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New York is a state in the Northeast-ern region of the United States. It is the nation’s third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east.

The state has a maritime border with Rhode Island east of Long Island, as well as an international border with the Canadian provinces of Ontario to the north and west, and Quebec to the north. The state of New York is often referred to as New York State to distinguish it from the city of New York.

New York City, with a population of over 8,000,000 people, is the most populous city in the United States. It is known for its status as a financial, cultural, transportation, and manu-facturing center, and for its history as a gateway for immigration to the United States. According to the U.S. Department of Commerce, it is also a destination of choice for many foreign visitors. Both state and city were named for the 17th century Duke of

York, James Stuart, future James II and VII of England and Scotland.New York was inhabited by the Algonquian, Iroquois, and Lenape Native American groups at the time Dutch settlers moved into the region in the early 17th century. In 1609, the region was first claimed by Henry Hudson for the Dutch. Fort Nassau was built near the site of the present-day capital of Albany in 1614. The Dutch soon also settled New Amster-dam and parts of the Hudson River Valley, establishing the colony of New Netherland. The British took over the colony by annexation in 1664.

The borders of the British colony, the Province of New York, were roughly similar to those of the present-day state. About one third of all the battles of the Revolutionary War took place in New York. New York be-came an independent state on July 9, 1776, and enacted its constitution in 1777. The state ratified the United States Constitution on July 26, 1788, to become the eleventh member of the United States.

New York City, with a population of over 8,000,000 people, is the most populous city in the United States.

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Finally, I arrived in New York again. This time I had come to travel only. I had already reserved a room in the Sunny Side area of Queens. I felt, “I have returned to such a filthy city again.”

It was hot and humid when I arrived and I wasn’t in a good mood. It was hard to believe that such a filthy city can have so many fun and excit-ing place to visit. I arrived

at my accommodation; and apartment at least 100 years old, the ambiance was dis-gusting, but normal for New York. The city reeked, the apartment was dreadful, and immediately began to miss the comfort of Vancouver.

In spite of my accommoda-tion and the filth of New York, I was still excited about the travel adventure I was about to embark on.

I had to catch my flight at the Seattle airport, so I caught a bus from Vancouver to Seattle. I was wor-rying about walking down the streets in Seattle at night; I knew it was not really safe. When I arrived in Seattle, it was just as I expected, there were very few people out on the street, and the area looked dead. It was easy to be scared. So, I hurried to catch the light-rail transit to the airport. I stayed at the airport all night waiting for my flight. My flight was to arrive for boarding at 7:00AM; therefore, I had to be at the airport at 5:00 AM. I arrived at the airport at mid-night… I had no choice, because of the time my bus arrived in Seattle. I boarded the plane at 7:00 AM, but the flight was delay due to a fuel problem, I waited on the airplane for 9 damned hours before it took off… it was hell. It put me into a terrible mood; driving me absolutely crazy!

Wall StreetWall Street is a street in Lower Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA. It runs east from Broadway to South Street on the East River, through the historical center of the Financial District.It is the first permanent home of the New York Stock Exchange; over time Wall Street became the name of the surrounding geo-graphic neighborhood. Wall Street is also

shorthand (or a metonym) for the “influential financial interests” of the American financial industry, which is centered in the New York City area. Anchored by Wall Street, New York City is the financial capital of the world and is home to the New York Stock Ex-change, the world’s largest stock exchange by market capitalization of its listed compa-nies.

