New York, The Big Apple.
New York, the city that never sleeps has earned reputation for being one of the America's wealthiest cities. About a quarter of million people move there every year and quite a few of them have lots of money to spend. When people refer to New York they generally mean Manhattan, the most famous of York's five boroughs. Many consider it to be the financial, cultural, and cinematic capital of the world. It has a very cool nickname 'The Big Apple'.
Many people think that New York is just a tiny island which makes up the whole New York rich. But actually that island is part of entire area of New York City and that is called Manhattan island. Because New York is actually made of five different parts those are Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, Bronx and Staten Island.
New York is the most populated city in The United State. In 2016, they estimated there is a 8,537,600 people in the city. When it comes to the population density, it has the highest amount of people per square mile in the United State which is 28,210 people per sq. mile. The land size of New York city is about 312.643 sq. Miles. However, if include the metro area which include surrounding areas that is approximately 13,318 sq. mile.
New York city has tons of history from great moment of prosperity to terrible moment such as 9/11 that brought sadness and sympathy from other countries and people from all over the world. In 1500 the island of Manhattan was home to the land of native Americans. It is widely thought although not confirmed that Manhattan was purchase from unknown natives. But the rumor is that Manhattan island was bought only 24 dollars.
Although, New York sets 8th position in population density among the world most populated cities, it got one of the largest police and firefighters. The boys in blue have approximately 35000 officer working in this city. Crimes are happing on daily basis but from 1999 it have been dropping drastically. In 2014 it has the 3rd lowest murder rate among al the state in the US. As for firefighter which called New York bravest, New York city has the most amount of firefighter out of any city in the United State.
One of Iconic feature of New York is Statue of Liberty. The proper name of this statue is The Liberty Enlighten The World. The 93ft tall and 208 matric tons statue was given to United State from France as a gift in 1886 as celebration of Union wining the American civil war and abolishing slavery.
New York, New York! It's a helluva town!
--On the Town--
Broadway Musical.
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