Praha & EU: Investujeme do vaší budoucnosti Evropský sociální fond Gymnázium, Praha 10, Voděradská 2 Projekt OBZORY NEW YORK CITY

New York The Big Apple, The Capital of the World, The City that Never Sleeps, Gotham, Empire City, The Melting Pot... The city is often referred to as New York City or the City of New York, to distinguish it from the state of New York, of which it is a part. Located on a large natural harbor on the Atlantic coast of the Northeastern United States Consists of five boroughs: The Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens, and Staten Island. Population of 8.4 million Land area of just 305 square miles (790 km 2 ) The New York metropolitan area's population estimated at 19.1 million people over 6,720 square miles (17,400 km 2 ).

History 1624 founding of New Amsterdam as a trading post by Dutch colonists came under English control in 1664 and was renamed New York after King Charles II of England granted the lands to his brother, the Duke of York In 1754, Columbia University was founded under charter by George II of Great Britain as King's College in Lower Manhattan. served as the capital of the United States from 1785 until 1790 By 1790, New York had surpassed Philadelphia as the largest city in the United States In the 19th century, the city was transformed by immigration and development Slaves had been held in New York through 1827, but during the 1830s New York became a center of interracial abolitionist activism in the North. New York's black population was over 16,000 in 1840 The Great Irish Famine (A period of mass starvation, disease and emigration between 1845 and 1852 also known as the Irish Potato Famine. App. 1 million people died and a million more emigrated from Ireland) brought a large influx of Irish immigrants, and by 1860, one in four New Yorkers – over 200,000 – had been born in Ireland Anger at military conscription during the American Civil War (1861– 1865) led to the Draft Riots of 1863, one of the worst incidents of civil unrest in American history The city was one of the sites of the September 11, 2001 attacks, when nearly 3,000 people died in the destruction of the World Trade Center

Geography located in the Northeastern United States, in southeastern New York State, approximately halfway between Washington, D.C. and Boston location at the mouth of the Hudson River has helped the city grow in significance as a trading city much of New York is built on the three islands of Manhattan, Staten Island, and Long Island The Hudson River flows into New York Bay. The Hudson separates the city from New Jersey. The East River flows from Long Island Sound and separates the Bronx and Manhattan from Long Island. The Harlem River separates Manhattan from the Bronx. The Bronx River is the only entirely fresh water river in the city. Climate humid subtropical 234 days with at least some sunshine annually temperatures in winter could for a few days be as low as 10 °F (−12 °C) and as high as 50 °F (10 °C) summers are typically hot and humid with a July average of 76.5 °F (24.7 °C) urban heat island phenomenon a metropolitan area of New York is significantly warmer than its surrounding rural areas extreme temperatures have ranged from −15 to 106 °F (-26 to 41 °C), recorded in the 1930’s Central Park

Architecture Manhattan's skyline with its many skyscrapers is universally recognized, and the city has been home to several of the tallest buildings in the world. 50 completed skyscrapers taller than 656 feet (200 m) in 2008, second in the world, behind Hong Kong New York has architecturally noteworthy buildings in a wide range of styles. Woolworth Building (1913), an early gothic revival skyscraper built with massively scaled gothic detailing. The 1916 Zoning Resolution required setback in new buildings, and restricted towers to a percentage of the lot size, to allow sunlight to reach the streets below. The Art Deco style of the Chrysler Building (1930), with its tapered top and steel spire, reflected the zoning requirements. New York's large residential districts are often defined by the classic brownstone rowhouses, townhouses, and tenements that were built during a period of rapid growth from 1870 to Stone and brick became the city's building materials of choice after the construction of wood-frame houses was limited in the aftermath of the Great Fire of A distinctive feature of many of the city's buildings is the wooden roof-mounted water towers. In the 1800s, the city required their installation on buildings higher than six stories to prevent the need for excessively high water pressures at lower elevations, which could break municipal water pipes.

Woolworth Building Tenements Chrysler Building Rowhouses Wooden roof-mounted water tower

Parks Major parks include Central Park, Prospect Park, Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, Forest Park, and Washington Square Park. The largest is Pelham Bay Park, followed by the Staten Island Greenbelt. City Parks Foundation offers more than 1200 free performing arts events in parks across the city each year, including Central Park Summerstage, the Charlie Parker Jazz Festival and dance, theater, and children's arts festivals. Central Park

Prospect Park, Brooklyn Gothic bridge in Central Park The Unisphere of Flushing Meadows park, Queens Parks NY 1.Pelham Bay Park, Bronx 2.Greenbelt, Staten Island 3.Flushing Meadows- Corona Park, Queens 4.Van Cortlandt Park, Bronx 5.Central Park, Manhattan 6.Fresh Kills Park, Staten Island 7.Marine Park, Brooklyn 8.Bronx Park, Bronx 9.Alley Pond Park, Queens 10.Franklin D. Roosevelt Boardwalk, South and Midland Beaches, Staten Island

Tourism one of New York City's most vital industries, with more than 45 million combined domestic and international tourists visiting each year. Major destinations include the Empire State Building; Statue of Liberty; Ellis Island; Broadway theater productions museums such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art greenspaces such as Central Park and Washington Square Park Rockefeller Center; Times Square luxury shopping along Fifth and Madison Avenues events such as the Halloween Parade in Greenwich Village, the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, the St. Patrick's Day parade seasonal activities such as ice skating in Central Park in the wintertime, the Tribeca Film Festival, and free performances in Central Park at Summerstage Special experiences outside the key tourist areas of the city include, but are not limited to the Bronx Zoo; Coney Island; and the New York Botanical Garden

Empire State Building

Metropolitan Museum of Art Times Square Rockefeller Center

Baby Otter Smallest deer Sifaka madagascar

Education home to such notable private universities as Barnard College, Columbia University, Cooper Union, Fordham University, New York University, The New School, Pace University, and Yeshiva University. The public City University of New York system is one of the largest universities in the nation, and includes a number of undergraduate colleges and associate degree community colleges, with options in each borough. Panorama of Columbia University New York

Transportation Mass transit in New York City, most of which runs 24 hours a day, is the most complex and extensive in North America. he iconic New York City Subway system is the busiest in the Western Hemisphere, while Grand Central Terminal, also popularly referred to as "Grand Central Station", is the world's largest railway station by number of platforms. Public transit is New York City's most popular mode of transit. 54.6% of New Yorkers commuted to work in 2005 using mass transit. This is in contrast to the rest of the United States, where about 90% of commuters drive automobiles to their workplace. The area is served by three major airports, John F. Kennedy International, Newark Liberty International and LaGuardia.

Použité zdroje a literatura

Praha & EU: Investujeme do vaší budoucnosti Evropský sociální fond Gymnázium, Praha 10, Voděradská 2 Projekt OBZORY Tato prezentace byla vytvořena v rámci projektu OBZORY Autor:PaedDr. Jitka Hrubá Předmět:Reálie VB a USA Datum: