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The splendid history that lies within the five boroughs
that comprise New York City is often overshadowed by the
Empire State Building and the World Trade Center.
However, the boroughs include their own splendid
landmarks and rich history.
The Borough of Staten Island, which is home to a
population of over 380,000 people, was settled in 1661
and became part of New York City in 1898. Fort Wadsworth
was the name of the original settlement and it was a
military installation for almost 200 years. The massive
fortifications which lie near the Verrazano Bridge were
built during the Civil War period.
The Verrazano-Narrows Bridge, which crosses from Staten
Island into Brooklyn, is the longest single suspension
bridge in North America at 4,260 feet between the span,
and 13,700 feet overall. Because it is so long, planners
had to allow for the curvature of the earth.
The Borough of Brooklyn, which is home to a
population of 2,300,000 people, is the most populous of
the five boroughs. Brooklyn was founded by the Dutch,
who originally named the borough Breukelen, or broken
land, in 1636. Some of the neighborhoods and historic
landmarks in Brooklyn include Bay Ridge, which is
populated largely by Italians and Irish. Sunset Park is
largely Latin American and Chinese. Bedford-Stuyvesant
is home to the largest African-American community in New
York, and Williamsburg has the largest population
Hasidic Jews. The Greenpoint neighborhood, the furthest
north, is home to large Polish, German, Ukranian, and
Russian populations. While Brooklyn is home to some of
the most diverse neighborhoods in New York City, it also
contains some of the most treasured historic sites. Fort
Hamilton, Brooklyn, is still an active Army base. It was
here that Confederate Generals Stonewall Jackson and
Robert E. Lee served as young officers in the 1830's.
The Lief Erikson Parkway, near 67 Street, is named for
the Viking navigator who is believed to have reached
North America 500 years before Columbus.
Between 5th and 3rd Streets in Brooklyn was the once
Washington Park Playground. Beginning in 1854 it was the
home of the team later known as the Brooklyn Dodgers.Up
on Fourth Avenue lies the borough's tallest building at
514 feet, the 1929 Williamsburg Savings Bank Tower. In
the same vicinity is the Brooklyn Academy of Music which
was erected in 1908.
The Pulaski Bridge separates Brooklyn rom the next of
New York City's boroughs, Queens. The Borough of Queens,
which is home to a population of almost 2 million, was
once farmland, and at 108 square miles, is the largest
of the five boroughs. Queens was named after Catherine
of Braganza, wife of England's King Charles II.
The Queensboro Bridge spans the East River and soars
over Roosevelt Island. After its completion in 1909, the
population of Queens quadrupled. The bridge is also
called the 59th Street Bridge, as in a song by Simon and
Garfunkel. Near the foot of the Queensboro Bridge is
Silvercup Studios, a former bakery that is now one of
New York's largest film studios. This areas was a
manufacturing area after the Industrial Revolution. It
is sometime referred to as Hollywood East.
The borough of Manhattan, which is home to 1.5 million,
is what many think of when they think of New York City.
Manhattan is the home of the Empire State Building,
World Trade Center, Chrysler Building, Central Park,
Tavern on the Green, Washington Square, and a plethora
of other parks, museums, shops, and restaurants.
The name Manhattan comes from an Algonquin word
meaning "island of hills."Some of the neighborhoods that
make up Manhattan are the Upper East Side, known as the
silk stocking district, which was once farmland with
foraging pigs as late as 1853, the year work began on
Central Park. Yorkville, in the east 80's, was once a
thriving German community. Yorkville was known for its
immigrant enclaves. Churches in this area still hold
services in German, Hungarian, Czech, Slovak and other
languages. Harlem has been the center of
African-American culture for nearly a century. At 115
Street is the center of the Italian district that once
covered a large part of East Harlem. In 1916 it elected
Fiorello LaGuardia to Congress. He later became New
York's first Italian-American Mayor.
Central Park is a two-and-one-half mile wide oasis. The
Central Park Reservoir is surrounded by a running track.
The reservoir was named after Jaqueline Kennedy Onassis,
who often ran there. Tavern on the Green, which lies off
of Central Park, was once a building which housed a
flock of municipal sheep that kept the park's grass
cropped.
The Borough of the Bronx, which is home to
1,200,000, was named for Jonas Bronk, a Scandinavian and
one of the area's first settlers in 1639. Other early
settlers were Dutch, French, English, and Swedish.
Originally the Bronx was part of Westchester County. It
became the borough not an island when it joined New York
City in 1898. The Bronx has continued to attract
immigrants and is now home to large ethnic populations.
At 138th Street is St. Jerome's Church Yankee Stadium is
also a sight to behold in the Bronx, located to the
right on the Bronx side of the Harlem River.
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