25 amazing facts about New York City

1. In the New York subway identified 12,152 forms of life (including insects and bacteria).

2. With the exception of emergencies, zooming in New York is prohibited. And yes, we know all still honking!

3. In 1789, the city was appointed as the first capital of the United States. It lasted, however, only a year.

4. In 2018, New York opened the world's first underground park.

5. The city has a skyscraper without windows.





6. Manhattan was bought by local residents in 1626 for a sum today comparable to one thousand dollars.

7. New Yorkers bite ten times more people per year than sharks.

8. In winter, the city government set fire to the train tracks, so they are not covered with ice.

9. From Suicide kills more New Yorkers than homicide.

10. Keep stall with hot dogs in the vicinity of Central Park costs about 300 thousand dollars a year.





11. In the language of the Delaware Indians word "Manhattan" means "island of many hills" (the years of the hills leveled to develop urban development).

12. New York - a city with the largest Polish population in the world (after Warsaw).

13. About half the population of the city says the house is not in English.

14. In New York, no shops Walmart.

15. In New York, home to more Chinese than any other non-Asian city, and more Jews than any other city outside of Israel.





16. Every 38 minutes an American living in New York.

17. The city drinking seven times more coffee than in other regions of the United States.
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18. 25% of the world's gold bullion stored in the cellars under the Wall Street (Federal Reserve Bank).

19. Every 21 minutes New Yorker - millionaire.

20. The New York water system lives invisible harmless shrimp called copepods, copepod, or cancer.





21. The city falls about 15 times more snow than the South Pole (it is not surprising because Antarctica - the desert, and there is little rain).

22. Einstein's eyes locked in some kind of safe city.

23. At the Empire State Building your zip code.

24. in New York, speaking 800 languages, is the city with the greatest linguistic diversity in the world.

25. Although a long time it was thought that the origin of the expression "Big Apple" is not known, researchers Missouri University of Science and Technology were able to establish probable etymology. Apples called massive jump in the vicinity of New York (probably because horses love apples). The term was popularized by John Fitz Gerald journalist in the newspaper The New York Morning Telegraph, where he mentioned that he sent to the "Big Apple».

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