Standing 11 feet tall and measuring 16 feet long, the oversize sculpture depicts a bull, the symbol of aggressive finan-cial optimism and prosperity, leaning back on its haunches and with its head lowered as if ready to charge. The sculp-ture is both a popular tourist destination which draws thousands of people a day, as well as “one of the most iconic im-ages of New York” and a “Wall Street icon” symbolizing “Wall Street” and the Financial District.In Outdoor Monuments of Manhattan: A Historical Guide, Dianne Durante describes the sculpture:The Bull’s head is lowered, its nostrils

flare, and its wickedly long, sharp horns are ready to gore; it’s an angry, danger-ous beast. The muscular body twists to one side, and the tail is curved like a lash: the Bull is also energetic and in motion.The bronze color and hard, metallic texture of the sculpture’s surface em-phasises the brute force of the creature. The work was designed and placed so that viewers could walk around it, which also suggests the creature’s own movement is unrestricted — a point reinforced by the twisting posture of the bull’s body, according to Durante.

Charging Bull, then, shows an aggres-sive or even belligerent force on the move, but unpredictably. It’s not far-fetched to say the theme is the energy, strength, and unpredictability of the stock market.”

“That bull is one of an edition of five”, Di Modica told the New York Daily News in 1998. “I’m hoping the other four will be going to cities all over the world, whenever somebody buys them.” In 2010, a simi-lar Charging Bull sculpted by Di Modica which looks “younger” and “stronger” was installed in Shanghai.

Charging Bull

Charging Bull, which is sometimes referred to as the Wall Street Bull or the Bowling Green Bull, is a 3,200 kilograms bronze sculpture by Arturo Di Modica that stands in Bowling Green Park near Wall Street in Manhattan, New York City.

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Washington Square Park

Washington Square Park is one of the best-known of New York City’s 1,900 public parks. At 9.75 acres (39,500 m2), it is a land-mark in the Manhattan neighborhood of Green-wich Village, as well as a meeting place and cen-ter for cultural activity. It is operated by the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation.

Washington Park is a place of rest and relaxation for New Yorkers. It is also used as a backdrop for many movies. It was during the week that I visited Washington Park; none-theless it was still busy with

people relaxing. Some people were lying down tanning, some reading books, and others just sitting around talking to their friends. I couldn’t help but wonder why this place felt too peaceful.

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Bryant Park

Bryant Park is a public park located in the New York City borough of Manhattan. It is bounded by Fifth Avenue, Sixth Avenue, 40th Street and 42nd Street in Midtown Manhattan. That means it is center of midtown. The cen-tral building of the New York Public Library is in the park.

SoHo

Seeking to identify their group geographically, they consulted a city Planning Commission map that described the area as “South of Houston”, “Houston” being Houston Street. This was shortened to “SoHo”, the group voted to call itself the SoHo Artists Asso-ciation and the name for the neighborhood stuck. The neighborhood’s association with the arts has expanded over time, and the area has become famous for destination shopping.

SoHo is a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Manhattan. Prior to the mid-20th century, the area was known as Hell’s Hundred Acres, and was described as an “industrial wasteland”, busy with sweatshops and small factories in the daytime, but empty at night. Before that, it was an area with more bars and brothels than anywhere else in the city. Artists began to move in to have large spaces in which they could both live and work, in what were called loft spaces. In 1968 artists and activists were forming an organization to legalize their living in a manufacturing zone.

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Soho is famous for its many unique shops and galleries. Soho is one of my favorite places in Man-hattan. It looks a little like Hong Dae Street in Seoul, with each shop displaying its own unique character,

through such things as the patterns on the door, the color of its walls, or even just a bench to sin on in front of its door. One shop may have a wall in a zebra pattern, other pink walls, all are unique and different.

Everything seems to be de-signed to catch people’s atten-tion. The area is especially attractive to young people interested in art and/or design. Soho has an abundance of all kinds of kiosks, not just kiosks selling food, but kiosks selling almost anything imaginable,

such things as unique leather bracelets, art, accessories, etc. In addition, the stores often remodel with unique exteriors making Soho a fashionable sightseeing destination; a fa-mous attraction for tourists and New Yorkers alike.

There are many international restau-rants in Soho, Italian, Thai, Japa-nese, Portuguese, Indian, Ethiopian, Jamaican and Fijian just to name a few. Most of the restaurants have a terraced seating area and people love to be seated on the terrace and enjoy their meal as they watch the hordes of tourist wander by.

