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They don't come
any bigger than the Big Apple king of the hill, top of the
heap, New York, New York. No other city is arrogant enough
to dub itself Capital of the World and no other city could
carry it off. New York is a densely packed mass of humanity,
7.5 million people in 309 sq miles (800sq km) and all this
living on top of one another makes the New Yorker a special
kind of person. Although it's hard to put a finger on what
makes New York buzz, it's the city's hyperactive rush that
really draws people here. Come take a bite! In a city that
is so much a part of the global subconscious, it's pretty
hard to pick a few highlights wherever you go you'll feel
like you've been there before. For iconic value, you can't
surpass the Statue of Liberty, the Empire State Building,
Central Park and Times Square. The Museum of Modern Art has
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Giovanni da
Verrazano, an Italian-born navigator sailing for France,
discovered New York Bay in 1524. Henry Hudson, an Englishman
employed by the Dutch, reached the bay and sailed up the
river now bearing his name in 1609, the same year that
northern New York was explored and claimed for France by
Samuel de Champlain. In 1624 the first permanent Dutch
settlement was established at Fort Orange (now Albany). One
year later Peter Minuit purchased Manhattan Island from the
Indians for trinkets worth about 60 Dutch guilders and
founded the Dutch colony of New Amsterdam (now New York
City), which was surrendered to the English in 1664. The
great metropolis of New York City is the nerve center of the
nation. It is a leader in manufacturing, foreign trade,
commerce, banking, book/magazine publishing and theatrical
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A leading seaport, its
John F. Kennedy International Airport is one of the busiest airports in
the world. New York is also home to the New York Stock Exchange, the
largest in the world. The printing and publishing industry is the city's
largest manufacturing employer, with the apparel industry second. Nearly
all the rest of the state's manufacturing is done on Long Island, along
the Hudson River north to Albany, and through the Mohawk Valley, Central
New York, and Southern Tier regions to Buffalo. The St. Lawrence seaway
and power projects have opened the North Country to industrial expansion
and have given the state a second seacoast. The state ranks seventh in
the nation in manufacturing, with 586,400 employees in 2005. The
principal industries are printing and publishing, industrial machinery
and equipment, electronic equipment, and instruments. |
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Most of Manhattan is
extremely easy to navigate, thanks to a grid system of named or numbered
avenues running the north-south length of the island, cut across by
numbered streets that run from east to west. Above Washington Square,
Fifth Ave and Central Park serve as the dividing line between the East
Side and the West Side. Cross-street numbers begin at Fifth Ave and grow
higher toward each river, generally (but not exclusively) in 100-digit
increments per block. Manhattan and Staten Island stand alone; Queens and
Brooklyn comprise the western end of Long Island. Only the Bronx is
connected to the continental mainland. Manhattan is bordered on the west
by the Hudson River and on the east by the East River, both technically
estuaries subject to tidal fluctuations. City buses run 24 hours a day
and maps are available at subway and train stations. |
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