1524 the first European explorer enters New York Harbor ¢ European settlement begins with the following the 1609 voyageof Henry Hudson ¢ Founding of the Dutch fur trading settlement in LowerManhattan in 1613 later called New Amsterdam ¢ English ships captured the city without struggle in 1664 ¢ The Dutch formally ceded New York to the English in theTreaty of Breda at the conclusion of the Second Anglo-Dutch Warin 1667 ¢ The city was renamed New York, after James, Duke of York, andbecame a royal colony in 1685 ¢ After the Civil War, the rate of immigration from Europe grewsteeply, and New York became the first stop for millions seekinga new and better life in the United States, a role acknowledgedby the dedication of the Statue of Liberty in 1886 ¢ In two separate actions in 1874 and 1895, New York City (andNew York County) annexed sections of southern WestchesterCounty known as the Bronx ¢ In 1898, New York City took the political form in which itexists to this day. ¢ 9/11 changed the political map of the world
Place of interest
Tourism is a major local industry, with hundreds of attractionsand 39 million tourists visiting the city each year on average.Many visitors make it a point to visit Ground Zero, the EmpireState Building, Times Square, Radio City Music Hall, the Statueof Liberty, Ellis Island, Wall Street, United NationsHeadquarters, the American Museum of Natural History, St.Patrick's Cathedral, Fifth Avenue, and the Brooklyn Bridge,among other attractions. There are over 28,000 acres (113 km²)of parkland found throughout New York City, comprising over1,700 separate parks and playgrounds. The best known of theseis Central Park, which is one of the finest examples oflandscape architecture in the world, as well as a major sourceof recreation for New Yorkers and tourists alike. Other majorparks in the city include Riverside Park, Battery Park, BryantPark, Prospect Park, Flushing Meadow-Corona Park, WashingtonSquare Park, and Forest Park.
Museums & Art Galleries
New York is a city of great museums with the MetropolitanMuseum of Art's assemblage of historic art, the Museum ofModern Art and Guggenheim Museum's 20th century collection, andthe American Museum of Natural History and its HaydenPlanetarium focusing on the sciences. There are also manysmaller specialty museums, from El Museo del Barrio with afocus on Latin American cultures to the Cooper-Hewitt NationalMuseum of Design. A number of the city's museums are locatedalong the Museum Mile section of Fifth Avenue.
In addition to these museums, the city is also home to a vastarray of spaces for opera, symphony, and dance performances.The largest of these is Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts,which is actually a complex of buildings housing 12 separatecompanies, including the New York Philharmonic, theMetropolitan Opera, the New York City Opera, the New York CityBallet, and Jazz at Lincoln Center. Other notable performancehalls include Carnegie Hall, Radio City Music Hall, and theBrooklyn Academy of Music.
New York City boasts a highly active and influential theaterdistrict, which is centered around Times Square in Manhattan.It serves both as the center of the American theater industry,and as a major attraction for visitors from around the world.Broadway theaters are considered to be of the highest qualityin the world.
Shopping
Shopping is popular with many visitors, with Fifth Avenue beinga famous shopping corridor for luxury items. Macy's, thenation's largest department store, and the surrounding area ofHerald Square are a major destination for moremoderately-priced goods. In recent years 23rd Street has becomea major location for "big-box" retailers. In southern Manhattan,Greenwich Village is home to hundreds of independent music andbook stores, while the East Village continues to prevail aspurveyors of all things "strange" and unusual which you can'tfind anywhere else. The "diamond district" (located on 47thStreet between Fifth and Sixth Avenues) is the city's mainlocation for jewelry shopping, and SoHo, formerly the center ofthe New York art scene, is now famous for high-priced clothingboutiques, and the art galleries are now concentrated inChelsea. There are also large shopping districts found inDowntown Brooklyn and along Queens Boulevard in Queens.
Food & Drink
New York is the best restaurant town in USA and one of thefinest in the world. New York has literally thousands ofrestaurants to choose from (more than 25,000, in fact),encompassing nearly every cuisine in the world. Some of the bignames are Eleven Madison Park, The River Café, Boat Basin Café,Veritas. Like restaurants, thousands of bars and cafes arethere in the city. A few old noteworthy among those are:McSorleys Old Ale House, Revival, Push Café and White HorseTavern.