This is much different than in Korea, restaurants with terraces are hard to find, we are unaccustomed to sitting outside where the general public can watch us dinning. It is a major cultural difference, which is very interesting for me.

If someone who are interested in design or/and fashion, i would recomand visiting this place.One thing I found in Soho, it seems many store or restaurant owner like to use ‘Pink Color’ on their store. Each resturant seems to have their special own character. They which are so many unique stores make special soho.

I heard many artist stayed Soho. But while staying in Soho, they didn’t pay their accommodation’s fee. So they sometimes paid their work instead of rent fee. Now many hotels in Soho have lots of famous artist’s work. Unfortu-nately, they were forced to leave the place.

Soho must see one of attractions in New York. Many young fashion people like to visit this place.

Central Park is a public park in the center of Manhattan in New York City, United States. The park initially opened in 1857, on 843 acres (3.41 km2) of city-owned land. In 1858, Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux won a design competition to improve and expand the park with a plan they entitled the Greensward Plan. Construction began the same year and was completed in 1873.

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Designated a National Historic Landmark in 1963, the park is currently managed by the Central Park Conservancy under contract with the city govern-ment. The Conservancy is a nonprofit organization that contributes 85% of Central Park’s $37.4 mil-lion dollar annual budget, and employs 80% of the park’s maintenance staff.

I want to tell people who are going to go to travel in New York. Definitely go to see Brooklyn Bridge! I would recommend going to see the place; it would be better to see at night. The view of Manhattan from Brooklyn Bridge is awesome at night.

Brooklyn BridgeThe Brooklyn Bridge is one of the oldest suspension bridges in the United States. Completed in 1883, it connects the New York City boroughs of Manhattan and Brooklyn by spanning the East River. With a main span of 1,595.5 feet (486.3 m), it was the longest suspension bridge in the world from its opening until 1903, and the first steel-wire suspension bridge.Originally referred to as the New York and

Brooklyn Bridge and as the East River Bridge, it was dubbed the Brooklyn Bridge in a January 25, 1867 letter to the editor of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle, and formally so named by the city government in 1915. Since its opening, it has become an iconic part of the New York skyline. It was des-ignated a National Historic Landmark in 1964and a National Historic Civil Engineer-ing Landmark in 1972.

There are many kiosks on the streets in New York, walking down the street reminds me of Seoul, it is similar. Many New Yorkers buy their lunch from the ki-osks, and there are often line-ups to buy the food. I think buying food at a kiosk is an enjoyable pastime in New York, an attraction for many

people visiting there. I can find some people who take a rest at the park. Even though I don’t know them, they just look so peaceful. On the other hands, if I just went out of a park, I could find some people who look so busy. I can tell that New York is so unique and something special city.

New York CityMetro(Subway)

There are a lot of subway lines in New York, but even though there are so many and they run 24 hours a day, they are very old and super dirty I felt as if they were a 100 years old or more. I am careful to tell people trav-eling to New York; when on the subway you must listen carefully to the announcements, the trains often change directions, by-pass stops and are just plain unreliable.

The New York City Subway is a rapid transit sys-tem owned by the City of New York and leased to the New York City Transit Authority, a subsid-iary agency of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority and also known as MTA New York City Transit. It is one of the oldest and most exten-sive public transportation systems in the world, with 468 stations in operation (423 if stations connected by transfers are counted as a single station); 229 miles (369 km) of routes, translating into 656 miles (1,056 km) of revenue track; and a total of 842 miles (1,355 km) including non-revenue trackage. In 2009, the subway delivered over 1.579 billion rides, averaging over five mil-lion (5,086,833 rides) on weekdays, 2.9 million on Saturdays, and 2.2 million on Sundays.

