New York attracts people from all over the world. If you look at the newspapers that people around you are reading, you will see that one person is reading a newspaper in Spanish, another in Arabic, still others in Chinese, French, Russian, Italian, and so on. New York was always a city of immigrants. It still is.
New York, one of the largest and most exciting cities in the world, is situated in the mouth of the Hudson River, where it empties into the Atlantic Ocean, and consists of five parts, called boroughs: Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, Bronxand Staten Island. But it is of course its central part, the borough of Manhattan, that most people think of when they think of New York.
Manhattan is an island 13 miles long and 2 miles wide. It is the centre of American finance, advertising, art, theatre, publishing, fashion – everything else.
Manhattan is divided into the East Side and the West Side. The dividing line is Fifth Avenue. All streets that cross Fifth Avenue are also divided into two parts, that is they have, for example, West 5th Street and East 5th Street, West 11th Street and East 11th Street, and so on. The part of, say, 26th Street that goes west of Fifth Avenue is called West 26th Street, the part going east of Fifth Avenue – East 26th Street.
Manhattan is also divided into Lower (Downtown) Manhattan, Midtown,andUpper (Uptown) Manhattan. The numbers of the streets begin in Lower (Downtown) Manhattan and get higher as you go north. Lower (Downtown) Manhattanis the southern part of the island, nearest the Atlantic Ocean, up to 14th Street. Midtown is the area between 14th Streetand Central Park. Upper (Uptown) Manhattanis the remaining, northernpart of the island.
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