New York City

• American Folk Art Museum
  
  
• American Museum of Natural History
  
  
• Astroland in Coney Island
  
  
• Broadway Theatre
  
  
• Bronx Zoo
  
  
• Central Park
  
  
• Central Park Zoo in Central Park
  
  
• Chinatown
  
  
• Chrysler Building
  
  
• Deno's Wonder Wheel Amusement Park in Coney Island
  
  
• Ellis Island
  
  
• Empire State Building
  
  
• Feast of San Gennaro in Little Italy area
  
  
• Flatiron Building
  
  
• Grand Central Station
  
  
• General Grant National Memorial
  
  
• Hayden Planetarium
  
  
• Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum
  
  
• Little Italy
  
  
• Madame Tussauds
  
  
• The Metropolitan Museum of Art
  
  
• The Museum of Modern Art
  
  
• New York Aquarium in Coney Island
  
  
• New York Botanical Garden
  
  
• New York Skyride in the Empire State Building
  
  
• New York Transit Museum
  
  
• Prospect Park Zoo
  
  
• Queens Museum of Art
  
  
• Queens Zoo
  
  
• Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
  
  
• Staten Island Zoo
  
  
• Statue of Liberty
  
  
• United Nations Headquarters
  
  
• Whitney Museum of American Art

New York City Facts

• Sports teams in New York City include the baseball team, the New York Mets, the basketball team, the New York Knicks, the Major League Baseball team, the New York Yankees, the New York-Penn League baseball team, the Brooklyn Cyclones, the New York-Penn League baseball team, the Staten Island Yankees, and the NHL ice hockey team, the New York Rangers.
  
  
• Major airports serving New York City include John F. Kennedy International Airport, LaGuardia Airport and Newark Liberty International Airport (which is actually in Newark, New Jersey).
  
  
• 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 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 major companies headquartered 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.
  
  
• 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.
  
  
• New York City's nicknames include "Empire City", "Gotham", "Hymie Town" (widely considered offensive), "The Big Apple", "The Capital of the World", "The City", "The City of Dreams", "The City So Nice, They Named It Twice", and "The City That Never Sleeps".

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