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About NYC l NYC Neighborhoods l Interesting Facts

Things To Do & Places To Visit

About New York City:
 
New York City is famous for being one of the world’s most cosmopolitan cities. It is a leading city, exerting worldwide a powerful influence as a global hub of international business, commerce and much more. New York is home to many diverse communities, cultures and ethnic groups. In 2005, nearly 170 languages were spoken in the city and 36% of its population was born outside the United States. Therefore, professional translation and interpreting services play a major role.
 
Many international companies have already chosen for New York as their business destination. If you are planning to do likewise and you don’t speak American English yourself,  we are glad to translate your vision into reality and bring to you the finest and most accurate American English language translations.
 
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NYC Neighborhoods:

1. Lower Manhattan and Battery Park City

2. Tribeca

3. Soho

4. West and Central Village

5. East Village

6. Lower East Side

7. Nolita and Noho

8. Gramercy Park and Murray Hill

9. Chelsea

10. Midtown East and Sutton Place

11. Midtown West and Hell's Kitchen

12. Upper East Side

13. Upper West Side

14. Morningside Heights

15. Harlem

16. Hamilton Heights and Washington Heights

17. Brooklyn Heights and Cobble Hill

18. Boerum Hill and Carroll Gardens

19. Red Hook

20. Dumbo

21. Fort Greene and Clinton Hill

22. Park Slope

23. Beyond the Slope

24. Williamsburg and Greenpoint

25. Astoria and Long Island City

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Other interesting facts:
 
- Dutch explorer Peter Minuit purchased the island of Manhattan (really its southern tip) from the Algonquin tribe for trinkets and tools worth about $24.
 
- New York City was the U.S. capital from 1789 to 1790.
 
- More than 47 percent of New York City's residents over the age of 5 speak a language other than English at home.
 
- In 2007, 46 million international and domestic visitors came to New York City. They spent approximately $28 billion while there. Approximately 790,000 companies operate in New York City.
In the 1660s New York City's “skyline” was dominated by a two-story-high windmill.
 
- When the Dutch still controlled the region, Wall Street was the city limit and there was actually a wall there.
 
- Cleopatra's Needle, a 3,000-year-old Egyptian ruin, can actually be found in New York's Central Park. In 1879 it was given to the city as a gift by the Khedive of Egypt. The 220-ton, 66-foot-high monument took a decade to be fully transported.
 
- The "New York Post" established in 1803 by Alexander Hamilton is the oldest running newspaper in the United States.
 
- The term "The Big Apple" was coined by touring jazz musicians of the 1930s who used the slang expression "apple" for any town or city. Therefore, to play New York City is to play the big time—The Big Apple.

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Things to do, places to visit in New York City:
 
- Ellis Island is where it all began, and now with the New York Pass you can visit it completely free, you will also receive a free ferry ride to the Island and the Statue of Liberty.
 
- The Empire State Building: icon of New York City since 1931, has been featured in thousands of movies and welcomes visitors from all over the world.
 
- Broadway: the most famous theater district in the world.
Not far from The Empire State Building you will find Madame Tussaud’s wax museum.
 
- Ground Zero Museum Workshop: Ground Zero Museum Workshop: "Images & Artifacts from the Recovery." Stunning Images by Official Ground Zero Photographer Gary Marlon Suson. Known as the "Biggest LITTLE Museum in New York.
The Cathedral of St. John the Divine, the world’s largest cathedral.
 
- Central Park: great place for a stroll. You can start anywhere you'd like.Just walk in at 59th and wander in. Check out the local artists and their wares.
 
- Metropolitan Museum of Art: the Metropolitan Museum of Art is the largest encyclopedic art museum in the world under a single roof.  Art from all periods and cultures is displayed.
 
- Rockefeller Center: Rockefeller Center, home to the Top of the Rock Observation Deck, offers shopping, dining and attractions. The attractions include the NBC Studio Tour and the Rink at Rockefeller Center.
 
- Billy Elliot the Musical: Billy Elliot The Musical is the new show that has captured Broadway's heart and received the best reviews for any musical in years. Called "extraordinarily uplifting" by Time Out New York and "intoxicating" by The New York Times, Billy Elliot is a joyous, exciting and feel-good celebration of one boy following his heart and making his dreams come true.
 
- The Cloisters: branch of the Metropolitan Museum of Art that was constructed out of sections of French medieval monasteries, offers an extensive collection of statues, paintings, stained glass windows and tapestries.
 
- Grand Central Terminal: opened in 1913, and one of America's busiest terminals, Grand Central boasts a wide array of shops and restaurants to serve the more than 500,000 travelers who pass through every day.
 
- American Museum of Natural History: for 125 years, the American Museum of Natural History has been one of the world's preeminent science and research institutions, renowned for its collections and exhibitions that illuminate millions of years of the earth's evolution, from the birth of the planet through the present day.
 
- International Center of Photography: founded in 1974, the International Center of Photography (ICP) is both a museum and one of the largest schools of photography in the world.
 
- The Morgan Library: is both a museum and a center for scholarly research. Among the world's greatest treasuries of seminal artistic, literary, musical, and historical works, the Library's renowned collection of rare books, manuscripts, and drawings have as their principal focus the history, art, and literature of Western civilization from the Middle Ages to the twentieth century.
 
- Central Park Zoo and many other great places.

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