One of those buildings is Radio City Music Hall. Not far from there, there is St. Patrick´s Cathedral - the biggest cathedral in NY.
The New Yorkers like spending free time on Coney Island and in Central Park on the Manhattan Island. There are some lakes there. Rock concerts in the open air take place there. NYC is nicknamed The Big Apple and is the center of the financial, art, media, theatre and fashion world. Typical symbol of the USA is the Statue of Liberty. It stands on the Liberty Island. It is a statue of a woman who szmboliyed the freedom and friendship between the French and American people during the American revolution. She holds a burning torch in her right hand and a law book in her left one. There is an inscription „July 4th, 1776“ what means the birth date of the USA. The statue was constructed in France according to project of the architect Frederick August Bartholdi. In was a gift of the French people to the Americans. The designer of the framework was Eiffel – the famous creator of the Eiffel Tower in Paris. The hight of the statue is 46 m. It stands on a pedestal. the total height amounds to 93 m. It was brought to America by a ship and erected there in honour of the 110th anniversary of the birth of the USA. NY has several airports - JFK and Newark airport. NY has the largest subway system in the world. It´s not nice, but dirty and dangerous. Other means of transport are taxis - drivers are mostly black people and there are some single buses. NY cab is a bit more expensive. New Your cabbies are notorious for their wild driving. Madison Square Garden is the place to go to see basketball and hockey games, rock concerts, rodeos. Bronx Zoo is one of the best. NY was the capital of the USA for 4 years at the end of the 18th century.
Central Park is Manhattan is full of people every day. It can be a bit dangerous at night. There is a ZOO, ice-skating rink and many possibilities for sports and rest. The most famous museums are The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Brooklyn Museum and American Museum of Natural History. The Madison Square Garden was built in 1968 and offers many sports facilities.
NY Public Library - it is the largest public library in the USA. On pleasant days people, especially students sit on steps and read. As there are statues of 2 lions on the sides of the steps, this activity is often called "reading between the lions".