11. HISTORY
400 YEARS AGO IT WAS THE HOME
OF DELAWARE INDIANS
THE FIRST EUROPEAN ARRIVED FROM THE
NETHERLANDS
IN 1626 DUTCH EXPLORER PETER MINUIT
PURCHASED THE ISLAND OF MANHATTAN
(REALLY ITS SOUTHERN PART) FROM THE
ALGONQUIN TRIBE FOR TRINKETS AND
TOOLS WORTH ABOUT $24 AND BUILT SOME
HOUSES THERE – CALLED IT NEW
AMSTERDAM
12.
13. IN 1664, THE BRITISH TOOK IT AND CALLED
IT NEW YORK AFTER THE DUKE OF YORK,
THE KING’S BROTHER
OVER THE NEXT 300 YEARS IT GREW INTO
THE LARGEST CITY OF THE USA
MANY IMMIGRANTS CAME TO LIVE THERE
(FROM GERMANY, IRELAND, ITALY, POLAND
AND CHINA) ----------> LITTLE ITALY,
CHINATOWN...
14. ELLIS ISLAND
FROM 1892 TO 1954, IT
WAS THE IMMIGRANT
GATEWAY TO AMERICA
TODAY IT IS AN
IMMIGRATION MUSEUM
AND IS PART OF STATUE
OF LIBERTY NATIONAL
MONUMENT
21. THE STATUE OF
LIBERTY
IT WAS A
GIFT FROM
FROM THE
PEOPLE OF
FRANCE IN
1886 AND
IT STANDS
ON
LIBERTY
ISLAND.
22. HEIGHT: 93m, STATUE ITSELF:46m
WEIGHT: 205 TONS
IT WAS PACKED IN 350 PIECES AND IN 214
CRATES
REPRESENTS THE ROMAN GODDESS
LIBERTAS
HAS A TORCH AND THE BOOK OF LAWS,
UNDERNEATH IS BROKEN CHAIN
HAS A CROWN WITH 7 BRANCHES WHICH
ARE SYMBOL OF THE FREEDOM NEED TO
BE SPREAD OVER 7 SEAS AND 7
CONTINENTS
27. SOME INTERESTING FACTS
New York City was the U.S. capital from 1789 to 1790
New Yorkers travel an average of 40 minutes to work each day.
More than 47 percent of New York City's residents over the age of 5
speak a language other than English at home.
New York's Central Park is larger than the principality of Monaco.
The average sale price of an apartment in Manhattan during the 4th
quarter of 2007 was a whopping $1.49 million.
New York's Yellow Cabs are yellow because John Hertz, the
company's founder, learned from a study that yellow was the easiest
color for the eye to spot. He was right.
28. In 2007, 46 million international and domestic visitors came to
New York City. They spent approximately $28 billion while there.
More than 18,600 restaurants and eating establishments do
business in New York City, and the average cost of a dinner in
2006 was $39.43. That includes a drink, tax and the tip (approx.
15 %).
Approximately 790,000 companies operate in New York City.
Although many legends exist about the origin of New York City's
nickname, the Big Apple, most historians agree that it can be
traced back to a writer who covered horse racing in the 1920s. In
The Morning Telegraph, he wrote that stable boys often referred
to New York as the Big Apple, meaning that all horsemen aspired
to race at (and the winner horse got apple at the end of the race).
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30. More information on:
http://www.aviewoncities.com/nyc.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City
http://www.nycgo.com/
http://newyork.citysearch.com/