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

  • The Empire State building has its own zip code

NYC Yellow Taxi

  • 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

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

NYC Subway Station - NYC Fun Facts

  • 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
  • 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)

Welcome Different Languages

  • Over 200 languages are spoken in New York City

Grand Central Terminal NYC

  • 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

NYC condom

  • 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

Hot Dog

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

pizza

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

Starbucks

  • 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 New York City 2016

  • 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”

Statue of Liberty

  • 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

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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
  • 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

Flags Diversity

  • 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

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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
  • 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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Enjoy!

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Hi there :) I'm Jess and I came to NYC to pursue my dream and I feel I'm living it every day. New York is magical and you have to be open to everything because you never know who is sitting next to you on the subway or behind you in the line of the supermarket. I decided to create this blog about NYC because I realized how many powerful tips would have helped me if I knew them before coming to the city from someone who was living in NY! So I thought that it would be awesome to share with you some tips about New York from a New Yorker. I'm going to keep updating this blog so stay tuned :)