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History of New York City
Knowing the history of New York can make your vacation come alive. Europe’s first contact with this area occurred in 1524, when Italian explorer Giovanni de Verrazano viewed New York from the base of Manhattan. The Dutch settled New York first, after explorer Henry Hudson lent his name to the world's largest tidal river. In 1625, six farms called "bouweries" were started in Manhattan.

The next year, Governor Peter Minuet purchased Manhattan from the Native Americans for $24 worth of trinkets. By 1640, the predominately Dutch New Amsterdam (as it was then called) was teeming with the diversity of the New World, as the tolerant Dutch welcomed all.

Touring New York City
New York, is a city of contrasts, diversity and culture. Leave John F. Kennedy Airport or La Guardia Airport and drive your rental car to Wall Street or to the United Nations where the world’s most powerful and influential men and women prize success in New York above all other places. Its population comes from every country in the world, bringing a variety of culture and viewpoints. However, above all else New York has always been about money and ambition.

After you land at the Kennedy International Airport drive your rental car in to New York City which is arguably the world's most vibrant and sprawling metropolis. It occupies five boroughs, each with its own distinct identity. Before the historic 1898 consolidation, Manhattan, Brooklyn, The Bronx, Queens and Staten Island were each independent cities.

Once you land at either JFK Airport or La Guardia Airport rent a car and drive into Manhattan, home to the most recognizable sites and the key identity of what "New York City" is. New York’s oldest historic area is the Wall Street area. It is here where George Washington was inaugurated as the first President of the United States. Wall Street investment banks coexist with landmarks like Trinity Church which you can visit in your rental van. Battery Park draws people for its panoramic views of the harbor and the Statue Of Liberty.

After you drive in from JFK, Tour Greenwich Village, a place that is still the home to artistic free spirits. Edna St. Vincent Millay and playwright Eugene O'Neill as well as numerous others lived in Greenwich Village. New York University students gather in Washington Square Park and a diverse array of shops, bars and music clubs exist down Seventh Avenue and along Bleecker Street.

Tour the Asian restaurants, grocery stores and souvenier shops in your rental SUV after you leave La Guardia Airport (LGA), that are along the crowded streets of Chinatown. Dim Sum and other favorite Chinese cuisine lure diners on practically every corner.

Italian Restaurants draw tourists to this lively neighborhood surrounding Mulberry Street in Little Italy. You can take your rental van from John F. Kennedy International Airport to The Feast of San Gennaro which still welcomes its throngs but park your car and walk through the Feast once you get there., It is a neighborhood which is fast being surrounded by nearby Chinatown.

Continue your tour by stopping at the Flatiron Building is on 23rd Street. It is a district marked by loft spaces to the west and pre-war residences to the east. More than a century after their construction, the apartment buildings and townhouses around Gramercy Park remain coveted addresses. By the way the term "23-skiddoo" comes from standing on the corner of 23rd Street and Fifth Avenue where the wind whistles.

As the name implies, Midtown is right in the middle of everything. When you take the car you rent from LGA, La Guardia Airport, you may not be sure where Midtown begins (most would say somewhere in the 30s), but most agree it stops around Central Park. Publishing houses, financial firms, import/export companies and the Seventh Avenue garment trade all do business here. You can find a number of eateries like the Hard Rock Cafe. Trump Tower entices shoppers and tourists, along with all those fabulous stores along Fifth Avenue, Bergdorf's and Saks Fifth Avenue. You'll find Ice skaters at Rockefeller Center and in the middle of it all is St. Patrick's Cathedral.

Many New Yorkers miss the almost-gone seediness of Times Square, as the Disney Store and other stores have moved in. However, most people begrudgingly admit that it is better this way. Tourists, who've driven their rental cars in to the Times Square area from John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK) or La Guardia Airport (LGA), adore everything from souvenir shops to enormous billboards and Broadway musicals.

Fifth, Park and Madison have always been up-scale. You will want to take your luxury rental car to see the gilded mansions of yesterday or the area’s hi-rise modern apartments, where old money or nouveau riche, have long existed side by side. Shops to serve them line Madison Avenue, while Gap Kids coexists with art galleries and antique shops.

After leaving Kennedy International Airport or La Guardia Airport, visit Harlem whic has long been national epicenter of African-American culture. It was home to the Harlem Renaissance, one of this country’s most influential artistic, literary and cultural movement. It has since seen some of New York’s worst poverty and crime. Now, however, Harlem is benefiting from a booming economy, as rents rise and tourists come to visit the jazz clubs and Southern restaurants.

Drive your rental car to Brooklyn after you land at La Guardia Airport, which stretches from Coney Island, known for its boardwalk to upscale Brooklyn Heights. But wherever Brooklynites hail from, they remain a largely proud lot. They can boast of the Prospect Park and the Brooklyn Botanic Garden the Brooklyn Bridge, the Brooklyn Museum of Art, and a growing restaurant scene. And there is nothing like a strong Brooklyn accent.

As your tour continues, take a trip to The Bronx which boasts the Yankees at Yankee Stadium, and one of the nation’s finest zoos, The Bronx Zoo, and the extraordinary Bronx Botanical Garden.

Staten Island is probably best known for the Staten Island Ferry. You can take your rental car from La Guardia Airport (LGA) or John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK) to Staten Island and you would never know you're in a large city. There are houses, countryside, parks and even a working farm on its island. Take your rental car and cross the river from Manhattan to Staten Island on the Staten Island Ferry. All in all, New York City is truly one of the most interesting cities in the world. Vacation here!