Downtown Vocabulary In New York

Hey guys! It's Ariannita la Gringa and welcome  back to my YouTube channel. If you guys don't know anything about me, I am a native English  teacher from the United States teaching you guys English at different places.

Can you guys  guess where I'm at today just by looking at the beautiful buildings around me? I am in downtown  New York City but specifically Manhattan and in today's video I am going to teach all of you  downtown vocabulary. And New York City is the best city (the city that never sleeps) to  teach you guys downtown vocab.

But before starting this video and teaching you guys some  downtown vocab, what does the word downtown mean? Downtown is a part of a city or a town where  there are a lot of tall buildings, stores, and offices or it's just the center of the city.  Now let's learn some English vocab in New York.

One of the main characteristics of a  downtown area are the tall buildings like the ones behind me. But what is a very tall  building called like the one right next to me? This very tall building located in  the center of downtown New York is called One World Trade Center.

This  building is called a skyscraper, skyscraper. And why is it called skyscraper?  Well it's called skyscraper because the building is scraping the sky.

And this  skyscraper has many levels or floors. This skyscraper is so tall that I couldn't even  fit it in this video. This skyscraper is the tallest building in the entire United States of  America at 1,776 feet (541 meters).

Now what do you think is inside of a huge skyscraper? Are  there apartments, hotels, offices businesses? Actually there's everything!

Some skyscrapers  have hotels, apartments, offices, businesses, and more things overall. A skyscraper can be  used in a variety of ways and produce a lot of money with the businesses they have inside. Go  ahead and tell me what is the tallest building or skyscraper in your city where you are from. 

When you exit a building like this one the first thing you see is this right here this is called  a sidewalk. And you walk on the sidewalk Also, this sidewalk is huge because we are in New  York City and there are over 8. 8 million people living in New York.

Can you believe it? It's  population is huge. This right here that I'm tapping my toe on is called the curb.

This is  the curb and it separates the sidewalk from the street. Another important part of a city are the  streets. This is a street and as I said before, New York City has a large population and a bunch  of tourists.

As you guys can see behind me there are so many people walking around and tourists.  These streets are where cars will drive on to get to places like going to work, traveling, or  running errands. You may think that New York City is full of skyscrapers and tall buildings because  its nickname is the concrete jungle.

Well that's all true, but they also have a plaza right behind  me full of trees, grass, and green areas. A plaza is a public square where people can walk around  and enjoy the city and they can get a breath of fresh air from working all day, they can walk  their dogs, and hang out with their family. This plaza is called the 9/11 Memorial.

And as you can  see behind me it was constructed in memory of the victims from 9/11 and the events of that. But this  Memorial has a fountain inside of it. Normally plazas can have fountains or they can have public  figures like statues in the middle of the plaza.

This is a squirrel. Rhe squirrel is climbing  a tree in the plaza. Rhese are two pigeons.

The pigeons are walking on the sidewalk. Some  downtowns like the one in New York have a lane just for bicyclists. So this is called a bicycle  lane.

Right next to me is the sidewalk and on the other side this is the street. So the bicyclists  can easily ride their bikes in this lane without trying to ride their bike on the street or in  between people walking on the sidewalk. Let me know down below if you guys have a bike.

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Thanks to Preply for sponsoring this part of my video! Now  let's get back to learning more downtown vocab. Moving on from talking about skyscrapers, plazas,  this huge building right behind me is a shopping mall or it's called a mall.

Usually a downtown  area will have a mall but some may not. Also, this is one of my favorite shopping malls in New  York City because it's huge and below it is a subway station. Let's go find out and see what the  shopping mall has to offer for their customers.

Now you can see why it's one of my favorite malls  in this city because this small is huge. And, it's a very touristic part of the city. There are  stores inside on the first level.

Also, below the shopping mall is the subway station. Now let's  move to another part of downtown New York but one of the fastest ways to get there is using the  subway which there's one behind me. We're going to use this crosswalk.

I'm a pedestrian so I'm going  to walk across the crosswalk and enter the subway. Let's take the subway! I'm walking down the stairs  and when you enter the subway you first need a metro card.

This is the card that will let you  enter the subway. You can buy a card right here at this MetroCard vending machine. And this costs  around three dollars.

You can enter the Subway by paying with Apple pay, but I already have a  metro card so I'm just going to swipe through. Right now I'm on the subway platform and  I'm waiting for my train to arrive because I am going to take you guys to a special  place. Now I'm going to enter the train.

I'm exiting the train. I just made it to my stop.  Now, let's go upstairs and go to the street.

I am finally on the street and the subway  is definitely one of the fastest ways to move around New York City. Let me know  if you guys have a Subway in your city and let me know where you're from. Can  you guys guess where the subway took me?

Right now I'm in the middle of Times Square.  There are so many billboards and huge screens that are displaying ads of different companies  and businesses. Almost every downtown has a coffee shop.

Behind me is a Starbucks coffee shop. If  you're a coffee lover, a coffee shop is something you cannot miss if you're downtown or in the city.  Also, if you want to learn how to order coffee at a coffee shop, I just recorded a brand new video  ordering coffee and teaching you guys English on how to order coffee at the coffee shop.

I just  got to the final part of this video. Right now, I am in Central Park. This park is in the  middle of downtown New York City.

Behind me, you can see the skyline of the beautiful  skyscrapers. Also, I just got my hot dog and this hot dog costs four dollars and fifty  cents. Normally where I'm from (Cincinnati, Ohio) these hot dogs would normally cost on the  street around two dollars and fifty cents.

This is the hot dog bun. I have the hot dog and ketchup  and mustard. If you guys made it to the end of this video thank you for following along!

I'm  really hungry so I'm gonna finish eating my hot dog. Don't forget to like, subscribe, and give  me a super thanks if you enjoy my videos! Bye!