New York Travel Guide

New York, New York City official, is the largest city in the State of New York, United States and the second largest city on the continent. Is the center of metropolitan New York, which is among the largest urban agglomerations in the world.

During more than a century, was one of the major world centers of commerce and finance. New York is considered a global city because of it´s global influences in media, politics, education, entertainment and fashion.

The artistic and cultural influence of the city is the strongest in the country. In addition, it is the headquarters of the United Nations Organization, which makes it an important point of international relations.

The city has many neighborhoods and buildings known around the world. For example, the Statue of Liberty, located on the namesake island and Ellis Island, which received millions of immigrants who came to America in the late XIX and early XX centuries. Wall Street has been one of the main centers of global finance since World War II and is the headquarters of the New York Stock Exchange.

The city also has concentrated many of the world's tallest buildings, among which are the Empire State Building and the twin towers of World Trade Center, which were destroyed in the attacks of September 11, 2001.

The city is the birthplace of many American cultural movements, such as the Harlem Renaissance in literature and visual art, abstract expressionism in painting, and hip hop, punk and Tin Pan Alley in music. With their meters running 24 hours a day and the constant movement of traffic and people, New York is known as "the city that never sleeps."