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75 unusual facts about New York City


9th Connecticut Regiment

That June, the regiment was involved in the Battle of Springfield, in which a British attempt to penetrated from New York City to the Continental Army camp at Morristown was repulsed.

Albert Mannheimer

Albert Mannheimer (9 March 1913, New York City, New York - 19 March 1972, Los Angeles County, California) was an American writer, principally of screenplays, including the Academy Award nominated screenplay for Born Yesterday, which screenplay also received the Writers Guild of America award for Best Written American Comedy Award.

Antwerp Diamond Bank

In addition to its headquarters in Antwerp, it has offices covering all the major traditional as well as emerging diamond centers such as Antwerp, Dubai, Geneva, Hong Kong, Mumbai and New York.

Brooklyn ship

Three ships of the United States Navy have borne the name Brooklyn, after the New York City borough of Brooklyn.

Bruderschaft

Bruderschaft is an electronic music artist's collective led by New York City-based DJ Rexx Arkana.

Bruno Radicioni

From 1953 to 1962 he was in Canada and the United States of America, living in Toronto, Montreal and New York City, where he participated in group exhibitions at national and international.

Central Embarcadero Piers Historic District

Unlike the piers south of the Ferry Building that were designed in the Mission and Gothic Revival styles, the piers north of the Ferry Building were built in the Beaux-Arts architecture style, similar to New York City's Chelsea Piers.

Chabad-Lubavitch related controversies

At the start of the Second World War, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchok escaped Nazi occupied Poland, and settled in New York City.

Clotilde de Vaux

Comte's "Religion of Humanity" was rather unsuccessful in France but has been very influential in Latin America, especially in Brazil (see above) and has inspired the rise of the "Church of Humanity" in England and its variant in New York City, both being extremely small today.

Compressed Gas Association

By March of the same year, the Association moved into offices in New York City.

Cornelis Schut

Works by Cornelis Schut are represented at e.g. the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City and the Art Museum of Estonia, Tallinn.

David Boehm

David Boehm (1 February 1893 in New York – 31 July 1962 in Santa Monica, California) was an American screenwriter.

Dillingham Flaw

Named after its chairman, U.S. Senator William P. Dillingham of Vermont, the Dillingham Commission over a 4-year period listened to testimony from civic leaders, educators, social scientists, and social workers and made on-site visits to Ellis Island and New York City’s Lower East Side.

Edward von Kloberg III

Born Edward Joseph Kloberg III (he added a "van" to his name in the 1960s and changed it to "von" on the advice of Arnaud de Borchgrave, who told him it was more "distinguished") in New York City, he was the son of an engineer who built housing projects.

Elinor Guggenheimer

Elinor Sophia Coleman "Ellie" Guggenheimer (11 April 1912 – 29 September 2008) was an American civic leader, author, and philanthropist in New York City.

Empire Supporters Club

For most away games and US men's national team games, the ESC organizes viewing parties, usually at the Football Factory in Legends in New York City.

Estoy Aquí

In August 1999, Shakira sang "Estoy Aquí" during an episode of MTV Unplugged in New York City.

Ex-Factor

Recorded at RPM Studios, (NYC), Marley Music, Inc. (Kingston, Jamaica) and Chung King Studios (NYC)

Fuel oil

Some industrial boilers still use it and so do some old buildings, including in New York City.

George Long Duyckinck

George Long Duyckinck (October 17, 1828 – March 30, 1863) was a New York City writer.

Giambattista Scandella

In 1798, he decided to return to Europe, and headed to New York City to seek ocean passage.

God and the Abyss

New York City's Bitter Grace performed for ten years and went through continuous rounds of line-up changes during the making of this album.

Guavaween

Referencing this local history in the 1970s, local newspaper columnist Steve Otto planted the idea that if New York City is the "Big Apple", then Tampa must be the "Big Guava".

Howdy Mr. Ice

Howdy Mr. Ice was one of a series of ice shows at the Center Theatre in Rockefeller Center, New York City that was produced by Sonja Henie and Arthur M. Wirtz in the 1940s.

Isaac H. Brown

Isaac H. Brown (1812-1880) was the sexton at Grace Episcopal Church in Greenwich Village, and arbiter of style in Manhattan where he planned weddings, arranged soirées and funerals for the wealthy of New York City.

Jagoda

Andy S. Jagoda, Professor and Chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine at the Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York City.

Johann von Berenberg-Gossler

Johann von Berenberg-Gossler was less inclined to take risks than his father, and closed the bank's branches in New York City and Boston in 1880 and 1891 respectively.

John Jerome

In 1962, he moved to New York City to serve as managing editor of Car and Driver magazine until 1964.

Jonas Kamlet

He founded Kamlet Chemical Laboratories in New York City, which became known as the ideal consulting firm.

