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Being located at the mouth of Hudson River, New York City is a city and port which can be found in the southeastern New York state in the northeastern United States. It is the largest and most influential American metropolis. The city has five boroughs which are Manhattan, Brooklyn, the Bronx, Queens, and Staten Island, each representing its own lifestyle. With its urban area extending into adjoining parts of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut, New York City is the most populous and international city in America. New York can be seen as the gateway to the North American continent but also as exit to the oceans of the globe. The metropolis covers an area of 305 square miles and has a population rate amounting to 8,008,278. A great diversity, as far as ethnicity and religion is concerned, can be found in the city. Owing to Wall Street with its finances, Broadway with its theaters, Fifth Avenue with its shopping, Madison Avenue with its advertising industry, Greenwich Village with its bohemian lifestyle, Seventh Avenue with its fashion, Tammany Hall with its machine politics and Harlem with its Jazz music and slums, many people think of New York City as the most attractive urban city in the country. Many immigrants have moved to New York City leading to the fact that, for example, more Jews can be found in New York City than in Tel Aviv, or that more Irish can be found in the Big Apple than in Dublin. Due to the last two centuries, New York City has turned out to be the largest and wealthiest American city. Today, New York City is a world city, with the most famous skyline on earth, though, due to the happenings on September, 11 2001; where the World Trade Center was destroyed by terrorists, New York City has become a target for international terror. Furthermore, New York can be considered to be the perfect representative of a diverse but also powerful nation.
The Italian navigator Giovanni da Verrazzano being the first European to enter the harbor named it Santa Margarita. New York Bay shows a great appearance of more than 90 species of precious stones and 170 of the world’s minerals have actually been found in New York.
After 1900, New York became the world’s busiest port and it held this status until the 1950s.
The Broadway, which was established in the 1890s made New York the major theatrical center in the United States. Musicals and plays can also be found on new stages at Times Square, in skyscrapers but also in 42nd Street.
In New York, many museums can be found as well. The most popular ones are the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art which is also called MOMA, the American Museum of Natural History, the Guggenheim Museum and the Whitney Museum, just to name a few.
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