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.