New York is the busiest city in the world. Since I have traveled, I got to have some habits that I always watch people’s look and their walk’s speed and check them out. Then I can recognize the city’s mood. So, I would have been thinking New York has a similar personality with Seoul. In other words, they look pretty dark and their walking steps are so fast. Though they have such a bad atmosphere, New York has lots of unique and famous spac-

es such as Soho, Time Square and Central Park. With those reasons, many of people would like to live and New York could be dream city for them. New York can be special city for people so many of places are always full of people.

When I was in New York, I was able to see, feel and touch by many things I have never felt this before. I could realize why people desire to live in New York. It was so precious time for me.

New York has so much at-tracations. so it have been considered to be a dream city for people.

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NEW YORKCountry: USAProvince: NEW YORKPopulation: 19,378,102Area: Ranked 27th in the U.S.Longitude: 71° 51 W to 79° 46Abbreviations: NY US-NY

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[ The city proper had a population of 617,594 according to the 2010 U.S. Census.Boston is also the anchor of a substantially larger metropolitan area called Greater Boston, home to 4.5 mil-lion people and the tenth-largest met-ropolitan area in the country. Greater Boston as a commuting region includes six Massachusetts counties: Essex, Middlesex, Norfolk, Suffolk, Plymouth, Worcester,northern Bristol County, all of Rhode Island and parts of New Hamp-shire; it is home to 7.6 million people, making it the fifth-largest Combined Statistical Area in the United StatesIn 1630, Puritan colonists from Eng-land founded the city on the Shawmut Peninsula.During the late 18th century, Boston was the location of several ma-jor events during the American Revolu-tion, including the Boston Massacre and the Boston Tea Party. Several early battles of the American Revolution, such as the Battle of Bunker Hill and the Siege of Boston, occurred within the city and surrounding areas. Through land reclamation and municipal annexa-tion, Boston has expanded beyond the peninsula. After American indepen-dence was attained Boston became a

major shipping port and manufacturing center, and its rich history now helps attract many tourists, with Faneuil Hall alone attracting over 20 million every year. The city was the site of several firsts, including America’s first public school, Boston Latin School (1635),and the first subway system in the United States (1897).With many colleges and universities within the city and surrounding area, Boston is an international center of higher education and a center for medi-cine.The city’s economy is also based on research, electronics, engineering, fi-nance, and high technology—principally biotechnology. As a result, the city is a leading finance center, ranking 12th in the Z/Yen top 20 Global Financial Cen-ters.The city was also ranked number one for innovation, both globally and in North America,for a variety of reasons.

Boston has been experiencing gen-trification, and has one of the highest costs of living in the United States, though it remains high on world liv-ability rankings, ranking third in the US and 37th globally.

Boston is the capital of and largest city in Massachusetts, and is one of the oldest cities in the United States. The largest city in New England, Boston is regarded as the unofficial “Capital of New England” for its economic and cultural impact on the entire New England region.

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Before going to Boston, I had heard from my friends that Boston was just a simple, calm little city, with nothing much to see except the uni-versities. So, I didn’t expect much, but when I arrived I was quite surprised to find my impression changed. Boston was far better than I expected. I had traveled to Boston by myself and since it was the first time I had ever traveled alone I was a little apprehen-sive and wonder if I would have the courage. But, I

headed to Harvard University as soon as I arrived in Boston, without hesitation.

After spending some time on the Harvard campus I headed downtown and wandered around. Most western cities use a grid map system, which is quite easy to follow, but Boston doesn’t. Some areas are designed in triangles with streets running on diagonals; it is really confusing street and road system, making it easy for one to lose their way.

As I explained New York has many dirty, old buildings, but Boston has built new, ‘New York’ style, houses and apart-ments. I think most of the houses in east coast cities are the same type of architecture.

I wandered around Boston for about 12 hours without a break. I was totally exhausted when I returned to the termi-nal to return to New York. But even though I was tired it was an excellent experience.

