2. New York is the 27th most extensive, the 3rd populous, and the 7th most densely populated in the 50 United States. It’s known for its status, its finance and culture as the largest gateway to immigration in the United States.

3. New York has many state parks and two forests. Adirondack Park is about the size of the state Vermont and the largest park in the United States. The State of New York is well represented with its National Park System of 22 national parks which received 16,349,381 visitors in 2011. In addition there are 4 National Heritage Areas, 27 National Natural Landmarks, 262 National Historic Landmarks and 5,379 listings on the National Register of Historic Places.

4. Culture The city of New York is an important center for music, film, theater, dance and visual art. Artists have been drawn into the city by opportunity, as the city government funds the arts with a larger annual budget than the National Endowment for the Arts, and New York is a major center of the global art market which grew up along with national and international media centers.

5. Music ! New York's Broadway musical theater and Tin Pan Alleys song craft, New York became a major center for the American music industry. Since then the city has served as an important center for many different musical genres.

6. ART … Today New York is a global center for the international art market. The industry is clustered in neighborhoods known for their art galleries, such as Chelsea and DUMBO where dealers representing both established and up-and-coming artists compete for sales with bigger exhibition spaces, better locations, and stronger connections to museums and collectors. Wall Street money and funds from philanthropists flow steadily into the art market, often prompting artists to move from gallery to gallery in pursuit of riches and fame.

7. Dance New York has also historically been a center for African- American modern dance New York was the birthplace of other dance forms, as well. Break dance became an influential street dance style that emerged as part of the hip hop movement in African- American and Puerto Rican communities in the South Bronx in the early 1970s. It is arguably the best known of all hip hop dance styles. Popular speculations of the early 1980s suggest that break dancing, in its organized fashion seen today, began as a method for rival gangs of the ghetto to mediate and settle territorial disputes. In a turn-based showcase of dance routines, the winning side was determined by the dancers who could outperform the other by displaying a set of more complicated and innovative moves

8. FILM !! New York is home to the biggest film school in the U.S They are known for that too

9. Conclusion I choose this state because it is a very busy and exciting place to see. You can go to many places and shop EVRYWHERE! Also it has the Statue of Liberty located there It is a very populous state the 3 rd most populous in the U.S to be exact !!!!