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Welcome to New York!In this megalopolis it is impossible to get around to all the interesting places in one day. Therefore, today we offer you the chance to walk around...
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Welcome to New York!In this megalopolis it is impossible to get around to all the interesting places in one day. Therefore, today we offer you the chance to walk around that part of the city which is called Downtown. It is precisely here that the financial power of the American nation is concentrated. The New York Stock Exchange and the Federal Reserve Bank are both located here. In this part of the city it is possible to see many things which are the symbols of New York itself and also of all of America- the Brooklyn bridge, Wall Street and the Statue of Liberty. Museums and plazas will present themselves to you along the way and you will be able to immerse yourself in the history of this place and to come in contact with its artifacts. In this part of the city in 2001 occurred the tragic events of 11 September which shocked all humanity. We will take you to those places which were the epicenter of this events, and visit the memorial to the victims of the attack of September 11.Licenses:Photo Financial District by Daniele Pieroni is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0 _______Podcast based on audio guide Discovering New York City. Downtown and Midtown (2nd part) Author: Travel Communications In the podcast format you may enjoy stories remotely; if you go out and experience the audio tour on location it is adviced to use the izi.TRAVEL application that really guides you and plays stories automaticly based on your position
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Discovering New York City. Downtown and Midtown (2nd part)
Discovering New York City. Downtown and Midtown (2nd part)
23 DEC 2020 · You are standing in front of a 1.45 mile long elevated section of a no longer used railroad spur. In the middle of the last century elevated spurs of the metro seemed to be a great accomplishment of engineering progress. But as time went on and the elevated spurs grew old, it was closed. With time the abandoned elevated began to rust and was threatened with destruction. Then local groups organized a group who took an active participation in its resurrection. But the resurrection was unusual. The old elevated railroad spur was turned into an attractive suspended park, 1.6 km long. At a height of 10 meters there are green lawns, rest areas with chaise lounges, and floral compositions.Walk through the park - you will have an unforgettable experience.With this we conclude this excursion. Thank you for having used our audio-guide.Farewell, until we meet again.Photo High Line Park - New York City - July 09 by David Berkowitz is licensed under CC BY 2.0
23 DEC 2020 · To your left is the Rubin Museum of Art - a museum of Himalayan and Tibetan art. This museum is the largest institution in the United States concerned with the art of Tibet and the Himalayas and its influences on the art of Mongolia, India and Eastern Asia. The basis of the museum collection was the private collection of works of art of Tibet and the Himalayas of Donald Rubin. He began to collect these works of art together with his wife, Shelley, beginning in 1974. The first piece obtained for the collection was the tanka - the white tare. A tanka is a picture on religious themes painted with adhesive paints onto cloth. On these can be seen fanged gods, skins of elephants, necklaces from shells and much more. In 1998 the Rubins acquired the building of the bankrupt Barney's Department store to house the collection and museum. The building was completely rebuilt for the museum. Only the original spiral staircase was preserved.Today in the museum stores there are 2,000 exhibits: sculpture, textiles, paintings, ritual object, manuscripts, graphic papers and other things.Photo NZA_0714 by Edward Blake is licensed under CC BY 2.0
23 DEC 2020 · To your left is a small brown colored house. As a house it is not very significant. But in this house in 1858 the famous politician and 26th president of the United States, Theodore (Teddy) Roosevelt was born.Unfortunately, the original building was demolished because of dilapidation and in 1919 - the year of Roosevelt's death - a new one was rebuilt. In the house there are 5 rooms dedicated to the various periods of the life of Roosevelt.A half-hour long film which you can see at the beginning of the museum discusses the early years of the life of the future president. In those years, little Teddy had poor health and received an education at home. In the exhibits of the museum are things belonging to the Roosevelt family and other exhibits concerning that era. Special interest is taken in the exhibit of the glasses case which saved the life of Theodore Roosevelt at the time of an assassination attempt on 14 October 1912. He was shot just before giving an election speech at a Milwaukee hotel. Because of the thick text for the 90 minute speech and the glasses case in his pocket, the bullet did not strike any vital organ. The president finished the speech with the bullet in his breast where it remained for the rest of his life. You may if you wish, take a free excursion through the museum.Photo Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace from west by Beyond My Ken is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0
23 DEC 2020 · We are now located at Union Square. The square was built in the 1830's. It was built at the "union" of several main roads- hence the name. Later the Square obtained another notoriety - it became the place for political demonstrations and protests. For instance, at the time of the Great Depression 35,000 jobless men gathered here in a demonstration to demand work. In the central part of the Square are monuments to famous people: Abraham Lincoln, Marquis de Lafayette, and Mahatma Gandhi. The most striking monument is the bronze statue of George Washington - the first monument erected in New York after independence from Britain.Four times a week the square is opened for a farmer's market, attracting residents and tourists with its choice produce: maple syrup candies, Amish cheeses, fresh mollusks and many other things. You should try to go there and enjoy some of the produce!Photo Union Square . . . by David Robert Bliwas is licensed under CC BY 2.0
