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New York is America's largest city with more than 7 million people.0:12
It is a city of islands.0:16
The smallest of the islands is Manhattan, which is the real city center.0:19
When visitors talk about New York, they they very often mean Manhattan.0:23
Manhattan is the home of skyscrapers.0:28
The first one appeared in 1890.0:31
It was very high and had 18 stories.0:33
New Yorkers built it because there was little land on the island to build small houses.0:37
The most famous of New York skyscrapers is the Empire State Building.0:42
Americans built it in 1931 and for many years called it the eighth wonder of the world.0:47
It is as high as 81 meters.0:54
Many tourists read in tourist brochures that New Yorkers call their city the Big Apple.0:58
This name is famous all over the world.1:04
When people walk through the streets of New York, they can say they are traveling from one part of the world to another.1:07
Here you will find places like Chinatown, Little Italy, Little Korea, Little India, Little Ukraine.1:14
People whose grandparents or great grandparents came from Italy, Korea, India and so on live here now.1:23
Sometimes people say that New York is a city that never sleeps.1:32
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