New York - The "Big Apple"

New York, the official name is City of New York, is one of the major global cities of the world and it is the largest and most important city in the United States of America. New York city is situated in the state of New York in the northeastern USA at the mouth of the Hudson River and the East River. The city is located on the three major islands of Manhattan, the western part of Long Island and Staten Island. The Bronx is the only borough of New York City which is a part of the mainland of the United States of America.
The city of New York is renowned as the "City that never sleeps" or the "Big Apple" and it is an international centre of finance, business, media, fashion, entertainment as well as culture with an extraordinary variety of museens and galleries. The city is also home of important international corporations, financial markets and the headquarters of the United Nations as well as the many of the most famous skyscrapers of the world.
Ney Yorl City consists of five Boroughs with hundreds of distinct neighborhoods and many offer its own history and charakter.

Manhattan (New York County) is the most superlatively urban of the five boroughs and it is the business and financial centre of New York City. This borough offers the most skyscrapers of the city and is divided into downtown, midtown and uptown regions. This county is situated on the island of Manhattan, surrounded by the Hudson River in the west, the East River in the east and the Harlem River in the northeast. The Empire State Building, Chrysler Building, the theater district around Broadway, Columbia University, New York University, Baruch College, the financial centre around Wall Street, Lincoln Centre for the Performing Arts, Harlem, the American Museum of Natural History, Chinatown, and Central Park are all located on this densely populated island.
The Bronx (Bronx County) is the most northern borough of New York City and it is the only borough which is not located on an island, it is a part of the mainland of the United States.
Brooklyn (Kings County) is located in the southeast of the city at the western tip of Long Island with a long beachfront and it is the most populous borough. Brooklyn ranges from a historic residential neighborhhods in the southeast and central areas to a modern business district downtown.
Queens (Queens County) is situated on the western part of Long Island and is geographically the largest borough of the city. Queens is home to many immigrants and two of New York's major airports, the John F. Kennedy International Airport and La Guardia Airport.
Staten Island (Richmond County) is located in the southwest of Manhattan and in the west of Brooklyn. The Verrazano-Narrows Bridge connected Staten Island with Brooklyn.

New York offers numerous architectural sights, 500 galleries, about 200 museems, over 150 theatres, many department stores and over 18,000 restaurants. The city is the cultutal and artistic centre at the American eastern coast. Most of the cultural attractions are situated in Manhattan and Ney York City offers the most free-standing individual skyscrapers with over 500 feet (152 metres) in the world. The skyline of the City of New York is one of the most distinctive in the world. The Empire State Building is a 102-story contemporary building in Art Deco style and finished in 1931. A public outdoor observatory at the 86th floor offers impressive 360-degree views of the city and is a popular tourist destination. The most important landmark of the city is the world-famous Statue of Liberty.

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