23 DEC 2020 · To your right is the building of the New Museum of Contemporary Art. The very building is striking and surprising in itself. It is possible that you, like many others, are asking yourself the question, "How do these concrete pieces stay together and not fall?" Of course explanation is engineering. The building of the museum was built by the design of the Japanese architectural firm SANAA. The building is unique not only in its external appearance. Notice that there are practically no windows. In the evening after sunset inside the great Hall thousands of lamps are lit and it seems that the large building is hung on a pillow of light.The museum was founded in 1977 by Marcia Tucker who had worked as the curator of paintings and sculpture in the Whitney Museum of American Art.The collection of the museum has art works created from the end of the 20th Century to the beginning of the 21st Century. Every year in the New Museum there are no less than 6 large exhibits and include several personal exhibitions.Here you can find works of Jeff Koons, Ana Mendieta, William Kentridge and Andrea Zittel.Photo The New Museum of Contemporary Art by Jules Antonio is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0
23 DEC 2020 · On your right side is the Italian American Museum. The museum is located in a former bank which had been established on Mulberry Street in 1885. The bank fulfilled not only basic banking functions but also was a link uniting immigrants with relatives who had stayed in Italy. In the bank building were also located a telegraph office, a post office and a tourist office.The museum opened its doors to visitors in 2001. The exhibits of the museum relate to the history of Italians in America. Having visited the museum, you will be able to plunge yourself into the history of Little Italy, its distinctive atmosphere brought by Italians from their distant homeland.The museum we have just mentioned is not located here by accident. Around Mulberry street is an area called Little Italy. The borders of Little Italy in prior times came up against those of Chinatown. At the end of the 19th century the region was bigger, because through the Immigration Center on Ellis Island the greatest percentage of immigrants were Italians. There were more than 2.5 million of them.On the streets of Little Italy drift aromas of coffee, salami and pizza. The facades of buildings and the street lights are decorated with the national colors of Italy - red, white and green. If you have come to New York in September, you must visit Little Italy on 19 September. On that day neighborhood joyously celebrates the feast day of St. Januarius. The statue of Saint Januarius is carried reverently through the main streets of the region for the next ten days of the festival and Little Italy is turned into a bustling carnival sea. In the years of the Great Depression all the famous Mafiosi of New York lived in Little Italy and most liked to spend a great deal of time in Umberto's Clam restaurant (178 Mulberry Street). The atmosphere of the Italian district is well shown in the films The Godfather, The Godfather 2 and Mean Streets. Additionally in the film, The Godfather 2 it is possible to see the Immigration Center on Ellis Island.Photo Little Italy by Nikolas Moya is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0
23 DEC 2020 · Together we have entered New York Chinatown. It is one of the largest enclaves of Chinese outside of Asia. The population is approximately 150,000.There are records that the first Chinese arrived in New York in 1825. Within 35 years in lower Manhattan there are already 150 Chinese working as cooks, sailors and salesmen. Several of them maintained cheap hotels or flop houses. After the construction of the Pacific Ocean Railroad several thousand Asians settled here, having worked on the construction of the railroad. They settled basically in the Five Corners neighborhood in these flophouses of which today nothing remains. This was the poorest region of the city. The cheap labor force came into competition with Americans already living there.In order to better imagine the character and life of this period, it is worth seeing the film by director Martin Scorsese, the Gangs of New York, about the Five Corners neighborhood in 1863. At the time of economic decline in the 1870's there occurred anti-Chinese demonstrations. Because of these, a law preventing the immigration of Chinese was enacted, the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882. The act was strengthened several times. Therefore, the largest portion of the new immigrants began to move to the United States only after the Second World War and the repeal of the Exclusion Act in 1943. In the early 1890's this region was the site of real gang wars between Chinese gangs or tongs; which ended only by the intervention of the police.Now this is an extraordinarily interesting neighborhood. As it has happens, many of its inhabitants never learned English and never leave Chinatown. More than 600 businesses and more than 300 restaurants provide work to the inhabitants of Chinatown. Here there are halls for playing mahjong, pharmacies selling Chinese herbal medicines and special banks.Chinatown is fairly large and we are going with you only along one of its main streets. If you want to stroll through it further, you should definitely visit Mott Street - it was on this street that the first Chinese settled. The most interesting part of Chinatown is located at Grand Street and Canal Street. Here you will be immersed in the atmosphere of Chinese and Vietnamese stores with golden decorations, and souvenirs including imitation Louis Vuitton fashion-ware. On Baxter and Elizabeth Streets you will find stores filled with fish candies, dried squid, sea weeds, beaver paws, green tea and unusual sauces. In the fish shops can be found an amazing variety of fish, and even barrels of live frogs and turtles.Photo Facade in Chinatown, New York by Martin Solli is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0
