New York City once founded by Dutch as their commercial centre has now become one of the most populous cities in the world. The City of New York is the most populous city in the United States and metropolitan area covered by New York is the largest urban area around the world. For some time, New York City was the Capital of United States too.
Now the Capital of United States has been shifted to Washington DC, even though New York has its own importance for United States. The most important benefit of New York City is that this place is situated at one of the best Natural Harbors, making it Ideal for Trade and Commerce. It is one of the most helping factors for NYC, because New York developed as the centre or trade in United States just due to this benefit. The city is also a major center for several international affairs. The headquarters of the United Nations is also situated here. New York City is also home to some tallest building establishments of world like Empire State Building and Rockefeller Centre along with several other skyscrapers. Once twin towers of World Trade Centre was also a part of this list. But now that is a matter of past.
New York City is also among hot favorite tourist destinations of world. It provides tourists with several hotspots with happening places to visit and various fun activities. The New York City comprises of five boroughs; The Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens and Staten Island within five counties, respectively: Bronx, Kings, New York, Queens, and Richmond.
Richmond County and specially Staten Island attracts tourists from all over the world due to collection of several cultural places to visit, along with unique natural diversity, never seen in any of the metropolitan cities of world. The Staten Island ferry between Manhattan to Staten Island is now among one of the World Heritage which provides a nice view of Ney York Harbor, Statue of Liberty and coastal New York surrounded by Pacific Ocean.
Staten Island is like a crown for New York City, it's among must visit for every tourist visiting New York City. It is said that New York visit is incomplete, until you see Staten Island. Tourists can visit 9/11 memorial here, which is a place to pay homage to Staten Islanders who lost their live in World Trade Center tragedy.
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Who could have imagined what, when Dutch settlers traded those guilders for Manhattan Island, naming it after home, Nieuw Amsterdam. And so it remained for a few decades, bringing in colonists, slaves, merchants, traders,settlers who made homes and towns up the river named and chartered by Henry Hudson(just before his ill fated journey up into Canada's artic, mutinied against and set adrift among icebergs in Hudsons Bay). Back on the Hudson River, Dutch settlers created Fort Orange at navigable head water up from Nieuw Amsterdam. Then came British control, finally America.
It was at this point several centuries later that the British taken and renamed Fort Albany became the eastern terminus for the nation making Erie Canal to bypass Niagara falls to the Great Lakes, entering Lake Erie just miles up from Niagara Falls, creating Rochester and Buffalo, and navigation all the way through to Chicago. And during the 1840's now named New York City finally bypassed Philadelphia in population; it became the seaport to unload ocean cargo destined for inner America.
It could only happen at New York City before railroads, and even by then, New York City became by distribution center, hub, and by far the largest, and most diverse in it's population seeming to live together in relative harmony. And this explains why there is such a concentration of ship harbor locations all around Manhattan Island, and the concentration of high towers to accomodate this nerve center of America, right down to busy Fulton's Fish Market: life moves quickly when there are so many people in line, lunch time, create a specialty and they will come.
And I just spent an hour with a BBC reporter, a tall lovely black woman with an English accent, who took us on a tour of areas she has delighted in, during the short time since she moved from London to New York City. And while London is likely the only other competitor in the world as world city, she feels New York City is it: it's acceptance of anything, now much more friendly and a large home after everyone was brought more together after 9/11. These are just high steel buildings, we are the people who must be here for each other.
So this is to say, how interesting from this BBC black woman with an Oxford English accent, so different from me, likely you, and how easily she and we related as we watched an artist near the Brooklyn Bridge sketching downtown Manhattan, in neighborhoods, much time on the streets, squares, places where people are, and it all seemed like a pretty nice place. That terrorist attack made it seem more like a place you would want to visit, but you could also happily live there.
We show many American antiques and artifacts, originals, that as American right values show the light again, these arise as well.
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