NYC Fun Facts! How Well Do You Know NY?

Fun Facts you probably didn’t know about New York. Categories:

• Crazy Facts
• New Yorkers
• Food & Shops
• Streets & Neighborhoods
• Historic Facts
• Population

NYC Crazy Fun Facts 

• The Empire State building has its own zip code

• NYC taxis are yellow because according to car salesman John Hertz (1907), yellow is the easiest color to spot at a distance

• Parking tickets: UPS, FedEx, and other commercial delivery companies receive up to 7,000 parking tickets a DAY, contributing up to $120 million in revenue for the city of New York

• Renters: approximately two-thirds of dwelling units in New York are renter-occupied, over twice the national average

• NYC Subway ridership: 1.751 billion annual

• NYC subway musicians go through a rigorous selection process. Many of them have performed at famous venues such as Carnegie Hall

• NYC Subways run 24/7

• November 28, 2012 not a single violent crime was reported in New York City (most peaceful day NYC has ever had)

• Over 200 languages are spoken in New York City

• Grand Central Terminal is the world’s largest train station by number of tracks and number of platforms

New Yorkers Fun Facts 

• It’s been said that 1 out of every 25 New Yorkers is a millionaire

• New York residents can get free NYC Condoms by visiting any of the establishments listed here or calling 311

• The city of New York will pay a one-way plane ticket for any homeless person if they have a guaranteed place to stay elsewhere

• NYC home owners can request that a tree be planted outside their homes for free

• New Yorkers drink almost 7 times more coffee than other cities in the USA

NYC Foodie & Shops Fun Facts

• It costs over $100,000 (not to mention over $250,000) for a one-year hot dog stand permit in Central Park

• There are approximately 1,600 pizza restaurants in New York City

• Starbucks has more stores in Manhattan than any other national retailers, with more than 200 locations

NYC History Fun Facts

• In 1789 New York City became the first national Capital of the United States for a year

• Times Square was a very dangerous neighborhood with crimes, murders, rapes in the 70-80’s

• Madison Square Park, Washington Square Park, Union Square Park and Bryant Park used to be cemeteries

• The city was originally called New Amsterdam

• Manhattan comes from a word in the Lenape language that means “Island of many hills”

• The Statue of Liberty was a gift from France and opened in New York Harbor in 1886

• Albert Einstein’s eyeballs remain in a safe deposit box in New York City

• Cleopatra’s Needle, a 3,000-year-old Egyptian ruin, can be found in Central Park. In 1879 it was given to the city as a gift by the Khedive of Egypt. The 220-ton, 66-foot-high monument took a decade to be fully transported

NYC Streets & Neighborhoods Fun Facts

SOHO: South of Houston	NOHO: North of Houston	NOLITA: North of Little Italy	TRIBECA: Triangle between Canal Street
UWS: Upper West Side	UES: Upper East Side	LES: Lower East Side	FiDi: Financial District

• Brooklyn DUMBO: Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass

• Houston St. isn’t pronounced like the city of Houston in Texas. It’s pronounced “hauston”

• Streets in Manhattan are in numerical order from South to North, starting in Houston St.

• Avenues in Manhattan are in numerical order from East to West, starting in Houston St.

• Blocks length: the blocks walking Manhattan vertically (South-North) are much shorter than horizontally (East-West)

• 1st. & 2nd. Streets: East 1 St. has only 3 blocks and East 2nd St. has only 6 blocks.

• 4th Avenue has also very few blocks. In most part of Manhattan between 3rd & 5th Ave. you have Park Avenue, and from Midtown between 3rd & 5th Ave. you have Lexington Ave, Park Ave and Madison Ave.

• 6th Ave. is also called Avenue of the Americas

Population Facts

• There are nearly 400,000 more women than men in New York

• If Manhattan had the same population density as Alaska, only 28 people would live on the island

• New York is the most populous city in the United States. More than twice the size of the second largest city, Los Angeles

• About 1 in every 38 people living in the United States resides in New York City

• Over 3 million of New York City’s residents are foreign-born; over one-quarter arrived in 2000 or later

• New York City has more people than 40 of the 50 U.S. states

• The borough of Brooklyn on its own would be the 4th largest city in the United States; Queens would also rank 4th nationally

• New York City has the largest Chinese population of any city outside of Asia

• New York has the largest Puerto Rican population of any city in the world

• More Dominicans live in New York than any other city in the world, barring Santo Domingo

• Over 2.4 million Hispanics reside in New York City, more than any other city in the United States

• The Black non-hispanic population of New York City numbered 1.89 million in 2014, more than double the count in any other U.S. city

• The Jewish population in NYC is the largest in the world outside of Israel

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