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57 unusual facts about Manhattan


127th Street Repertory Ensemble

The 127th Street Repertory Ensemble was a theater group based in Harlem, Manhattan, New York City.

4th Wall Theatre, Inc.

(aka 4th Wall Musical Theatre) is a non-equity theatre company in residence at the Westminster Arts Center on the campus of Bloomfield College, in Bloomfield, New Jersey, approximately 10 miles from Manhattan.

A Picture Is Worth a 1,000 Bucks

An art dealer named Antonio Monatti buys the painting for $5,000 and urges Peter to bring Chris to Manhattan, where he could become a famous artist.

Alice Elliott

Her first movie, Diamonds in the Rough, is an hour long documentary about a gifted, inner-city high school baseball team located in the largely Dominican, Washington Heights neighborhood, of New York City.

Alphonso Sgroia

Sgroia opened a butcher shop and lived with his brother Biagio on 117th Street in Manhattan.

On 24 June 1916, members of the rival Manhattan Sicilian Morello Gang met with the Navy gang and its ally, the Coney Island gang, to discuss the division of criminal activities in New York.

B-Boy Bouillabaisse

Said Mike D: "That money enabled us to make the move for independence. We got a floor in this Chinese sweatshop building on Chrystie Street (on the lower East Side of Manhattan)."

Booth's Theatre

In 1869, Edwin Booth, then one of the world's most distinguished stage tragedians and arguably America's greatest Hamlet, opened his theatre, Booth's Theatre, in Manhattan on the southeast corner of 23rd Street and Sixth Avenue.

Center for an Urban Future

The Center for an Urban Future is an American public policy think tank based in Manhattan, a borough of New York City in the United States.

Chatham Garden Theatre

It was located on the north side of Chatham Street on Park Row between Pearl and Duane streets in lower Manhattan.

Children's Museum of the Arts

The Children’s Museum of the Arts (“CMA”) is located at 103 Charlton Street, Manhattan, New York, USA in the South Village district.

Classic Case

After several months of touring and writing, the band delved into a Manhattan recording studio for 3 months to record their debut full-length, Dress to Depress.

Deemi

Her song of choice was Whitney Houston's "Greatest Love of All." She was accepted into Manhattan's Talent Unlimited High School to perfect her craft.

Downtown Paterson

The neighborhoods on this side of the river are up a steep hill that gives many of the houses and streets in the northside great views of Manhattan.

Dryinus grimaldii

The type specimens are currently preserved in the paleoentomology collections housed in the American Museum of Natural History, located in Manhattan, New York City, USA.

Duncan Curry

. . . On this afternoon I have already mentioned, Cartwright came to the field – the march of improvement had driven us further north and we located on a piece of property on the slope of Murray Hill, between the railroad cut and Third avenue – with his plans drawn up on paper.

Elaine Anderson Steinbeck

Anderson died of natural causes on April 27, 2003 in Manhattan, aged 88.

Environmental Measurements Laboratory

The NUSTL is located at the Federal Office Building at 201 Varick Street in SoHo, Manhattan, New York.

Esmond Edwards

After the death of his brother, Noel, Edwards joined his parents in New York City where they lived in Harlem and Washington Heights for many years.

Femme for DKNY

Shot on the streets of Manhattan by photographer Scott Schuman, the ads are designed to reflect the individual style of trendsetting New Yorkers.

Fergus McCann

McCann returned to North America where he founded LimoLiner, a company running luxury bus services between Boston and Manhattan.

Gay Village, Montreal

After living in New York City, it was his intention to create a strong vibrant gay community similar to the East Village in New York.

George F. Ellis

Born in Portales, New Mexico May 11, 1903, he graduated from the Kansas State Agricultural College (now Kansas State University) in Manhattan, Kansas in animal husbandry.

Henry Dyer Grindle

Henry Dyer Grindle (November 19, 1826 – September 14, 1902) was a Manhattan physician and abortion provider in the 1870s who worked under the name H.D. Grindle.

Heshang, Changle

A big part of its population is living abroad, mainly in New York City (Chinatown, Manhattan), Europe (Chinatowns in Europe), and Taiwan.

James A. Forbes

The church stands on the border of the Morningside Heights and Harlem neighborhoods, and serves an interdenominational congregation.

Jennifer Alexander

Alexander, Bragado-Young and a third dancer were returning to Manhattan after Bragado-Young had performed in The Nutcracker in Williamsport, Pennsylvania when they came upon a multiple-vehicle collision on Route 3.

