Lucie Syrová

*New York City

*Obsah

*General facts

*History

*Manhattan

*Culture

*Shopping & sports

*General facts

*most populous city in the United States

*the Big Apple

*five boroughs – The Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens, and Staten Island

*population over 8,000,000

*the East river, the Hudson river

*History

*16th century – Algonquin tribes

*1609 Henry Hudson (the Dutch East Indian Company)

*1624 fur trading settlement

*New Amsterdam

*1626 Manhattan purchased from the Native Americans

*1664 New Amsterdam = English colony New York

*Manhattan

*skyline

*first streets – Broadway, Wall Street, the Bowery

*beginning of 19th century – grid system

*rectangular streets (south – east) and avenues (south – north)

*Broadway – almost diagonally south - east

*beginning of 20th century – Central Park, major thoroughfares

*Culture

*the Theater District – Broadway (Off-Broadway, Off-Off-Broadway)

*Museum Mile – Fifth Avenue (e.g. Guggenheim Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art)

*MoMA

*Carnegie Hall, Metropolitan Opera House

*Rockefeller Center – Radio City Music Hall

*shopping*Bloomingdale`s

*Macy`s – Thanksgiving Day Parade

*Fifth Avenue - the "most expensive street in the world"

*sports*the NY Mets, the NY Yankees

– baseball

*the NY Giants, the NY Jets – NFL

*the NY Rangers – hockey

*US Open – Flushing Meadows

*the NY Marathon

*Seznam použitých zdrojů

*New York City. In: Wikipedia: the free encyclopedia [online]. San Francisco (CA): Wikimedia Foundation, 2001- [cit. 2013-05-28]. Dostupné z: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City

*Photos* PLOTZ. NYC taxis. In: Wikipedia: the free encyclopedia [online]. San Francisco

(CA): Wikimedia Foundation, 2001- [cit. 2013-05-28]. Dostupné z: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:NYC_taxis.JPG

*RUMMELL. Birdseye view of Lower Manhattan. In: Wikipedia: the free encyclopedia [online]. San Francisco (CA): Wikimedia Foundation, 2001- [cit. 2013-05-28]. Dostupné z: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Birdseye_view_of_Lower_Manhattan_by_Rummell,_Richard,_ca_1914.jpg

*BLOFELD. Location map United States Manhattan. In: Wikipedia: the free encyclopedia [online]. San Francisco (CA): Wikimedia Foundation, 2001- [cit. 2013-05-28]. Dostupné z: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Location_map_United_States_Manhattan.png

*CHANGDAEY. The Lion King at the Minskoff theatre. In: Wikipedia: the free encyclopedia [online]. San Francisco (CA): Wikimedia Foundation, 2001- [cit. 2013-05-28]. Dostupné z: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:%22The_Lion_King_at_the_Minskoff_theatre,_Mar._2013%22.jpg

* STRAND. Macys dep store. In: Wikipedia: the free encyclopedia [online]. San Francisco (CA): Wikimedia Foundation, 2001- [cit. 2013-05-28]. Dostupné z: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Macys_dep_store.JPG

* POSTDLF. 2005 New York City Marathon. In: Wikipedia: the free encyclopedia [online]. San Francisco (CA): Wikimedia Foundation, 2001- [cit. 2013-05-28]. Dostupné z: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:2005_New_York_City_Marathon.jpg