OXFORD ENGLISH

ISBN 978-0-19-423373-6

111
780194 233736
 NEW YORK

In the 1650s, about 500 people lived in the quiet little

Dutch town of New Amsterdam. Now, in the twenty-
first century, New Amsterdam is the city of New York.
Seven and a half million people live there, and more than
twenty million people come to visit it every year.

Why do they come? They want to see the New York of

]ennifer Lopez, George Gershwin, and King Kong. They
want to visit so me of New York's fine museums, or shop
in Macy's and Bloomingdales. They want to eat hot dogs,
take the Sta ten Island ferry, see the Statue of Liberty, and
remember 9/11.

There are hundreds of things to do in New York. What

do you want to do? Your tour begins here ...

. -.., .~.. -
OXFORD BOOKWORMS LIBRARY
Facttiles

New York
Stage 1 (400 headwords)

Factfiles Series Editor: Christine Lindop

 JOHN ESCOTT

New York

OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS

I
¡
 OXFORD CONTENTS
UNIVERSITY PRESS

Great Clarendon Street, Oxford OX2 60p

Oxford University Press is a department ofthe University of OxforcL
It furthers the University's objective of excellence in research, scholarshíp.
INTRODUCTION
and education by publishing worldwide in
Oxford New York
Auckland Cape Town Dar es Salaam Hong Kong Karachi 1
Kuala Lumpur Madrid Melbourne Mexico City Nairobi
1 The Big Apple
New Delhi Shanghai Taipei Toronto
2 In the beginning 3
With officesin
Argentina Austria Brazil Chile Czech Republic France Greece 3 Visiting the city 8
Guatemala Hungary Italy Japan Poland Portugal Singapore
South Korea Switzerland Thailand Turkey Ukraine Vietnam 12
4 Around Manhattan
OXFORD and OXFORD ENGLISH are registered trade rnarks al'
Oxford University Press in the UK and in certain other countries 5 Creat buildings 15
© Oxford University Press 2008

The moral rights of the author have been assertecl

6 Museums and galleries 18
Database right Oxford University Press (maker) 7 Shopping and eating 22
2 4 6 8 10 9 7 5 3 1 8 Nights out in the city 26
No unauthorízed photoeopying
AlI rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced. 9 Outside Manhattan 30
stored in a retrieval system, 01' transmitted, in any form or by any means,
without the prior permission in writing of Oxford University Press, 10 Frorn baseball to tennis 33
or as expressly pennitted by law, or under terms agreed with the appropriate
reprographics rights organization. Enquiries concerning reproduction II We love a parade! 36
outside the scope ofthe above should be sent to the ELTRights Department,
Oxford University Press, at the address above
You must not circuIate this book in any other binding 01' cover
and you must impose this same condítion on any acquirer GLOSSARY 41
Any websites referred to in this publication are in the public domain and
their addresses are provided by Oxford University Press for information only.
ACTIVITIES: Before Reading 44
Oxford University Press clisclaims any responsibility for the content
ACTIVITIES: While Reading 45
ISBN: 978 0194233736

A complete recording of this Bookwonns editíon of ACTIVITIES: After Reading 48

New Yorkis available on audio CD. ISBN 978 o 19 423369 9
ABOUT TI-IE AUTI-IOR 52
Printed in Hong Kong

Word count (main text]: 4640

ABOUT TI-IE BOOKWORMS LIBRARY 53
For more information on the Oxford Bookworms Library,
visit www.oup.comJeltfbookworms

The publishers would like to thank the following for pennission to reproduce images:
Alamy pp viii (The Hoberman Collection), 21 (Christopher Hill), 22-23 (Frances M Roberts). 24
(Black Star/Flea Market, Gavin GoughfHot dog stand); Bridgeman Art Library p 2 (Collection ofthe
New York Historieal Society): COI-bispp 10 (RFIStatue of Liberty), 30 (Seth Wenig), 36 (Shannon
Stapleton); Empics pp 9 ( AP/Dima Gavrysh), 34 (Mary Altaffer); Gamma pp 27 (David Lefranc), 28-
29 (David LefrancfTimes Square); Cetty Images pp 5 (Hirz), 8, 11 (George Eastman House/í.ewis W.
Hine), 20 (Liason Agency/Chris Hondros), 25 (Brad Barket], 26 (Paul Hawthorne], 28 (Bryan Bedder/
Comedy Club), 31 (Nick Laham], 32, 33 (Chris Trotman), 38 (Ted Russell); The Kobal Collection
p 1 (Marvel/Sony Pictures); Magnum Photos pp 7 (Steve McCuny) 12-13 (Stuart Franklin), 49 (Erich
Hartmann); Museum of New York City p 4; Pictures Colour Library pp 16, 17; Reuters p 40 (Peter
Morgan); Rex Features pp 15, 19 (Action Press), 37 (Sipa Press); Robert Harding Picture Library
pp 10 (Neil Emmersonj cabs), 18 (e. Rennie), 35 (Sylvain Grandadam); Topfoto pp 14 (The Image
works/Michael Lpoolittjej, 39 (The Irnage Works/Monika Graff)
 1

1 The Big AppLe

More than twenty million people from all over the world
visit New York every year. Most of them say, 'Ir's the
most exciting city in the world!' They know many of the
streets, avenues, and famous buildings before they come.
How do they know them? From American movies, old
and new - King Kong, On the Toum, Annie, Manhattan,
Spiderman, and many more.
New York is not the capital of New York State. Albany,
154 miles to the north of the city, is the capital. But New
York is much more famous than Albany. People often
call it 'The Big Apple'. Why? In the 1920s and 1930s,
jazz musicians in the United States all wanted to work in
Ne~ York.

