1. NEW YORK

2. History
● The Battle of Long Island, the largest battle of the
American Revolutionary War, was fought in August
1776 entirely within the modern day borough of
Brooklyn. After the battle, in which the Americans
were routed, leaving subsequent smaller engagements
following in its wake, the city became the British
military and political base of operations in North
America. The city was a haven for Loyalist refugees,
as well as escaped slaves who joined the British lines
for the freedom promised by the Crown. As many as
10,000 escaped slaves crowded into the city during the
British occupation. When the British forces evacuated
in 1783, they transported 3,000 freedmen for
resettlement in Nova Scotia. They resettled other
freedmen in England and the Caribbean.
● The Battle of Long Island, the largest battle of the
American Revolution, took place in Brooklyn in 1776.

3. Cityscape
● Gateway National Recreation Area
contains over 26,000 acres (10,521.83
ha) in total, most of it surrounded by
New York City; the New York State
portion includes the Jamaica Bay
Wildlife Refuge in Brooklyn and Queens,
over 9,000 acres (36 km2) of salt marsh,
islands and water that includes most of
Jamaica Bay. Also in Queens the park
includes a significant portion of the
western Rockaway Peninsula, most
● New York Harbor's Statue of Liberty notably Jacob Riis Park and Fort Tilden.
National Monument, in May 2001, with Fort Wadsworth in Staten Island with
the former Twin Towers of the World historic pre-Civil War era Battery Weed
Trade Center and Lower Manhattan in and Fort Tompkins, and Great Kills Park
the background. with beaches, trails and marina also on
Staten Island.

4. Wall Street
● Manhattan had 353.7 million square feet (32,860,000
m²) of office space in 2001.[ Midtown Manhattan is
the largest central business district in the United
States. Lower Manhattan is the third largest central
business district in the United States and is home to
the New York Stock Exchange, located on Wall
Street, and the NASDAQ, representing the world's
first and second largest stock exchanges, respectively,
when measured by average daily trading volume and
overall market capitalization. Financial services
account for more than 35% of the city's employment
income.
● The financial district has sometimes been a scene of
conflict such as with the recurrent protests during
"Occupy Wall Street", which subsequently sparked an
international Occupy Movement. It has also
sometimes turned deadly such as with the Wall Street
bombing in 1929.

5. Sports
● City Field has been home to the New ● New York has been described as the "Capital
York Mets since 2009. of Baseball."There have been 35 Major
League Baseball World Series and 73
pennants won by New York teams. It is one
of only five metro areas (Los Angeles,
Chicago, Baltimore–Washington, and the
San Francisco Bay Area being the others) to
have two baseball teams. Additionally, there
have been 14 World Series in which two
New York City teams played each other,
known as a Subway Series and occurring
most recently in 2000. No other metropolitan
area has had this happen more than once
(Chicago in 1906, St. Louis in 1944, and the
San Francisco Bay Area in 1989).

6. Tourism
● Tourism is one of New York City's most vital
industries, with more than 40 million
combined domestic and international tourists
visiting each year in the past five years.
● Major destinations include the Empire State
Building; Statue of Liberty; Ellis Island;
Broadway theater productions; museums such
as the Metropolitan Museum of Art;
greenspaces such as Central Park and
Washington Square Park; Rockefeller Center;
Times Square; the Manhattan Chinatown;
luxury shopping along Fifth and Madison
Avenues; and events such as the Halloween
Parade in Greenwich Village; the Macy's
Thanksgiving Day Parade; the St. Patrick's
Day parade; seasonal activities such as ice
skating in Central Park in the wintertime.