3. Emblematic sites
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STATUE OF LIBERTY
The Statue of Liberty is a colossal neoclassical
sculpture on Liberty Island in the middle of New
York Harbor, in Manhattan, designed by Frédéric
Auguste Bartholdi and dedicated on October 28,
1886, was a gift to the United States from the
people of France. The statue is of a robed female figure
representing Libertas. The height of the Statue of Liberty is
46 meters from the base to the torch. With the pedestal and
foundation included in the measurement, the full height is 96.
Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi
4. Empire State Building
The Empire State Building is located in Midtown Manhattan, at
the intersection of Fifth Avenue and West 34th Street. It has a
roof height of 381 meters, and with its antenna spire included, it
stands a total of 443.2 meters high. It stood as the world's tallest
building for nearly 40 years, from its completion in early 1931
until the topping out of the World Trade Center's North Tower in
late 1970.
The Empire State Building was designed by
William
Frederick Lamb from the architectural firm Shreve,
Lamb and Harmon.
The Empire State Building officially opened on this
day in history, May 1, 1931. President Herbert
Hoover pressed a button in Washington, D.C., and
on came the lights in the world's tallest skyscraper.
5. Central park
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Central Park is a public park at the center
of Manhattan in New York City. The park initially opened in 1857,
on 778 acres of city-owned land (it is 840 acres today).
Construction began the same year, continued during
the American Civil War, and was completed in 1873. Central Park
is the most visited urban park in the United States.
Central park zoo
The Central Park Zoo is a small 6.5-acre zoo located
on Central Park. Central Park, is home to over 25,000 trees. It is
part of an integrated system of four zoos and the New York
Aquarium managed by the Wildlife Conservation Society,
and is accredited by the Association of Zoos and Aquariums .
The zoo began in the 1860s as a menagerie, making it the first
official zoo to open in New York. The zoo was modified in 1934,
with the addition of many new buildings ranged in a quadrangle
around the sea lion pool. Finally, the zoo was renovated in the
mid-1980s and reopened in 1988, replacing the old-fashioned
cages with naturalistic environments.
6. Times Square
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Times Square is a major commercial
intersection and a neighborhood in
Midtown Manhattan, at the junction of
Broadway (now converted into a
pedestrian plaza) and Seventh Avenue
and stretching from West 42nd to West
47th Streets. Is the brightly illuminated
hub of the Broadway Theater District,
one of the world's busiest pedestrian
intersections, and a major center of the
world's entertainment industry.
Times Square is the world's most visited
tourist attraction, hosting over 39 million
visitors annually. Approximately a third of
a million people pass through Times
Square daily, many of whom are either
tourists or people working in the area.
The northern triangle of Times Square is
technically Duffy Square, dedicated in
1937 to Chaplain Francis P. Duffy of
New York City's "Fighting 69th" Infantry
Regiment; a memorial to Duffy is located
there, along with a statue of George M.
Cohan, and the TKTS discount theater
tickets booth. The stepped red roof of
the TKTS booth also provides seating for
various events.
Times Square is the site of the annual
New Year's Eve ball drop. On December
31, 1907, a ball signifying New Year's
Day was first dropped at Times Square,
and the Square has held the main New
Year's celebration in New York City ever
since.
7. Other interesting sites
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Rockefeller Center
Rockefeller Center is a complex of 19
commercial buildings covering 22 acres
between 48th and 51st streets in New
York City
Brooklyn Bridge
The Brooklyn Bridge is a bridge in New York City and
is one of the oldest suspension bridges in the United
States. Completed in 1883, it connects the boroughs
of Manhattan and Brooklyn by spanning the East
River. With a main span of 486.3 m, it was the
longest suspension bridge in the world from its
opening until 1903, and the first steel-wire
suspension bridge.
St. Patrick's
Cathedral
The Cathedral of St. Patrick
(commonly called St. Patrick's
Cathedral) is a decorated NeoGothic-style Roman Catholic
cathedral church in the United
States and a prominent
landmark of New York City. It
is the seat of the archbishop of
the Roman Catholic
Archdiocese of New York, and
a parish church, located on the
east side of Fifth Avenue
between 50th and 51st Streets
in midtown Manhattan, New
York City, New York, directly
across the street from
Rockefeller Center.
8. Classic New York food
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Unlike California or the South or even the Southwest, as
having one defining cuisine. Try asking for some ‘New
York food,’ for example, and you could wind up getting
anything from a hot dog or a hamburguer or pizza.