Julian Beck

Beck was born in the Washington Heights section of Manhattan in New York City, the son of Mabel Lucille (née Blum), a teacher, and Irving Beck, a businessman.

Kunihiko Iwadare

Iwadare was hired to work in an Edison facility in Manhattan at Goerck Street.

La Víbora, Havana

In the musical In the Heights, Abuela Claudia tells of growing up in La Víbora in "Paciencia Y Fe", describing it as "the Washington Heights of Havana".

Lark Street

Just a short walk from downtown Albany's business district, Lark Street has long been a mix of commercial and residential buildings that is reminiscent of some neighborhoods of Manhattan.

Le sens de la vie

Other scenes show Tal jogging in Manhattan or display New York's streets, the subway system and the city's skyline.

LeSportsac

In 2001, LeSportsac opened its first US Flagship store on Madison Avenue in Manhattan, followed by its Tokyo flagship in the renowned Omotesando district in November 2001.

Manhattan-Kaboul

"Manhattan-Kaboul" is a French song written by Renaud and composed by Jean-Pierre Bucolo, sung by Renaud in duo with Axelle Red, in the album Boucan d'enfer, released in 2002.

Manhattan, Montana

David Meirhofer, serial killer, was a Manhattan resident until his suicide in custody in 1974.

Marble Hill

Marble Hill, Manhattan, a section of the borough of Manhattan in New York City

Mark Saunders

He relocated to New York City in 1996 and currently works from his facility in Manhattan - Beat360 Studios.

Messerschmitt Me 328

After release, the Me 328 pilot would release a bomb over Manhattan and then ditch at sea near a U-boat.

Midnight in Chelsea

The song's video was shot in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan, with the Hotel Chelsea as a primary location.

Mildred Dixon

142 , Sugar Hill, Manhattan along with Ellington’s parents, son and daughter.

Murray Hill

Murray Hill, Manhattan, a neighborhood in the borough of Manhattan in New York City

Murray Hill, New Jersey

Murray Hill was named and founded by Carl H. Schultz, founder of a mineral water business once located at First Avenue between 25th and 26th Streets in the Murray Hill district of Manhattan.

Organizations in Deus Ex

He sends an NSF distress signal from NSF's New York headquarters in Hell's Kitchen, allowing other NSF bases and resistance groups in Europe to take necessary counter measures.

Philip I. Kent

oversaw a strategic reorganization of the news business; initiated a sweeping redesign of CNN Headline News; construction and implementation of a new Manhattan street-side broadcast studio; instrumental in high-profile hires including Lou Dobbs, Aaron Brown and Paula Zahn.

Raquel Cepeda

There, in the Inwood/Washington Heights section of Upper Manhattan, she resided with her father, who was abusive, and her Scandinavian stepmother.

Remote Control / Three MC's and One DJ

The video was shot in the basement of 262 Mott Street located in the Little Italy neighborhood in Manhattan, New York City.

Rose Museum

The Rose Museum, located on the second floor of Manhattan's Carnegie Hall at 154 West 57th Street, is a small museum dedicated to the history of Carnegie Hall.

Saint-Guilhem-le-Désert

A part of the cloister of the monastery was moved to The Cloisters museum of Manhattan.

Sonic the Hedgehog: The Movie

This is where Robotnik's empire of Eggmanland is located (landmarks strongly suggest that it resides in what was once Manhattan).

Stephan Dweck

Dweck and Ivey lived in the Frederick Douglass Houses housing project in Manhattan.

Talitha MacKenzie

Following her time at Connecticut College, MacKenzie worked at the Manhattan record store World Tone Music, where she immersed herself in the "exotic modes and unusual rhythms" of folk dance from around the world.

Tex Antoine

He had married Suzannah C. Glidden in summer 1965, and he died in Manhattan in 1983, at age 59, under the name "H. Jon Antoine".

The Joshua Light Show

It was renowned for its psychedelic art and served as a lighting backdrop behind many live band performances at the Fillmore East in the East Village area of Manhattan and throughout the New York City suburbs from Connecticut to New Jersey during the late 1960s and early 1970s.

The Never War

He hates Max because Max has become wealthy, whereas Winn's own, more reckless actions made him resort to living in an abandoned slaughterhouse in the Meatpacking District of New York and hiring gangsters to do his bidding.

The Possession of Joel Delaney

In one session, Erika asks why someone from such an affluent background would want to live in the East Village.

The Son Also Draws

Peter insists on driving Chris and the rest of the family (Peter's wife Lois, their daughter Meg and their infant Stewie) to the Youth Scout headquarters, in Manhattan, to get Chris readmitted.

