Making Our Way Around the Concrete Jungle - New York City

About three years ago, when I came to this great nation from India, I had the pleasure of coming to stay in the city commonly known around the world as "the city that never sleeps" - New York City.

New York City has a cool, humid climate since it falls on the North-Eastern Coast of America. On average, it has about 234 days with at least some sunshine annually. Summers are typically hot, with temperatures averaging in the 80s, while winters are quite chilly, with a lot of precipitation. New York City is often called ‘the concrete jungle,' and for good reason. New York consists of several islands, covered with gigantic, high-rise buildings. The city can be best described geographically as an archipelago, with the Hudson and East rivers running through it, and emptying out into the Atlantic Ocean, forming
several natural harbors, and making New York City a primary trade center. 

New York’s current culture can best be described as mixed and integrated. It’s a thriving city with over eight million residents from hundreds of different backgrounds, and the city can be compared to a melting pot. Indeed, New York City is the most linguistically diverse city in the world! Other than that, New York is also considered the financial capital of the world, and all kinds of jobs are available. It is a place with abundant well-paying, job opportunities and people come from all over the world in pursuit of money and careers.

 
Probably the most important tourist attraction of New York is the Statue of Liberty, situated on Ellis Island, just off the coast of the mainland. However, New York is home to several world class museums (MOMA, Museum of Natural History) and the island of Manhattan is frequently enveloped with tourists, who come to New York to witness the man-created wonders of the city. All of New York itself is unique, since it is a city like no other. However, a few distinctively unique events are the U.S. Open, hosted in Flushing Meadows, the New Year's ball-dropping in the electric Times Square, and the world-famous Broadway musicals that have adopted Manhattan as their home.

So there you have it, Flat Stanley-Whitman, New York in a paragraph. There are countless secrets of the place that cannot be described, only be witnessed first-hand. Thanks for coming to New York City with me, a fascinating place that I admire to this day.

Archit Parikh