NEW YORK
New York is situated on the each coast of the United States and on a few islands. It lays on the river Hudson and East. The city is divided into five parts (boroughs), they are Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, the Broncos and Richmond (Staten Island).
New York is the biggest city in the USA. It has about eighteen million people together with its surroundings. It is as well very important city because it is also busy port, industrial city, the commercial, financial, educational, cultural… centre not only of the USA but of the world.
Originally the city was called New Amsterdam the Doge made there their settlement in a part of Manhattan in the seventh century. They bought this area from the Indians who gave the Brittan’s some trinkets which had a value of twenty-four dollars and some alcohol. Later the Indians wanted to get the area back and they struggled with the Dodge so the Dodge built a high wall in one part of the island. This wall protected them from the Indians. Today there is a famous Wall Street. Forty years later New Amsterdam became the. British town and it was renamed to New York after duke from York. New York was and it is still very important centre of trade, port …
The most important part of New York is Manhattan where we can see the famous sky-scrapers and some sights, for example the tourists can admire the Statue of Liberty which is situated on Liberty Islands and it became one of the symbols of New York and the USA. This statue was a gift from the French who always admired American freedom and democracy.
Not far from Liberty Island the tourists can visit Ellis Island with a museum of emigration.
Then the tourists can finally enter Manhattan which is famous for many sky-scrapers – the oldest one is the Empire State Building which was for a long time the tallest building in the world. Later there were built Twin Towers which was the world trade centre. These towers were the highest sky-scrapers in New York but unfortunately they were destroyed by terrorists attack on the eleventh of September in 2001.
There you can go for example to Time Square. It is one of the best known squares in New York and it is called after the New York Times which is a famous newspapers.
Very famous street in New York is Wall Street. It is the financial centre of New York and of the world because there are situated banks and of course the stock-exchange.
Another famous street is Broadway. It is the cultural centre of New York. There you can find theatres, cinemas museums, galleries, concert halls for example the Metropolitan Museum of art, the Guggenheim Gallery, Carnegie Hall which is a concert hall.
New York is as well important educational centre. The famous university in New York is the University of Columbia and New York University.
In New York there are many beautiful parks and gardens however the best known one is Central Park.
The streets and avenues in New York are numbered but Wall Street and Broadway are exceptions.
New York is often called as a meeting pot because there are living many different nationalities.
There are two official languages – English and Spanish. In New York there are some parts where you can find different minorities, for example China Town (it has about one million people), Jewish Neighbourhood, Little Italy, Latin Quarter and Germany neighbourhood.
WASHINGTON D.C.
It is the District of Columbia – it means the city is situated in special territory which doesn’t belong to any state. It lies on the bank of the River Potomac from the sight of the state Maryland. This place was chosen by the first American president George Washington who lived not far from here.
It is the federal capital but it is relatively small. It has only one million people (three quarters of them are black). Washington D.C. is the seat of the president, the government and the parliament.
The president lives in the White House. It is called white because its walls are white. The first who use this name was Theodore Roosevelt. The parliament and the government are placed in the Capitol.
There is no industry in Washington D.C. but there are many places of interests, museums and galleries there.
The city was designed by a French engineer Pierre L’Enfant.
The tourists can visit several interesting monuments for example:
The Washington Monument which was planned at the end of the eighteenth century but it was built till during the nineteenth century. There are nearly nine hundred steps to the top (exactly eight hundred and ninety-seven). But unfortunately you can’t walk these steps – you must use a lift.
The Jefferson Monument. I would like to remember Thomas Jefferson who was one of the authors of The Declaration of Independence and he was the third president of the USA.
The Lincoln Memorial. Abraham Lincoln was the president of the USA during the Civil War (1961-1965). He died in interesting way because he was shut in theatre. This monument has thirty-six marble columns because when Abraham Lincoln ruled the USA had thirty-six states. And it has fifty-six steps because he died in age of fifty-six.
The tourists can also see The Arlington National Cemetery where are buried famous people and soldiers and heroes from different wars.
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