New York is the largest city in the United States and has many famous buildings.
1. Brooklyn Bridge
The Brooklyn Bridge connects the Borough of Manhattan and Brooklyn with a drawbridge across the East River. Construction began in 1869 and completed in 1833. It took 14 years and cost $16 million.
John Roebling was the bridge's chief designer and engineer. Due to the arduous work , Roebling died in the line of duty, and his son Augusta inherited his father's business and was also disabled, he insisted on lying on the upper floor not far from the construction site, learning about the construction through a telescope, and his wife Emily conveyed his instructions and directed the construction until the bridge was completed.
The length of the bridge is 1897m, the piers are 87m high, and the upper part is built with Gothic arches. Four main cables and thousands of steel cables woven into a fishnet-like cable lift the bridge 416m away from the water, like a giant dragon leaping above the East River, majestic, with the reputation of "the eighth wonder of the ancient seven wonders of the world", and the Empire State Building and the Statue of Liberty are regarded as the symbols of New York.
2. World Trade Center Building
The World Trade Center Tower is the tallest and most floored building in New York City. At the southern end of downtown Manhattan. It is a complex consisting of 5 buildings.
World Trade Center Building
The aluminum plate is the wall, and the machinery and equipment in the building are controlled by computer. The main building is two square pillar-shaped buildings, 419m high, 110 floors. Completed in 1973, it cost more than $700 million and used 210,000 tons of steel and 1.25 million tons of cement.
The office area of the building is 840,000 m2, which is subleased to more than 800 manufacturers around the world. It also houses a trade centre, an intelligence centre and a research centre.
The basement has 5 floors, 21m deep, and can accommodate 2000 cars. In the lobby on the ground floor and the foyer on the 44th and 78th floors, there are various commercial service industries. On the 107th floor is the Lookout Room, which overlooks New York City. There is a subway passing by and there is a station.
The moment the plane crashed into the World Trade Center in the "911 incident"
On September 11, 2011, the World Trade Center was hit by an aircraft in a terrorist attack.
Third, Wall Street
Wall Street is a world-famous street and the largest financial center in the United States. At the southern tip of Manhattan, New York City. From Trinity Church on Broadway in the west to East River Wharf in the east, the total length is less than 800m.
Lined with high-rise buildings, the streets appear narrow and dark, and you can only see a blue sky when you look up, resembling a deep canyon.
Wall Street
A bronze plaque is embedded in the wall of the first building on the right side of the street entrance, describing the origin of Wall Street. In 1653, this was the northern boundary of New York. During the Dutch colonists' rule in North America, a wooden fence wall was erected from Broadway to the East River pier to prevent Indian attacks.
After the British colonists replaced Dutch rule, they demolished walls and built streets. Because it was originally a road wall, it was called "Wa" in English, so it was called Hua'er.
Wall Street
The first Congress of the United States was held at Wall Street's organizing town hall. In 1789, George Washington, the first president of the United States, was inaugurated on the second floor of City Hall. To commemorate the event, the city was renamed the Federal Hall Memorial, with a statue of George Washington on the street.
Trinity Church is an ancient church where Alexander Hamil, Treasury Secretary in the Washington Presidential Cabinet, and Robert Fulton, the famous inventor of the steamship, are buried in the cemetery.
Trinity Church
Wall Street is also famous as the financial center of the United States, with the largest stock exchanges in the United States, such as the New York Stock Exchange, the American Stock Exchange, Chase Bank, Citibank, and the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, banks, as well as insurance companies and other financial institutions, which is the symbol of the American financial industry.
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