The Teenagers

The Teenagers had their origins in The Earth Angels, a group founded at Edward W. Stitt Junior High School in the Washington Heights section of Manhattan by second tenor Jimmy Merchant and bass Sherman Garnes.


Adele Morales

Morales was descended from a Spanish mother and Native Peruvian father; she grew up in Bensonhurst but moved to Manhattan, where she studied painting with Hans Hofmann and took up a Bohemian lifestyle, being involved for several years with Edwin Fancher (who together with Mailer and Dan Wolf founded The Village Voice) and briefly with Jack Kerouac.

Anthony Federici

In the mid-1990s, Federici came under scrutiny during a New York State Senate investigation into corruption in the N.Y.C. District Council of Carpenters and the construction of the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in Manhattan.

Bahman Maghsoudlou

The Suitors, selected for the Cannes in 1988; Manhattan by Numbers (by Amir Naderi), selected for Venice and Toronto 1993; Seven Servants by Daryush Shokof, selected for Berlin, Toronto and Locarno 1996, and Silence of the Sea, selected for the Mannheim Film Festival 2003.

Bayley Seton Hospital

In 2000, Sisters of Charity turned over Bayley (along with their main Staten Island hospital) to Saint Vincent's Catholic Medical Center, itself the Manhattan and Westchester County New York's Sisters of Charity run hospitals, to create Saint Vincent's Catholic Medical Centers New York.

Clemente Soto Vélez

In 1995 on the Lower East Side of Manhattan (also known as Loisaida), author Edgardo Vega Yunqué and actor-director Nelson Landrieu founded the Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural and Educational Center (also known as the "CSV") to continue Clemente's legacy.

Colonial Airlines

By 1956, Colonial's executive offices were on Park Avenue in New York City and it was flying several routes including five daily nonstop DC-4 flights between LGA and Montreal.

Craig Nevill-Manning

Craig Nevill-Manning is a New Zealand computer scientist who founded Google's first remote engineering center, located in midtown Manhattan, where he is an Engineering Director.

Crenshaw Christian Center

The Crenshaw Christian Center East was opened in May, 2001 in the former First Church of Christ, Scientist at 1 West 96th Street on the corner of Central Park West in the Upper West Side neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City.

Daniel Boulud

Boulud set out on his own and opened his restaurant Daniel, in 1993, in Manhattan's Upper East Side.

Dynamo

Rotary converters were still used for the West Side IRT subway in Manhattan into the late 1960s, and possibly some years later.

First House

First Houses, a public housing project in Manhattan in New York City

Galia Solomonoff

Her notable projects include Dia:Beacon; the Defective Brick Project; multiple residential projects in Manhattan and Brooklyn; and competition proposals for institutional projects around the world.

George Jefferson

When the spin-off series The Jeffersons began in January 1975, George and his family had moved "to a deluxe apartment in the sky" on the Upper East Side of Manhattan.

Hebrew Emigrant Aid Society

The organization ran shelters for recent Jewish immigrants at Castle Garden, New York's immigration center at the Battery prior to the 1892 opening of the facility at Ellis Island; Wards Island near the meeting point of Manhattan, The Bronx and Queens; and Greenpoint in Brooklyn.

Henry Hudson Parkway

The covered portion is partially used for the highway and also expands the Riverside Park designed by Frederick Law Olmsted.

Interstate 78 in New York

I-478 is currently the Brooklyn–Battery Tunnel and approaches, connecting I-278 in Brooklyn with the Battery in Manhattan; it was once planned to continue north along the unbuilt Westway to I-78 at the Holland Tunnel.

James A. Forbes

(born 1935) is the Senior Minister Emeritus of the Riverside Church, an interdenominational (American Baptist and United Church of Christ) church on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, New York City.

Jenny Q. Chai

Chai recently received her Doctor of Musical Arts degree at Manhattan School of Music, where she wrote her thesis (advisor, Marilyn Nonken) on composer Marco Stroppa.

John Hays Hammond

In May 1926, an organization called "The Company of Friends of John Hays Hammond" sponsored eleven dinners around the world (Manhattan, San Francisco, London, Paris, Tokyo, Manila, etc.) in honor of Hammond.

Jonathan Woodner

Jonathan Woodner, who was born in Manhattan, ran the company's Washington interests and was president of the Ian Woodner Family Art Collection Foundation.

Joseph Benjamin Stenbuck

Joseph Benjamin Stenbuck (December 22, 1891 – June 1, 1951) was a leading Manhattan surgeon at Sydenham and Harlem Hospital.

