NOW - 21st Century

2000 Rapid growth |
According to the 2000 census, New York's population reached an all-time high. |
2001 World Trade Center destroyed |
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2002 Bloomberg elected mayor |
(http://www.biography.com/people/michael-bloomberg-16466704#new-york-mayor) |
2003 Restoration of The World Trade Center site |
The new World Trade Center (WTC) is a vision of downtown New York that combines commercial space, convenient transportation, and a cultural center. The new WTC will include:
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2009 High Line Park Opens |
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2004 Time Warner Building. Hearst Tower |
Hearst Tower
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2012 Hurricane Sandy |
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NOW The Greatest City in the World! |
It hosts the headquarters of the United Nations, it's the home for the New York Stock Exchange, Wall Street and Federal reserve; Metropolitan Opera, Broadway theaters, and Madison Avenue; Metropolitan, Guggenheim and MoMA Museums, Blue Note, Village Vanguard, Iridium and hundreds of other Jazz clubs; New York University, Columbia University, and Julliard School of Music are in New York City. New York is the world's greatest cultural center and a creative force like no other. It is a communication, financial capital of the world and an entertainment mecca. It's a melting pot, it's the city of immigrants, it's the place which was accepting 'the tired and the poor' from the all over the world and, in exchange, received enormous quantities of talent and creative energy, which shaped New York into what it is now, the greatest city in the world. |