Jūnigatsu no Love Song

In 2001 Gackt went to visit one of the poorest countries in the world, Madagascar, and afterwards the world was in a state of tension due to September 11 attacks in the New York City, and he was moved and impressed how the children smile in the moment when they're hungry and there's a gap between the rich and the poor worldwide.

Knox Burger

Knox Breckenridge Burger (November 1, 1922 – January 4, 2010) was an editor, writer, and literary agent who lived in New York City.

Kryptonite lock

In an early test of the Kryptonite lock, a bicycle was locked to a signpost in Greenwich Village in New York City for thirty days.

Lake Champlain Seaway

The objective was to allow easy ship traffic from New York City to Montreal through Lake Champlain, lowering transportation costs between the two cities.

Lionello Venturi

After the establishment of the Vichy regime, he emigrated to the United States, living in New York City until 1945 and lecturing at a range of American universities.

Logie Awards of 1959

Como was presented with his award by George McCadden, the chief of TV Weeks American office, in New York City on 11 April 1959.

Louis Joseph Vance

Vance was separated from his wife (whom he married in 1898 and by whom he had a son the next year) when he was found dead in a burnt armchair inside his New York apartment; a cigarette had ignited some benzene (used for cleaning his clothes or for his broken jaw) that he had on his body and he was intoxicated at the time.

Louis Lipsky

Lipsky began his career as a reporter in Rochester, NY eventually moving to New York City where he joined the staff of the New York Morning Telegraph as a reporter covering theater news and serving as a drama critic.

Louise Thaden

She set a new world record of 14 hours, 55 minutes from New York City to Los Angeles, California.

Mania Days

The filming of the Mania Days began on April 10, 2013 in New York City.

Martinus Schoonmaker

Martinus Schoonmaker (1737–1824) was a New York City clergyman

Metropolitan Board of Health

The New York City Metropolitan Board of Health was the first modern municipal public health authority in the United States.

Moy Yat

After Yip Man's death, Moy Yat moved to New York City and began teaching there until he retired from teaching at age 60.

Nat Shapiro

Nat Shapiro (September 27, 1922, New York City - December 15, 1983, New York City) was an American jazz writer and record producer.

National Association for Female Executives

The National Association for Female Executives (NAFE), is a division of the Working Mother Media, based in New York City.

New Jersey Journal

During the evacuation of New York in 1783, he moved his press to that city and established the New York Gazetteer, initially published weekly and then three times a week.

New York City Internationalz

The Internationalz benchmarked Minor-League basketball in New York City basketball, appearing in many web media and magazine publications while engaging all communities by hosting the first ever professional basketball tryout camps in public parks throughout New York City; Players from all over the world were present to try out for the Internationalz from: USA, Japan, Europe, Caribbean, South America, Asia, Africa, and Middle East.

New York City Regional Center

The EB-5 Program has become a contributor to New York City’s economic revitalization by helping to fund a series of public/private real estate projects that create jobs and investment.

New York City: the 51st State

New York City: the 51st State was the platform of the Norman MailerJimmy Breslin candidacy in the 1969 New York City Democratic Mayoral Primary election.

New York Majesty

Despite its "New York" name, home games were played at the Sovereign Center in Reading, Pennsylvania, which is over 100 miles fron New York City and New York State, and is not located within the New York metropolitan area.

Norddeutsche Landesbank

NordLB maintains branch offices in all major financial and trading centers, including London, Singapore and New York City.

Paul G. Hoffman

Paul Gray Hoffman (26 April 1891 – 8 October 1974, New York City) was an American automobile company executive, statesman and global development aid administrator.

Permanent Observer of Holy See to the United Nations in Geneva

The Church also has a representative at the headquarters of the United Nations — in New York, United States of America — known as the Permanent Observer of the Holy See to the United Nations.

Plague Mass

It was recorded on October 12 and 13, 1990 at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, New York City and released in 1991.

Renzo Vespignani

After the 1970s, Vespignani rarely exhibited abroad, although two bodies of his work from the 1990s, Manhattan Transfer and An Afternoon in Chelsea, had been inspired by visits to New York City.

Richard-Brasier

In March 1906, the automobile was advertised in a national trade magazine as "Richard-Brasier" agent and sole importer located at 225-230 West 58th Street in New York City.

Sam Mark

As a result Mark moved Fall River Marksmen to New York, hoping that a new market there would be more lucrative.

Shwartzman phenomenon

The Shwartzman phenomenon is named for Gregory Shwartzman, the doctor at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City who was the first to develop the concept of immune system hypersensitivity in the 1920s.

Sig Herzig

Born Siegfried Maurice Herzig in New York City, Herzig began his career as the director of the comedy short Husband and Strife (1922), but he switched gears to create plot lines for more than three dozen silent films.

