Choose the correct option.

Although ...
New York is not ... capital of ... United States, it is ... biggest and most important city of ... country. Situated at the mouth of ... deep Hudson River, it has always been the gateway to ... USA. But it is more than just ... door: it is also ... window through which the life of ... whole nation may be observed.
The "Big Apple", as ... New York is nicknamed, is ... city unlike any other. It has ... everything for ... everyone. It offers ... best, ... biggest and ... brightest of everything. It is ... place of excitement, beauty and contradictions. There is, for ... example, no canal on ... Canal Street, ... Battery Park is not ... power station, and ... Times Square is ... triangle.