Amazing New York…

Ahhhh New York. An amazing, one of the kind City in the world.   My city! The city of New York is a home to 8.4 million people in an area of ​​490 square kilometers.  The city has five boroughs: Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx, and Staten Island.  Some even say these neighborhoods have enough personality and attractions to be separate cities! 

• The cost of obtaining a taxi license is USD 1 million.
• Farting is an offense in the churches of New York.
• In 1857, toilet paper was invented by Joseph C. Gayetta in New York.
• New York is the only city in the world with over 100 billionaires.  New York City had 105 billionaires, according to the Billionaire Census report.  from 2019. That is more billionaires than almost every country in the world, except the US, China, and Germany.
• Until 1664, New York was called New Amsterdam.  In the same year, the English took it from the Dutch and named it after the Prince of York and Albania.
• New York’s Jewish population is the largest in the world outside of Israel.
• Albany, the capital of the state of New York, is known as the city of many names.  The original Mahicans called the city PempotowowwathutMuhhcanneuw, meaning “Mohammedan people’s fireplace,” while the Dutch called it Beverwijck or “Beaver District.”  In 1664, the English people named the city after the Albanian prince.
• While New York is New York’s largest city, Albany is the state capital, with a population of 1/80 of New York City’s population.
• New York will pay for the homeless one-way flight ticket if they are guaranteed a place of stay at the destination.
• The Empire State Building has its own zip code (10118).
• Queens, the Bronx, Staten Island, and Brooklyn joined Manhattan, creating “Big New York” in 1898, doubling the population and expanding the territory sixfold.
• New York has over 62,137 Miles (100,000 kilometers) of rivers and streams.

• There are 58 species of wild orchids in New York State.
• The first public brewery in America was founded by Peter Minuit in a market in lower Manhattan.
• European settlers who imported seeds into New York “discovered” apples in the 16th century.
• The oldest cattle farm in the USA was established in 1747 in Montauk on a long island.
• The highest waterfall in New York City is the 215-meter Taughannock.
• In 1906, the Bronx Zoo deployed a Congo man named Ota Benga in a cage.
• There is not a single Walmart store in New York.
• The first American chess tournament was held in New York in 1843.
• In 1905, the first pizzeria in the USA (called Lombardy) was opened in New York.
• Almost 2 million New Yorkers are under the age of 18.
• The NYC subway system consists of 469 stations.
• NY City is a home to largest Polish population, outside Warsaw, Poland’s capital.
• There are over 621.371 Miles (1,000 km) of subway lines in New York.
• The official name is “The City of New York”, not “New York City”.  
• New York is the most linguistically diverse city with more than 800 languages ​​spoken, and 4 out of 10 households speak a language other than English.
• In 1664, the English occupied New Amsterdam from the Dutch settlers who lived there.  King Charles II named the territory of New York after his brother the Duke of York and gave it to him as a gift.
• New York was the 11th state in the United States and belonged to the 13 original colonies.
• New York was the nation’s first capital from 1789 to 1790, and George Washington was inaugurated as the first U.S. president at the Federal City Hall on Wall Street on April 30, 1789. The New York Public Library has over 50 million books and other items and is the second the largest library system in the country after the Library of Congress.  It is also the third largest library in the world.
• The first railroad in the United States was 10.563 Miles (17 km) in New York, from Albany to Schenectady.

• During World War II, President Roosevelt invited 982 refugees into refuge.  The refugees were made up of concentration camp survivors with the skills that contributed to the creation of a refugee shelter.  The president also had to promise that the refugees would return to their homeland after the war, but many families could stay in America.
• Albert Einstein’s eyeballs are kept in a safe in New York.
• Lake Placid (NY) is the only city in the United States that has hosted the Olympic Games twice, first in 1932 and then again in 1980.
• On November 28, 2012, no homicide, execution, or other serious incident was reported all day in New York City.  For the first time, in principle, always.
• There was a wind tunnel near the Flat Iron building that could lift women’s skirts.  The men gathered outside the Flat Iron building to watch the show.
• In New York alone, there are just over 8 million inhabitants.  In fact, about 1 in 38 people in the US live in New York City, and more people live in New York City than in Australia and Switzerland combined.
• According to a November 2015 report, New York is the second safest state in the United States after Massachusetts, where 6.1 people per 100,000 inhabitants died, 1,199 people died in 2013, and 91% of New Yorkers chose to wear a seat belt  which exceeds the national average of 87%.
• After World War II, in 1952, the seat of the United Nations was established in New York.

