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History of New York City
Knowing the history of New York can make your
vacation come alive. Europe’s first contact with this
area occurred in 1524, when Italian explorer Giovanni de
Verrazano viewed New York from the base of
Manhattan. The Dutch settled New York first, after
explorer Henry Hudson lent his name to the world's
largest tidal river. In 1625, six farms called "bouweries"
were started in Manhattan.
The next year, Governor Peter Minuet purchased
Manhattan from the Native Americans for $24 worth of
trinkets. By 1640, the predominately Dutch New Amsterdam
(as it was then called) was teeming with the diversity
of the New World, as the tolerant Dutch welcomed all.
Touring New York City
New York, is a city of contrasts, diversity and
culture. Leave John F. Kennedy
Airport or La
Guardia Airport and drive your rental car to
Wall Street or to the
United Nations where the world’s most powerful
and influential men and women prize success in New York
above all other places. Its population comes from every
country in the world, bringing a variety of culture and
viewpoints. However, above all else New York has always
been about money and ambition.
After you land at the Kennedy
International Airport drive your
rental car in to New
York City which is arguably the world's most
vibrant and sprawling metropolis. It occupies five
boroughs, each with its own distinct identity. Before
the historic 1898 consolidation,
Manhattan, Brooklyn, The Bronx, Queens and Staten Island
were each independent cities.
Once you land at either JFK
Airport or La
Guardia Airport rent a car and drive into
Manhattan, home to the most recognizable sites and the
key identity of what
"New York City" is. New York’s oldest historic area
is the Wall Street area. It is here where George
Washington was inaugurated as the
first
President of the United States. Wall Street
investment banks coexist with landmarks like Trinity
Church which you can visit in your
rental van. Battery Park draws people for its
panoramic views of the harbor and the
Statue Of Liberty.
After you drive in from JFK,
Tour Greenwich Village, a place that is still
the home to artistic free spirits. Edna St. Vincent
Millay and playwright Eugene O'Neill as well as numerous
others lived in
Greenwich Village. New York University students
gather in
Washington Square Park and a diverse array of shops,
bars and
music clubs exist down Seventh Avenue and
along Bleecker Street.
Tour the Asian restaurants, grocery stores and souvenier
shops in your
rental SUV after you leave La Guardia Airport (LGA),
that are along the crowded streets of Chinatown.
Dim Sum and other favorite Chinese cuisine lure
diners on practically every corner.
Italian
Restaurants New York draw tourists to this
lively neighborhood surrounding Mulberry Street in
Little Italy. You can take your
rental van from
John F. Kennedy International Airport to The Feast
of San Gennaro which still welcomes its throngs but park
your car and walk through the Feast once you get there.,
It is a neighborhood which is fast being surrounded by
nearby Chinatown.
Continue your tour by stopping at the Flatiron
Building is on 23rd Street. It is a district marked
by loft spaces to the west and pre-war residences to the
east. More than a century after their construction, the
apartment buildings and townhouses around
Gramercy Park remain coveted addresses. By the
way the term "23-skiddoo" comes from standing on the
corner of 23rd Street and Fifth Avenue where the
wind whistles.
As the name implies, Midtown is right in the middle of
everything. When you take the car you rent from
LGA, La Guardia Airport,
you may not be sure where Midtown begins (most would say
somewhere in the 30s), but most agree it stops around
Central Park.
Publishing houses, financial firms, import/export
companies and the Seventh Avenue garment trade all do
business here. You can find a number of eateries like
the Hard Rock Cafe.
Trump Tower entices shoppers and tourists, along with
all those fabulous stores along Fifth Avenue, Bergdorf's
and Saks Fifth
Avenue. You'll find Ice skaters at Rockefeller
Center and in the middle of it all is St. Patrick's
Cathedral.
Many New Yorkers miss the almost-gone seediness of
Times Square, as the Disney Store and other
stores have moved in. However, most people begrudgingly
admit that it is better this way. Tourists,
who've driven their rental cars in to the Times Square
area from
John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK) or
La Guardia Airport (LGA),
adore everything from souvenir shops to enormous
billboards and Broadway musicals.
Fifth, Park and Madison have always been up-scale. You
will want to take your
luxury rental
car to see the gilded mansions of yesterday or
the area’s hi-rise modern apartments, where old money or
nouveau riche, have long existed side by side. Shops to
serve them line Madison Avenue, while Gap Kids coexists
with art galleries and antique shops.
After leaving Kennedy International Airport or
La Guardia Airport, visit
Harlem whic has long been national epicenter of
African-American culture. It was home to the Harlem
Renaissance, one of this country’s most influential
artistic, literary and cultural movement. It has since
seen some of New York’s worst poverty and crime. Now,
however, Harlem is benefiting from a booming
economy, as rents rise and tourists come to visit the
jazz clubs and Southern restaurants.
Drive your rental car to Brooklyn after you land
at La Guardia Airport, which stretches from
Coney Island, known for its boardwalk to upscale
Brooklyn Heights. But wherever Brooklynites hail from,
they remain a largely proud lot. They can boast of the
Prospect Park and the Brooklyn Botanic Garden the
Brooklyn Bridge, the Brooklyn Museum of Art,
and a growing restaurant scene. And there is nothing
like a strong Brooklyn accent.
As your tour continues, take a trip to The Bronx
which boasts the Yankees at Yankee Stadium, and
one of the nation’s finest zoos,
The Queens Zoo, and the extraordinary
Bronx Botanical
Garden.
Staten Island is probably best known for the Staten
Island Ferry. You can take your
rental car from La Guardia Airport (LGA) or
John F. Kennedy International
Airport (JFK) to Staten Island and you would never
know you're in a large city. There are houses,
countryside, parks and even a working farm on its
island. Take your rental car and cross the river from
Manhattan to
Staten Island on the
Staten Island Ferry.
All in all, New York City is truly one of the most
interesting cities in the world.
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