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New York


            
             • Pelham Bay Park .
            
             • South Bronx .
             Today, Brooklyn is a borough of many neighborhoods, each with its own strong ethnic flavor. It's very rare to find a New Yorker whose family has been living in America for more than one generation who didn't have an ancestor that lived in Brooklyn at some point in their life. .
             General areas in Brooklyn .
            
             • Downtown .
            
             • Brooklyn Heights .
            
             • North Brooklyn .
            
             • Institute Park .
            
             • Park Slope and Prospect Park .
            
             • South Brooklyn and Coney Island .
             The borough of Queens was named after the wife of Charles II of England, Queen Catherine of Braganza in 1683. .
             The area has been very popular for new immigrants in the past half of this century and is largely split up into different ethnic neighborhoods that feel very much like the home countries of the people that live there. There are very few inter-racial neighborhoods in Queens and the new immigrants that come to live here tend to congregate in their own areas. .
             New York's two major airports are located in queens along with a lot of the industry in New York City. Queens is connected physically to Long Island. .
             General areas in Queens .
            
             • Flushing .
            
             • Corona Park .
            
             • Astoria .
            
             • Long Island City .
            
             • Hunter's Point .
            
             • Jamaica .
            
             • Ridgewood .
            
             • Southern Queens .
             New York Discovery and Settlement.
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             New York was briefly (1789-90) the U.S. capital and was state capital until 1797. By 1790 it was the largest U.S. city, and the opening (1825) of the ERIE CANAL, linking New York with the GREAT LAKES, led to even greater expansion. .
             Massive IMMIGRATION, mainly from Europe, swelled the city's population in the late 19th and early 20th cent. After World War II, many African Americans from the South, Puerto Ricans, and Latin Americans migrated to the city in search of jobs. .
             Manhattan .
             Giovanni da VERRAZANO may have been the first European to explore the region, and Henry HUDSON visited it, but Dutch settlements truly began the city.


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