Megalopolis+2016

= Megalopolis =

Megalopolis includes Washington, DC, Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, Eastern Pennsylvania, Eastern New York, Connecticut, Rhode Island, and Massachusetts. There is some overlap with the Megalopolis area and the Manufacturing Core.


 * THE MEGALOPOLIS **

The Northeast megalopolis is the most heavily urbanized region of the United States, running primarily northeast to southwest from the northern suburbs of Boston, Massachusetts, to the southern suburbs of Washington, D.C., in Northern Virginia. It includes the major cities of Boston, New York City, Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Washington, D.C., along with their metropolitan areas and suburbs as well as many smaller urban centers. On a map, the Northeast megalopolis appears almost as a straight line. As of the year 2000, the region supported 49.6 million people, about 17% of the U.S. population on less than 2% of the nation’s land area, with a population density of 931.3 people per square mile, compared to the U.S. average of 80.5 per square mile 2. America 2050 projections expect the area to grow to 58.1 million people by 2025.


 * LANGUAGE AND ACCENTS OF THE MEGALOPOLIS **

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 Just about 51 percent of New Yorkers speak only English at home. The other 49 percent speak languages that span the globe. Some of these languages include Spanish which is spoken by 25 percent of the New York population. A large percent also speak Chinese, French, and Russian. Smaller groups include Hebrew, Hindu, Arabic, and many others. There is also a distinction in accents found throughout English speakers in New York. These different accents seem to be influenced primarily by the ethnicity of a person than by where in New York the live.


 * BEAUTIFUL PLACES IN THE MEGALOPOLIS **



//**Stonecrop Gardens in New York. **//

Stonecrop Gardens is in Cold Spring, New York. Stonecrop became a public garden in 1992 under the direction of Caroline Burgess. The gardens cover an area of approximately 15 acres and comprise a diverse collection of gardens and plants including woodland and water gardens, a grass garden, raised alpine stone beds, cliff rock gardens, and an enclosed English-style flower garden. Additional features include a Conservatory, display Alpine House, Pit House with an extensive collection of choice dwarf bulbs, and systematic order beds representing over 50 plant families.

=**BIG CITY **=

//**New York City, New York **//



The City of New York, often called New York City, is the most populated city in the megalopolis, and in the United States. The city is located at the southern tip of the state of New York. In 2015 the United States Census Bureau estimated the population of the city to be about 8 million 500 thousand people. All of these people live in a land are of just about 305 square miles.

The city started off in 1624 as a trading post by Dutch colonists, and was later names New Amsterdam in 1626. It would not be until 1664 that the English took over the land and named it New York after the Duke of York. Since then New York served as the capital of the United Stated from 1785 to 1790, and has greeted millions of immigrants that came by ship in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

=MUSIC=

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The music of the megalopolis
The music of New York City is a diverse and important field in the world of music. It has long been a thriving home for popular genre such as jazz, rock and the blues, as well as classical and art music. It is the birthplace of hip hop, freestyle, doo wop, bebop, disco, punk rock, and new wave. In the late 19th and early 20th century some theater companies and music festivals were affiliated by universities or are based in college towns. Thanks to the school of music and Opera Theater of Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana compares well with Manhattan in terms of imprtant new compositions and early-music performances the theater hears.