A Foreinger in New York

Introduction

Index

This book is about Antonio, a Spanish young man who travels to New York for the first time. As he visits the city he introduces us to the most popular places of NY and its touristic routes. Furthermore, he and his friends tell us about their lifestyle and culture, going through the popular food -hot dogs- to many other things like the explanation of the tradition of Thanksgiving day.To put it in a nutshell, it is a great book to learn about this amazing city and I definitely will take their advice into account if I ever decide to visit it.

Central Park

The Statue of Liberty

the Empire State Building

Madison Square Garden

Chinatown.Little Italy

Population: 8,34 millionsLargest borough by area: Queens (280 km2)Largest borough by population: Brooklyn (2,56 millions)

New York city

New York State

Population: 19,45 millionsCapital: AlbanyLargest city: New York cityDimensions:Length: 530kmWidth: 455km

Strawberry Fields

Thanksgiving day

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A Foreinger in New York

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New York State

New York city

by: Ramón Ybarra Rubio

CENTRAL PARK

It is the biggest park in New York. It is more than 4km long and 800 meters wide ,where you can find all kinds of landscapes; artificial lakes, waterfalls and “forests”.

Furthermore, in Central Park there are many activities you can do ,like visiting its zoo -which has more than 130 different species- doing sport, attending to the different events and festivals and taking a boat ride.

The Statue of Liberty

It is one of the most popular monuments of New York. It is located on Liberty Island, at the south of Manhattan Island and next to the Hudson River. It was a gift from the French people to celebrate the independence of America in 1886. It was designed by the sculptor Frédéric Auguste Barthold and the engineer Alexandre Gustave Eiffel.It represents freedom from oppression.

Empire State Building

It was the tallest building in the world for forty years until the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center broke the record. It was inaugurated the 1st May 1931 and is 380 meters long and it has observatories on its 86 and 102 floors. Furthermore, the upper 30 floors have different colored lights depending on the season and events in order to decorate the city.

Madison Square Garden

Madison Square Garden or most known as The Garden is the most important stadium in New York where a lot of sports and entertainment events take place. It has the facilities to offer ice hockey, professional basketball, concerts, ice skating, boxing and professional wrestling. It is located in the 7th and 8th avenue of Midtown Manhattan.

Tallest buildings of the world nowadays

Chinatown

Chinatown is the biggest asian neighbourhood of New York, located in Manhattan, it is surrounded by other famous neighbourhoods like Little Italy. It started when many chinese immigrants came to New York City and decided to group themselves in order to be protected from racism and defend their rights. Nowadays, Chinatown helps the new chinese immigrants to be able to start a life in the city. It is also very visited by the tourist because of its extravagance ,colorfulness, and variety of shops where you can find souvenirs,imitations of expensive brands, and typical food.

Little Italy

Little Italy is a smaller neighbourhood which also started as an agrupation of immigrants (in this case italian immigrants). It is said to own many of the best restaurants of New York and also one of the most ancient bakeries of the city “Ferrara Bakery & Cafe”. Also, each september there is a big party that lasts eleven days, the "Feast of San Genaro" , that has parades and even more food.

CENTRAL PARK

Strawberry Fields is the name given to the central area of Central Park in memorial to John Lennon. He was murdered near there on the 8th of December 1980. During his lifetime he had said that it was one of its favourites places, so they decided to rename it in his memory. The reason for that specific name was the song “Strawberry Fields Forever” , a The Beatles’s song.

Strawberry Fields

This tradition is celebrated the fourth thursday of November with a big delicious dinner which usually contains turkey. The families thank everything they have, everything they forget and enjoy their time together.This day commemorates how Native Americans helped the first English settlers to survive the first difficult year in the New World. The Native American teached them what vegetables they had to grow and how, after their first harvest, the English settlers decided to thank them by inviting them to a big dinner. This party took place in 1621 and it was 3 days long.

Thanksgiving day

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