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“Start spreading the news I am leaving today. I want to be a part of it, NEW YORK, NEW YORK“! As the song goes on who wants to miss the opportunity of this city that never sleeps! I had a chance to learn something about New York when me and my husband went to visit this city.
In 1624 the Dutch were the first settlers in New York, but in the years later they officially named New York to New Amsterdam on Manhattan Island.
40 years later In 1664 when the English took control of the Island, New Amsterdam was renamed, NEW YORK. It was the first capital of the United States after the Constitution was sanctioned in the year 1788. In April 1789, George Washington was inaugurated as the first president of the United States at the Federal Hall on Wall Street.
In 1886 the Statue of Liberty was assembled on Bedloe’s Island and later on renamed Liberty Island. The statue was a gift from France in honor of the United States freedom and democracy and of the alliance between the two countries during the American Revolution. The Statue of Liberty is a welcoming emblem to the immigrants who entered the United States through New York until 1924.
Any one of you who was born and raised in this city can trace back your ancestor at Ellis Island which is the port of entry. This Island was owned by Samuel Ellis in 1770 and in 1808 the state of New York sold the Island to the Federal Government.
Northwest of New York is Lake Erie, Province of Ontario Canada, Lake Ontario, and the province of Quebec Canada. To the eastern side is New England states of Vermont, Massachusetts, and Connecticut. To the southeast is New Jersey and the Atlantic Ocean, and Pennsylvania to the south. There are 5 boroughs, The BRONX, BROOKLYN,
MANHATTAN, QUEENS, and STATEN ISLAND.
The capital of New York is Albany. Until the 1960s New York was the country’s leading state in nearly all population, cultural, and economic indexes. Located in Hudson valley surrounded by mountain ranges.
4 TOP PLACES TO VISIT
1.TIME SQUARE
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After
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The SPECTACULAR NEW YEARS EVE
Time Square is Originally known as “Longacre Square“. An open space girded by drab apartments in 1880. Soon after the neighborhood began to change. The Interborough Rapid Transit was in place and infrastructure construction projects for the city to function and gave New Yorkers mobility.
Bars, restaurants, theatres, nearby museums, and shopping malls at present that attracted people to be entertained. If in case you are in the area, just stopped by and be with the New yorkers.
https://www.timessquarenyc.org/history-of-times-square
2. AIRCRAFT CARRIER INTREPID MUSEUM “THE FIGHTING I”
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USS Growler Submarine on the left-hand side of the Intrepid Carrier Museum
The Intrepid Sea, Air, and Space Museum a nonprofit educational institution is a National Historic Landmark in New York since 1986 at Pier 86. Founded in 1982, by developers and saved the Intrepid from scrapping in 1978.
It features the aircraft carrier Intrepid, the Space Shuttle Enterprise, and the world’s fastest jets and guided-missile submarine.
In 2001, Intrepid served as temporary field headquarters for the Federal Bureau of Investigation to investigate the events of the 9/11 attacks.
On August 8, 1988, received an award from USS GROWLER, is a grayback-class submarine which carried nuclear missiles. The submarine is on display after extensive renovations in 2009.
“Through this exhibition visitors of all ages are taken on this journey through history and American innovation and bravery. The Intrepid Museum fulfills its mission to educate the public, to honor the heroes, and inspire the youth of today by connecting them to HISTORY and INNOVATION.”
The USS INTREPID was commissioned on August 16, 1943, and decommissioned on MARCH 15, 1974.
Never leave New York without visiting this Museum and Enjoy the history within.
In this picture onboard the USS INTREPID CARRIER. standing before the world-famous, CONCORDE, the first supersonic passenger-carrying commercial airplane built jointly by aircraft manufacturers in Great Britain and France. USS INTREPID CARRIER.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intrepid_Sea,_Air_%26_Space_Museum
Aircraft and Helicopters on display onboard USS INTREPID.
Most fighter planes and helicopters were used during WW11.They were the greatest achievements in military aviation.
3. World Trade Centre
Image from Pixabay North and South Towers
World Trade Center, a complex of seven buildings in the middle of the financial district around a central plaza in New York City that in 2001 was the site of the deadliest terrorist attack in American history. It opened on April 4, 1973, and destroyed in 2001 by Terrorist Attack.
The complex at the southwestern and North tip of Manhattan close to Hudson River and not too far from Northwest of Wall Street was built by the port authority of New York and New Jersey as a central facility for business and government agencies involved in International trade.
Survivor Stairs of 9/11
Until the 2001 attack, it was notable for its huge twin towers, each of which had 110 stories. Starting March 11, 2002, eighty-eight searchlights were installed and arranged to form two beams of light shooting straight up into the sky. This was called the Tribute in Light, and was originally lit every day at dusk until April 14, 2002. After that, the lights were lit on the second anniversary of the attack and have been lit on each subsequent September 11 since then.
https://www.britannica.com/topic/World-Trade-Center
Images by the author
4. Statue of Liberty
https://www.history.com/topics/landmarks/statue-of-liberty#section_1
Image by Pixabay and author
The Statue of Liberty Enlightening the world was a gift to the United States by the French people to commemorate the friendship between 2 strong nations. French sculpture Frederic Bartholdi created the statue out of sheets of copper, and Gustave Eiffel who built the Eiffel Tower designed the steel framework. The Americans designed the pedestal on a small island on the upper New York Bay known as, Liberty Island. this was dedicated by President Grover Cleveland in 1886.
The goal of the famous sculpture Frederic Bartholdi was to create the statue in time for the centennial of the Declaration of Independence in 1876. While working on the statue there was a fundraising program in the United States that started to complete the strong foundation of the Statue of Liberty.
Bartholdi completed the statue in 1885 and packed in 200 crates shipped and arrived in New York on June 1885. Near the end, the New York Newspaperman Joseph Pulitzer and his paper the World, raise the last necessary funds. The pedestal designed by American architect Richard Morris Hunt was constructed inside a fortress Fort Wood, a fortress built for the war of 1812.
Over 5 months the workers reassembled the statue and mounted it on the pedestal. The height is 305 feet including the pedestal.
From 1892-1954 there were over 10 million immigrants were processed to enter the United States.