Universities
New York City is served by the publicly run City University ofNew York (CUNY), the largest urban university in the UnitedStates, which has a number of campuses throughout the fiveboroughs. The city is also home to a number of otherinstitutions of higher learning, some of national or eveninternational reputation, including Columbia University,Fordham University, Manhattan College, New York University, theJuilliard School, The Cooper Union, Marymount Manhattan Collegeand The New School. New York City is also a major center ofacademic medicine. Manhattan contains the campuses of theworld-class Rockefeller University, Weill Cornell MedicalCollege, and Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, as well asColumbia-Presbyterian Medical Center and NYU Medical Center andtheir medical schools. New York City is home to several of thenation's top schools of art and design, including PrattInstitute, the School of Visual Arts, the Fashion Institute ofTechnology, and Parsons School of Design
Sports
Although in much of the rest of the country American footballhas become the most popular professional sport, in New YorkCity baseball arguably still stirs the most passion andinterest. A "Subway Series" between city teams is a time ofgreat excitement, and any World Series championship by eitherthe New York Yankees or the New York Mets is considered to beworthy of the highest celebration, including a ticker-tapeparade for the victorious team.
Hotels & Accommodation
The City of New York is known as the "city that never sleeps",but its visitors have to. The city hosts a large number ofaccommodations options.
Luxury Hotels
New York has many "grand dames," classic elegant hotels thathave been around for years and endured majestically. The St.Regis, the Waldorf, Tribeca Grand Hotel, Ritz-Carlton New York,Sheraton New York Hotel and Towers - are some to mention about.
Budget Hotels
Besides all those luxury hotels, a large number of budgethotels are available in New York City. They are comfortable,homely and light weight for the pocket. Some of them to mentionare - The Whitehouse Hotel of New York, The Pioneer, ChelseaCenter, Guesthouse and Harlem YMCA. Except these hotels andguesthouses, Skyline Hotel and Travel Inn are rare exceptionamong affordable hotels for their services and facilities.
Tours and Sightseeing
To know and see the New York City with no tension way, a numberof tour operators are there for travelers help. These tourscontain city and outskirt of the city sightseeing. Tours mayvary from its contents or theme. It may be a helicopter tour ofBig Apple or may be a double-decker bus tour. Some fair touragencies are there in the city. Tours can be booked from touragencies or some hotels arrange them for its patrons. Anothereasy way to book any of these tours is online tour ticketbooking. Some helpful websites for this purpose are:http://www.newyork.com/ http://www.allnewyorktours.com/ http://www.thereservationcenter.com/
Transport
The airport authority owns and operates the four major airportsin the New York City area, John F. Kennedy International Airport(JFK) in Jamaica, Newark Liberty International Airport inNewark, New Jersey, La Guardia Airport in Flushing, andTeeterboard Airport in Teeterboard, New Jersey. Taxicabs are operated by private companies and licensed by theNew York City Taxi & Limousine Commission. Other than cabs, NewYork City has a mass transit system. Unlike most of America'scar-oriented urban areas, public transportation is the commonmode of travel for the majority of New York City residents. Thecity is served by an extensive network of parkways andexpressways, including four primary Interstate Highways enterthe New York/New Jersey metropolitan area. The world-famous NewYork City Subway is operated by the Metropolitan TransportationAuthority (MTA). It is the most extensive subway system in theworld. The subway system connects all boroughs except StatenIsland, which is served by the Staten Island Railway via thefree Staten Island Ferry. In addition to these, city residentsrely on hundreds of bus lines, both publicly and privatelyoperated.
Many private ferries are run by NY Waterway, which providesseveral lines across the Hudson River, New York Water Taxi,with lines connecting Brooklyn and Manhattan, and otheroperators
About the Author: Name: Nivedita Balamurugan. Occupation:Traveler. Website: http://www.thereservationcenter.comBiography: Nivedita is with The Reservation Center - providersof discounted tours to make your vacations and sightseeingtrips in various cities across the world as comfortable andenjoyable as possible
New York City, officially named the City of New York, is themost populous city in the United States, and the most denselypopulated major city in North America. The city is at thecenter of international finance, politics, entertainment, andculture, and is one of the world's major global cities (alongwith London, Tokyo and Paris) with a virtually unrivaledcollection of museums, galleries, performance venues, mediaoutlets, international corporations, and stock exchanges. Thecity is also home to the United Nations, along with all of theinternational missions associated with it.
