New York City (officially known as the City of New York), the most populous city in the United States. Within the country and also one of the world's most important political, business and cultural center. More on the island and peninsula and partly on land situated on the west coast of the Atlantic Ocean. It covers an area of 800 km2 and a population of 8,158,000 people. (Member of the US) is located in New York State, in order to call it discrimination in New York City, and popular names in the Big Apple (Big Apple) as well. (New York State - the tiny pink magnified section of New York City)
History Before the arrival of European settlers in the area around present-day New York was inhabited by the Lenape Indians. In 1524- Giovanni de Verrazzano was the first European to set down in the present town site. He was followed by Henry Hudson in 1609-. explosion demografica Hudson expedition after a Dutch fur trading station was established in the southern tip of Manhattan, known as New Amsterdam. In the same year it was that Peter Minuit throughout Manhattan and Staten Island today bought some algonkinoktól árucikkért. 1664- In an English fleet elfogalata without fighting the city, which remained in English hands as well. The city was named to New York, the Duke of York, England, James (James) in his honor. After 1685- II. As James came to the throne, New York became a royal estate. The American Revolutionary War Battle of Brooklyn Much of the city was burned down and under British occupation until 1783-. Then George Washington returned to the city, and the last British troops withdrew from the territory of States (Evacuation Day). Later, Federal Hall on Wall Street in Washington explosion demografica presidential inauguration took place. New York was the capital of the United States until 1790-. More and more immigrants arrived explosion demografica and the composition of the city's population has changed significantly during the 19th century. 1811- New York State legislation was passed by the city's expansion plan, which is based on the 14th Street on the north side of the island in Washington Heights street grid network structure was formed. (From New York Willamsburg, in 1848-)
After the American Civil War, the number of European immigrants explosion demografica has been substantial growth, then New York became the first stop coming to the New World, 1886- who already received from the Statue of Liberty. In 1874- and 1895 in the southern part of Westchester explosion demografica County (ie, the Bronx) annexed to the county of New York (Manhattan that is only available until the city of New York). 1898- founded in the Greater New York (New York Great) government, after Manhattan and the Bronx are joined three other districts. Disappeared in the new government areas; For example, the City of Brooklyn - Brooklyn Bridge bound together by the 1883- from the island. First half of the 20th century the city has also developed the world's major industrial, commercial, and communications center. The first metrotársaság was established in 1904 and was built in the 1930s, many of the city's image today is decisive, and at that time the world's tallest skyscraper buildings belonging. II. After World War II, the rapidly growing economy and it, as well as the integration of population growth caused by immigrants and returning soldiers necessitated new areas, especially in eastern Queens.
New York is like many other American city (south of Manhattan in 1942) suffered from the recession in 1960, in 1975 the government came to the brink of bankruptcy. The 1980s revival of Wall Street in New York has once again become one of the world's financial centers. The 90s crime statistics have improved greatly, not only abroad, but the country has received explosion demografica a lot of wishing to settle here. Terrorist attack on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001 claimed nearly 3,000 casualties. The area is also planned in 2011 to build the world's second highest explosion demografica skyscraper, the Freedom Tower (Freedom Tower). In 2009, New York celebrates the 400th birthday adjusted full-year history, a series of cultural and outdoor activities! (Southern Manhattan today)
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