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1 A city that never sleeps Jiří Furda

2 Content Basic Info Transport NYC Subway Manhatan Empire State Building Times Square Broadway Central Park Statue of Liberty World Trade Center One World Trade Center National September 11 Memorial and Musem Video - NYC Vacation Travel Guide Interresting Facts about NYC Sources

3 Basic Info About 9 000 000 people Biggest and most populous city in US Gateway for legal immigration Over 800 spoken languages Five boroughs - Brooklyn, Queens, Manhattan, the Bronx and Staten Island Founded in 1624 by Dutch colonists (New Amsterdam) Capital of the US from 1785 until 1790 Over 50 million tourists in 2014

4 Transport Several airports Railways, buses and lots of taxis everywhere One of the largest subway system in the world

5 NYC Subway 34 lines 469 stations 5 597 551 riders on average weekday 1 751 287 621 riders in year 2014 Only 60% of the subway system is actually underground Police can arrest you for putting your feet on the seat

6 Manhatan Home to buidlings like Empire State Building, Chrysler Building, One World Trade Center Also zones such as Rockefeller Center, Brodway and Time Square

7 Empire State Building American cultural icon 102 stories 1 454 feet (443 m) high World tallest building for nearly 40 feet Located on 5th Avenue King Kong

8 Times Square Originally named Longacre Square New York Times moved there in 1904 One of the world’s bussiest pedastrian zones Approximately 330 000 people pass there daily

9 Broadway Road across NY that has 33 miles (53 km) Heart of the American theatre industry Oldest northsouth street in the city Based on Native Americans’ trail One of few streets that doesn’t comply with rectangular system

10 Central Park 843 acres (3.41 km²) Founded in 1857 One of the most filmed locations in the world Dramatically rises prices of surrounding buildings Contains Central Park ZOO

11 Statue of Liberty 151 feet (46 meters) high Located on Liberty Island Gift from the people of France Statue representing Libertas (Roman goddess) She holds tablet with a date of American Declaration of Independence (July 4th, 1776) There is also a broken chain under her legs

12 World Trade Center Twin towers opened in 1973 With 1 368 feet (417 m) were tallest buildings in the world Contained 1 240 000 m² of office space Destroyed on September 11th 2001 by Al-Qaeda terrorists The attacks killed 2 763 people The cleanup and recovery continued 24 hours a day over eight months https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Mz0_x7313I

13 National September 11 Memorial & Museum https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Mz0_x7313I

14 One World Trade Center 1 776 feet (541 m) Refference to the year of US Declaration of Independence The fifth-tallest building in the world Completed in 2013 104 stories 73 elevators

15 New York City Vacation Travel Guide https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtCMtC50gwY

16 Interresting Facts about NYC Toilet paper was invented in NYC in 1857 From 1897 utill 1953 There was a pneumatic mail tube system between 23 post officess across 27 miles About 1 in every 38 US citizens lives in NYC NYC 520 mile coastline is longher than coastlines of Miami, Boston, Los Angeles and San Francisco together It takes 75 000 trees to print Sunday edition of the NY Times Theres a birth every 4,4 minutes and a death every 9.1 minutes

17 Sources https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City_Subway http://www.huffingtonpost.com/nycom/empire-state-building_b_3923030.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empire_State_Building https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Times_Square https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadway https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Park https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statue_of_Liberty https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Trade_Center_(1973%E2%80%932001) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Trade_Center_(2001%E2%80%93present) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_World_Trade_Center http://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/60-facts-that-will-make-nyc-feel-like-a-whole- new-place#.auoQBWb8o http://bigappled.com/2014/03/31/41-random-facts-about-new-york/2/ http://www.buzzfeed.com/jamesgrebey/facts-about-the-nyc-subway-that-you- probably-didnt-know#.jpnRwbl3r

18 Thank you for your attention


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