Spiderman in New York

2 New York 3

'There are a lot of apples on the tree,' they said, 'but

when you take ew York City, you take The Big Apple!' 2 In the beginning
Lots of famous people live or lived in New York: actors
the Marx Brothers, Robert De iro, Al Pacino, Whoopi
Goldberg, and Tom Cruise; musicians Christina Aguilera,
Alicia Keys, 50 Cent, Jennifer Lopez, Jerome Kern, and Four hundred years ago, Manhattan Island was the home
George Gershwin. of the Native American people called the Algonquin
Yes, everybody wanted some of The Big Apple - and Indians. In 1609, aman called Henry Hudson carne up
they want so me today, too! the river to Manhattan. He was British but he was on a
When visitors think about New York, they usually think Dutch ship, the Half Moon. Today, that river is called the
about Manhattan - an island 13 Yz miles long and 2 miles Hudson River.
across. But New York has five boroughs: Manhattan, In 1626, a Dutchman called Peter Minuit gave the
Brooklyn, the Bronx, Queens, and Sta ten Island. The city Algonquin Indians about twenty-four dollars for the
has 6,500 miles of streets, and seven and a half million island of Manhattan. Minuit built some houses, and
people live there. Another three and a half million people called the little town New Amsterdam after the city of
travel in to New York to work every day. Amsterdam in the Netherlands. Twenty years later, about
But ew York was not always a big city ... 500 people lived there.
4 New York

But in 1664, the British took the town from the Dutch
and changed irs name to New York. Then there was the
War of Independence (1775-1783) .: a war between the
British and some of the people of North America. It
finished in 1783,~the British left, and the United States of
America had its first president - George Washington.
In 1790, about 33,000people lived in New York, but
then millions more men and women began to leave their
countries and come to America from ~ll over the world.
These immigrants all wanted to be part of the new
country, and many of them wanted to live in New York.
The first immigrants came from Germany and Ireland;
later, more carne from Italy, Poland, Czechoslovakia,
Russia, Africa, and China.
These 'New Americans' often lived in the same streets
with other people from their own country - Irish with

Irish, Italians with Italians, Chinese with Chinese. Today,

there are parts of New York called Chinatown and Little
Italy.
The immigrants worked very hard, and many of them
helped to build the first skyscrapers and bridges. Brooklyn
Bridge, more than 6,000 feet long, opened on 24 May
1883. Thousands of New Yorkers watched, and 150,300
people went across the bridge on the first day.
In 1898, the five boroughs made a new city. Manhattan,
Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx and Staten Island were now
New York City - the second largest city in the world.
6. New York

The 1920s are often called the 'roaring twenties'. With

dancing, jazz, the first talking movies - America was an
exciting place. And nowhere was more exciting than ew
York. From 1920 to 1933 people could not make or sell
alcohol in New York - but of course you could find it in
dark streets or behind the doors of small clubs.
In 1930 the Chrysler Building opened, then the Empire
State Building in 1931. For many years, it was the tallest
building in the city - until 1972, when the World Trade
Center was built.
The two skyscrapers of the World Trade Center, on
Church Street and Liberty Street, were the tallest buildings
in New York. There were more than one hundred floors,
with offices, shops, and restaurants inside. The 'Windows
on the World' restaurant was one of the most famous
restaurants in the city.
But on 11 September, 2001 - '9/11' ta Americans-
everything changed. At 8.46 a.m. on that day an
American Airlines plane crashed into the orth Tower
of the World Trade Center. Seventeen minutes later, at
9.03 a.m., a United Airlines plane crashed into the South
Tower.
Nobody can forget 9/11. People all across the world
watched on TV and saw the last minutes of the two big
towers. Thousands of people died in and near the Center.
Today this place is called Ground Zero. Many visitors
to New York like to go there and remember 9/11. It is one
more story - one of the unhappiest stories - from this city.

"\
8 Visiting the city 9

3 Visiting the city

Travel is easy in Manhattan. There are twelve avenues,

First to Twelfth, and they go north and south. Sixth
Avenue also has a name - the Avenue of the Americas.
Most streets go east and west, and after 14th Street the
streets and avenues go in straight lines. The East Side is
to the east of Fifth Avenue, and the West Side is to the
west of it.
Lots of New Yorkers travel under the streets and
buildings of New York on subway trains. When you take
the subway, ask yourself, 'Where am 1 going - uptown
(north) or downtown (south)?' You can buy a MetroCard

at subway stations or at more than 3,000 other places

The straight avenues of New York
around the city. Visitors can also buy a one-day Fun Pass
and travel with it all day.
The subway is noisy and dirty, but it's cheap and
quick. Millions of people take the subway trains to and
from work every day. Some trains go for twenty-four
hours a day.
When you want to go by bus, you can buy a MetroCard.
Or you can get on the bus first and put the right money
in the box next to the driver. There are bus es on most
avenues and on the bigger streets. There are buses twenty-
four hours each day, but sometimes you can wait a long
time for a bus between midnight and 6 a.m.
10 New York Visiting the city 11

