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1、Loving and Hating New York,By Thomas Griffith,2,Loving and Hating New York,Introduce of author Brief introduction of New York Loving New York Hating New York,3,American writer and editor press columnist Time magazine staff contributor Fortune magazine Columnist Atlantic Monthly,Thomas Griffith (1915
2、2002),4,Publications:,The waist-high culture 1959 How True? -A Sceptics Guide to Believing the News.,5, Brief introduction History of New York The Big Apple Five Boroughs New Yorks Well-known Landmarks Ivy League,6, An area of 321 square miles A population of 8.25 million 36% of pupulation are immig
3、rants from over 180 countries. Official name: City of New York often called New York City to distinguish it from New York state,7,The Big Apple,An old saying in show business was “there are many apples on the tree but when you pick New York City you picked the Big Apple ”,8, It was first popularized
4、 in the 1920s by John J.Fitz Gerald a sports writer for the New York Morning Telegraph. “The Big Apple. The dream of every lad that ever threw a leg over a thoroughbred and the goal of all horsemen. Theres only one Big Apple. Thats New York.”,In the early 1970s, New York City has officially been The
5、 Big Apple.,in 1997 ,the southwest corner of West 54th Street and Broadway was signed as Big Apple Corner .,9,Five Boroughs,布朗克斯区（The Bronx）The most north, the only one contiguous to United States,布鲁克林区（Brooklyn）The largest population,皇后区（昆斯区）(Queens）The largest administrative region,斯丹登岛（Staten Isl
6、and）the most suburban,曼哈顿（Manhattan）The most densely populated,10,Birds View of New York Harbor,11,Manhattan,Manhattan is the core of New York and the financial center of America The worlds biggest skyscrapers cluster here. Manhattan is also named the worlds best place.,Manhattan Skyline with The St
7、atue of Liberty,13,Mahattan Skyline,General Electric Building,通用电气大楼,14,Mahattan Skyline,Flatiron Building,熨斗大楼,15,Mahattan Skyline,Empire State Building,帝国大厦,16,Mahattan Skyline,World Trade Center Memorial Site,世界贸易中心遗址,17,Times Square,18,It is above Penn station. It has a history of 126 years. It
8、is the home field of New York Knicks.,Madison Square Garden,19,Fifth Avenue,20,Wall street,21,Wall street,Wall Street is one of the worlds principal financial centers. It is the home of the New York Stock Exchange, the worlds largest stock exchange by market capitalization of its listed companies. S
9、everal other major exchanges have or had headquarters in the Wall Street area, including NASDAQ, the New York Mercantile Exchange, the New York Board of Trade, and the former American Stock Exchange.,22,Broadway and off-Broadway,Broadway 1909,23,Broadway and off-Broadway Broadway is one of the main
10、north-south thoroughfares in Manhattan, the central borough of New York, New York. Off-Broadway theater refers to stage plays or musical theater performed in New York City, in venues of a smaller size than Broadway theaters.,24,Ivy League,The Ivy League is the name generally applied to eight private
11、 institutions of higher education in the Northeastern United States. The Ivy League universities are also called the “Ancient Eight” or simply the Ivies. This term refers to eight schools known as Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Pennsylvania, Princeton, and Yale that over the years hav
12、e had common interests in scholarship as well as in athletics.,25,Location,Northeastern United States,Locations of Ivy League schools,26,Members and Mottos,Harvard, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, founded in 1636 Brown, in Providence, founded in1764 Columbia: in New York, founded in 1754 as Kings Colle
13、ge Cornell: in Ithaca, founded 1865,Harvard,Brown,Columbia,Cornell,27,Dartmouth: in Hanover, New Hampshire, founded in 1769 Pennsylvania: in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, founded in 1755 Princeton: in Princeton, New Jersey, founded in 1746 as College of New Jersey Yale: in New Haven, Connecticut, foun
14、ded in 1701,Dartmouth,Pennsylvania,Princeton,Yale,28,Origin of the name,There are two theories about the origins of the term “Ivy League” 1. One theory holds that the phrase “Ivy League” in reference to a group of colleges derives from sportswriter Stanley Woodward. 2. The other theory attributes th
15、e name to the Roman numerals for four (IV), asserting that there was such a sports league originally with four members.,29,Ivy League and American Presidents,Harvard University -8 presidents John Adams (second president),George Bush,30,Columbia University -3 Theodore Roosevelt (the fifteenth preside
16、nt ) Franklin Roosevelt (the thirty-second president ) Barack Obama,31,Yale University-5 William Howard Taft Gerald Ford George H. W. Bush Bill Clinton George W. Bush.,$,Alfred Kazin (June 5, 1915 June 5, 1998),33,Alfred Kazin was an American writer and literary critic, died in June on his 83rd birthday. Many of his writings depicted the immigrant experience in early twentieth century America.,In 1996 he was awarded the first Truman C
