Liberty City in GTA III Era: Difference between revisions

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|caption = From top left: [[Downtown Staunton]], [[Jefferson St. Credit Union building]], [[Portland Rock|Portland Lighthouse]] in Portland, [[Bedford Point]], the [[Cedar Ridge Observatory]] in Shoreside Vale, the [[Callahan Bridge]] and [[Torrington]] with the skyscrapers.

|official name = City of Liberty

==History==

{{main|GTA III Era Timeline}}

The [[Liberty Tree]] says in its October [[1998]] issue of that Liberty will celebrate its 200th anniversary:

Liberty City was established in [[1798]], 22 years after the declaration of independence from [[United States]], being "a church, a cow pasture and three houses when the telephone was invented (1870, first experiments started)," according to [[Lazlow Jones|Lazlow]] of [[Chatterbox FM]]. Over the subsequent history of Liberty City is almost no word in the series like, unlike the history of New York that was founded in 1624, this interpretation is founded 174 years later.

==About the city==

<br />Portland is heavily based on the New York´s lower-class boroughs, particularly [[wp:Brooklyn|Brooklyn]] and [[wp:Queens|Queens]], as also in [[wp:Lower Manhattan|Lower Manhattan]].  

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![[Staunton Island]]

| '''Commercial district'''

<br />Staunton Island is based on New York City´s [[wp:Manhattan|Manhattan Island]] because it has several landmarks as [[Torrington]] (Manhattan's Financial Center), [[Bedford Point]] (Times Square), [[366]] (500 Fifth Avenue), [[Liberty City Community College]] (Columbia University) and derives its name from Staten Island.

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![[Shoreside Vale]]

| '''Suburban district'''  

==Boroughs==

*'''[[Portland]]''' is the industrial and lower-class residential island of the city. The island houses an [[LCPD in GTA III Era|LCPD]] police station and [[Sweeney General Hospital]], in [[Portland View]] and a [[Liberty City Fire Department]] fire station located in [[Harwood]]. The island is the first area accessible to [[protagonist|protagonists]] [[Claude]] in GTA III, [[Mike]] in GTA Advance and [[Toni Cipriani]] in GTA Liberty City Stories, and the only borough accessible in GTA San Andreas. Portland also has an elevated commuter train, known as [[Portland El]], transporting residents to three stations in the city. The service, completed in 1930, stops at [[Baillie Station]] in [[Saint Marks]], [[Kurowski Station]] in [[Chinatown, Portland|Chinatown]] and Rothwell Station in [[Hepburn Heights]].  

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File:GtaUsaMap.jpg|The map of Liberty City compared to Vice City and San Andreas.

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==Cityscape==

===Climate===

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File:SaintMark´s-GTASA-snow season.jpg|Liberty City in winter seasons, [[Saint Mark's]] 1992.

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==Education==

There are two known educational buildings in the city, a school in the [[Bedford Point]] district of [[Staunton Island]] and the [[Liberty City Community College]] in the [[Liberty Campus]] district of Staunton Island. In the beta version of GTA III, a school could also be seen in the [[Chinatown, Portland|Chinatown]] district of [[Portland]], although this was later replaced by the [[Old School Hall]].

File:School'sOut-GTAA.png|Bedford Point School   

File:OldSchoolHall-GTAIII-exterior.jpg|The [[Old School Hall|old school hall]] in [[Chinatown, Portland|Chinatown]] in Grand Theft Auto III

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File:Liberty City Cocks-GTA3.jpg|[[Liberty City Cocks]] fans in [[Grand Theft Auto III]]

File:Two-HandTossGTAA.jpg|[[Mike]] injuring the [[Vice City Mambas]] star quaterback during [[Two-Hand Toss]]

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===Bridges===

Liberty City has four major bridges throughout the city, two huge bridges that connects the three islands:

*[[Callahan Bridge]] linking [[Portland]] and [[Staunton Island]].  

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File:ShoresideArchBridge-GTALCS-view.jpg|The Shoreside Vale Arch Bridge.

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===Expressways===

Other transportation as favorable to the bridges, are the roads, which are a total of only tree expressways located in Staunton Island. The first expressway is the [[Aspatria - Bedford Point Expressway]], a four-lane highway located in the western part of the island. This is the biggest highway in the city, connecting Aspatria with Bedford Point, passing through Belleville Park and below the Shoreside Lift Bridge.  

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===Road Tunnels===

[[Porter Tunnel]] is an underground and underwater road tunnel connecting the city's three boroughs. The tunnel may be based on the [[:wp:Holland Tunnel|Holland Tunnel]] or the [[:wp:Lincoln Tunnel|Lincoln Tunnel]]. The tunnel has four lanes, apart from the exit at Staunton Island, which only has two lanes. The tunnel entry/exit points include [[Harwood]] (in Portland), [[Rockford]] (in Staunton Island), and [[Francis International Airport, Shoreside Vale|Francis International Airport]] and [[Wichita Gardens]] (both in Shoreside Vale). Construction for the tunnel begins in 1998, however, numerous delays cause the tunnel to finally open in October 2001, with Claude having to wait for the tunnel to be fully constructed.

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File:RoadTunnel-GTALCS-interior.jpg|Interior of the tunnel.

File:RoadTunnel-GTALCS-interior(2).jpg|Inside the tunnel in 1998, with a very different design before it was closed in 2001 to change the interior.

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File:GTA A Liberty City Map.png|A map of Liberty City in GTA Advance.

File:LibertyCity-GTAIII-sketch-map.jpg|Sketch map of Liberty City in GTA III.

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