There are more than 12,000 yellow

taxis - called Xellow cabs - in N ew
York. You can usually find a cab
near the big hotels, and you can stop
them in the street.
There is a ferry from Battery Park
to the Statue of Liberty and Ellis
Island. The Sta ten Island ferry also
leaves from Battery Park. It leaves
every twenty to thirty minutes,
Yellow cabs
twenty-four hours a day. And it's
free for everybody!
For some of the best views of the city, take a Circle
Line boat around the island'of Manhattan. You can learn
a lot about the city, and you can see views of the other
four boroughs of New York.
Or go in a helicopter and look down on the skyscrapers!
Helicopters leave from West 30th Street and Twelfth Battery Park before you get on the ferry. There is also a
Avenue, and from Pier 6, museum on Liberty Island.
The Statúe of Liberty
the East River. Between 1892 and 1954, Ellis Island was the first stop
The people of France for nearly 17 million immigrants. All the ships from
gave the Statue of Liberty Europe stopped here. Many famous people came through
to the American people in Ellis Island - Isaac Asimov, Samuel Goldwyn, Rudolf
1886. The statue is about Valentino, Sigmund Freud, Charlie Chaplin and Walt
150 feet high, and her Disney. Today, you can take a ferry boat across the river
arm is 42 feet long. From and visit Ellis Island. Here, in the museum, you can see
the tenth floor there are pictures of many of those immigrants.
wonderful views of New South Street Seaport is by the East River. It tells the
York. Get your ticket story of New York, the sea, and the rivers. It is full of
from the ticket office at shops, restaurants, museums, and ships old and new.
12
Around Manhattan 13

There is a lot of music, and very good Italian food too. A

4 Around Manhattan big parade goes along Mulberry and Mott Streets, between
Canal and Houston Streets, on 19 September.
Greenwich Village is west of Broadway, between 14th
Street and Houston Street. lt got its name from Greenwich
South of Canal Street and west of Chatham Square is
in south-east London when the British were in New York
New York's Chinatown. Chinese people first carne to before the War of Independence. Many famous artists
New York around 1850. Most of them were men; they and writers lived in the old ho ses on the little streets
lived and worked in New York, and sent money home
of Greenwich Village; Edgar Allan Poe, Mark Twain,
to their families. Many helped to build the railways in ] ackson Pollock, ] ack Kerouac, and Allen Ginsberg all
California and across the West before they carne to New
lived here. There are interesting shops, cafés, art galleries,
York.
jazz clubs, and theatres.
Today, more than 80,000 Chinese-
Americans live in:Chinatown. There
are many interesting shops here,
and when you want to eat or drink,
there are restaurants and tea-shops
everywhere - nearly 400 of them.
Little ltaly is north of Canal
Street and west of the Bowery. It
was once the home of thousands of
Italian immigrants, and now it has
some of the best ltalian restaurants
in the city.
Each year in September there is
the Festival of San Gennaro. Three
million people come every year to
enjoy the eleven days of the festival.

The Festival of San Gennaro, Little Italy

 \

14 New York 15

At 75 Yz Bedford Street you can see N ew York's smallest

house. It is just 9 Yz feet across, and it was built in 1873. 5 Great buildings
]efferson Market Courthouse, at 425 Sixth Avenue, is
one of America's ten most beautiful buildings. It has a
beautiful tower with big clocks.
Central Park is between Fifth Avenue and Central Park The Empire State Building at Fifth Avenue and 34th Street
West, and from 59th to 1l0th Streets. It is six per cent of is New York's tallest skyscraper. Between 1931 and 1972,
Manhattan! In this quiet place you can get away from the it was the tallest building in the world.
people and the noise of the city. It has a big lake, hundreds Work on the building started in 1930, and it opened
of trees, and beautiful gardens. Often there is music in in 1931. It is 1,250 feet high and has 102 floors. In 1933
the park too. Visit the Delacorte Theatre or the Central people all over the world saw the Empire State Building
Park Zoo, or take a tour of Central Park by bicycle. New in the movie King Kong.
Yorkers love to walk, run, skate and play in Central Park;
it gets the most visitors of any park in the United States. The Empire State Building

CenteatPark.
 Great buildings 17

The Rockefeller Center is between Fifth and Seventh

Avenues and 47th and 51st Streets. New Yorkers love to
come here at Christmas. Here there are shops, restaurants,
and cafés. There is also the famous Radio City Music
Hall - the largest theatre in the world. The Center was
built between 1931 and 1940. In the winter, you can skate
on the Lower Plaza. And at Christmas there is always a
big Christmas tree at the Rockefeller Center. It is usually
between 75 and 90 feet high.

You can go up to the 86th floor for wonderful views

of the city. In 1945 aplane flew over Manhattan and hit
the 79th floor of the building. Fourteen people died in
the accident.
The United N ations Building is by the East River at
First Avenue and 45th Street. It has beautiful gardens by
the river. People from more than 190 countries meet and
work here. There are tours most days, and you can see
some interesting statues in the gardens.
Every day, trains take half a million people to and
from the Grand Central Terminal on East 42nd Street at
Park Avenue. This wonderful building opened in 1913.
The main part is 275 feet long and 125 feet high. Look
up at the beautiful blue ceiling with its 2,500 stars. The
windows are 60 feet high. The Grand Central Oyster Bar
is one of New York's most famous restaurants, and there
are lots more restaurants, cafés and shops. There are free
toürs on Wednesdays and Fridays.
18 Museums and galleries 19

