New York
NEW YORK INTRODUCTION
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It is home to the headquarters of the United Nations, and is the world’s financial capital, with all the other Stock Exchanges influenced by Wall Street.
It is also the most densely populated...
THE WONDERS OF LOCAL CUISINE
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Another famous dish is Chicken à la King, a sauce made with diced chicken cooked in cream with sherry and mushrooms and served with pasta or rice.
New York is a multi-ethnic city, and while...
TIMES SQUARE
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Times Square is one the most famous squares in New York, if not in the whole world!
The best time to enjoy it in all its glittering splendor is, of course, at dusk, when darkness begins to descend...
EMPIRE STATE BUILDING
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This striking 443-meter-high building owes its fame not just to its record height – for over 30 years, from 1931 to 1967, it was the world’s tallest building – but to how quickly it...
NEW WORLD TRADE CENTER
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And the World Trade Center certainly has risen up! It’s an impressive sight, isn’t it?
One World Trade Center is the highest skyscraper in the western hemisphere, and one of the top ten...
MUSEUM OF MODERN ART
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The first location of the museum, in 1929, was the modest twelfth floor of a nearby building. After such humble beginnings and the continual moves along 53rd Street, the museum eventually took up...
CENTRAL PARK
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In the early decades of the 19th century, following the surge in population and the growth of the city, when this area was chosen to create an outdoor space, there was nothing more than bogs, swamps...
BROOKLYN BRIDGE
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When it was inaugurated in 1883, its 1825-meter span made it the longest suspension bridge in the world, and the first to be stayed with steel cables. However, this marvelous work of architecture,...
STATUE OF LIBERTY
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And so, in 1886, a little behind schedule, this huge, hollow, bronze statue, took up its place on Liberty Island, began greeting the millions of immigrants arriving in the city from Europe and...
GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM
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Its origins are tied to the figure of Solomon R. Guggenheim, a wealthy US industrialist who, towards 1930, began collecting works by classic artists. However, it was thanks to the German artist and...
HIGH LINE
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Let’s start from the beginning, though, in the early 20th century, when this area of Manhattan, around Chelsea and above all, the Meatpacking District, was both highly industrialized and deeply...
MADISON SQUARE GARDEN
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This circular-shaped building, flanked by Penn Station on one side and the Post Office on the other, is a magnificent music and sports venue, famous not only for the sold-out shows by top rock stars...
METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART
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The Met is one of the largest and busiest art museums in the world, and as you can imagine, given its size, one day won’t be enough to enjoy all the marvelous works displayed here.
But...
ROCKEFELLER CENTER
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The Rockefeller Center is one of the most renowned financial and business complexes in the world, a bricks-and-mortar example of the realization of the great American dream.
The Center is named after...
WALL STREET
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The name of the street, widely used to refer to the emblematic New York Stock Exchange, derives from a barrier that was built in the first half of the 17th century by the Dutch colonists to mark the...
BRYANT PARK
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If it weren’t for the commanding skyscrapers surrounding Bryant Park, you might well think you were in Paris, in a sort of “Petit Luxembourg”: and indeed, this is the very nickname...
FLATIRON BUILDING
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Its real name is the Fuller Building, but it’s better known by its nickname.
Its triangular shape, due to the lot it was built on, indeed resembles an iron, although given its narrowest corner,...
GRAND CENTRAL TERMINAL
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It represents the marble and granite dream of the tycoon Vanderbilt, who turned the Grand Central Depot, built in the second half of the 19th century, into a marvel of early-twentieth-century...
UNION SQUARE
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The square, with a little park in the center, is also home to a vibrant farmers’ market, frequented by award-winning chefs and lovers of fine food. The produce on sale at the stalls varies from...
WASHINGTON SQUARE PARK
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As you can see, the park is dominated by the imposing Stanford White Arch, better known as the Washington Square Arch.
This triumphal arch, now in marble, was originally built in plaster and wood in...
LINCOLN CENTER
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Its origins date back to the second half of the 20th century, when a group of illustrious figures, led by John D. Rockefeller III, grandson of the famous tycoon and head of one of the richest...
LITTLE ITALY
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And as if this decline were not enough, the New York home of the Italian emigrants who settled here at the end of the nineteenth century is dramatically disappearing. The original area is now reduced...
CHINATOWN
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Once you step into Chinatown, which continues to expand well beyond the original area between Canal, Bowery, Worth and Baxter Streets, among the intricate tangle of electrical cables strung between...
SAINT JOHN THE DIVINE
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So it’s fair to say that the aspiration of Bishop Henry Codman Potter to found a cathedral able to rival the Roman Catholic St. Patrick’s Cathedral has exceeded his expectations, and not...
