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 | New York City was the site of the deadliest attack in national history, on September 11, 2001, and nearly 3,000 people were killed by the terrorist strike on the World Trade Center, including New Yorkers employed in the buildings and hundreds of firemen, policemen, and rescue workers who came to their aid. |
| Upper New York Bay is surrounded by Manhattan, Brooklyn, Staten Island, and the coast of New Jersey, and is connected by the Narrows between Brooklyn and Staten Island to Lower New York Bay, which is partially surrounded by Brooklyn, Staten Island, and the coast of New Jersey, and opens to the Atlantic Ocean. |
| New York is a city of "great museums" with the Metropolitan Museum of Art's assemblage of historic art, the Museum of Modern Art and Guggenheim Museum's 's 20th century collection, and the American Museum of Natural History and its Hayden Planetarium focusing on the sciences. |
| Education in New York City information - Search.com (3437 words) |
| The city's public school system is the largest in the United States, and New York is home to some of the most important libraries, universities, and research centers in the world. |
| The City University of New York (CUNY), with over 400,000 students the third-largest university system in the United States, was once called "the poor man's Harvard" because of its low tuition and record of graduating the highest number of Nobel Laureates of any public university in the world. |
| New York is one of seven states that mandates that Holocaust and genocide studies be taught at some point in their elementary or secondary schools' curriculum. |
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