Five key stones of New York City

Travel & Leisure

  • Author Christina Xio
  • Published November 25, 2010
  • Word count 548

The world’s largest city New York consists of five boroughs or sections. Each borough is the home to hundreds of distinguished unique neighborhoods, almost all of them with a definable history and character to convey the feeling of thousands of families residing here. If the boroughs could be granted the status of independent cities, four of them namely Brooklyn, Queens, Manhattan, and the Bronx would be ranked among the ten most populous cities in the United States, without any hard effort.

Brooklyn has ensured its presence is dominated feature on the western tip of the city and it became an official part of the city in 1898. Brooklyn has always been distinctive for its cultural, social ethnic diversity, an independent art scene, neighborhoods and architectural heritage. It is the second borough with a distinct downtown neighborhood. This section of the city features a long beachfront property. Manhattan is the highly populated sector of the city, with the Central Park and with the majority of the city's skyscrapers, being a part of it. It is the main financial center of the grand city and is home to the United Nations, some important universities, and also residing a large stock of many culturally diverse attractions.

Queens is geographically the largest portion of the city, which is the most ethnically diverse county in the whole of the United States. It is predicted by experts that Queens might overrun Brooklyn as the city's densely populated borough due to its immense proportionality of growth. Originally it was a collection of small towns and villages founded by the Dutch traders in 1600s; today the borough has maintained its status as a residential to the middle class. Queens also sites the Citi Field, the home of the New York Mets, and annually hosts the grand and highly speculated event U.S. Open tennis tournament. It has two of the three major airports serving the New York city, namely LaGuardia Airport and John F. Kennedy International Airport.

Staten Island is truly an island present in the city and is connected to Brooklyn by the historic land mark known as the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge and to Manhattan by Staten Island Ferry. The Staten Island Ferry is one of the highly rated tourist attractions in the massive New York City as it is unique part of the city which provides the highly desired views of the Statue of Liberty, Ellis Island, and lower Manhattan. The 2,500 acres Greenbelt has some 28 miles of walking trails and is the only remaining undisturbed forests in the city. Functional since 1984 in order to protect the island's natural lands, the Greenbelt is composed of seven city parks. The Bronx is the most northern borough, home to the only largest cooperatively owned housing complex in the America, the famous Co-op City. The Bronx is the only section of the city that falls in place as a part of the American mainland. It is home to the all time famous and entertaining Bronx Zoo. It is officially the largest zoo in the whole of United America; it covers an area up to 265 acres and resides over 6,000 animals. The Bronx is the mentioned as the homeland to rap and hip hop culture. Staten Island has been declared as the most suburban defined in character between in the five.

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