New York Case

Each year, about 25 million people visit New York. They go to the Statue of Liberty and Niagara Falls and other great famous place in New York City. New York City lies along the ocean in southeastern New York. About 7.3 million people live there. No other United State city is even half that big. The city has five boroughs. They are Manhattan, the Bronx, Queens, Brooklyn, and Staten Island. Brooklyn and Queens are on the west end of Long Island. People travel between the boroughs by highways and subway trains. They also use ferryboats, tunnels, and bridges. The Verrazano-Narrows Bridge is opening in 1964. It's world second longest suspension bridge. It uses to travel from Staten Island to Manhattan. New York city is called the "big apple." Jazz musicians of the 1920s gave it that nickname. They meant that playing in New York City was the big time. The World Trade Center is the world's tallest and largest office center. But it has been attack on 9/11. The Metropolitan Museum of Art is the biggest United States art museum and American Museum of Natural History is country's biggest science museum. The Empire State Building is located in New York City and it's a well-known landmark. The Statue of Liberty is a favorite stop for visitors. The statue is on Liberty Island, off the tip of Manhattan. Ferryboats take people there. Visitors can go up inside Miss Liberty's crown.

Many historic places lie along the Hudson River. Yonkers is on the Hudson just north of New York City. It is New York's fourth-biggest city. Chemicals and many other goods are made there. Four presidents were born in New York. Three of them grew up near the Hudson River. Theodore Roosevelt was the twenty-sixth president. He was born in New York City.