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Manhattan, New York City

The Big Apple is a nickname for New York City. And Manhattan, the most famous island in the world, is the very heart of the city. It includes everything that most people think of when they say New York: the financial district with Wall Street and the New York Stock Exchange, Fifth Avenue with all its shops and museums, the Empire State Building, Rockefeller Center, the United Nations Building, Broadway as well as Lincoln Center, the home of all the arts: the Metropolitan Opera House, the New York State Theater and the Avery Fisher Hall, known as Philharmonic Hall.

Finding one’s way around New York City is very simple. The streets and avenues are numbered.

When they’re giving directions, Americans often say “That’s three (or four, or five, etc.) blocks away.” A block is a group of buildings surrounded on all four sides by streets. It’s quite common to give a corner address by giving the point where a street and an avenue meet, for example 96th and Lexington.