Shopping in NYC

New York is a very popular city for shopping. Whether it's clothes shopping, electrical goods, cosmetics or nearly anything at all, you can find it in NYC. A very well known street for shopping is 5th avenue, it has many shops including GAP, Tiffanys, American girl, Juicy Couture, NIKE, Zara, H&M, Diesel, Abercrombie & Fitch and Hollister.

 

Another popular area for shopping in NYC is Soho. Soho was one of my favourite areas in NYC when I visited last year. I found it very quaint, cute and picturesque. I also thought it was excellent for shopping. In Soho there is many, many shops, some of my favourites were UGG, Topshop, American Apparel, Beats, Converse, Victoria Secrets, PINK and MAC.

Another reason why NYC is very popular for shopping is because a lot of tourists go mad with buying as for some currencys their is a very good exchange rate to the doller and items then are a lot cheaper in the US. A great time to go shopping in New York is at Christmas time, the city is lit up in lights, there's a possible chance of snow, the famous Rockerfeller and Central Park ice rink is open and also there's hundreds of shops to buy presents.

     

Tourism in New York City

New York City recieves masses and masses of tourists. They're both national and internation tourists. In recent years the amount of tourists each year is increasing; in 2010 they receieved about 49 million tourists, 51 million in 2011 and then it rose again to 54 million tourists in 2013.

The Empire State building would be one of New Yorks most popular tourist attraction. It's located in Midtown Manhattan and has been standing since 1931. From 1931-1970 it was the tallest building in the world. This high rise building is most popular for it's amazing views of NYC.

Another popular attraction for tourists visiting New York would be The Statue of Liberty. It was dedicated to NYC on October 28, 1886 from France. It has had a total of three restorements. Because of the 9/11 attacks the Statue of Liberty was closed immediatley and ever since the crown has remained closed. Near the end of 2001 the Island re-opened for visitors. A propular option is to get a ferry to Staten Island and you can pass by and view the Statue of Liberty this way. Other options are getting a ferry to Liberty Island where the Statue is located or getting a helicopter trip around the island.

Information found from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City

Photos of Empire State Buildings taken from andrewprokos.com 

Helicopter circling The Statue of LIberty taken from Statue Of Liberty Photo

The Geography and Climate of NYC

New York City is in the North-East of America. The Hudson River flows through the Hudson Valley into New York Bay. In New York there are five boroughs these are:

  -Manhattan

  -The Bronx

  -Brooklyn

  -Queens

  -Staten Island

Brooklyn is the most populated borough in New York City. New York City has a total land area of 1,214 kilometres squares.

In New York City they have a humid subtropical climate. During Winter the City has cold and wet weather, normally temperature during winter is about 3.5°C sometimes temperatures can drop all the way down to -18°C. The city many times has been a city covered in snow.

During the Summer months the city can get very hot and humid because of the high rise buildings and highly populated city. The average temperature is about 28.9°C during July in the City.
The coldest temperature ever recorded were -26 °C which was on Feburary 9, 1934 and highest was 41 °C on July 9, 1936.

Altogether about 1,260mm falls fairly throughout the year. About 68cm of snow falls on average each year, this has been taken from the averages of the years of 1981-2010. Tropical storms and hurricanes are rare in the City but aren't impossible to occur. In October 29, 2012 Hurricane Sandy hit. It flooded subway tunnels, paths, roadways in Lower Manhattan and cut off electricity in most of the city.

The facts that were stated in this blog were reported by http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City 

The Author of The Top of the Rock, City Skyline photograph is Daniel Schwen 

Central Park covered in snow can be found at Snow in Central Park