I was disappointed on my arrival at the Harvard campus; I had expected Harvard to be a large, expansive campus, but it wasn’t. It was neither a really large campus nor a very small campus, it was just average size. However, I found the students inter-esting; they looked like they kept their noses to the grind stone. The mood in Harvard was so quite. I think I just only one person who looked around the campus with taking pictures.

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Boston Common Park

It was partly, because of the weather that I found Boston so nice, but it was also because of the nice parks. One park has a small lake with boats on it; children especially like going for boat rides. The line up was too long, but the park was peaceful.

There are some very nice parks in downtown Boston. They are well designed and constantly cleaned. The park staff is thorough and efficient, thanks to them the parks are well organized and a pleasure to visit. I saw many people there with their children and many kindergarten students came for picnics. The weather was great the day I arrived in Boston, so it was really pleasant wan-dering around the city and the city parks.

Every city has a public library downtown, with something special or unique to the building. Boston’s library is no differ-ent. The view from outside isn’t anything special and not really impressive; but inside there is an open court area with a water fountain. I was astonished to see the court full of people reading books and relaxing enjoying the waterfall.

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Quincy MarketAs I was wondering around Boston’s confusing road system, looking for the subway station I stumbled upon Quincy Market. It is quite a famous place in Boston, but I had never heard of it; I might forget that my friend told me. There were many people gathered there, even though it was a weekday. The market is an artistic gath-ering place with a lot of unique art galleries and kiosks. I’ve visited a lot of public markets in various cities since beginning my travels and each public market has a unique ambience characteristic of the city they are located in. I think I was lucky to find the place. Even though I was too tried, I was please to be able to enjoy some Boston’s famous market place.

Only I went to New York in east coast in North America. Before I went to Boston, I was wondering how Boston was. However, Bos-ton was better than I expected.

Actually, I was super disap-pointed when I arrived in New York because I always desired to travel to New York. It was like my dream city, but I changed my thought about New York after I lived. Boston was not like New York even though they are in

east coast side in North America. Boston was super cleaner than New York. I feel more comfort-able when I went to Boston.

Especially, the houses are similar to New York’s houses but, they look clean and unique. Many people say that Boston is small, quiet, nothing much to do.

Even though they don’t have many attractions, it was pretty good trip for me. And also Boston was good environment for study-ing to students as I heard.

Boston is much more com-fortable than I expected. It was very clean, comparing to New York.

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PHIADELPHIA

The city is located in the Northeast-ern United States along the Delaware and Schuylkill rivers and it lies about 80 miles (130 km) southwest of New York City. It is the fifth-most-populous city in the United States,with a 2010 U.S. Census estimated population of 1,526,006. Philadelphia is also the commercial, cultural, and educational center of the Delaware Valley, home to 6 million people and the country’s fifth-largest metropolitan area. Popular nick-names for Philadelphia are Philly and The City of Brotherly Love, the latter of which comes from the literal meaning of the city’s name in Greek, Modern Greek “brotherly love”, compounded from philos “loving”, and adelphos.Philadelphia was founded on Octo-ber 27, 1682 by William Penn, who planned a city along the Delaware River to serve as a port and place for gov-ernment. The city grew rapidly, and by the 1750s Philadelphia was the largest city and busiest port in the original 13 American colonies. During the Ameri-can Revolution, Philadelphia played an instrumental role as a meeting place for the Founding Fathers of the United States, who signed the nation’s Decla-ration of Independence on July 4, 1776 and the Constitution on September 17,

1787. Philadelphia served as one of the nation’s many capitals during the Revolutionary War, and the city served as the temporary national capital from 1790 to 1800 while Washington, D.C. was under construction. During the 19th century, Philadelphia became a major industrial center and a railroad hub that grew from an influx of Euro-pean immigrants. The city’s dominant textile industry represented 40 percent of total United States output in 1906. It became a major destination for African Americans during the Great Migration and surpassed 2 million occupants by 1950.

