New York City in New York is the largest city in the United States.
As of 2004, its population was estimated as 8,104,079,
with a total of 18,709,802 living in the New York metropolitan area.
New York, nicknamed the "Big Apple" and the "City That Never Sleeps"
is a reknown center of business and finance, entertainment, media and culture,
home to many famous buildings, as well as containing the
headquarters of the United Nations.
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Major airports for New York City include John F. Kennedy International Airport, LaGuardia Airport and Newark Liberty International Airport (which is actually in Newark, New Jersey).
New York City is one of the nation's leading centers of business and commerce, with dozens of major companies are headquartered in the city, but, as already mentioned, is especially strong in the financial and media industries. Some of the leading companies with their headquarters in New York City include Accenture, Alcoa, Altria Group, American Express, American International Group, Bristol-Myers Squibb, CBS, Cendant, Citigroup, Fox Entertainment Group, Goldman Sachs, Hess, JPMorgan Chase, Lehman Brothers, Loews, Merill Lynch, Morgan Stanley, News Corporation, New York Life Insurance, Pfizer, Schlumberger, TIAA-CREF, Time Warner, Verizon Communications, Viacom and Wells Fargo.
Sports teams in New York City include the baseball team, the New York Mets, the basketball team, the New York Knicks, the ice hockey team, the New York Rangers, the Major League Baseball team, the New York Yankees, the New York-Penn League baseball team, the Brooklyn Cyclones, and the New York-Penn League baseball team, the Staten Island Yankees.
Important education institutions in New York City include City University of New York, Columbia University, New York University and Pace University. City University of New York is the public university system of the city consisting of 11 senior colleges, 6 community colleges, a doctorate-granting graduate school, a journalism school, a law school and the Sophie Davis School of Biomedical Education.
New York-style pizza, is a variety of pizza that originates from the city. It is characterized by wide, thin, foldable slices, and is often sold by the slice. It is traditional to eat New York-style pizza folded, because otherwise the width of the slice would make it unmanageable.
The phrase a "New York minute" means a very short interval, usually considerably less than an actual minute, and is a reference to the frenetic pace of life in the city. Occassionally, the phrase is also used in the reverse sense to mean a long period of time.
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Product Description: Drawing on the same standards of accuracy as the acclaimed DK Eyewitness Travel Guides, each book in DK's Top 10 series uses evocative color photography, excellent cartography, and up-to-date travel content to create a reliable and useful pocket-sized travel guide.
Dozens of Top 10 lists provide vital information on each destination, as well as insider tips, from uncovering a city's most memorable sights to finding the best restaurants and hotels in each neighborhood. And to save you time and money, there's even a Top 10 list of Things to Avoid.
Each Top 10 contains a pull-out map and guide that includes fold-out maps of city metro systems, useful phone numbers, and 60 great ideas on how to spend your day.
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Welcome to New York City — Let’s Go style. We’ve sent our student researchers all over the Big Apple to bring you fresh, exciting coverage of the trendiest neighborhoods, the chicest shopping, the best bars, the most amazing attractions, and the most delicious dining in the city that never sleeps.
Our fully-updated coverage includes everything the student traveler could ever want to know about New York City, with hands-on advice on where to stay, what to eat, what not to miss, and how to party in America’s most fast-paced city. Discover the best vantage points of the city’s famous skyline, chow down at 4 a.m. at a 24-hour burger-and-pizza joint, sing along with a musical on Broadway, or simply walk until you drop as you discover a city you’ll never forget with Let’s Go New York City.
Globetrotter Travel Map New York City caters specifically to the needs of tourists and visitors, packed with all the essential information to introduce travelers to each dynamic destination. Key buildings and places of interest are pinpointed, as well as where to stay. Distance and climate charts enable travelers to plan their visits, while stunning photographs conjure up each destination's special atmosphere. >Sharp, full-color cartography that is easy to follow >Nature reserves, parks and places of interest >Scenic routes highlighted >Town plans of major tourist centers including hotels >Climate and distance charts >Double-sided, illustrated and full of useful information >The ideal journey planner
The handy pocket-size guide is packed with useful information, tips and recommendations, accompanied by colour photographs, charts and maps for the first-time traveller who wants to experience the major highlights that New York City has to offer. This travel book surpasses other guides in that it incorporates essential information in an easy-to-carry and easy-to-read format that is attractive and useful at the same time. It provides a visitor with an invaluable introduction to New York City by concisely highlighting the city’s ‘must see’ areas in a practical and user-friendly format, thus encouraging the tourist to make the most of his/her available time. All the essential information you need to get around an unfamiliar city is compacted into useful and practical ‘At-a-Glance’ sections at the end of each chapter. The fold-out map of New York City is ideal for tourists and visitors. In addition to the main town plan of New York City, it features 5 detailed area maps and transport maps.
Product Description: This volume is produced from digital images created through the University of Michigan University Library's large-scale digitization efforts. The Library seeks to preserve the intellectual content of items in a manner that facilitates and promotes a variety of uses. The digital reformatting process results in an electronic version of the original text that can be both accessed online and used to create new print copies. The Library also understands and values the usefulness of print and makes reprints available to the public whenever possible. This book and hundreds of thousands of others can be found in the HathiTrust, an archive of the digitized collections of many great research libraries. For access to the University of Michigan Library's digital collections, please see http://www.lib.umich.edu and for information about the HathiTrust, please visit http://www.hathitrust.org
Product Description: I Love New York New York City Travel Guide is a fold-out Map and Beautifully illustrated Travel Guide. Cover shows a Photo of the Empire State building lighted at Dusk and then opens to a fabulous picture of the Statue of Liberty with the Twin Towers. Would make a very nice Pre-9/11 keepsake.
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