Unit 15 from the History of the Big Apple.0:02
People often call New York the Big Apple.0:07
More than 20 million people visit new York every year.0:10
When visitors think about New York, they usually think about Manhattan.0:14
Manhattan is an island which is about 21 kilometers long and about 4 kilometers wide.0:19
It is the heart of New York.0:26
400 years ago, Manhattan island was the home of Native Americans.0:28
In 1626, a Dutchman called Peter Minuit came to Manhattan and bought it.0:34
He paid the Indians about $24 for the island.0:41
He put up some houses and called the little town New Amsterdam.0:44
For more than 30 years, mainly the Dutch lived in New Amsterdam.0:50
But in 1664, the British took the town from the Dutch and changed its name to New York.0:55
In 1790, about 33,000 people lived in New York.1:02
But then millions more men and women began to come to America from all over the world.1:07
At first they came from Germany and Ireland.1:13
Then later on from Italy, Poland, Russia, Africa and China.1:16
These new Americans often lived in the same streets with other people from their own country.1:22
Irish with Irish, Italians with Italians, Chinese with Chinese.1:28
Today, New York has parts called Chinatown and Little Italy.1:34
They all wanted to be part of the new country, and many of them came to live in New York.1:40
The new people of New York worked hard, and many of them helped to build the first skyscrapers and bridges.1:47
The Brooklyn bridge opened on the 24th of May, 1883.1:54
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