• The New York Post, founded by Alexander Hamilton in 1803, is the longest-running newspaper in the United States.
• According to a CNBC report, New York was the third most expensive state in 2014, after Hawaii and Connecticut.  The median price for a house in New York this year was $ 1.3 million, the highest in the United States.
• New York City is home to many inventions, including toilet paper and chewing gum.  Rochester, NY itself was the birthplace of French mustard, children’s shoes, golden teeth.
• Famous New Yorkers include: Alicia Keys, Jennifer Lopez, Mariah Carey, Denzel Washington, Adam Sandler, Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Tom Cruise, Michael Jordan, Barbara Streisand, and Braco Marx.
• Every 4 minutes in New York, someone is born.
• There is a death in New York every 9 minutes.
• In 1848 in Seneca Falls, NY, the first convention on women’s rights in the United States was held, officially launching the struggle for women’s rights.  Women gained the right to vote in New York in 1917.
• Brooklyn itself would be the fourth largest city in the United States.  Queens would also rank high nationally.
• New York is the city with the most Chinese population outside of Asia.
• New York City has the largest Puerto Rican population of any city in the world.

• The Bronx Zoo in New York City is the largest city zoo in the United States with over 500 species and 4,000 animals.
• In 1920 a horse cart with explosives was detonated on Wall Street, killing 30 people.  No one has ever been caught and it is considered one of the first acts of domestic terrorism.
• In a few years, Madison Square Garden’s rental will be over, and he will have to move elsewhere.
• UPS, FedEx, and other commercial courier companies receive up to 7,000 parking tickets per day, contributing up to $ 120 million in revenue for the City of New York.
• 60% of cigarettes sold in New York City are illegally smuggled from other countries.
• In 1901, New York was the first state to require all cars to have license plates.  The plates, however, were not issued by the state, but made by the owner and had to bear the owner’s initials.
• There are more undergraduate and graduate students in New York than in Boston.
• The 515.738 Miles (830 km) long New York coastline is longer than Miami, Boston, Los Angeles, and San Francisco combined.
• There is a secret railway platform at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel.
• New York City’s Federal Reserve Bank has the world’s largest gold warehouse.  The vault is 80 meters below ground level and has $ 90 billion in gold there.

• The Genesee River in New York is one of the 33 rivers in the world that runs from south to north.
• When the Dutch first came to Manhattan, there were huge oyster reservoirs.  Ellis Island and Liberty Island were called the Little Oyster and the Big Oyster.
• New York State generates nearly 23 million tons of rubbish each year.  The city of New York alone sends a daily 9-mile fleet of garbage trucks to destinations up to 300 miles away.
• McSorley’s, New York’s oldest Irish home, kept women from going inside until 1970.
• In 1971, in Attica, New York, Attica, the bloodiest prison revolt ever occurred in the United States.  A total of 43 prisoners and officers were killed in the riots.
• The popular belief that Dutch settlers bought Manhattan Island from the natives in 1626 comes from a letter called “Schaghenbrief,” written by Pieter Schager.  While the letter mentions the purchase of the island in a barter (about $ 24), the involvement of the colony director, Peter Minuit, is not mentioned.
• New York is known as the “Empire” for its growth and prosperity early in its history.  George Washington is said to have viewed New York as “the seat of the empire.

