1. Lucie Syrová

2. * General facts * History * Manhattan * Culture * Shopping & sports

3. * 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

4. * 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

5. * 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

6. * 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

7. * 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

8. * New York City. In: Wikipedia: the free encyclopedia [online]. San Francisco (CA): Wikimedia Foundation, 2001- [cit. 2013-05- 28]. Dostupné z: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Cityhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City

9. * PLOTZ. NYC taxis. In: Wikipedia: the free encyclopedia [online]. San Francisco (CA): Wikimedia Foundation, 2001- [cit. 2013-05-28]. Dostupné z: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:NYC_taxis.JPG http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:NYC_taxis.JPG * RUMMELL. Birdseye view of Lower Manhattan. In: Wikipedia: the free encyclopedia [online]. San Francisco (CA): Wikimedia Foundation, 2001- [cit. 2013-05-28]. Dostupné z: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Birdseye_view_of_Lower_Manhattan_by _Rummell,_Richard,_ca_1914.jpg http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Birdseye_view_of_Lower_Manhattan_by _Rummell,_Richard,_ca_1914.jpg * BLOFELD. Location map United States Manhattan. In: Wikipedia: the free encyclopedia [online]. San Francisco (CA): Wikimedia Foundation, 2001- [cit. 2013-05-28]. Dostupné z: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Location_map_United_States_Manhatta n.png http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Location_map_United_States_Manhatta n.png * CHANGDAEY. The Lion King at the Minskoff theatre. In: Wikipedia: the free encyclopedia [online]. San Francisco (CA): Wikimedia Foundation, 2001- [cit. 2013-05-28]. Dostupné z: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:%22The_Lion_King_at_the_Minskoff_theatre,_M ar._2013%22.jpg http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:%22The_Lion_King_at_the_Minskoff_theatre,_M ar._2013%22.jpg * STRAND. Macys dep store. In: Wikipedia: the free encyclopedia [online]. San Francisco (CA): Wikimedia Foundation, 2001- [cit. 2013-05-28]. Dostupné z: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Macys_dep_store.JPG http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Macys_dep_store.JPG * POSTDLF. 2005 New York City Marathon. In: Wikipedia: the free encyclopedia [online]. San Francisco (CA): Wikimedia Foundation, 2001- [cit. 2013-05-28]. Dostupné z: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:2005_New_York_City_Marathon.jpghttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:2005_New_York_City_Marathon.jpg