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vehicular - автомобільний
shuttle - рухати (ся), возити туди й назад
span - з 'єднувати береги (про міст)
suspension bridge - висячий міст
milestone - віха
toll-gate - шлагбаум, де збирається мито
core - центр
metropolitan - столичний
Staten Island - острів, на якому розташований район Річмонд

New York consists of five boroughs: Manhattan, the Bronx,
Queens, Brooklyn and Richmond (Staten Island).
Brooklyn is the largest in population, its territory is 76 square
miles, and more than 3,000,000 people have their homes here,
giving rise to its nickname "bedroom of New York". Brooklyn has
long been a separate community with a dialect of its own –
"Brooklynese", and its residents are known as Brooklynites. Staten
Island (Richmond) over the bay is a borough of piers and
warehouses.The Bronx in the north is more residential, rather than
industrial part of the city.Queens in the east is both residential and
industrial part of the city. The four less glamorous sister boroughs
have their own distinctions, though as a group, they have settled
down to housekeeping, making the beds, washing the dishes and
strengthening the children for life in crowded schools and wayward
streets and stimulating subway jostling and jaywalking. Never
immune to the fever of Manhattan, they too spread, grow tall, and
change in tone and colour.
In 1898 Manhattan, the Bronx, Queens, Richmond and
Brooklyn joined to form Greater New York.
Manhattan, the heart of the city, is a rocky island, thirteen miles
long and two miles wide. It is divided into three parts: downtown
(from the most southern tip of the island – the Battery – to 20th
Street), midtown (from 20th Street to the Central Park) and uptown
(from the Central Park to the Bronx).
The land of Manhattan costs now too much to be used for large
factories. It is used for tall office buildings. Even the ground below
the surface is put to good use. There are air tubes which connect the
large post-offices and through which letters are sent underground at
great speed. This system helps the traffic situation by keeping mail
trucks off the streets in the crowded downtown districts.