History
Long before the arrival of European settlers, the New York Cityarea was inhabited by the Lenape people, including such tribesas the Manahattoes, Canarsies and Raritan.
Major events in New York history include:
¢ In 1524 the first European explorer enters New York Harbor ¢ European settlement begins with the following the 1609 voyageof Henry Hudson ¢ Founding of the Dutch fur trading settlement in LowerManhattan in 1613 later called New Amsterdam ¢ English ships captured the city without struggle in 1664 ¢ The Dutch formally ceded New York to the English in theTreaty of Breda at the conclusion of the Second Anglo-Dutch Warin 1667 ¢ The city was renamed New York, after James, Duke of York, andbecame a royal colony in 1685 ¢ After the Civil War, the rate of immigration from Europe grewsteeply, and New York became the first stop for millions seekinga new and better life in the United States, a role acknowledgedby the dedication of the Statue of Liberty in 1886 ¢ In two separate actions in 1874 and 1895, New York City (andNew York County) annexed sections of southern WestchesterCounty known as the Bronx ¢ In 1898, New York City took the political form in which itexists to this day. ¢ 9/11 changed the political map of the world
Place of interest
Tourism is a major local industry, with hundreds of attractionsand 39 million tourists visiting the city each year on average.Many visitors make it a point to visit Ground Zero, the EmpireState Building, Times Square, Radio City Music Hall, the Statueof Liberty, Ellis Island, Wall Street, United NationsHeadquarters, the American Museum of Natural History, St.Patrick's Cathedral, Fifth Avenue, and the Brooklyn Bridge,among other attractions. There are over 28,000 acres (113 km²)of parkland found throughout New York City, comprising over1,700 separate parks and playgrounds. The best known of theseis Central Park, which is one of the finest examples oflandscape architecture in the world, as well as a major sourceof recreation for New Yorkers and tourists alike. Other majorparks in the city include Riverside Park, Battery Park, BryantPark, Prospect Park, Flushing Meadow-Corona Park, WashingtonSquare Park, and Forest Park.
Museums & Art Galleries
New York is a city of great museums with the MetropolitanMuseum of Art's assemblage of historic art, the Museum ofModern Art and Guggenheim Museum's 20th century collection, andthe American Museum of Natural History and its HaydenPlanetarium focusing on the sciences. There are also manysmaller specialty museums, from El Museo del Barrio with afocus on Latin American cultures to the Cooper-Hewitt NationalMuseum of Design. A number of the city's museums are locatedalong the Museum Mile section of Fifth Avenue.
In addition to these museums, the city is also home to a vastarray of spaces for opera, symphony, and dance performances.The largest of these is Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts,which is actually a complex of buildings housing 12 separatecompanies, including the New York Philharmonic, theMetropolitan Opera, the New York City Opera, the New York CityBallet, and Jazz at Lincoln Center. Other notable performancehalls include Carnegie Hall, Radio City Music Hall, and theBrooklyn Academy of Music.
New York City boasts a highly active and influential theaterdistrict, which is centered around Times Square in Manhattan.It serves both as the center of the American theater industry,and as a major attraction for visitors from around the world.Broadway theaters are considered to be of the highest qualityin the world.
Shopping
Shopping is popular with many visitors, with Fifth Avenue beinga famous shopping corridor for luxury items. Macy's, thenation's largest department store, and the surrounding area ofHerald Square are a major destination for moremoderately-priced goods. In recent years 23rd Street has becomea major location for "big-box" retailers. In southern Manhattan,Greenwich Village is home to hundreds of independent music andbook stores, while the East Village continues to prevail aspurveyors of all things "strange" and unusual which you can'tfind anywhere else. The "diamond district" (located on 47thStreet between Fifth and Sixth Avenues) is the city's mainlocation for jewelry shopping, and SoHo, formerly the center ofthe New York art scene, is now famous for high-priced clothingboutiques, and the art galleries are now concentrated inChelsea. There are also large shopping districts found inDowntown Brooklyn and along Queens Boulevard in Queens.
