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New York holds an estimated 8,584,629 people across 300.46 square miles, which makes it the most densely populated large city in the United States and gives the metropolitan area around it more than 20.1 million residents. The practical thing to understand first is the five boroughs. Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx and Staten Island are each the same shape as a county, and a visitor who treats them as one city will spend the trip on the subway. Manhattan alone will absorb three days without effort. An estimated 800 languages are spoken here, more than in any other city on earth, and that fact is audible on an ordinary block long before it appears in a museum.
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The Statue of Liberty stands on Liberty Island in New York Harbour, a federal site administered by the National Park Service and lying within the territorial jurisdiction of the State of New York, roughly a mile and a half from…
Central Park is a public park of 843 acres in the middle of Manhattan, running from 59th Street to 110th Street between Fifth Avenue and Central Park West — about two and a half miles north to south and half…
The Empire State Building stands at 20 West 34th Street in Midtown Manhattan, and what a visitor buys a ticket for is the observatory inside a working office tower, not the tower itself.
Times Square is a street junction rather than a site with a gate: the point where Broadway cuts diagonally across Seventh Avenue in Midtown Manhattan, widened into a chain of car-free plazas that a visitor walks through rather than enters.
Ellis Island was the first and largest federal immigrant inspection station, and the National Park Service records that over twelve million future Americans passed through it between its opening on 1 January 1892 and its abandonment in 1954.
The Brooklyn Bridge carries road traffic, a pedestrian promenade and a protected bicycle path across the East River between Lower Manhattan and Brooklyn Heights, and it is working city infrastructure rather than a monument with a gate.
Rockefeller Center is a complex of 19 commercial buildings covering 22 acres between 48th and 51st Streets in Midtown Manhattan.
The American Museum of Natural History stands on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, in Theodore Roosevelt Park, directly across Central Park West from Central Park itself.
One World Observatory occupies the 100th, 101st and 102nd floors of One World Trade Center, the tallest building in the Western Hemisphere.
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