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New York City - Coggle Diagram
New York City
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Most famous symbols : liberty, wall street, china town
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NYC a global city
Business activities with TNC's headquarters services and finances :
- Wall street
- Manhattan
- Head of major TNC (silicon alley)
- Stock exchange
Pop > capacity to attract foreign born ppl, quality of universities and intern students
- 1/3 of NY pop is a foreign born
- 180 countries in NY
Information with TV news channels, internet presence
- Foxnews, CNM, ABC
- NY times, Herald Tribune
- Many foreign channels
Highly connected city
- 3 major airports (JFK, NEWORK, LA GUARDIA)
- Subway 24h range
- Yellow cabs
Cultural field : number and type of museums :
- Moma
- Met
- Guggenheim
- Broadway
- 2nd film industry
Politics : the way the city influences world policy and intern org :
- headquarters of the UNO (49000 workers)
- headquarters FED
NYC
Part of the megalopolis > mid boston and washington.
Coastal interface : btw land and sea (harbours)
Tri state area (NY, New Jersey, Connecticut)
City spreads over 3 major islands :
- Manhattan
- Staten Island
- Werstern Long Island
Divided into 5 boroughs :
- Manhattan
- Brooklyn
- Staten Island
- Bronx
- Queens
A global city, attractive city > people are coming all around the world, financial and economical investments, political power
Gentrification = when rich ppl move to a poor area bc prices are lower > the former population have to leave the area.
Boroughs
Manhattan and the CBD
- Major economic/cultural/political activities
- Wealthy people
- 50% White, 50% Black
- Vertical architecture (skyline)
The inner city (eco and soc difficulties) :
- Mainly Harlem, Brooklyn, Queens, Bronks
- Blight zones
- Minorities, poor people
- Bronx 50% hispanics, 33% Blacks, rest = White and asians
- Brooklyn 33% Blacks 33% whites
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