City of NY

· New York is subdivided into five boroughs; in descending order of area, the boroughs are Queens, Brooklyn, Staten Island, the Bronx, and Manhattan; almost all of the Bronx is situated on the mainland, but the other boroughs are situated on, or comprise, islands; in all, New York comprises some 50 islands
· when looking on the city plan, streets lay horizontally and avenues vertically; the exception is Broadway, which predates the plan and lays irregularly
Boroughs :
Queens – there are two international airports – La Guardia and John F. Kennedy, both are major air-cargo terminals
Bronx – famousfor the International Wildlife Conservation Park (commonly known as the Bronx Zoo), one of the world’s largest, and an Yankee Stadium, home of the New York Yankees professional baseball team
Brooklyn – the most populous borough of New York City
Neighbourhoods :
Harlem – home to a predominantly black and Puerto Rican population, during the 1920s, black culture exploded on to the scene with the Harlem Renaissance movement in literature and with jazz
Greenwich Village – began to attract artists, writers, actors, and political theorists from all parts of America and Europe, and continues to provide a focus for café life
Chinatown – where Chinese immigrants began to settle in the 1850s
SoHo – a former warehouse and factory district