6. New York has five boroughs: Manhattan, Brooklyn, the Bronx, Queens and Staten Island
7. Manhattan is the most famous borough and it’s where the tourists go!
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9. 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.
10. 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.
33. A huge Christmas tree and a crowded skating rink attract New Yorkers and tourists.
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35. But on the 11 th of September 2001, (9/11) for Americans, radical Islamists crashed two planes into the towers. Today this site is called “Ground Zero”.