New York Oral Anglais

New York is the principal town of the United States situated on the east coast. With its more than eighty million of inhabitants, Its nickname is the big apple or “the city that never sleeps”. The name given to the tall buildings is skyscrapers. New York was first called New Amsterdam. There are 5 boroughs in New York : their names are Queens, Manhattan, Brooklyn, Staten Island and Bronx.

The Statue of Liberty was created in 1886.by Frederic Auguste Bartholdi and Gustave Eiffel sculpted .

The Statue of Liberty was an important symbol for immigrants in the 19th century ; It is on Liberty Island. The immigrants stopped at Ellis Island before entering the United States. Wall Street is the home of the New York Stock Exchange. The name given to the World Trade Center is the twin towers but they were destroyed by terrorists in September 11th 2001.

The term used to describe the site now is Ground Zero. The Hudson river separates New York City from the state of New Jersey. Baseball is most popular sport. The 5th Avenue is considered as one of the main shopping streets in the world. In New York there are big monuments: the Statue of Liberty, Empire State Building.

Its main theaters are : Shubert, Imperial. Its main museums are : Guggenheim and the Met. There are two famous bridges : the Verrazano Bridge and the Brooklyn Bridge. In Mahnattan, there are lots of districts: Little Italy,Chinatown,Harlem...

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