New York
Population: 16,626,000
Temp Range: -3 - 24
Record High: 40.9 (July)
Record Low: -18.9 (February)
Average Percipitation High: 112 (Nov)
Average Percipitation Low: 82 (Feb)
Top 3 Albums:
1. "NOW" by Maxwell
2. "Project English" by Juvenile
3. "NOW 7" by various artists
Top 3 Singles:
1. "I'm Real" by Jennifer Lopez
2. "Fallin" by Alicia Keys
3. "Someone to Call My Lover" by Janet Jackson
Music Info Source: Billboard 30-Aug-01
Currency Used: US Dollar (USD)
Major School: Columbia University
Place to Have Fun: Coney Island
Major Landmark: Statue of Liberty
- largest city in the US
- home of the United Nations
- 400 distinct neighbourhoods
- city founded in 1624 by Dutch
- originally called Fort Amsterdam
- English captured it, renamed it New York after the
Duke of York
- Divided into 5 counties (boroughs): Brooklyn,
Queens, the Bronx, Manhattan and Staten Island
- Queens probably most ethnically diverse
community in the world
- Brooklyn on its own is 4th largest city in US
(behind all of NY, LA, CHI)
- Staten Island is overwhelmingly white
- 2 million foreign residents (517 000 Russians,
430 000 Italians
- Central Park: playgrounds, kids zoo, bike and
jogging lanes, sailboat pond, 2 rinks, tennis courts,
baseball diamonds, swimming pool, lake for
row-boating
- Business and financial capital of the world
- Wall Street worlds leading centre in financing
- The Fashion Institute of Technology in Manhattan
is the only school in the world offering a Bachelor of
Science Degree with a Major in Cosmetics and
Fragrance Marketing.
- New York was the first state to require license
plates on cars.
- On July 28, 1945 an Army Air Corps B-25 crashed
into the Empire State Building at the 79th floor level.
- The city morgue in the Bronx, New York gets so
busy sometimes that the next of kin have to take a
number for body identification.