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A foreigner in New York

The Big Apple

A foreigner in NewYorkThe Big Apple

Times Square

Times Square is one of the world's most visited tourist attractions, drawing an estimated 50 million visitors annually. It's a major commercial intersection, tourist destination, entertainment center and neighborhood in Manhattan at the junction of Broadway and Seventh Avenue.


Times Square is the site of the annual New Year's Eve ball drop. About one million revelers crowd Times Square for the New Year's Eve celebrations, more than twice the usual number of visitors the area usually receives daily.

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Central Park

Central Park is an urban park in Manhattan, New York City. Central Park is the most visited urban park in the United States, with 40 million visitors in 2013, and one of the most filmed locations in the world. In 1858, a landscape architect and an architect, respectively, won a design competition to improve and expand the park with a plan they titled the "Greensward Plan".Construction continued during the American Civil War farther north, and was expanded to its current size of 843 acres.


The current Central Park Carousel, installed in 1951, is one of the largest merry-go-rounds in the United States. The fifty-eight hand-carved horses and two chariots were made by Solomon Stein and Harry Goldstein in 1908.

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The Statue or Liberty.

It is a colossal neoclassical sculpture on Liberty Island in New York Harbor in New York City, in the United States. The copper statue, a gift from the people of France to the people of the United States,


The Statue of Liberty is a figure of a robed woman representing Libertas, a Roman goddess. She holds a torch above her head with her right hand, and in her left hand carries a tabula ansata inscribed in Roman numerals with "JULY IV MDCCLXXVI" (July 4, 1776), the date of the U.S. Declaration of Independence. A broken chain lies at her feet. The statue became an icon of freedom and of the United States, and was a welcoming sight to immigrants arriving from abroad.

Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, colloquially "the Met,"is located in New York City, and is the largest art museum in the United States. With 7.06 million visitors in 2016, it was the second most visited art museum in the world, and the fifthmost visited museum of any kind. [8] Its permanent collection contains over two million works.



The Met maintains extensive holdings of African, Asian, Oceanian, Byzantine, Indian, and Islamic art. The museum is home to encyclopedic collections of musical instruments, costumes and accessories, as well as antique weapons and armor from around the world.


The Metropolitan Museum of Art was founded in 1870 for the purposes of opening a museum to bring art and art education to the American people. It opened on February 20, 1872, and was originally located at 681 Fifth Avenue.

Empire State Building

The Empire State Building is a 102-story skyscraper located on Fifth Avenue between West 33rd and 34th Streets in Midtown, Manhattan, New York City. It has a total of 1,454 feet (443.2 m). Its name is derived from the nickname for New York, the Empire State.


The Empire State Building is an American cultural icon. It is designed in the distinctive Art Deco style and has been named as one of the Seven Wonders of the Modern World by the American Society of Civil Engineers.

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The Midtown skyline, as viewed from the observation deck at night in January 2006

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Lighting at the top of the Empire State Building

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Tallest in the world from 1931 to 1970

China Town

Manhattan's Chinatown is a neighborhood in Lower Manhattan, New York City. Chinatown is home to the highest concentration of Chinese people in the Western Hemisphere. With an estimated population of 90,000 to 100,000 people, Manhattan's Chinatown is also one of the oldest Chinese ethnic enclaves.


Unlike most other urban Chinatowns, Manhattan's Chinatown is both a residential area as well as commercial area.

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A typical scene on Pell Street.

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Street fairs are commonplace in Chinatown.

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A Chinese lion during Chinese New Year festivities on Mott Street near Worth Street.

Rockefeller Center

Rockefeller Center is a large complex consisting of 19 high-rise commercial buildings covering 22 acres (89,000 m2) between 48th and 51st Streets in New York City. Commissioned by the Rockefeller family, it is located in the center ofMidtown Manhattan, spanning the area between Fifth Avenue and Sixth Avenue.


The ending of the famous film 'Home Alone 2' was shooted here.

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The Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree is a large Christmas tree placed annually in Rockefeller Center

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Lower Plaza of Rockefeller Center

In 1962, the center management placed a plaque at the plaza with a list of principles in which John D. Rockefeller, Jr. believed in.


Lower Plaza of Rockefeller Center, with the ice skating rink and the statue of Prometheus, in March 2006

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