Lucie Syrová
* General facts * History * Manhattan * Culture * Shopping & sports
* most populous city in the United States * the Big Apple * five boroughs – The Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens, and Staten Island * population over 8,000,000 * the East river, the Hudson river
* 16th century – Algonquin tribes * 1609 Henry Hudson (the Dutch East Indian Company) * 1624 fur trading settlement * New Amsterdam * 1626 Manhattan purchased from the Native Americans * 1664 New Amsterdam = English colony New York
* skyline * first streets – Broadway, Wall Street, the Bowery * beginning of 19th century – grid system * rectangular streets (south – east) and avenues (south – north) * Broadway – almost diagonally south - east * beginning of 20th century – Central Park, major thoroughfares
* the Theater District – Broadway (Off-Broadway, Off-Off-Broadway) * Museum Mile – Fifth Avenue (e.g. Guggenheim Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art) * MoMA * Carnegie Hall, Metropolitan Opera House * Rockefeller Center – Radio City Music Hall
* Bloomingdale`s * Macy`s – Thanksgiving Day Parade * Fifth Avenue - the "most expensive street in the world" * the NY Mets, the NY Yankees – baseball * the NY Giants, the NY Jets – NFL * the NY Rangers – hockey * US Open – Flushing Meadows * the NY Marathon
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* PLOTZ. NYC taxis. In: Wikipedia: the free encyclopedia [online]. San Francisco (CA): Wikimedia Foundation, [cit ]. Dostupné z: * RUMMELL. Birdseye view of Lower Manhattan. In: Wikipedia: the free encyclopedia [online]. San Francisco (CA): Wikimedia Foundation, [cit ]. Dostupné z: _Rummell,_Richard,_ca_1914.jpg _Rummell,_Richard,_ca_1914.jpg * BLOFELD. Location map United States Manhattan. In: Wikipedia: the free encyclopedia [online]. San Francisco (CA): Wikimedia Foundation, [cit ]. Dostupné z: n.png n.png * CHANGDAEY. The Lion King at the Minskoff theatre. In: Wikipedia: the free encyclopedia [online]. San Francisco (CA): Wikimedia Foundation, [cit ]. Dostupné z: ar._2013%22.jpg ar._2013%22.jpg * STRAND. Macys dep store. In: Wikipedia: the free encyclopedia [online]. San Francisco (CA): Wikimedia Foundation, [cit ]. Dostupné z: * POSTDLF New York City Marathon. In: Wikipedia: the free encyclopedia [online]. San Francisco (CA): Wikimedia Foundation, [cit ]. Dostupné z: