New York in the USA
The principal city of the United States is New York though the country has a capital at Washington DC, which is the seat of power for the rulers of the country. New York is an awe-inspiring city with some of the most important business decisions being made here. New York is said to be the city, which never sleeps – you can feel the pulsating beats of the city late into the nights be it summer, winter, rain or snow. Looking out over the New York harbor is the imposing Statue of Liberty, built way back in 1886 as a commemoration of the Declaration of Independence over a hundred years before the statue was built. The statue was gifted to America by France and represents the victory of justice over oppression. The broken chain at the base of the statue tells that in clear unspoken words.
The Central Park in New York is a big open space of greenery in a city where apartment towers are jostling amongst themselves for space in the crammed lanes and roads of New York. The Central Park is the supplier of the fresh oxygen that the city is in need of and there are at least 25 million visitors to the park each year. The Central Park is a theme park with perfectly landscaped surroundings and built in the late 19th century.
The city of New York also boasts of one of the worlds famous boroughs by the name of Manhattan. This borough in the heart of New York City is home to a number of television and radio companies and a lot of telecommunications companies have set their principal operating offices in this borough. Manhattan is located near the Hudson Bay and is a major financial and commercial hub for the entire country.
One of the worlds busiest and brightest intersections is found in Manhattan. Times Square is the number one tourist attraction in the Unites States and has become a symbol of the City of New York. The New Years's Eve ball drop is the biggest annual event in the city with 1 million party goers turning up every year.
Situated on the intersection of the Fifth Avenue and the West 34th Street, the Empire State Building stands tall with 102 floors of business and commercial offices – it still is the tallest American building today after the tragic fall of the World Trade Center in September 2001. The Empire State Building is replete with many historic events and the first one was that the building was opened at a time when the Great Depression of the 1930s was marauding over the American economy. Floor after floor of business space lay unoccupied, as people were busy tidying up their own houses first with the cash crunch eating in all the savings and profits in American households. The Empire State Building saw a radical change of occupancy levels after the World War II and has since then been considered as a hub of major commercial activities in the country. The building was rammed into on a foggy morning by a fighter pilot who could not see the silhouetted structure against the dense fog and hit it with his fighter jet in 1945. The building erupted into flames and 14 persons lost their lives as a result but the engineers rose to the occasion and reopened the building once again for public use the following Monday.
The Wall Street, renowned throughout the world for the ups and downs of the financial fortunes of some of the world’s greatest companies and banks, is also the home of the New York Stock Exchange. Millions of dollars worth of dealings are closed in the stock exchange everyday and it is said that there is no second stock exchange in the entire world that is capable of handling the volume capacities of share and security transactions in a single day. The New York Stock Exchange is a conglomerate of offices of over a thousand share brokers and dealers and houses the largest stock trading company in the world.
