纽约——大都会，大苹果

　　
　　The Neue Galerie New York (86th Street) is a new museum devoted to German and Austrian art, especially that of the early 20th century.
　　
　　The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (89th Street) displays mostly modern art in the unique ramped building designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.
　　
　　Alumni of the National Academy Museum and School of Fine Arts (89th Street) include John Singer Sargent, Augustus Saint-Gaudens, and Thomas Eakins. It specializes in American art, in its permanent collection and in traveling shows.
　　
　　The Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum (91st Street), a branch of the Smithsonian Institution, focuses on the decorative arts. Its setting is a splendid Beaux-Arts mansion, with garden, built by Andrew Carnegie.
　　
　　The Jewish Museum (92nd Street) has one of the largest and most beautiful collections of Judaica - including paintings, photographs, manuscripts, and antiquities - in the country. (If you're interested in Jewish history, you should also visit the Museum of Jewish Heritage - A Living Memorial to the Holocaust downtown.
　　
　　The Museum of the City of New York (103rd Street) is a wonderful local-history museum. It includes exhibits of theatrical memorabilia, period toys and dollhouses, volunteer firefighters, and the original Dutch settlement.
　　
　　
　　The New York City You Did Not Know
　　你所不知道的纽约
　　
　　Why is NYC Called the Big Apple?
　　In the 1920s, a sportswriter for the Morning Telegraph named John Fitzgerald overheard stable hands in New Orleans refer to NYC's racetracks as "the Big Apple." He named his column "Around the Big Apple." A decade later, jazz musicians adopted the term to refer to New York City, and especially Harlem, as the jazz capital of the world. There are many apples on the trees of success, they were saying, but when you pick New York City, you pick the big apple.
　　
　　The Bronx: How Swede It is
　　The Bronx was settled in 1639 and is named for the Swedish settler Jonas Bronck. There are more than 60 landmarks and historic districts in the Bronx, including the Edgar Allen Poe Cottage on the Grand Concourse and the stately Van Cortland House Museum in Van Cortlandt Park.
　　
　　Why Cabs Are Yellow
　　John Hertz, who founded the Yellow Cab Company in 1907, chose yellow because he had read a study conducted by the University of Chicago that indicated it was the easiest color to spot.
　　
　　Where the Famous Go to Rest
　　Green-Wood Cemetery, in Brooklyn’s Sunset Park, is one of the world’s most beautiful cemeteries. With a spectacular harbor view and 478 acres filled with trees and flowering shrubs, Green-Wood is the eternal resting place of a who’s who of famous folks, including Leonard Bernstein, Samuel Morse, F.A.O Schwartz, Louis Comfort Tiffany, Charles Tiffany, and "Boss" Tweed.
　　
　　Looking for Main Street?
　　You won’t find it in Manhattan. There is, however, a Main Street in each of the other boroughs and on Roosevelt Island.
　　
　　A City of Islands
　　Manhattan and Staten Island are islands; Queens and Brooklyn are on the western tip of Long Island. So, of New York City’s five boroughs, only the Bronx is part of the mainland. However, there is an island that’s part of the Bronx and yet feels like a New England fishing village: City Island, a marine-related community offering fishing, boating, and a wide range of restaurants and snack bars.