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1、 New YorknNew York is made up of five separate counties, which are called boroughs: Manhattan, Queens, Brooklyn, the Bronx and Staten Island. Although Manhattan is the smallest of the five boroughs of New York City, it is the glittering heart of the metropolis. It is the site of virtually all of the
2、 hundreds of skyscrapers that are the symbol of the city.Empire State BuildingnEmpire State Building is located on 5th Avenue in New York City. It stands 381 m high. When it was completed in 1931, it was the tallest building in the world. Although it no longer holds that distinction, it is still reg
3、arded as the ultimate American skyscraper. Empire State Building consists of 102 stories of office space and public viewing platforms. United Nations HeadquartersnIn 1945 the United States Congress invited the United Nations (UN) to establish its permanent headquarters in the United States. Complete
4、d in 1952, the UN complex sits in Manhattan, alongside the East River, in the city of New York. Under the UNs agreement with the United States, the site of the UN headquarters is exempt from local laws.Central ParknCentral Park in New York City was designed by Frederick Law Olmstead and Calvert Vaux
5、 in the 1850s. It was so popular that it inspired a series of similar metropolitan parks all over the United States. The park covers 341 hectares of Manhattan Island, and houses the Central Park Zoo and Wildlife Center and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The park also hosts many outdoor concerts and
6、 events each year.Times Square lDazzling neon signs and billboards light up Times Square at night. The square is home to New York Citys famous Broadway theater district.Broadway Theater DistrictlThe billboard of the Winter Garden Theater on the Avenue of the Americas in New York City advertises the
7、Broadway show Cats.Coney IslandlConey Island, in New Yorks borough of Brooklyn, was a famous amusement area until its decline in the 1960s. Many of the original attractions have burned or closed. Today the boardwalk, two and one -half miles long, attracts a variety of people.American Stock Exchangel
8、New York City serves as a hub for international trade and finance industries. Located in Manhattan, the American Stock Exchange functions as one of the principal exchange houses in the United States. New York: Ethnic DiversitynNew York has been the most ethnically diverse city in the world since the
9、 1640s, when fewer than 1,000 total residents spoke more than 15 languages. nIn 1880, more than half the citys working population was foreign-born, providing New York with the largest immigrant labor force on earth. New York: Ethnic DiversitynIn the 20th century New York contained 2 million foreign-
10、born residents (including 517,000 Russians and 430,000 Italians) and an even larger number of persons of foreign parentage.nIn 1996 the U.S. Census Bureau reported that more than 11 out of every 20 New Yorkers were immigrants or the children of immigrants. New York: Ethnic DiversitynNearly half of a
11、ll Bronx residents and one-third of Manhattans were Hispanic and nearly one-fifth of the population of Queens was Asian-American. nAccording to the 2000 census, whites make up 44.7 percent of the citys population; blacks, 26.6 percent; Asians, 9.8 percent; Native Americans, 0.5 percent; Native Hawai
12、ians and other Pacific Islanders, 0.1 percent; and people of mixed heritage or not reporting ethnicity, 18.3 percent. New York: Ethnic DiversitynBy the late 1990s, more than 120 languages were spoken in the citys schools, and there were dozens of ethnic churches, political organizations, cultural fe
13、stivals, and parades, as well as scores of foreign-language newspapers, magazines, and television and radio stations. New York Ethnic NeighborhoodlShop signs written almost exclusively in Korean indicate the ethnic character of this New York City neighborhood.HarlemnLocated in northern Manhattan, Harlem is home to a predominantly主要的 black and Puerto Rican population. During the 1920s, black culture exploded onto the scene with the Harlem Renaissance movement in literature, and with jazz music performed in famous area venues. Please watch New York City Guide
