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The Untold Story The city that never sleeps, Gotham, the big apple, New Amsterdam and Father Knickerbocker are a few ways to refer to a place in which I just call home. New York has long been called the melting pot due to its vast ethnic diversity, but what causes millions of people to leave their particular city or country and move to New York? Is it the way that our city is portrayed by producers and directors? Or are they drawn to the opportunity of financial achievement? The common notion to outsiders it that New York is this great city surrounded by fashion, gilts and glamour (as illustrated on Sex and the City and other popular T.V. shows). Normally they think of Manhattan which includes one world trade, the empire state building and central park. To the typical native New Yorker there is nothing particularly special about our residence, in our mind we think of those things as just another skyscraper or just another green lady with a torch. 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