LOGIN | NEU REGISTRIEREN

Schule > Englisch > Landeskunde > New York - Sights

New York

is divided into
Queens, Manhattan, Staten Island, Brooklyn, Bronx

Manhattan:

• most famous with many sights

Statue of liberty

• emblem of USA
• symbol of freedom
• gift of France people
• was erected in 1886
• can visit with an conducted boat tour of the harbour

Empire State Building

• was completed in 1931
• 381 m, aerial 450 m
• highest building
• till in the seventies

Financial District

• first settlers
• Wall Street constituted with wall a border to the indians
• 19th century 1st banks establishmented
• today: big banks
• famous: Federal Reserve Bank; 10.000 t gold
• NY Stock Exchange

Chinatown

• 150 years
• diffrent to other parts
• narrow, colourful, crazy
• many don’t speak English

Times Square

• between 7th avenue a.Broadway
• lights a. advertising
• cinemas, restaurants, stores; in t. night
• parads, presentations, shows

Ellis Island

• island
• 1st station
• mueseum today

Metropolitan Museum of Art

• next Guggenheim Museum
• was found 1869
• biggest art exhibition

Central Park

• was created 1857
• 330 h
• 2nd biggest
• only e.garden in Munich
• with e.g. ways to jogging, skating a. biking
• big lake
• zoo

Broadway

• oldest; longest street
• culture centrum with theatres, cinemas, opera houses

Rockefeller Center

• was built in the thirthteens by John D. Rockefeller
• place where you can go shopping, eating a. working
• with stores cafés, restaurants a. offices
• icerink a. radio music hall , only some sights of rfc

more sights:

• American Museum of Natural History
• Chrysler Builing
• Lincoln Center
• Fifth Avenue
• Guggenheim Museum
• Museum of Modern Art

Bronx:

Zoo

• heart of Wildlife Conservation Society
• work to save wildlife a. wildplaces around world
• over 4000 animals
• e.g. tigers in Tiger Mountains
• gorillas in Western Mountains
• leopards in naturalistic Himalayan Highlands

Yankee Stadium

Queens:

John F. Kennedy Airport

• construction bagan April 1942
• 1st flight was on the 1st July of 1948
• was formally dedicated as NY International Airport on the 31 July of 1948
• was re-dedicated on the 24 Decembre of 1963 as

Brooklyn:

Brooklyn Bridge

• was built 1884
• over 20 year; longest
• over 80 m high
• over 1 km long

Download: PDF, DOC