Perhaps you are interested in American artists. At

6 Museums and the Whitney Museum of American Art at 945 Madison
Avenue you can see pictures by Edward Hopper, Georgia
gaLLeries O'Keeffe, Jasper Johns, William de Kooning and many
more American artists.
The Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) is at 11 West
53rd Street. It has the world's biggest collection of modern
There are more than sixty museums in Manhattan. So me arto There are six floors of pictures, photographs, and
stay open late one or two evenings in the week, and some statues. Two of the most famous pictures are Monet's
are free. Water Lilies and Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art - '5,000 years of art' The Museum of the City of New York on Fifth
- is New York's biggest museum, and is on Fifth Avenue. Avenue, at 103rd Street, tells the story of New York from
It has three floors with thousands of paintings, statues its beginning. Watch the Timescapes movie, and visit the
and other things. Titian, El Greco, Monet, Cezanne, and exhibition Perforrn about New York theatre.
Rousseau are just some of the names in the Metropolitan The Guggenheim Museum is also on Fifth Avenue, at
Museum. There is a garden of statues too. 88th Street. This museum opened in 1959. You can see
20 New York

the work of Picasso, Kandinsky, Modigliani, and other

modern artists in this strange but wonderful building.
The American Museum of the Moving Image is on
Thirty-Fifth Avenue at 36th Street, Astoria, Queens.
From Manhattan it is about a fifteen-minute ride on the
subway. You can see more than 85,000 different things
from the movies - clothes from Chicago and Star Trek,
photos of movie stars, and much more. You can learn
about movies and television, and watch movies in the
museum's theatre.
Would you like to see something different? At the New
York City Police Museum at 100 Old Slip between South

and Water Streets you can learn all about New York's
police - their work, their cars, and their clothes (frorn 1626
to today). At the lntrepid Sea-Air-Space Museum - Pier
86, Hudson River at 46th Street - you can visit US ships,
planes, and helicopters. At the Museum of Television and
Radio at 25 West 52nd Street, between Fifth and Sixth
Avenues, you can listen to radio programmes and watch
TV programmes - 120,000 of them! You can also watch
movies in the museum's theatre. And the International
Center of Photography at 1133 Sixth Avenue at 43rd
Street has thousands of photos from the earliest times up
to today, and exhibitions of old and new work.

The New York City Police Museum

22 Shopping and eating 23

or Paul Stuart, on Madison Avenue. For women's clothes,

7 Shopping and eating try Betsey Johnson at 248 Columbus Avenue or Calvin
Klein at 654 Madison Avenue.
There are more clothes at American Apparel at 183
Houston Street, Urban Outíitters at 628 Broadway
People love to go shopping in New York. You can find between Bleeker and Houston Streets, Mr Joe at 500
nearly everything here, and sometimes things are very Eighth Avenue between 35th and 36th Streets and Levi's
cheap. And there are shopping tours! Most of New York's (farnous for rheir jeans) at 536 Broadway between Prince
biggest shops are in midtown Manhattan. Fifth Avenue and Spring Streets.
has so me of the biggest names - Tiffany's, Cartier, Saks For cheap clothes, go to Century 21 at 22 Cortlandt
Fifth Avenue, Bergdorf Goodman, Lord and Taylor, Street between Broadway and Church Street. And Hell's
Gucci, Lacoste. Or go to the wonderful Trump Tower Kitchen Flea Market, at West 39th Street between Ninth
with its shops and restaurants. and Tenth Avenues, and Avenue A Flea Market at 11th
Macy's - 'The World's Largest Store' - is on Broadway Street are both open on Saturdays and Sundays.
and 34th Street. For men's clothes, go to Brooks Brothers For CDs and other music, go to Tower Records at
24 Shopping and eating 25

1961 Broadway or Midnight For 'something different', go to SoHo (between Canal

Records 263 West 23rd Street. Street and West Houston Street) or Greenwich Village.
Are you looking for something For everything Chinese, go to Pearl River Mart at 477
old or different? Then visit Broadway between Broome and Grand Streets.
Gryphon Records at 233 West You never need to be hungry in New York! There are
72nd Street, House of Oldies more than 25,000 restaurants, cafés, 'fast food' shops,
at 35 Carmine Street, or Other and food stands in New York's five boroughs. You can
Music at 15 East 4th Street. find something for everyone - from the cheapest to
And there are bookshops. the most expensive - and you can eat food from every
Barnes and Noble on Fifth country in the world. But remember - when you buy food
Avenue has more than three A flea market in America, in a restaurant or on the street, you usually
million books. The Strand Book get a lot!
Store at 828 Broadway sells new and old books. Readers New Yorkers often eat at the delicatessen - or 'deli'.
of mystery books can find thousands and thousands of These food shops sell wonderful sandwiches. There are
rhem at Murder Ink at 2486 Broadway and the Mysterious fast food stands on many streets. These sell food like
Bookshop at 129 West 56th Street. Gotham Book Mart at hamburgers and hot dogs, and drinks like Coca-Cola.
41 West 47th Street has hundreds of old books. From 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. you can have 'afternoon tea' at
one of the bigger hotels - the Plaza at 768 Fifth Avenue,
the Waldorf-Astoria at 301 Park Avenue or the Carlyle at
35 East 76th Street.

A food stand
26

Nights out in the city

Some of the best actors, singers, and dancers in the world

live and work in New York. Most of the theatres are in
the streets near Times Square and on Broadway, between
41st and 53rd Streets. There are thirty or more theatres
on Broadway, and tickets are expensive, but sometimes 42nd Street is between June and August. In the evenings
you can get cheaper tickets on the day. you can watch movies, at lunchtimes watch theatre,
'Off-Broadway' theatres are cheaper, and you can get a and at weekends listen to concerts. And you can hear
ticket more easily. You can find off- Broadway theatres in free concerts at Central Park SummerStage at Rumsey
Greenwich Village and in some other parts of New York. Playfield in Central Park, between June and September.
And sometimes you can watch things for free! Bryant The Lincoln Center is on Broadway and 64th Street.
Park Free Summer Season in Bryant Park, Sixth Avenue at Here you can see dancing or lis ten to music. You can
also listen to music at Carnegie Hall on 57th Street and
Seventh Avenue, and at Radio City Music Hall at 1260
Sixth Avenue.
New York is a wonderful city for jazz. You can hear
some of the best jazz at the Blue Note. at 131 West 3rd
Street, Village Vanguard at 178 Seventh Avenue South,
and at Birdland at 315 West 44th Street.
For rock music, try the Mercury Lounge at 217 East
Houston Street, Irving Plaza at 17 Irving Place at 15th
Street, S.O.B's at" 204 Varick Street,. the Hammerstein
Ballroom at 311 West 34th Street, The Living Room at
154 Ludlow Street or Maxwell's at 1039 Washington
Street. Sometimes you can hear a rock concert at Madison
Square Gárden at Eighth Avenue and 33rd Street.
 Nights out in the city 29

