New York City

New York City

in English: New York) is the highest city in population density in the United States [1], and)

the city is the largest city in the state of New York in the United States and the most influential in various fields such as trade, finance, media, art, fashion, science and technology, education and entertainment, is also considered New York City one of the most important trade and financial centers in the world, they are economic capital of the United States to the large number of international companies and banks where, and there are United Nations Headquarters [2] and the stock market index and the Dow Jones Industrial Average. New York City is described as the cultural and economic capital of the world. [3] [4] [5] [6] [7]

Of the most famous neighborhoods: Manhattan and the Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens and Staten Island. The famous street called Broadway, which held many theatrical performances from Central Park and one of the largest parks in the world.

The roots of New York City dating back to 1624 the year where it was created as a trading center by the settlers of the Dutch Republic, has been the new renamed Amsterdam in 1626. General [8] The city and surrounding areas and underwent to English control in 1664 and was renamed New York after the establishment of Charles II, King England to grant land to his brother, the Duke of York. [9] [10] New York

and was the capital of the United States from the year 1785 until 1790

New York has buildings of various architectural designs, where he designed in the form of boxes floor by or two floors and roof sloping wooden buildings there, and see this style of houses in the Brooklyn area dating back to the year 1656, as there are in the city with the design of buildings more modern Knatahat clouds characterized by by New York City and especially Manhattan, the Empire State Building is the tallest buildings of New York and the most important. Now under construction, the World Trade Center 1 which is known as the Freedom Tower at ground zero, which was established on the ruins of the World Trade Center after the events of September 11, 2001 area

Parks [edit]

There in New York nearly 28,000 acres (110 km 2) of parkland and 14 miles (23 km) of public beaches [11], and the New York parks: Central Park and Prospect Park and Flushing Meadows-Corona Park and Forest Park and Washington Square Park and Pelham Bay Park, which is New York's largest gardens with 

an area of ​​2,700 acres. [12]

New York's population consists mainly of immigrants throughout the ages, it is two hundred residents in 1626 the number of New Yorkers jumped to about a thousand years in 1656 following the arrival of the British, Germans and Scandinavians. In the year 1800 the population of 60,000 people stood and was mostly British, then flocked Between 1850 and 1860 the Germans and Irish in large numbers doubled the population 10 times, and at the end of the nineteenth century resulted in the influx of Eastern Europeans and Italians to figure doubled three times, and when the quota into law income Application to repel immigration during the twenties accept blacks on the city south of the United States in large numbers from reaching number 5.2 million residents, and in the year 1990 as the number of New Yorkers born abroad by 30% as a result of the influx of refugees south-east Asia and the Caribbean, Africa, South America and Central Islands ago sixties. [15]

Christianity is the predominant religion in the city and up the percentage of Christians around 63% of the city's population, [16] and come Romanian Catholic Church in the introduction to the Christian communities (36%), followed by Protestant churches (26%). [17] Judaism followed with nearly 1.1 million Jew (8%) lives in New York City, of whom more than half a million lives in Brooklyn. [18] [19] solves Islam in third place (2%) and range from the number of Muslims by various estimates between 600,000-1,000,000 people, is noteworthy that 10% of public school students in the city of Muslims. [20] There is the presence of the followers of Hinduism and Buddhism different religious groups in the city, as well as atheists and Adinyin who make up 19% of the city's population.