New York City is one of the most popular destinations for students all over the world! Museums, concerts, history, theater, sports, and more. New York has it all! Let your students experience it to the fullest. All races and national origins are represented in this bustling city, rich with history, and home to over 150 world class museums!
Your travels will take you from Times Square and the Broadway theaters to the United Nations, center of international diplomacy, and on to Wall Street, the heart of the US financial market.
From the skyscrapers to the colonial churches, from Chinatown to Rockefeller Center, the sights, sounds and enticing aromas of New York will welcome you and your students.
With its endless possibilities for dining experiences, its dazzling musical shows, and its plasma billboards the “City That Never Sleeps” will both entertain and enlighten you and your students!
Why is New York Called, "The Big Apple?"
That's a great question! The actual origins of the name are shrouded in mystery, with an awful lot of theories out there. Researcher Barry Popik found the earliest usage in 1920's by newspaper columnist John J. Fitz Gerald. It was a catchphrase of his column in of New York's Morning Telegraph. He apparently picked up the term from some stable hands at the Fair Grounds racetrack in New Orleans.
The phrase gained popularity into the 1930's and on, but really hit the big time when Charles Gillett, president of the New York Convention and Visitors Bureau, adopted it as an official slogan in the 1970s.
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