Room at 30 Rockefeller Plaza. Or there is the Supper

Club at 240 West 47th Street.
For lots of laughs, go to the Comedy Cellar at 117
MacDougal Street between Bleeker and West 3rd Streets
or to Carolines on Broadway at 1626 Broadway between
49th and 50th Streets.
Bars and clubs, midnight movies, late-night shops, and
food stands in the street. 'This city never sleeps,' New
Yorkers say

There are lots of Irish people in

New York, and they love music.
You can hear Irish music at
BlaggardsPub, 8 West 38th Street,
or at Connolly's in Times Square.
There are cinemas - often called
movie theatres - all over the city,
and people make a lot of movies
on the streets of New York too.
Woody Allen is probably New
York's most famous movie-rnaker.
The New York Film Festival
begins at the end of September for
two weeks at the Lincoln Center.
You can see new movies from
America and other countries for
thefirst time.
Nightclubs are good place s for
an evening out, but they can be
expensive. Go to the Rainbow
30 Outside Manhattan 31

9 Outside Manhattan

New York is more than just Manhattan. There are four

more boroughs in the city- Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx,
and Sta ten Island.
Brooklyn is one of the oldest parts of New York, and
it has many interesting old buildings. Many visitors (and
many New Yorkers too) like to visit Coney Island. In
this part of South Brooldyn there are more than three
miles of beaches. And you can have an exciting time at
the amusement park. For children, there is the Brooklyn

Coney Istand Amusement Park

Children's Museum, at 145 Brooklyn Avenue. It was the

first children's museum in the world.
Flushing Meadows-Corona Park lS 10 Queens. The
50,OOO-seat Shea Stadium, home of the ew York Mets
baseball team, is here. Flushing Meadows is the home of
the US National Tennis Center.
Queens has many museums and restaurants. Take the
Number 7 subway from Times Square to Flushing. The
train takes you above the roads and houses and gives you
one of the best views of New York.
Two interesting places in the Bronx are the Bronx Zoo
and the New York Botanical Garden. The zoo opened in
32 New York 33

1899. Today it has more than seven thousand animals. It

also has a children's zoo and a big park. The New York 10 From baseball
Botanical Garden has forty-eight gardens, and a garden
for children. to tennis
Take the free ferry to Staten Island, south of Manhattan.
Sta ten Island has some beautiful old New York buildings,
and there are lakes and hills with good views of ew
York and the rivers. Historie Richmond Town is at 441 Americans love to watch baseball, and ew York has two
Clarke Avenue. In this museum village you can visit famous baseball teams - the Mets and the Yankees. Shea
twenty-seven different buildings. One is from the 1690s, Stadium is the home of the New York Mets, and they
and another from the 1820s. Also on Staten Island is the play there between April and September.
Chinese Scholar's Garden - a quiet, beautiful, green place The New York Knicks basketball tea m play at Madison
in a noisy city. Square Garden from October to April.
Madison Square Garden is also the place for ice hockey,
between October and April. The city's oldest team, the
New York Rangers, play here.

The New York Botanical Garden Baseball

34 New York From baseball to tennis 35

The city's two football teams - American football, of bikes for about ten dollars an hour in the park too. There
course - are the New York Giants and the New York Jets. are no cars in the park on Saturdays and Sundays, so
See them at the Giants Stadium in New Jersey. people like riding and walking then.
In November every year, 25,000 people run through all Runners can go to the Central Park Reservoir running
five boroughs of New York in the New York Marathon. track, or to Chelsea Piers Sports and Entertainment
They begin on Sta ten Island, and finish 26 miles and 385 Complex, Piers 59-62 at 23rd Street and Eleventh
yards later in Central Park. Avenue.
You can ride a horse at the Claremont Riding Academy Tennis players from all over the world come to the
at 175 West 89th Street, or in Central Park. You can get National Tennis Center at Flushing Meadows, Queens,
for the US Open Tennis Championships. These are in
early September.

The New York Marathon

Belt Pkwy East

Kennedy Airport
92 St
EXIT 1 MI

Ice hockey
36 We lave a parade! 37

Madison Square Garden at

11 We lave a parade! midnight.
There is an Easter Parade
on Fifth Avenue on Easter
Sunday, from 49th to 57th
New Yorkers love parades and there is one in some part Streets.
of the city most months of the year. One of the biggest is America's Independence
the St Patrick's Day Parade. Day is on 4 July. There
St Patrick's Day Parade is on 17 March. It is the longest, are many street parades
oldest, and most famous of all the New York parades. and fireworks in the five
It started in 1762. It goes along Fifth Avenue from 44th boroughs of New York.
Street to 86th Street. More than 150,000 people walk in On 31 October is the Halloween Parade. This began
the parade. as a walk for children on Halloween night in Greenwich
In March or April the Ringling Brothers and Barnum Village. It is now a big parade for everyone.
and Bailey Circus comes to the city. On the first and The first Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade was in 1924.
last nights of the circus, there is a parade with the It is on the last Thursday in November and goes along
circus animals from the Queens Midtown Tunnel to Broadway from 77th Street to 34th Street. The parade can
be 2 Yz miles long. Some people get up very early and wait
for hours for the parade.
At Christmas you can go to Radio City Music Hall
for their wonderful Christmas Show, or go skating at the
Rockefeller Center.
Late on New Year's Eve (31 December), many people
go to Times Square. At midnight, everyone sings and
dances and says 'Happy New Year!' to their friends or
the people near them. There are fireworks in Central Park
and a midnight run through the park.
Perhaps you're thinking about a visit to New York.
What other things do visitors need to know? People
often ask, 'Is New York dangerous?' No more dangerous
 We lave a parade! 39

