Conversational topic: The sights of New York

The American Museum of Natural History - its rich collections are an interesting illustration of the growth and development of man and nature.

Times Square is New York's white-hot energy center. It would take hours of fixed concentration to really see what's going on here, in the confusion of lights, billboards, people, stores, and traffic.

Greenwich Village is the artistic quarters of New York. The main streets of it are lined with little craft and curio shops, restaurants, art galleries and off-Broadway theartres.

Madison Square Garden is the largest indoor stadium in the city also employed for various kinds of public events and entertainments.

Carnegie Hall is one of America´s oldest concert halls. Founded in 1891, it has attained world-wide fame by presenting many outstanding musicians and conductors.

Spanning the East River, the Brooklyn Bridge connected Manhattan Island to the then-independent city of Brooklyn; before its opening, Brooklynites had only the Fulton Street Ferry to shuttle them across the river.

The Empire State Building may no longer be the world's tallest building (it currently ranks as the seventh), but it is certainly one of the world's best loved skyscrapers and a symbol of New York City and, perhaps, the whole 20th century.

New York Botanical Garden is considered to be one of the leading botany centers in the world. This 250-acre garden built around the dramatic gorge of the Bronx River is one of the best reasons to make a trip to the Bronx.

Conceived by John D. Rockefeller during the Great Depression of the 1930s, the Rockefeller center complex - "the greatest urban complex of the 20th century," occupies nearly 22 acres of prime real estate.

The United Nations Headquarters is officially an "international zone," not part of the United States. The 18-acre riverside tract, now lustily landscaped, was bought and donated by oil magnate John D. Rockefeller Jr. in 1946.

With the whole area of 9, 5 acre Washington Square started out as a cemetery, principally for yellow fever victims. In the early 1800s it was a parade ground and the site of public executions; in 1827 it was turned into a public park.

5. Speak about New York.