This document provides information about several important locations and landmarks in New York City through a series of sections. It describes the Hudson River, Wall Street, Central Park, Chinatown, Yankee Stadium, Brooklyn Bridge, Times Square, the Statue of Liberty, the New York Stock Exchange, Ground Zero, Broadway Avenue, Radio City Music Hall, and Union Square. For each entry it provides a brief history and facts about the site.

1. NEW YORK

2. FLAG

3. CURRENCY

4. RIVER HUDSON
The Hudson River is a river of 506 km in length, running mostly by the
state of New York, in the United States of America, forming part of the
border between the states of New York and New Jersey. The river's name
comes from Henry Hudson, an Englishman who sailed on behalf of France
and the Netherlands, who explored the river in 1609. However, the first
European to explore was the Italian Giovanni da Verrazano in 1524,
whose expedition was funded by Florentine merchants of Lyon and
Francis I of France. The first map was drawn officially the same soon after
the Portuguese explorer Esteban Gómez who sailed on behalf of Spain,
naming ”San Antonio River”.

5. WALL STREET
Wall Street is the name of the narrow street New York located
in lower Manhattan, between Broadway and the East River.
Considered the heart of the historic district, is the principal
and permanent home of the Stock Exchange of New York.
The term is used to refer both to the U.S. financial market and
financial institutions. Interestingly, most of the metropolis
financial firms not quoted on Wall Street, but in other specific

6. FERRY
With about 25 million visitors annually, Central Park is the most
visited park in the United States, The Fairmount Park in
Philadelphia is 10 times larger than Central Park. Despite this,
Central Park is 2.5 times visitantes. Los 25 million annual visitors
to Central Park five times visiting the Grand Canyon National Park,
in Arizona. Appeared in numerous films as well as programs
television, it has become one of the most famous urban parks in
the world. The park is run by the Central Park Conservancy, a
private nonprofit that has a contract with the Department of Parks
and Recreation in New York.

7. CHINATOWN
Like other neighborhoods called Chinatown in the United
States, the Chinatown neighborhood of Manhattan is an
ethnic enclave with a large population of Chinese

8. YANKEE STADIUM
The Yankee Stadium is the home of the New York Yankees,
the team of Major League Baseball in the United States. The
venue opened in 2009, replaced the stadium of the same
name, located just near the structure. Overall, the building
boasts similar features to the old ballpark, although 63
percent larger and with modern additions. It is the most
expensive building ever built in the history of baseball, and
the second sports stadium, worldwide, behind Wembley
Stadium.

9. BROOKLYN BRIDGE
The Brooklyn Bridge (originally known as "Bridge New York
and Brooklyn") connects

10. TIMES SQUARE
The Times Square is an intersection of Manhattan (New York). It is
located on the corner of Broadway and Seventh Avenue. The Times
Square area is formed by the blocks located between Sixth Avenue and
Eighth avenues that form the western part of the commercial area of
Midtown Manhattan.
As Moscow's Red Square, Trafalgar Square in London or the Tian'anmen
Square in Beijing, Times Square has become a global icon and symbol
of the city of New York that is known for its entertainment and advertising
light.

11. STATUE OF LIBERTY
"Liberty Enlightening the World" (Liberty Enlightening the
World), known as the Statue of Liberty (Statue of Liberty in
English, Statue de la Liberté in French), is one of the most
famous landmarks of New York, in the United States and
worldwide. It is located on Liberty Island to the south of the
island of Manhattan, near the mouth of the Hudson River
near Ellis Island.

12. NYSE
The NYSE (New York Stock Exchange, NYSE) is the biggest
stock market in the world in monetary volume and the first number
of companies attached. Its volume in shares was surpassed by
that of NASDAQ during the 90s, but the capital of the companies
listed on the NYSE is five times greater than the NASDAQ. The
NYSE has an annual transaction volume of 21 billion dollars,
including 7.1 billion of non-US companies

13. GROUND ZERO
This is its first use in relation to the Manhattan Project and the bombing
of the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Thus the Oxford
English Dictionary cites the use of this term, defining it as the ground or
floor immediately below a bomb blast and especially in the case of a
nuclear weapon.
Later, after a long period of disuse, the press and the U.S. government to
adopt the term became Ground Zero (in its English version, Ground
Zero) to name the land on which were the two main buildings of the
World Trade Center in New York, the World Trade Center after the
attacks of September 11, 2001.

14. BRODWAY AVENUE
Broadway Avenue ("broad way" in Castilian) is, along with the
Fifth Avenue, the most famous street in Manhattan. It is
characterized by cross Times Square, and be a reference
point for 19 theaters that make up the "Broadway." Of the
nineteen, only two of them are physically on Broadway, and
the rest is two or three blocks of the same. It is currently the
most cost avenue in the world to rent or buy property.

15. RCMH
The Radio City Music Hall is an entertainment venue located in the
Rockefeller Center in New York City, USA. It is considered the
country's most important theater, and is given the nickname
"Showplace of the Nation" ("Site More Tourist Interest in the
Nation"). It was opened on December 27, 1932, and for a time,
was regarded as the first tourist destination in the city of New York.
In his stage show "Radio City Christmas Spectacular" has been
presented annually since 1933. Its interior was declared a city
landmark in 1978's.

16. UNION SQUARE
Union Square is an important and historic place in Manhattan,
New York. Union Square is registered as a National Historic
Landmark on the National Register of Historic Places since
01997-12-09 December 9, 1997. Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi
was the architect of Union Square.

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