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New York City is located on the east coast of USA, bathed by the Atlantic Ocean which flows into the Hudson River that traverses the state. Bordered on the west by New Jersey, Northwest and Southeast Connecticut with Long Island. The city gives its name to the state whose capital is Albany. Until 1898 the city was composed solely of Manhattan at which he was joined that same year the counties of Kings (Brooklyn), Queens, Bronx and Richmond (Staten Island).
ManhattanManhattan (Mannahatta) or island of the hills as indigenous vocabulary, measuring 21.5 km long and 3.7 wide and is the most important district of the five that make up the city. Manhattan is divided into three sectors:
Downtown and Lower Manhattan at the southern tip of the island, stretching from Battery Park to 14th Street and is the oldest part of town. Above it rise the towers of the Financial District where the New York Stock Exchange or NYSE. This part of Manhattan is made up of districts or neighborhoods, each with its own personality as Chinatown, Little Italy, Soho, Tribeca and Greenwich Village.
Midtown or central part, extends from the street 14 to 59 and is the most touristy area of ​​Manhattan, where they concentrate most of the symbols of New York. Empire State Building, Chrysler Building, UN, Rockefeller Center, Grand Central Terminal or Times Square, Broadway Theater District are some of the most visited New York and found in this part of the city. Unlike Lower Manhattan, the streets of Midtown are perfectly designed as a large grid. Lost in this part of town is somewhat difficult, since the streets are numbered from south to north and avenues from east to west. Fifth Avenue divides the city into two sections: East and West. Broadway is the only avenue that crosses the city diagonally.
Uptown is the northern part of Manhattan from 59th Street. Upper East Side is by far the wealthiest neighborhood in New York, also known as Museum Mile in hosting some of the most important cultural institutions of the city, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Guggenheim and the Whitney Museum Museum. In the Upper West Side we find the American Museum of Natural History, Lincoln Center and the Cathedral St. John The Divine. Throughout the area north of Uptown Harlem is mostly occupied by people of African American origin. In East Harlem predominantly Hispanic, the so-called Spanish Harlem, occupied mostly by Puerto Rican citizens.
BrooklynBrooklyn is the most populated district in New York. It is located southwest of Long Island and its name is owed to the Dutch town Breukelen. Since 1883, with the opening of the Brooklyn Bridge (a symbol of the city) this district lives in the shadow of Manhattan. To the east and along the Brooklyn Bridge is the historic and quiet neighborhood of Brooklyn Heights, characterized also by offering some of the most spectacular views of Manhattan. To the north is Williamsburg, a trendy district in which different cultures coexist, countless art galleries, shops and home to many artists. In other Flabush and Midwood neighborhoods, has the world's largest community of Orthodox Jews outside of Israel. DUMBO (Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass) is the neighborhood of the most modern and revolutionary artists attracted by low rents.
Two major museums are in Brooklyn. The Brooklyn Museum of Art is one of the largest in the United States with one of the most important Egyptian collections in the world. The Children's Museum was the world's first museum dedicated to children.Coney Island at the southern tip of Brooklyn, is the amusement park of the city with its famous Cyclone roller coaster.The Brooklyn Botanic Garden, is undoubtedly the most exquisite botanical garden in the city, the Prospect Park, by the same designers of Central Park, and a small zoo, is the most visited park in Brooklyn, and the New York Aquarium with more than 300 marine species round out the list of the most symbolic of this district.
BronxThe Bronx is located north of the city and is the only district that is part of the continent. Its name derives from the first settler of this part of the city in 1639, Swede Jonas Bronck. The area closest to Manhattan, the South Bronx, is the most decadent and punished in the district. The rest of the Bronx is totally different, with residential areas safe and cared for, and huge parks. The Wildlife Conservation Park and Bronx Zoo with 107 acres and 6000 animals, is the largest metropolitan zoo in the United States. Nearby is the New York Botanical Garden which features a carefully flora and fauna in its 40 acres of forest. In the South Bronx is Yankee Stadium, home of the NY Yankees baseball team since 1923.
QueensLocated northwest of Long Island, it is the largest district in New York. Queens was named in 1683, in honor of Queen Catherine of Braganza, wife of Charles II of England. This district is considered New York's bedroom. Occupied mostly by typical single-family homes made of wood, has a large ethnic diversity.
The Museum for African Art, the country's only museum dedicated to African art and culture, the New York Hall of Science is the only museum of science and technology of the city, the Queens Museum of Art with its impressive scale model of New York and Museum of Contemporary Art PS1 Contemporary Art Center, MoMA affiliate, are the cultural symbols of Queens.
The Flushing Meadows - Corona Park, is the park with the most complete sports complex and attractions, which include the Shea Stadium NY Mets baseball team and the USTA National Tennis Center, where they held the U.S. Open tennis.Two of the three airports available to the city are Quenns. International Airport John F. Kennedy, located south of the district, in Jamaica, and national LaGuardia Airport, the North, in Jackson Heights.
Staten IslandIn this quiet district can be accessed free day and night on board the Staten Island Ferry offers breathtaking views of Manhattan and the Statue of Liberty. The Jacques Marchais Museum of Tibetan Art, the largest collection of Buddhist world outside Tibet, and the Garibaldi-Meucci Museum where he lived the Italian Antonio Meucci, the true inventor of the telephone, are two of the jewels that Staten account Island.