than any other big city. There are a lot of police on the
streets of New York too. Just be careful - don't carry a
lot of money with you, and stay with other people late
at night.
Some visitors find that ew Yorkers are not very
friendly. Some are, some aren't. Some taxi drivers talk
a lot, but others only say 'Yeah!' or 'OK!' when you talk
to them.
New York can be very hot in the middle of summer and
very cold in the middle of winter. Take the right clothes
with you when you visito
The city is always changing. You can hear the noise of
building work all the time. Cars and buses stop and start,
40 New Yorl¿ 41

and yellow cabs are everywhere. WALK and DON'T GLOSSARY

WALK signs go on and off, and people run between
streets and avenues.
alcohol strong drinks like wine, beer or whisky
That's New York. art pictures and other beautiful things that people like to look at
That's the most exciting city in the world. artist someone who paints or draws pictures
basketball a game for two teams of five players who try to throw
a ball into a high net
boat a small ship for travelling on water
borough one part of a city
bus a kind of big 'car' which many people can trave! in
buy to give money for something
capital (city) the most important city in a country
circus a show with people and animals that goes from place to
place
clothes things you wear, e.g. shirts, trousers, dresses
club a place where you go to dance and listen to music
collection a group of things of the same kind in one place
crash to hit something hard and noisily
dance to move your body to music
dangerous something dangerous can hurt or kill you
exhibition a number of things people go to look at e.g. in a
museum or gallery
ferry a boat that takes people or things on short journeys across
a nver
floor one leve! of a building
food what you eat
gallery a place where you can see paintings and other kinds of
art
helicopter a kind of small plane that can go straight up into the
arr
immigrant a person who comes to another country to live there
island a piece of land with water around it
lake an area of water with land around it
modern of the present time
museum a place where you can look at old or interesting things
42 Glossary

music when you sing or play an insrrurnent, you rnake rnusic

rnusician a person who makes music
New York
rnystery a kind of book abour crimes and strange events
park a large place with trees and gardens where people can go to ACTIVITIES
walk, play games etc.
part one of the pieces of something
railway the metallines that trains go on from one place to
another
restaurant a place where people can buy and eat meals
ride to sit on a horse and make it move; to travel in a car or rrain
saint (St) pan of the name of a very good or holy person; often
written as St
sell to give something to someone and get money for it
tearn a group of people who playa sport together againsr
another group
theatre a building where you go to see plays
tour a short visit to see a building or city
-travel to go from one place to another place
view what you can see from a certain place
war fighting between countries or groups of people
zoo a place where you can see wild animals in a town or city
 44 45

ACTIVITIES ACTIVITIES

Before Reading While Reading

1 Read the back cover of the book, and the introduction on Read Chapters 1 and 2. Are these sentences true (T) or false
the first page. How much do you know now about New (F)? Change the false sentences into true ones.
York? Are these sentences true (T) or false (F)?
1 Manhattan is an island, thirteen and a ha:lf miles long.
1 Twenty-five million people live in New York. 2 New York has five boroughs.
2 More than twenty million people visit New York every 3 The city has 7,500 miles of streets.
year. 4 George Hudson was the first president of the United
3 In the 1650s New York was called Little London. States of America.
4 You can visit the Statue of Lord Nelson. 5 The first immigrants carne from Germany and Ireland.
5 You can see a show in a Broadway theatre. 6 There is a part of New York called Little China.
6 New York is small, quiet, and boring. 7 From 1920 to 1933 people could not make or sell alcohol
in New York.
2 Which of these places are you going to find in a book about 8 For many years, the Chrysler Building was the tallest in
New York? Tick six of the twelve boxes.
the city.
o Niagara Falls o Macy's
O Harrods O The White House Read Chapter 3, and then complete these sentences with
O Central Park O Brooklyn the right words.

O Big Ben O Manhattan avenues, cabs, ferry, immigrants, people, subway, views
O The Eiffel Tower O The Colosseum 1 There are twelve in New York.
O The Sta ten Island Ferry O Coney Island 2 The __ is noisy, dirty, cheap, and quick.
3 Taxis are called yellow __ in New York.
Which other places do you know in New York? 4 There are wonderful of New York from the Statue
Which places in New York would you most like to visit? of Liberty.
5 The __ of France gave the statue to the Americans in
1886.
6 You can take a and visit Ellis Island.
7 Ellis Island was the first stop for all the __ from Europe.
46 ACTIVITIES: While Reading ACTIVITIES: While Reading . 47