23 DEC 2020 · In front of you is the building of the New York City Hall. The first city hall was built by the Dutch in the middle of the 17th century for New Amsterdam. Later, the city hall at the beginning of the 18th century was housed in the new administrative building on Wall Street, now called Federal Hall. We have already discussed this building with you. But several years later in 1810 a decision was to taken to build a new building for the City Hall.A competition for design was announced and was won by two talented architects, the American John McComb, Jr. and the Frenchman Joseph Francois Mangin. For their best submission, they received the enormous prize of 350 dollars. The administration of the city moved into the new building in 1812. Now excursions are held in City Hall, in which you will be able to see the grand marble hall, the office of the governor and admire the panoramic view of the Brooklyn Bridge.Photo New York - City Hall by Roger W is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0
23 DEC 2020 · Turn around and look behind. Alongside the pedestrian crosswalk by which you crossed the street rises the impressive skyscraper, the Woolworth building. The building was completed in 1913 commissioned by F. W. Woolworth. Perhaps the person of Frank Woolworth is even more impressive than the building. He was a "self made man" as they say. The unique feature of his personality is that his deficiency - an intense bashfulness - was turned into an advantage. This is what happened. Woolworth was born and grew up in the country but at age 21 he decided that country life was not for him and he wanted something bigger. From his parent's home he went to the small town of Watertown, New York and found work as a salesman in a small store. But unfortunately, Frank was completely inappropriate for the job of a salesman. He was very bashful, diffident and often severely stuttered. The owner of the store decided one day to let him go. But he decided to give Frank one last chance and entrusted to him the charge to work alone in the store all day. Depending on the outcome the owner would decide to allow him to continue working at the store or not. Frank did not lose courage. On that day he hung all the goods a small tag with the minimal price of the object. All the goods that were lying in the warehouse he placed in the store window and placed them with the price of 5 cents. In several hours all the goods had been purchased. What is surprising about this you ask? Today clearance sales occur everywhere.But at that time in all stores, the salesmen showed merchandise at the request of the client and told the client the price depending on the appearance and conduct of the client. In addition to that, the salesman was supposed to praise the merchandise, but for the bashful Frank that did not work. He had found a way to solve the assignment given to him by his boss.By this Frank Woolworth brought about a revolution in merchandising. You will probably be interested to know that it was precisely Frank Woolworth who introduced the practice of decorating stores for Christmas. Thanks to this man, the process of buying merchandise was turned into what we now call shopping in the generally accepted sense.Frank himself became very wealthy. And when he had made a large fortune, he decided on an ambitious undertaking - to build a building and give it his name. As an extraordinary person, he wanted the building to be special and the highest building in the world.As you can see, this skyscraper is faced externally with a novelty of that time - ceramic terra-cotta cream colored tiles. The three lower floors are finished in granite and sandstone. In the main vestibule the walls are finished in Greek marble, on the second floor the arcades of the gallery are finished in bronze. Two years after its construction at the Panama-Pacific Exhibition the skyscraper received the gold medal as the "most beautiful building built for a commercial purpose." Woolworth had his office built on the 28th floor. The office was finished in green marble from Northern Italy. In the center of the office stood a large writing table covered in green leather.After the death of the millionaire, his empire collapsed, but the beautiful building still stands and reminds us of the great and fortunate man who "made himself."Photo Woolworth Building by Phil Roeder is licensed under CC BY 2.0
23 DEC 2020 · To your left is the small Chapel of St. Paul. It is located not far from the prior World Trade Center and survived that horrible day due to a miracle or a happy accident. Many believe that it was saved due to the trees in front which absorbed the shock waves.Here psychological assistance was offered to those injured and distraught by the attack, and it later became a fundamental site for commemoration of the dead. The Chapel of St. Paul is the oldest surviving church building in New York. It was completed in 1766 in the Georgian style as a chapel of Trinity Church. It is also famous for the fact that after his inauguration, George Washington came here to pray.Photo St. Paul's Chapel - New York City by Doug Kerr is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0
Welcome to New York!In this megalopolis it is impossible to get around to all the interesting places in one day. Therefore, today we offer you the chance to walk around...
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Welcome to New York!In this megalopolis it is impossible to get around to all the interesting places in one day. Therefore, today we offer you the chance to walk around that part of the city which is called Downtown. It is precisely here that the financial power of the American nation is concentrated. The New York Stock Exchange and the Federal Reserve Bank are both located here. In this part of the city it is possible to see many things which are the symbols of New York itself and also of all of America- the Brooklyn bridge, Wall Street and the Statue of Liberty. Museums and plazas will present themselves to you along the way and you will be able to immerse yourself in the history of this place and to come in contact with its artifacts. In this part of the city in 2001 occurred the tragic events of 11 September which shocked all humanity. We will take you to those places which were the epicenter of this events, and visit the memorial to the victims of the attack of September 11.Licenses:Photo Financial District by Daniele Pieroni is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0 _______Podcast based on audio guide Discovering New York City. Downtown and Midtown (2nd part) Author: Travel Communications In the podcast format you may enjoy stories remotely; if you go out and experience the audio tour on location it is adviced to use the izi.TRAVEL application that really guides you and plays stories automaticly based on your position
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