Wednesday, 1 April 2015

The Individual Buroughs Of The NYC Traffic Report

By Iva Cannon


The City of New York, aka the Big Apple, consists of five separate boroughs. Each of the boroughs is also a county but with a different name. These boroughs are: Staten Island, Queens, Brooklyn, Manhattan and the Bronx. It doesn't matter what time of day a person checks the NYC traffic report, the center of the city where three boroughs meet (Queens, Manhattan and Brooklyn) are always seriously backed up.

New York City, the center of the NY metropolitan area, is the gateway for immigrants to legally enter the United States. It is also recognized as a global power city, the cultural and financial capital of the world. It is also home to the United Nations, two NFL football teams, two major league baseball teams, as well as professional basketball and hockey.

It is the borough of Brooklyn that has the largest population, 2.6 million. Queens is the largest in terms of land surface area. Brooklyn is coterminal with Kings County. One of Brooklyn's biggest and most famous landmarks is the Brooklyn Bridge, which was built in 1883 and connects Brooklyn to the borough of Manhattan. Brooklyn has been around for more than 350 years.

The second-largest New York borough, and the largest in terms of land mass, is Queens. Located on the northeastern boundary of Brooklyn and occupying the same land space as Queens County, Queens is home to approximately 2.3 million people. Notable people from the Borough of Queens include Donald Trump, entrepreneur and television personality; author Jack Kerouac; actress Lucy Liu; tennis star John McInroe, and the famous Mae West.

The island of Manhattan, in New York County, wins the prize for being the most densely populated of the five boroughs, with 1.6 million people stuffed into a land area of 23 square miles. Outside the city and also part of the same island as Manhattan are White Plains and New Rochelle. Central Park is situated in Manhattan. Central Park has appeared in numerous films and on several television shows, but it is probably best known for Friends, which ran for ten series.

The Bronx is the northernmost of New York City's five boroughs. It is bisected by the Bronx River into a hilly section on the west side of the river and a flatter section on the east bank. The Bronx also happens to be the only one of the 5 boroughs that is located completely on the mainland. The Bronx Zoo and the New York Botanical Garden are located here.

The Bronx cheer is a sound like blowing raspberries and is believed to have first uttered by fans of the New York Yankees. Numerous song titles mention the Bronx, specifically, Cousin in the Bronx, by the Kaiser Chiefs; Alfie from the Bronx by the Toy Dolls; and Bronx Bombers by Grandmaster Flash.

Staten Island is the southernmost of the boroughs. The population here is just under half a million. Among the attractions located here are the Staten Island Ferry, the Statue of Liberty, Ellis Island, and Snug Harbor Cultural Center. Staten Island has been immortalized in films like the Godfather, Goodfellas, Big Daddy and Analyze This.




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