Read Chapters 4 and 5, then answer these questions. Read Chapter 7. Match the places with the things you can
eat or buy there.
1 When did Chinese people first come to New York?
1 Brooks Brothers a afternoon tea
2 Where are the best ltalian restaurants in the city?
2 Betsey Johnson b women's clothes
3 When is the Festival of San Gennaro?
3 Hell's Kitchen Flea Market c everything Chinese
4 What can you see at 75 Yz Bedford Street?
4 Barnes and Noble d men's clothes
5 Where can you find a lake in New York?
5 Pearl River Mart e cheap clothes
6 When did the Empire State Building open?
6 Waldorf Astoria f books
7 Where do people from more than 190 countries meet and
work?
Read Chapter 8. Match the places with the things you can
8 Where are the windows 60 feet high?
see or hear there.
9 Which is the largest theatre in the world?
1 Broadway a lTIOVleS
10 Where is there a big tree at Christmas?
2 Central Park SummerStage b rock music
Read Chapter 6, then match the beginnings and the endings 3 Blue Note c Jazz
of the sentences. 4 Mercury Lounge d theatre
5 Connolly's e free concerts
1 The Metropolitan Museum of Art is ...
6 New York Film Festival f Irish music
2 The Museum of Modern Art has ...
3 At the Museum of the City of New York watch ...
Read Chapters 9, 10, and 11. Complete the sentences with
4 The .Guggenheim Museum opened ... the names of the places.
5 The American Museum of the Moving Image has .
1 At Island there are more than three miles of beach.
6 At the Intrepid Sea-Air-Space Museum you can see .
2 The __ Zoo opened in 1899.
7 At the Museum of Television and Radio you can watch .
3 __ Stadium is the home of the New York Mets.
a the Timescapes movie. 4 The New York Marathon begins on __ Island.
b New York's biggest museum. 5 There are no cars in __ Park on Saturdays and Sundays.
c US ships, planes, and helicopters. 6 The St Patrick's Day Parade goes along __ Avenue.
d 120,000 TV programmes. 7 Go to __ Music Hall for their wonderful Christmas
e in 1959. Show.
f the world's biggest collection of modern arto 8 On New Year's Eve, many people go to __ Square.
g 85,000 different things frorn movies.
 48 ACTIVITIES: After Reading 49

ACTIVITIES 2 Here is a new photo for the book. Find the best place in the
book to put the picture, and answer these questions.
After Reading
The picture goes on page _

1 Where was the photographer?

1 Martin is visiting New York. Read his e-rnail and circle the 2 What are the people doing?
correct words. 3 Who are the people in the pictures on the walls?
000 4 Would you like to visit this place?

From: Martin
Subject: New York Now write a caption for the photo.

He/lo / Goodbye from New York

I arrived / left here on Friday. I caught the train / plane

to Grand Central Terminal/Victoria Station and then
the tube / subway to my hotel. It is next to Hyde Park /
Central Park in the centre of the city. The views / sights
from my window are wonderful.

Yesterday I went for a walk / ride on the Staten Island

ferry / train to see the Statue of Líberty / Eiffel Tower. The
people of Britain / France gave it to the Americans. It is
very big! For lunch we had a sandwich / afternoon tea in
a famous New York deli.

Last night I went to a famous theatre on Broadway /

Sixth Avenue, and I saw a very exciting play. After the
play I took a ye/low / red cab back to my hotel.

Tomorrow I am going to see / watch the movies /

paintings at the Louvre / Metropolítan Museum of Art.
Then I am going shopping in Harrods / Macy's.

On Monday I am coming home.

See you soon.

Martin
Caption: _
 50 ACTlVITIES: After Reading ACTlVITIES: After Reading 51

3 Use the clues below to complete this crossword with words 4 Here is a paragraph about New York. Write the correct
from the story. Then find the hidden ten-letter word in the words in the spaces.
crossword.
Central Park, Ellis Island, Empire State Building, ferry,
1 Fifth Avenue, hot dogs, north-east, paintings, seven,
2
subway, theatres, twenty

3
New York is in the of the United States of America.
More than million people live there and __
4

million people visit the city every year. They like to travel
5
on the , see the __ in the museums and see the
6
wonderful views from the o They also like to eat
7 __ and walk in __ o Many people take the __ to
8
___ . They also want to go shopping on . In the
evening the on Broadway are very popular.
9

10
Now write a paragraph about a city in your country.
Begin ...
1 To give money for something. (My city) __ is in the __ of __ o Ir has __
2 To move your body to music. million people.
3 To give something to someone and get money for it.
4 A large place withtrees and gardens where people can go Now compare New York and your city. Which things are
the same? Which things are different? What is the most
and walk, play games etc.
interesting thing about each city? Where would you like to
5 To sit on a horse and make it move; to travel in a car or
live? Why?
train.
6 Things that you wear, e.g. shirts, trousers, dresses. 5 Imagine you are going to visit New York for a weekend.
7 A small ship for travelling on water. What five things would you most like to see and do there?
8 To go from one place to another place. What would you like to visit first? What would you like
9 One level of a building. to buy, and which food would you like to try? What is the
most interesting thing about the city for you? You can find
10 A kind of small plane that can go straight up into the air.
more information about the cityat www.nycvisit.com.

The hidden word in the crossword is

52 53

OXFORD BOOKWORMS LIBRARY

Classics • Crime & Mystery • Factfiles • Fantasy & Horror
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Human Interest • Playscripts • Thriller & Adventure
True Stories • World Stories

