Book Review 11

NEW YORK

People often call New York ‘The Big Apple’. In the 1920s and 1930s, jazz musicians all wanted to work in New York. ‘There are a lot of apples on the tree,’ they said, ‘but when you take New York City, you take The Big Apple!’ More than twenty million people visit New York every year. Lots of them say it is the most exciting city in the world.
Four hundred years ago, Manhattan Island was the home of the Algonquin Indians. In 1609, a man called Henry Hudson came up the river to Manhattan. He was British but he was on a Dutch ship, The Half Moon. Today the river is called the Hudson River.
There are a lot of things to see in New York and it is easy for the visitor to get to the different parts of the city. The representative things are the New York subway, the straight avenues of New York, New York buses, a yellow cab and the Staten Island ferry.
There are some places to go. They are Chinatown, Little Italy, Greenwich Village and Central Park in Manhattan, and Coney Island in Brooklyn.
The city is full of skyscrapers, and many of them are not very beautiful but some are wonderful, and very modern. The representative things are The Statue of Liberty, The Empire State Building and The United Nations Building.
We can enjoy shopping, eating and entertainment including ballet, sport and museums. We can also enjoy parades. New Yorkers love parades and there is one in some part of the city most months of the year. The representative parades are St Patrick’s Day parade, on 17 March, and Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade.
I have known New York but I have not known the famous place and things, so I am glad to know about New York this time. I want to travel New York someday in the future.
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