• Between 1886 and 1924, more than 14 million immigrants made it through the New York Harbor to the United States.
• Due to the struggle with hunger and political problems, up to 1850 more Irish indigenous people lived in New York than in Dublin, Ireland.  New York City is still home to more people of Irish descent than the capital of Ireland.
• In 2012, Hurricane Sandy killed 150 people on the Atlantic coast, about 50 of whom were New Yorkers.  Much of New York City’s electricity was lost, 650,000 homes were destroyed, and total damage was approximately $ 68 billion, of which $ 33 million was in New York State.
• Previously, cemeteries were Madison Square Park, Washington Square Park, Union Square Park, and Bryant Park.
• There are 20,000 bodies buried in Washington Square Park alone.
• Four of the five neighborhoods are on islands.  Manhattan and Staten Island are separate islands.  Queens and Brooklyn are on the western tip of the long island.  The Bronx is the only neighborhood on the continent.
• Due to the location of the islands, different parts of the city can be accessed via bridges or tunnels.
• Brooklyn is the most populous neighborhood in the city (not Manhattan).
• Queens is the most ethnically diverse urban area in the world.
• New York City is not the capital of New York State, by the way.  This honor goes to the City of Albany.
• The city is associated with the British Empire, but the first settlers were the Dutch.  They established a fur trading post on Governor’s Island.
• Later, the Dutch established the New Amsterdam colony in Lower Manhattan.  They bought the island from the locals for the equivalent of a modern thousand dollars.  Many people call it “the best real estate deal ever.”

• New York was the first capital of the United States.  It only lasted a year.
• The city is one of the most popular tourist destinations in the world.  But it was not always like that.  In the 90s the city was a criminal center.  After the election of mayor Rudolf Giuliani, they cut the crime rate by more than half.
• There are more women than men in the city.
• The Brooklyn Bridge was the first steel wire suspension bridge.
• France awarded the United States the Statue of Liberty in 1886 as a celebration of the United States’ 100 years of independence and of continued loyalty between the two countries.  The sculpture was shipped as 350 pieces in 214 cases and took 4 months to assemble in its present state on New York’s Ellis Island.  It was designed by Frederic Auguste Bartholdi and built by Gustav Eiffel.
• If New York were its own country, its economy would be 15th in the world, slightly smaller than the economies of Canada and Spain.  The New York City economy ranks 3rd in the United States, after California and Texas. The New York Stock Exchange is the largest stock exchange in the world.  The second largest is NASDAQ, which is also located in New York City.
• The original Penn Station was named one of the most beautiful railway stations in the world but was demolished due to declining rail wear.
• The population of the entire world could fit in the state of Texas if it were as densely populated as New York City.
• In 1975, the City of New York sold a private island in the East River for $ 10.

• The winter of 1780 was so severe in New York that the New York Harbor froze.  People could walk from Manhattan to Staten Island by the ice rink.
• To eat a New York bagel is to eat a quarter and a half of a loaf of bread.
• NYC buries the bodies on an island off the coast of the Bronx known as Hart Island.  Since 1869, almost a million bodies have been buried there.  The island is not open to visitors.
• New Yorkers have their own way of naming things and pronouncing words.
• There are many acronyms that refer to several places in the city.

NoHo – North Houston Street

SoHo – South Houston Street

NoLiTa – Little Northern Italy

TriBeCa – The triangle below Canal Street

LES – Lower-eastern eastern side

UWS – Upper West Side

FiDi – Financial District

UES – Upper West Side

SoHo has the world’s largest collection of cast iron architecture.

• Standard road signs are green.  However, if you notice brown street signs it is because you are in the historic district.
• There are over 380,000 millionaires in the city, or 1 in 21 New Yorkers is a millionaire.  Now you know why there are so many expensive shops on Fifth Avenue.
• The city metro is the largest mass transport system in the world.
• The city has metro or ghost stations.  The most famous is the one near the town hall.  The station can be visited on public tours.
• Manhattan’s skyscrapers are concentrated in the center and lower parts of the city.  This is because in these places there is a strong rock base.  The rest of the island is too weak to support the huge buildings.
• These are the most popular attractions in the city:

Statue of Liberty

Time Square

Central Park

Brooklyn Bridge

Empire State Building

Rockefeller Center

Wall Street

Fifth Avenue

statue of Liberty

• 15 152 life forms (including insects and bacteria) have been detected in the metro system.
• Except in an emergency, the use of a car horn is prohibited in New York City.  Although it is known that everyone does it.
• There is a skyscraper here without any windows.
• More people in New York City die from suicide than from murder.
• New Yorkers drink 7 times more coffee than the rest of America.
• Invisible to the naked eye, harmless shrimp called copepods live in New York City water supplies.