New York generalities

Lucie & Mélissa

New-York is next to New-Jersey and bordered by the Atlantic Ocean.

New-York City is composed of five boroughs: Manhattan, The Bronx, Queens, Brooklyn and Staten Island. This city which is also a State, is very active, economically and culturally. 

             In 1524, Manhattan Island was discovered by Giovanni da Verrazano then, New Amsterdam the ancester of New-York is created in 1625. The English conquered New-Amsterdam in 1664 and called the town New-York. And finally, in 1776, because of the declaration of independance of America, New-York became one of the leading towns in America and even in the world. 

            New-York is a very mixed town, indeed, there are more than 150 different nationalities living there. Yet, people who come from a same country or who belong to a same religion tend to gather in areas like Little Italy or Chinatown. We also have the example of Harlem, South Jamaica (Queens) and Bedford-Stuyvesant where black people live; The Jews tended to settle in the Lower East Side and in Brooklyn; Puerto-Ricans and Hispanics are concentrated in the Bronx. 

In New-York City we could see many special things that we don't have in France.

 

Like the fact that every taxis are yellow, like fire escapes (emergency steps that they use in case of fire or other problems) which are really tipical from America and that we can see in most of American movies. 

Also, American road-signs are different and nearly all the cars are automatic, (we didn't see any small car but in the contrary very big and expensive cars). 

Streets are organised differently than in France, they are all parallel and perpendicular to avenues and both are numbered, they aren't named by people or anything except Broadway which is not perpendicular to the others avenues and which isn't numbered.

We obviously saw huge buildings like the Chrysler building or the Empire State building that we visited during our days in New-York... and went to Ground zero, the moving site where the twin towers were destroyed in 2001.We also visited special quarters like Chinatown, Little Italy or Harlem where we attended a Baptist mass.

In New-York, we could walk by Times Square by night which is a very impressive place where everything sparkles, this street is full of billboards and lights which make it beautiful. 

These are the little details that make New-York unique, really different from France and so beautiful and impressive.

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