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When Giovanni da Verrazzano discovered the area in 1524 it was inhabitated by Native Americans who sold Manhattan Island to Dutch colonists in the 17th century. The Dutch founded a city which they called "New Amsterdam" but, in 1664, the British took possesion and change the name to "New York". The city quickly developed as a port and the population increased especially with the arrival of European immigrants in the 19th century. On September 11th 2001 the city suffered a shocking attack. Nearly 3000 people died when terrorists deliberately crashed two aeroplanes into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Centre, causing them to collapse. The site is presently known as "Ground Zero". They built a new tower called the Freedom Tower.

Besides Manhattan are four boroughs separated by waterways- the Bronx, Brooklyn, Staten Island and Queens. Bridges, ferries and tunnels link the boroughs. Brooklyn Bridge stretches from Brooklyn to Manhattan. Two rivers surround Manhattan Island- the Hudson River and the East River- and there are several districts and many communities. Greenwich Village, Chelsea and Soho are the artistic areas. Harlem is where the Afro-American community lives. There is China Town and Little Italy. Many Irish people live in New York. Manhattan has a street system which is like a greed. Avenues run from north to south and streets run from east to west. Broadway is a long avenue which runs from south to north and it is where all the theatres are. The New York Stock Exchange is in Wall Street. Manhattan is the most famous city park in the world- Central Park is four km long and is an area where New Yorkers can relaxed from the stresses of city life. Today New York is a forest of skyscrapers- the Empire State Building, the Chrysler Building. It is the World’s most important business, financial and cultural center. It is a city that never sleeps.

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New York City has five areas called “ Boroughs”. The Bronx is the only borough not standing on an island. Rap and hip hop were born here. Brooklyn is the most populous borough and was a separate city until 1898. It has a long beach called “Coney Island”. Manhattan is the most densely populated borough and is famous for its skyscrapers, including the Empire State Building. Central Park business and financial centers the MoMA, which is the one of the largest museums in the world, elegant shops and ethnic areas like Chinatown and Little Italy are also in Manhattan. Queens a residential area was originally a group of towns and villages founded by Dutch. Staten Island is connected to Brooklyn by the Verrazzano- Narrows Bridge and to Manhattan via the Staten Island Ferry.

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THE BIG APPLE

There are various teories who says where does this nickname comes from.

One says it comes from the vendors of apples at the corner of the streets during the Great Depression.

Another suggests that it comes from the title of a 1938 film about New York's ballroom dancers.

A third one says it was the name of a popular night club where people enjoyed listening to jazz music in the 1930s and '40s.

THE MELTING POT

About 8.000.000 people from all over the World live in NY City. New Yorkers, in fact, speak more than 170 languages, not only English, there are too 270 newspapers in more than 40 languages. For this reason we say NY is a melting pot of different cultures living side by side and that there is no typical New York resident.

This mix of nationalities has meant that NY's food is as varied as its inhabitants; for example Italian food made the city famous for Pizza, or the street food not include only hotdogs, from Germany, but also Middle Eastern foods such as kebabs.

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Lady Liberty is a sculpture on Liberty island in New York harbour; she is the roman goddess of freedom and she had the broken chains of tyranny at her feet.

The statue is a gift from France to the USA for the 100th anniversary of Independence, in memory of their alliance during the American Revolution, they gave the statue to them in 1886.

Frédéric-Auguste Bartholdi designed the sculpture. The seven rays of her crown symbolise the seven seas and the seven continents, the torch in her right hand is a symbol of Liberty. Inside there are 356 steps and 25 viewing windows in the crown.

On the tablet in her hand it says 4th, July, 1776.

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New York is an international centre of music, dance and visual art; it has more than 500 art galleries, for example: Guggenheim Museum, the Museum of Modern Art.

There is also the Lincoln Centre for the Performing Arts, the Carniage Hall and the Radio City Music Hall (The largest indoor theatre in the world where the people can enjoy special events).

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At 8:46 a.m. of 11th September 2001 a plane crashed into the north tower of the World Trade Center in Manhattan, New York. Seventeen minutes later, a second plane crashed into the south tower. The two towers were the tallest skyscrapers in New York. People called them "Twin towers" because they were almost identical.

They were over 415 metres high, and they had 110 floor. About 50.000 people worked in the towers and around annother 200.000 people visited them every day.

A short time after the plane hit the towers, they collapsed. More than 2700 people died, including 343 firefighters. The victims came from more than 50 differents countries. The attack left a big hole in the centre of Manhattan; this hole was called "Ground Zero".

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https://youtu.be/h3fUgOKFMNU?feature=shared

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New York in 8K ULTRA HD - Capital of Earth (60FPS)

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11 settembre per non dimenticare - Porta a porta 11/09/2018

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Ground Zero quikly became a symbolic place.

Every years, on 11th September, families of the victims, survivors, and other New York residents go to memorial ceremonies. They remember the victims and have moments of silence to mark when the planes hit the towers and when the towers fell.

The people of New York wanted to re-build the area and create an appropriate memorial.

In 2006, they started bulding Memorial Plaza at Ground Zero.

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Memorial Plaza is a park where people can remeber the victims of 11th Septembers. There are two square pools with waterfalls where the Twin Towers stood. The names of the victims are around the pools. The park is very big, with around 400 hundred trees. There is a space for commemorative ceremonies, and also some seats where the peoples can sit quietly. In the park, there is a National Museum. The museum contains objects and pictures to remember the victims and survivors of 11th Septembers. It also includes "The Survivors Stairway". This is an original stairway from the Twin Towers. Many survivors escaped using this stairway and it has become a symbol of hope amd survival

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Stephen Siller was a firefighter in New York. On 11th September 2001, he heard about the attack on the World Trade Centre when he was driving home. He immediately drove to Manhattan. At Brooklyn Battery Tunnel, he stopped. Traffic couldn't enter the tunnel because of attack, so he ran through the tunnel to the Twin Towers because he wanted to help his colleagues. Unfortunately, he and another 342 firefighters died when the towers collapsed.

Every September, more than 20.000 people run or walk through Brooklyn Battery Tunnel to Ground Zero. This is called "The tunnel to Towers Run". The run follows Steven Siller's route on that day. It's 5 km long. The run celebrates the memory of Stephen Siller, the New York firefighters and all of the 11th Septembers victims. After the Run, there is a big celebration, with music, children's activities, performance, food and drink.