Manhattan
borough of New York City, In 1626, Peter Minuit, director general of the Dutch province of New Netherlands, purchased Manhattan from the Indians for 60 guilders equivalent to $ 24.00. New York City still remains the artistic, cultural and economic Capital of the United
States and the world. Much of the style and tone of life in the United States is set in New York City. The fashion industry is headquartered in its garment district on Seventh Avenue and Madison Avenue; the chief live theatre in the country exists on and off Broadway. The
museums, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the American Museum of Natural History and the Jewish Museum set the pace for similar institutions across the land. New York
city is where you find everything. There is no other city like New York with all its skyscrapers, its best restaurants, its hurrying feverish, electric crowds, its unique Fifth Avenue, Madison Avenue, Park Avenue, Avenue of the Americas.
| The New York Police Department, the best trained institution rooted out the mobs and the bandits under the latest city administration. One can stroll without fear in Rockefeller Plaza, the Grand Central terminal, the subways, day in day out. The
migrants, in search of security, prosperity, political power, set up the city's neighborhoods Harlem, Little Italy, Chinatown, Greenwich Village and scores of communities tenements. Manhattan is the magnet for tourists with its shopping promenade of Fifth Avenue, the munificence of the temples of finance on and near Wall Street, the eccentricities of bohemian life in Greenwich Village, the exotica of China Town, the special flavors of Little Italy and Harlem. New York City grew faster than any other city in history. The hordes of strangers were what made it grow faster. And with its United Nations building on First Avenue, tourists and residents feel the splendors of the unique City called Manhattan, the real city of lights and full of life. |
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