Harlem is New York City’s most popular tourist attraction after Wall Street and Times Square , but is still considered a supposedly dangerous black ghetto by tourists, which should only be visited in groups. In fact, crime no longer differs from that in other parts of the city. It has gone back tremendously. In the…
Category: North America
Manhattan (New York) – Global City
New York City, the largest city in the United States, has become something of an icon for modernity, multiculturalism and, more generally, for big city life in the course of the 20th century. In the metropolis at the mouth of the Hudson River, which is rich in bays, all conceivable nationalities, ethnicities and religions are represented by a stream of immigrants that has lasted for centuries. In addition to the descendants of European settlers, millions of Afro-Americans, Hispancs and Asians live here, many of them in their own neighborhoods. The city, which is divided into five districts, has several universities and other educational institutions, internationally renowned museums and important theaters such as the Metropolitan Opera. Despite severe financial crises, for example in 2008/2009, To this day, New York is the undisputed economic center of the United States and the world. A general difference between New York and many major European cities is the chessboard-like floor plan of the streets, which shows the city as not having grown historically, but as planned.
THE CENTER OF NEW YORK
Manhattan is the central part of New York. It is only three kilometers from the United Nations building on the East River across the island to the banks of the Hudson River; Broadway, on the other hand, is a good 25 kilometers long. There is hardly any other place in the world where so many people live and work in such a small space. Every day, commuters from the suburbs and the surrounding districts, the “boroughs”, more than double the number of people in Manhattan – from around 1.6 million to more than 3 million – which corresponds to a population density of around 27,000 and corresponds to a daily population density of almost 51,000 people per square kilometer. This makes Manhattan the most densely populated place in the United States. Its subway network is over 350 kilometers long, has more than 450 stations and transports 1.7 billion passengers a year; this puts it in seventh place worldwide. In addition, 20 railroad lines run from the main railway stations at Grand Central Station and Pennsylvania Station to the suburbs of the three states of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut, to which they transport several 100,000 passengers every day.
CITY ARCHITECTURE AND SKYSCRAPERS
The construction of skyscrapers and the sometimes gigantic bridge structures were favored by the rocky, glacial subsoil on which New York stands. From a structural point of view, steel girder structures and elevators were the decisive inventions that made the construction of high-rise buildings possible in the late 19th century. The Woolworth Building, built on Broadway in 1913, was the tallest building in the world with its 241 meters until 1930. Also on Broadway, the Equitable Building followed in 1915, which for the first time took up an entire vertical block and thus provoked a storm of protest. As a result, the “Zoning Laws” were created, according to which – except in the riverside regions – high-rise buildings could only be built upwards so that more light could get into the streets. For more information about the continent of North America, please check physicscat.com.
Jacksonville, Florida
Jacksonville may not be the most famous city in Florida. Whether that is an advantage or a disadvantage depends on the perspective. Holidaymakers who would like to get to know the authentic life of a city would definitely be in good hands in Jacksonville. Not only because this city is not (yet) flooded by tourists….
EPCOT, Florida
EPCOT, the “Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow”, is a theme park with a mixture of entertainment and information and is aimed primarily at adult visitors. But children will also find plenty of fun here. For a long time, the “Epcot” theme park was the least typical within the Walt Disney World Resort near Orlando, Florida….
Tours to Panama
Tours to Panama is a journey to a fairy tale, which is located between South and North America on the coast of the warm Caribbean Sea. Natural protected areas and many National Parks, the unique flora and fauna of the island, the world-famous Indian settlement of Embera-Wounaan, almost 3 thousand kilometers of the cleanest beaches…
Cayo Santa Maria and Cayo Largo, Cuba
CAYO SANTA MARIA The island is located in the Atlantic Ocean near the islands of Cayo Coco and Cayo Guillermo, opposite the northern coast of the province of Villa Clara. The island is only 13 km long and 2 km wide. Cayo Santa Maria is connected to the mainland by a causeway 48.6 km long….
United States Literature – The Epoch of Reason
Political literature “We hold these truths self-evident. All men are created equal “: thus, with a logic in which it is not difficult to recognize the echo of philosophers such as J. Locke and the Rousseau of the ‘social contract’, begins the Declaration of Independence, formulated in 1776 by T. Jefferson. In its most significant expressions, the…
U.S. National Consciousness – The Nation and the States (1815-1840)
The war of 1812-14 was for the United States almost a second war of independence, in the sense, at least, that since then they have learned to free themselves from extr-American ties, to live a life of nation that no longer subordinates its action to the reasons of the great European rivalries. For a century,…
United States Work Law
The relations between employers and workers were completely transformed throughout the Western world by what is known in England as the industrial revolution, the application of new types of motive power, steam and electricity, to the production of goods and the consequent concentration of work in large plants and factories. This revolution occurred after the…
Nicaragua Travel: Lakes and Volcanoes Everywhere
The revolutionary songs, which are still fervently sung, and the wall paintings in cities such as León and Estelí, remind us that people once fought for freedom here. In the meantime you can adapt to the rhythm of the Nicas on a trip to Nicaragua, stroll leisurely through the streets of the pretty colonial cities,…
Best Time to Visit St Lucia
St Lucia climate According to pharmacylib, St Lucia is part of the Lesser Antilles archipelago in the Caribbean. That climate of the island of St Lucia is humid tropical, the temperatures fluctuate only slightly over the course of the year. Due to the proximity of the equator, it is relatively hot on St Lucia, but…