Philadelphia is known for its arts and culture. The cheesesteak and soft pretzel are emblematic of Philadelphia cuisine, which is heavily influenced by the city’s Italian-American population. The city has more outdoor sculptures and murals than any other American city, and Philadelphia’s Fairmount Park is the largest landscaped urban park in the world. Gentrification of Phila-delphia’s neighborhoods continues into the 21st century and the city has reversed its decades-long trend of population loss.

Philadelphia is the largest city in the Common-wealth of Pennsylvania and the county seat of Philadelphia County, with which it is coterminous.

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Philadelphia is not far from New York, only two hour by bus. It is easy to take a day trip to Philadelphia from New York, which is what I did. Walking around Philadelphia, I saw a lot of black people. I am not accustomed to see-ing so many black people, because there aren’t many in Vancouver and very, very few in Korea.Philadelpia the main street downtown, Market Street, has many malls connected by an underground system which covers about 5 blocks. I found it weird; there were so many black people and so few Caucasians or Asians. I was perhaps the only Asian in the mall, which gave me an

odd, but interesting feeling. I began to think, “There are more black’s living here than in any other city I have visited. There is ‘Africa American Museum’; it would be proved which is I said. But, when I was heading to the terminal for my return to New York I was walking on the other side of the block. This part of Philadelphia looks like a little Soho. There were only Caucasians on this side of the block, which made me wonder why the races don’t mix in Philadelphia.

Anyways, it was not that bad trip even if I didn’t do that much things in Philadelphia.

University of PhiladelphiaI hadn’t intended to visit the Univer-sity of Philadelphia, but my colleague was traveling with me and he wanted to go there. So, we headed out to the University of Philadelphia as soon as I arrived in Philadelphia. I was a pretty good experience. My colleague told me that the Wharton School of Finance and Commerce a division of the University of Philadelphia is still one of the world’s top ranking business schools. I am really not that interested in academic life or institu-

tions, so I didn’t know much about it. I prefer wandering around a campus and exploring the architecture and landscape. There were many places on campus for students to relax and study; there were squares, sunken gardens and parks both inside and outside the campus buildings. Cars are not allowed on most areas of the campus. If I were to compare the Harvard and Philadelphia campuses; I’d have to say, Philadelphia is by far better.

Philadelphia City Hall

Philadelphia City Hall is the house of government for the city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. At 167 m (548 ft), including the statue, it is the world’s second-tallest masonry building, only .5 m (1 ft 8 in) shorter than Mole Antonelliana in Turin. The weight of the building is borne by granite and brick walls up to 22 feet (6.7 m) thick, rather than steel; the principal exterior materials are limestone, granite, and marble.

It was the tallest habitable building in the world from 1901 to 1908 and the tallest in Pennsylvania until 1932 when surpassed by the Gulf Tower in Pittsburgh. It re-mained the tallest building in Philadelphia until the con-struction of One Liberty Place (1984–1987) ended the informal gentlemen’s agreement that limited the height of tall buildings in the city; it is currently the 16th-tallest building in Pennsylvania.

Though Philadelphia is smaller than other cities such as New York, they have all of things like offi-cial area, university and great bars.

Philadelphia was not that big city. When I arrived in Philadelphia at the first time, I was able to see people’s look and their walking speed. They look quite easy and slow. It made me feel comfort-able to look around the city.

While wandering around the city, I went in a shopping mall. I was only Asian girl in the mall. There was no Caucasian as well, only black. It was something interest-ing thing for me because I have

never seen like this. Philadelphia, like Boston doesn’t have many tourist attractions, even it was less than Boston. The downtown area of Philadelphia is quite small, taking only haft a day to wonder around.

I found that in the cities along the east coast people do not obey the traffic signs; they cross the streets anytime they feel like it, so longs as no cars are coming. At first, I thought this was only New Yorker character, but after visit-ing other east coast cities, I have come to believe this is east coast culture.

Philadelphian was quite nice than I expected. So, I can find my way esaily, thanks to them.

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