I’m going to speak to you about the city of New York. I’ve never been in New York, but it’s a city that always has attracted my attention and I hope to visit it someday.
New York City is located on the East coast of the USA, exactly in the state of New York. In spite of being one of the biggest cities in the world, New York City is not the capitol of its own state, which is Albany —a city smaller than Reus. This also happens in other states: for example the capitol of California is not Los Angeles or San Francisco, but is Sacramento; or in Texas the capitol is Austin, instead of Dallas or Houston.
New York City is composed of five boroughs: Manhattan, The Bronx, Staten Island, Brooklyn and Queens. The Bronx is the only one that is located in the continent, the others are in islands.
New York City is the most populous city in the United States, with a population of 8.5 million. The whole population of Barcelona, Munich, Rome, Paris and Dublin could live together in the five boroughs of New York.
New York City has an area of 1.200 square kilometers. That’s a big extension, but to understand its size better is interesting to compare it with a more familiar area. This is Tortosa* and this green rectangle is Central Park on the same scale. If you walked from the McDonald’s to the university in Remolins you would walk half of Central Park. Obviously, Central Park is a little part of Manhattan, and Manhattan is the smallest district of New York…
New York City has many monuments and issues to speak about, but I have only five minutes. I’m going to talk about some of the most iconic places to visit in New York:
Grand Central Terminal. It was built at the beginning of the 20th century, and even today is the largest train station in the world. It has 44 platforms and half a million people transit every day through this space. It’s been used as a set in many films, like Superman, Armageddon or Modern Times.
The Statue of Liberty. Its real name is Liberty Enlightening the World. It’s a 46-meter-high neoclassical sculpture placed on Liberty Island. It was given as a present by the French government to commemorate the centenary of the American Declaration of Independence (July 4, 1776). It was designed by French sculptor Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi and was built by Gustave Eiffel in France with 31 tons of copper.
Central Park. It’s a great green lung placed in the middle of Manhattan, which is taken every day by thousands of New Yorkers and visitors to rest in the grass, take photos or simply walk around. The park also has lakes. The biggest one is the Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Reservoir. It’s a popular place to practice jogging and biking. Actually, there are too many people that authorities established to run only in clockwise direction, in order to avoid crashes.
The Empire State. The Empire State Building is 443 meters high and was the first skyscraper in the world to contain over 100 floors. It hosts 1.000 offices and has its own postal code. The last 30 floors can change the light color. This system is used to commemorate special events and anniversaries and there is an official calendar on its website where you can know upcoming lightings.
[Oral presentation, 4th Level]
Article based in the former post "Concerning New York"
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