Tips to save on your trip to New York

Search for flights several months in advance. You can use flight search engines like www.trabber.com
Once you arrive in New York, draw some of the Metrocard that has the New York subway, there are 1 day, 1 week or 2 weeks.
Many of the museums in New York do not have a fixed price of entry, but a price "recommended", so you can go to the box office and pay less than the recommended price. This for example is well in the Metropolitan Museum in New York (MET).
Usually hotels in New York are quite expensive, but you can value the option of renting an apartment, which often cheaper.
You can also save on Broadway musicals, going to the box office day of show, where tickets are usually up to 50% cheaper, yes, you have the risk that there are no entries.
Tips for a safe trip to New York

New York already is very safe, especially Manhattan, where you will see a lot of police at all hours of the day.
Some areas that need to be more careful and avoid are: the South Bronx, parts of Harlem at night (no problem during the day), Central Park at night.
If you go to less frequented areas not bring the video cameras or very visible.
On the begging that is common to see in New York, are generally not an issue.
Tips for buying in New York

We must take advantage to buy almost any brand of American clothing, as it is much cheaper than in Europe. Example Levis, Nike, Calvin Klein
The imitations are the order of the day in Chinatown, you can buy watches, sunglasses, and handbags imitation without any problems, yes, mandatory bargaining.
Many are those who come from New York with some electronic device, such success among tourists Apple products, there are many people that purchased the iPhone and now the fashion is to buy iPad in New York, and leaving more flights.
Some of the malls where you can find bargains are Century 21 or Macy's, where for example you can get a 11% discount on all products, except electronics and cosmetics. You can read more about shopping in New York.

New York

New York is possibly the most exciting city in the world. Before going may not seem so, but as you visit this wonderful city will go crazy for it. Only the act of walking for its long avenues is an experience, the look is always directed upwards, drawn to the height of its buildings.
New York is very romantic but it is a city to use. The gap between rich and poor is striking, especially in Manhattan, where vagrants recorded majestic wastes between apartment buildings. However, this contrast provides to New York much of its charm. According to recent statistics, New York is at the lowest levels of crime in the last 30 years, so you can be sure that a city will be totally secure. New York City, often called New York City (NYC) to distinguish the state of New York, is the largest city in the United States and the second most populous in North America after Mexico City It has 8 million inhabitants and the metropolitan area 22 million. It is found located on the northeast coast of the United States of America and the Hudson River runs through the city before emptying into the Atlantic Ocean. New York is affectionately called "The Big Apple." To the west New Jersey, to the northwest Connecticut. Belongs to the state of New York, whose capital is Albany.
New York City is divided into 5 boroughs: Manhattan, Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens and Staten Island. The unique pleasures of the city are in the neighborhoods of downtown Manhattan: Chinatown and the Lower East Side, SoHo and TriBeCa extravaganza, and Greenwich, its architecture, visual art, which can take weeks exploring museums Metropolitan and MOMA. Consumerism is also an important part of New York, you can eat any food and drink in any environment. And remember that capital is in the capitalist dream, so that the variety of shops is overwhelming.

Attractions
New York, known as the city that never sleeps, is a center of culture and attraction, and boasts a wealth of museums about art, photography, architecture, technology, natural history, television and radio, the main Metropolitan Museum, the Museum Guggenheim, the Museum of Modern Art, Van Courtland House Museum, the Museum of Natural History, the Museum of Sex.
Some 40 million tourists from home and abroad visit the city of New York each year, and other places to visit, the Metropolitan of Art, Rockefeller Center, the Bronx Zoo, the Botanical Gardens, major Broadway productions, as well to visit the famous Fifth Avenue, where the most luxurious and expensive shops in the world.
The most famous park in that account, besides being the most visited, is the Central Park, located in Manhattan and has an area of 3.41 km ², 25 million visits per year and has even been taken on several occasions as a stage for portray numerous films, and is currently one of the largest urban parks in the world.

New York is one of the sites where tourism is the strong point, hosting many important sites, monuments and famous buildings such as the famous Statue of Liberty, the Empire State Building, Brooklyn Bridge, between others, considered as symbols of the city. Before the tragic September 11 so was the World Trade Center, now known as "Ground Zero", visited by millions of tourists every year.
New York was the city chosen for the completion of the first parade of Thanksgiving Day from the famous Macy's, on 27 November 1924 and since then, concentrating hundreds of thousands of spectators and viewers. The South Street Seaport, located in the south east of the island of Manhattan, offers visitors important naval museums, shops and and to sites where you can enjoy tango in summer.
Each year also in March, more precisely on the 17th, takes place on St. Patrick's parade, which agglomerated large crowds on Fifth Avenue, painted green and drinking beer to watch the floats pass and pipers. One of the largest collections of Spanish art of painting can be enjoyed at the Hispanic Society of America.
Every neighborhood in New York is an attraction that visitors should not miss. For example, in the Bronx, you can visit the botanical garden and zoo that really are truly wonderful. Brooklyn offers a number of historical buildings and was the third U.S. city nineteenth century. There you can take a tour of Brooklyn Heights or Park Slope, where historic buildings are erected known as brownstones and even visit the Greenwood Cemetery.