Food & Drink
New York is the best restaurant town in USA and one of thefinest in the world. New York has literally thousands ofrestaurants to choose from (more than 25,000, in fact),encompassing nearly every cuisine in the world. Some of the bignames are Eleven Madison Park, The River Café, Boat Basin Café,Veritas. Like restaurants, thousands of bars and cafes arethere in the city. A few old noteworthy among those are:McSorleys Old Ale House, Revival, Push Café and White HorseTavern.
Universities
New York City is served by the publicly run City University ofNew York (CUNY), the largest urban university in the UnitedStates, which has a number of campuses throughout the fiveboroughs. The city is also home to a number of otherinstitutions of higher learning, some of national or eveninternational reputation, including Columbia University,Fordham University, Manhattan College, New York University, theJuilliard School, The Cooper Union, Marymount Manhattan Collegeand The New School. New York City is also a major center ofacademic medicine. Manhattan contains the campuses of theworld-class Rockefeller University, Weill Cornell MedicalCollege, and Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, as well asColumbia-Presbyterian Medical Center and NYU Medical Center andtheir medical schools. New York City is home to several of thenation's top schools of art and design, including PrattInstitute, the School of Visual Arts, the Fashion Institute ofTechnology, and Parsons School of Design
Sports
Although in much of the rest of the country American footballhas become the most popular professional sport, in New YorkCity baseball arguably still stirs the most passion andinterest. A "Subway Series" between city teams is a time ofgreat excitement, and any World Series championship by eitherthe New York Yankees or the New York Mets is considered to beworthy of the highest celebration, including a ticker-tapeparade for the victorious team.
Hotels & Accommodation
The City of New York is known as the "city that never sleeps",but its visitors have to. The city hosts a large number ofaccommodations options.
Luxury Hotels
New York has many "grand dames," classic elegant hotels thathave been around for years and endured majestically. The St.Regis, the Waldorf, Tribeca Grand Hotel, Ritz-Carlton New York,Sheraton New York Hotel and Towers - are some to mention about.
Budget Hotels
Besides all those luxury hotels, a large number of budgethotels are available in New York City. They are comfortable,homely and light weight for the pocket. Some of them to mentionare - The Whitehouse Hotel of New York, The Pioneer, ChelseaCenter, Guesthouse and Harlem YMCA. Except these hotels andguesthouses, Skyline Hotel and Travel Inn are rare exceptionamong affordable hotels for their services and facilities.
Tours and Sightseeing
To know and see the New York City with no tension way, a numberof tour operators are there for travelers help. These tourscontain city and outskirt of the city sightseeing. Tours mayvary from its contents or theme. It may be a helicopter tour ofBig Apple or may be a double-decker bus tour. Some fair touragencies are there in the city. Tours can be booked from touragencies or some hotels arrange them for its patrons. Anothereasy way to book any of these tours is online tour ticketbooking. Some helpful websites for this purpose are:http://www.newyork.com/ http://www.allnewyorktours.com/ http://www.thereservationcenter.com/
Transport
The airport authority owns and operates the four major airportsin the New York City area, John F. Kennedy International Airport(JFK) in Jamaica, Newark Liberty International Airport inNewark, New Jersey, La Guardia Airport in Flushing, andTeeterboard Airport in Teeterboard, New Jersey. Taxicabs are operated by private companies and licensed by theNew York City Taxi & Limousine Commission. Other than cabs, NewYork City has a mass transit system. Unlike most of America'scar-oriented urban areas, public transportation is the commonmode of travel for the majority of New York City residents. Thecity is served by an extensive network of parkways andexpressways, including four primary Interstate Highways enterthe New York/New Jersey metropolitan area. The world-famous NewYork City Subway is operated by the Metropolitan TransportationAuthority (MTA). It is the most extensive subway system in theworld. The subway system connects all boroughs except StatenIsland, which is served by the Staten Island Railway via thefree Staten Island Ferry. In addition to these, city residentsrely on hundreds of bus lines, both publicly and privatelyoperated.
Many private ferries are run by NY Waterway, which providesseveral lines across the Hudson River, New York Water Taxi,with lines connecting Brooklyn and Manhattan, and otheroperators
About the Author: Name: Nivedita Balamurugan. Occupation:Traveler. Website: http://www.thereservationcenter.comBiography: Nivedita is with The Reservation Center - providersof discounted tours to make your vacations and sightseeingtrips in various cities across the world as comfortable andenjoyable as possible
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