Joshua Clay

As Carmichael, using funds borrowed from a local loan shark, he purchases a small Park Avenue medical practice and lives a quiet, respectable life treating rich hypochondriacs.

Judith Godwin

She lives in Greenwich Village, Manhattan, but as a native Virginian, remains a member of the Jamestowne Society.

King Alfred Plan

When his novel was first published, Williams photocopied portions of the book detailing the King Alfred Plan and left copies in subway car seats around Manhattan.

Landshuter Jugendbuchpreis

# Thea Dorn: Mädchenmörder. Manhattan, 2008, ISBN 978-3-442-47156-0

Léman Manhattan Preparatory School

Léman Manhattan has two sister schools, Léman International School in Chengdu, China and Collège du Léman in Geneva, Switzerland.

Manhattan Board of Coroners

In 1914 Israel L. Feinberg, President of the Manhattan Board of Coroners, suggested switching to a medical examiner style office like the one used in Massachusetts.

Manhattan Construction Company

Manhattan Construction built the Manhattan Building, Oklahoma State Capitol Dome, Reliant Stadium, the George Bush Presidential Library, Rangers Ballpark in Arlington, the Cato Institute headquarters, the Prayer Tower at the Oral Roberts University in Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States Capitol Visitor Center, and many more.

Michelle Valentine

Valentine graduated from Manhattan's Marymount College with a degree in Speech, Drama and Communications, and minors in Marketing and Creative Writing.

Mike Ekeler

After seven years in private business for himself, Ekeler returned to the game when he began volunteer coaching for V. J. and Angela Skutt Catholic High School in Omaha, Nebraska from 1999 to 2001, and as an assistant coach at Manhattan High School in Manhattan, Kansas in 2002, back in the town where he had played for Kansas State almost a decade before.

NBA on USA

Manhattan Cable (subsequently referred to as the MSG Network) debuted in the spring of 1969 and did all home events from the Madison Square Garden: New York Knicks basketball, New York Rangers hockey, college basketball, horse shows, Golden Gloves boxing, tennis, the Westminster Dog Show, ice capades, professional wrestling, etc.

Nu Boyana Film

With an approximate area of 75 acres, the complex features 13 sound stages and a replica of central Manhattan and ancient Rome, complete with a coliseum.

Pace University School of Law

John P. Cahill '85 - Senior Policy Advisor & Secretary and Chief of Staff to New York State Governor George E. Pataki, and Development Chief of Lower Manhattan; former Commissioner, New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, Counsel at Chadbourne & Parke

Patricia Buckley

Aside from their home in Stamford, Connecticut, the Buckleys also had an Upper East Side duplex in Manhattan and leased the Chateau de Rougemont, a former monastery, near Gstaad, Switzerland, for the winters.

Paul Kirk

Paul L. Kirk (1902–1970), American chemist, forensic scientist, and Manhattan Project participant

Ron Gorchov

Gorchov was part of a group of artists working in Manhattan in the 1960s and 70s that was responding to the concept of "Action Painting" as defined by Harold Rosenberg, a concept that purported to demolish pictorial conventions and held as suspect the notions of facility and harmonious composition.

Ruth P. Smith

In 1962, she moved into a two-bedroom apartment in The Dakota on 72nd Street and Central Park West on the Upper West Side of Manhattan and she continued to live in this fifth-floor home for the next 50 years.

Sand Hill Road

The annual rent in the area around Sand Hill Road peaked at around $144 (USD) per square foot ($1550 per m2) in mid-2000; at the time, this was higher than rates in Manhattan and London's West End.

Scars and Memories

Scars & Memories is the fourth full-length album by Manhattan, New York rapper MF Grimm, released in 2005 (see 2005 in music) via his own Day by Day Entertainment label.

Simon Guggenheim

Guggenheim moved to Denver in 1892 and married Olga Hirsch on November 24, 1898, at the iconic Waldorf Astoria New York in Manhattan.

Tickling Leo

Tickling Leo screened at the Stony Brook Film Festival on July 25, 2009 and then opened in Manhattan, Queens and on Long Island Theaters on September 4, 2009 with a simultaneous DVD release.

Tim George, Jr.

Born on Manhattan's Upper East Side in 1980 as the son of an investment banker, Tim George, Jr. began his racing career in 2005.

Tower 270

The initial proposed name for the development of the atomic bomb was "Laboratory for the Development of Substitute Materials." Fearing the name would draw undue attention General Leslie Groves changed it to the "Manhattan Engineer District" which was eventually shortened to the Manhattan Project.