John Escott worked in business before becoming a writer. Since The OXFORD BOOKWORMS LIBRARY provides enjoyable reading in English,
then he has written many books for readers of al! ages. He was born with a wide range of classic and modern fiction, non-fiction, and plays.
in Somerset, in the west of England, but now lives in Bournemouth Ir includes original and adapted texts in seven carefully graded language
in the south. From he re he can easily reach the Dorset coast, which, stages, which take learners from beginner to advanced leve!. An overview
is given on the next pages.
he says, is his favourite part of England. When he is not working,
he likes looking for long-forgotten books in small backstreet AlI Stage 1 titles are available as audio recordings, as well as over eighty
bookshops, watching old Hollywood films, and walking for miles orher titles from Starrer to Stage 6. AlJ Starters and many titles at Stages 1
along ernpty beaches. to 4 are specially recommended for younger learners. Every Bookworm is
illustrated, and Starters and Factfiles have ful!-colour illustrations.
He has visited New York several times. Two of his favourite
places are the Guggenheim Museum and the Trump Tower. He The OXFORD BOOKWORMS LIBRARY also offers extensive support. Each book
also enjoyed the Circle Line boat tour, and the trip to Ellis Island, contains an introduction to the srory, notes about the author, a glossary,
where he liked reading the sad stories from the lives of early and activities. Additional resources include tests and worksheets, and
immigrants to the United States. answers for these and for the activities in the books. There is advice on
running a class library, using audio recordings, and the many ways of
He has written or retold more rhan twenty stories for Oxford
using Oxford Bookworms in reading prograrnrnes. Resource materials are
Bookworms, from Starter to Stage 6, and he has also written
available on the website <www.oup.col11/elt/bookworms>.
for the Oxford Dominoes series. His other Oxford Bookworms
titles at Stage 1 are England and London (Factfiles), Goodbye, Mr The Oxford Bookworms Collection is a series for advanced learners. Ir
Hollywood (Thriller and Adventure), and Sister Love and Other consisrs of volumes of short srories by well-known authors, both classic
and moderno Texts are not abridged or adapred in any way, but carefully
Crime Stories (Crime and Mystery).
selected ro be accessible ro the advanced srudent.

You can find details and a ful! list of tides in the Oxford Bookworms
Library Catalogue and Oxford English Language Teaching Catalogues,
and on the website <www.oup.com/elt/bookworms>.

L
54 55

THE OXFORD BOOKWORMS LIBRARY STAGE 3 • 1000 HEADWORDS

GRADING AND SAMPLE EXTRACTS ... should, may - present perfecr cominuous - used to - past perfect
- causative - relative clauses - indirecr srarernents ...
STARTER • 250 HEADWORDS
Of course, it was most important that no one should see
present simple - present cominuous - imperative -
Colin, Mary, or Dickon entering the secret garden. So Colin
can/cannot, must - going to (future) - simple gerunds ...
gave orders to the gardeners that they must all keep away
Her phone is ringing - but where is it? from that part of the garden in future. The Secret Carden
Sally gets out of bed and looks in her bag. No phone.
She looks under the bed. No phone. Then she looks behind STAGE 4 • 1400 HEADWORDS
... past perfect continuous - passive (simple forms) -
the door. There is her phone. Sally picks up her phone and
would conditional clauses - indirect questions-
answers it. Sally's Phone relatives with where/when - gerunds after prepositions/phrases ...

1 was glad. Now Hyde could not show his face to the world
STAGE 1 • 400 HEADWORDS
again. If he did, every honest man in London would be proud
... past simple - coordination with and, but, or-
subordination with before, after, when, because, so ...
to report him tú the police. Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

1 knew him in Persia. He was a famous builder and 1 STAGE 5 • 1800 HEADWORDS
worked with him there. Por a time 1 was his friend, but ... future continuous - future perfect-
not for long. When he carne to Paris, 1 carne after him - passive (modals, continuous forms) -
would haue conditional clauses - modals + perfect infinitive ...
1wanted to watch him. He was a very clever, very dangerous
If he had spoken Estella's name, 1 would have hit him. 1 was so
mano The Phantom of the Opera
angry with him, and so depressed about my future, that 1could
STAGE 2 • 700 HEADWORDS
not eat the breakfast. Instead 1 went straight to the old house.
Creat Expectations
... presem perfect - will (future) - (don 't) haue to, must not, could -
comparison of adjectives - simple if clauses - past continuous -
tag questions - askJtell + infinitive ... STAGE 6 • 2500 HEADWORDS
. .. passive (infinirives, gerunds) - advanced modal meanings -
While 1 was writing these words in my diary, 1 decided
clauses of concession, condition
what to do. 1 must try tú escape. 1 shall try to get down the
When 1 stepped up to the piano, 1 was confident. It was as if 1
wall outside. The window is high above the ground, but knew that the prodigy side of me really did existo And when 1
1 have to try. 1 shall take so me of the gold with me - if 1 started to play, 1 was so caught up in how lovely 1 looked that
escape, perhaps it will be helpful.later. Dracula 1didn't worry how 1would sound. The Joy Luck Club
56

BOOKWORMS . FACTFILES . STAGE 1

London
JOHN ESCOTT

Come with us to London - a city as old as the Romans, and as

new as the twenty-first century. There are places to go - from
Oxford Street to Westminster Abbey, from Shakespeare's Globe
Theatre to Wimbledon Tennis Club. And things to do - ride on the
London Eye, visit the markets, go to the theatre, run in the London
Marathon. Big, beautiful, noisy, exciting -. that's London.

BOOKWORMS . FACTFILES STAGE 1

England
JOHN ESCOTT

Twenty-five million people come to England every year, and some

never goout of London, But England too is full of interesting
places to visit and things to do. There are big noisy cities with
COr)!A 'iAn 1\ '\'('':'::0("\'(1\\
í! í (\t-\ 11\1\,1: ..• \j\,' \, ,\1

great shops and theatres, and quiet little villages. You can visit PRO H I~ I L' A ~ U \! i.:. 'r! f\
old castles and beautiful churches - or go to festivals with music
twenty-four hours a day. You can havcan English afternoon tea, Oxford University Press
walk on long white beaches, watch agreat game of football, or Tel: (1) 605 20 95 WWW.oup.com
visit a country house. Yes, England has something for everybody
- what has it got for you?