NYC Fun Facts! How Well Do You Know NY?
Fun Facts you probably didn’t know about New York. Categories:
NYC Crazy Fun Facts
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The Empire State building has its own zip code
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NYC taxis are yellow because according to car salesman John Hertz (1907), yellow is the easiest color to spot at a distance
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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
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Renters: approximately two-thirds of dwelling units in New York are renter-occupied, over twice the national average
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NYC Subway ridership: 1.751 billion annual
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NYC subway musicians go through a rigorous selection process. Many of them have performed at famous venues such as Carnegie Hall
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NYC Subways run 24/7
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November 28, 2012 not a single violent crime was reported in New York City (most peaceful day NYC has ever had)
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Over 200 languages are spoken in New York City
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Grand Central Terminal is the world’s largest train station by number of tracks and number of platforms
New Yorkers Fun Facts
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It’s been said that 1 out of every 25 New Yorkers is a millionaire
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New York residents can get free NYC Condoms by visiting any of the establishments listed here or calling 311
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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
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NYC home owners can request that a tree be planted outside their homes for free
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New Yorkers drink almost 7 times more coffee than other cities in the USA
NYC Foodie & Shops Fun Facts
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It costs over $100,000 (not to mention over $250,000) for a one-year hot dog stand permit in Central Park
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There are approximately 1,600 pizza restaurants in New York City
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Starbucks has more stores in Manhattan than any other national retailers, with more than 200 locations
NYC History Fun Facts
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In 1789 New York City became the first national Capital of the United States for a year
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Times Square was a very dangerous neighborhood with crimes, murders, rapes in the 70-80’s
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Madison Square Park, Washington Square Park, Union Square Park and Bryant Park used to be cemeteries
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The city was originally called New Amsterdam
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Manhattan comes from a word in the Lenape language that means “Island of many hills”
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The Statue of Liberty was a gift from France and opened in New York Harbor in 1886
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Albert Einstein’s eyeballs remain in a safe deposit box in New York City
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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 |
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Brooklyn DUMBO: Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass
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Houston St. isn’t pronounced like the city of Houston in Texas. It’s pronounced “hauston”
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Streets in Manhattan are in numerical order from South to North, starting in Houston St.
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Avenues in Manhattan are in numerical order from East to West, starting in Houston St.
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Blocks length: the blocks walking Manhattan vertically (South-North) are much shorter than horizontally (East-West)
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1st. & 2nd. Streets: East 1 St. has only 3 blocks and East 2nd St. has only 6 blocks.
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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.
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6th Ave. is also called Avenue of the Americas
Population Facts
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There are nearly 400,000 more women than men in New York
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If Manhattan had the same population density as Alaska, only 28 people would live on the island
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New York is the most populous city in the United States. More than twice the size of the second largest city, Los Angeles
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About 1 in every 38 people living in the United States resides in New York City
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Over 3 million of New York City’s residents are foreign-born; over one-quarter arrived in 2000 or later
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New York City has more people than 40 of the 50 U.S. states
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The borough of Brooklyn on its own would be the 4th largest city in the United States; Queens would also rank 4th nationally
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New York City has the largest Chinese population of any city outside of Asia
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New York has the largest Puerto Rican population of any city in the world
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More Dominicans live in New York than any other city in the world, barring Santo Domingo
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Over 2.4 million Hispanics reside in New York City, more than any other city in the United States
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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
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The Jewish population in NYC is the largest in the world outside of Israel
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