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The Awesome City of New_York
By:Hannah Rollmaker

"The City That Never Sleeps", this is how people commonly remember the city of New York. This city is the most heavily populated city of the United States of America. The city alone is normally known as New York City and it is named like this so that people can differentiate it from the State of New York inside which New York City is located.

Location wise it is located on the North East side of United States of America. According to 2007 estimates and statistics the population is over 8 million New Yorkers. The total covered area of the city is round about 470 square miles.

There are lot of land marks, monuments and many other places to visit. Out of these landmarks some of the commonly known is "The Statue of Liberty" which has now become a symbol of the city. Also Wall Street is very famous as it is home for the New York Stock Exchange, The Empire State Building, and the destructed "TwinTowers" of the WorldTradeCenter. New York City receives almost 47 million tourists who belong from United States f America and also all parts of the world.

Climate wise New York City is relatively humid as the city and receives about 250 days of sunshine throughout the year. Summers are very hot and have alot of humidity, with temperatures ranging from 25-30 degrees. Winters are very cold and rainy as during the winter's peak time the temperature can range from 0 to -12 degrees.

New York City commonly has buildings huge in sizes vertically covering less ground and utilizing the height of buildings having more stories. Such buildings are commonly known as skyscrapers. It has around 5000 high rise buildings.

New York has a number of parks and beaches. Around 30,000 acres of land inside New York has been devoted for the parks.

Alongside these parks, there are hundreds of other places where people can spend their time. Theatres and cinema halls are in abundance in the city. This can be seen from the fact that New York City has now gained the status of being the second largest center for the showbiz field in all of United States of America.

Economically it is considered as the base for developing the total Economy of United States of America and is recognized as one of the biggest financial hubs of United States.

Now, when coming to sports, baseball is one of the major sports in New York City as well as United States of America. The city's two major teams in the field of baseball are "New York Yankees" and "New York Mets".

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