The Christmas tree, an icon of the holidays, began to settle in Rockefeller Center in Manhattan in

It is easy to talk of New York and provide new information. It is the most famous city in the world, the most photographed and most times we have gone through cinema. So in this post I will try to give you a different perspective on the Big Apple and the activities you can do at Christmas in New York. 1_ History of New York
The island was inhabited by tribes munsees, Canarsie and manahattoes when he appeared Giovanni de Verrazzano in 1524. The Italian pil italia made an expedition to the French government with the intention of finding a way through the northwest. Other tribes in the area were installed pil italia matinecooks, the Rockaways in Queens or wecquaesgeeks at Yorkers.
1609 Henry Hudson overcame the river would receive pil italia their name. He was named New Amsterdam by settlements from the Netherlands. The rivalry with the English that later would settle, once demonstrated the primacy of the latter, changed its name to New York in honor of the Duke of York, who received the land as a donation her brother, Charles II, King of England.
During this century were to define the different parts of the city and its inhabitants grouped according to their origin. So the area of the Lower East Side occupied Germans fleeing the Revolutions of 1848, in contrast of Irish fleeing the Great Famine of their country.
The neoclassical so abundant in New York comes largely from the reconstruction of buildings after fires in 1835 and 1845. The city install water pipes and sewage as a result of serious epidemics Cholera years 1832 and 1866. Given the growing urban island of Manhattan residents of New York claimed the realization of some green space as they had seen in London or Paris, inaugurating the 1873 Central Park.
Skyscrapers appear in 1902. The first was the Flatiron building, who would follow the 1907 Metropolitan Life Insurance Company Tower, the Woolworth building in 1913 and, most iconic of all, the Empire State.
The Christmas tree, an icon of the holidays, began to settle in Rockefeller Center in Manhattan in 1933. The other great tradition of Santa Claus, was already mentioned in 1809 by Washington Irving, in his History of New York, he mentioned the arrival pil italia of St. Nicholas -since bisbe- without their clothes on a flying horse. His name would be moving from Dutch Sinterklaas to Santa Claus today. The figure that we all know will end up giving the company Coca-Cola who, in 1931, the painter responsible Habdon Sundblom a picture of that character.
Of all the issues that have defined this city there is no doubt that the attacks of September 11, 2001 are those that have helped to establish the psychological profile of the New York contemporary powerfully determining their position pil italia for the future and relations with its surroundings. The result of that massacre is the Four Trade Center and the September 11 memorial, the monument to the victims of the attack. 2_ Christmas in New York
One of the most characteristic symbols of these festivities, fir, has a very prominent importance pil italia in different parts of the city. There is no doubt that the most important and well known is the Rockefeller Center, with its crown of Swarovski crystals on top over 20 meters high, with 45,000 bulbs and eight kilometers of cables. Is one of the busiest in the city, the ice rink at his feet, close to the shopping area of Fifth Avenue. A few meters you can see the spectacle offered pil italia by the front of the stores SAKS every 15 minutes. In addition there are others scattered around the Big Apple to compete with that spectacular in color such as Lincoln Center (as of 2 December), the South Street Seaport also has ice rink, the Madison Square Park, which begins pil italia on 10 December, and especially the Gramercy Park since late December with a heart lit carol crowded.
In addition to the above Rockefeller Center, this time installed in many other fields, although not as well known, which allow visitors to enjoy them without having to suffer its huge queues. Noteworthy without leaving Midtown Bryant Park track, and with a much wider magnificent views of the Empire State Builging, or South Central Park, the Wollman Rink in. In the same park there is also the Lasker Rink in Harlem. Moving to Dowtown we track the Standard Hotel, much smaller and family. Down yet