Something Else Press

During the late 1960s in New York City some of the various artists who worked at the Something Else Press included Editor in Chief Emmett Williams, artist Alison Knowles, American/Israeli poet Larry Friefeld, Irish/American novelist Mary Flanagan, artist Ronnie Landfield, and publisher/founder Dick Higgins.

Stacia Napierkowska

In 1913, she was arrested during a performance of one of her dances in New York City when it was declared indecent.

Studholme Brownrigg

He sailed as Commodore of Convoy ON 16 in SS Ville de Tamatave (a ship captured from the Vichy French in 1941), departing Liverpool on 12 January 1943 en route for New York.

Swiss American Historical Society

The society publishes the Swiss American Historical Society Review three times a year and meets annually, the location rotating between Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., and New York.

Sylvia Schur

Along the way, she got into product development for various food companies, such as Ocean Spray Cran-Apple juice, and helped develop the original menu of The Four Seasons Restaurant in New York City.

Teleavia

Today, TELEAVIA is still an icon with TV models at the MOMA in New York City and in other design museums around the world.

The Corporate Presence

The Corporate Presence is a New York City-based design and marketing firm specializing in commemoratives for financial firms globally.

The Initiative Collective

Founded in New York City in 2009 by "Zero," "Tsaf," "Lucid," and Zimmer Barnes, the group's initial goal was to patrol the streets of Greenwich Village to stem a rising tide of anti-gay violence.

The Pace Collection

The company was founded by Irving and Leon Rosen in New York City.

TIGER 21

Founded in 1999 by Michael Sonnenfeldt, TIGER 21 is headquartered in New York City and has chapters all around the United States and Canada.

Tom Dardis

In 1955, Dardis became the executive director for the Berkely Publishing Corporation in New York City.

Dardis was born in New York City in 1926 to Michael Gregory and Josephine Coletta Dardis.

W.N. Flynt Granite Co.

Many public buildings in Monson and the surrounding communities were constructed of Flynt granite, but the quarry also shipped granite for buildings in Boston, New York, Chicago, and even as far as Kansas and Iowa.

WDVB-CD

However, it mainly serves the New York City area, broadcasting on channel 23 from a transmitter located at the Empire State Building.

Wearealwayswellthankyou

wearealwayswellthankyou (We Are Always Well Thank You) is the second album by New York based Drill 'n Bass artist Datach'i (Joseph Fraioli).

WFUV: City Folk Live VII

WFUV: City Folk Live VII is a compilation album released by WFUV (90.7 FM in New York City) in November 2004 to highlight songs performed live in the studio by some of the year's favorite guests.

Winthrop Kellogg Edey

Winthrop Kellogg Edey (1938-1999) was a clock, watch, and photography collector that lived in Manhattan, New York City.


127th Street Repertory Ensemble

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

Air rights

A good example of this is Grand Central Terminal in New York City, where William J. Wilgus, chief engineer of the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad, devised a plan to earn profit from air rights.

Amy Arbus

Amy Arbus (born 1954) is a New York City-based photographer and is the daughter of actor Allan Arbus and photographer Diane Arbus and the sister of writer and journalist Doon Arbus.

Anoplophora

It is also common in some major cities in North America, including Toronto, Chicago, and New York City, where it has infested and damaged thousands of street and park trees.

Anthony Ross

Born in New York City, he may be best remembered for being the first to play the character of "the Gentleman Caller" in the original 1944 production of Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie.

Batus Inc.

Saks Fifth Avenue of New York City, New York (still operating) BATUS acquired Saks Fifth Avenue in 1973 with its acquisition of Gimbels.

Cape Cod Expressway

Coming out of New York City, the route would have followed Interstate 95 along the modern New England Thruway until the Connecticut border, where it would meet up with what later became the Connecticut Turnpike.

Charles Malik Whitfield

Charles Malik Whitfield (born August 1, 1972) is an American actor from The Bronx, New York City, New York.

Charles Matthau

Born in New York City, he appeared as a child actor alongside his father in such films as Charley Varrick (1973), The Bad News Bears (1976) and House Calls (1978).

Chicago VI

After recording all of Chicago's first five albums (including the live album Chicago at Carnegie Hall) in New York City, producer James William Guercio had his own Caribou Studios built in Nederland, Colorado during 1972, finished in time for the band to record their sixth album the following February.

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.

David Hoffman

Other feature films include: Earl Scruggs: His Family and Friends, starring Scruggs with Bob Dylan, Doc Watson, and The Byrds; Sing Sing Thanksgiving, a concert feature film at Sing Sing Prison in New York with B.B. King, Joan Baez and others; and It’s All Good, a film chronicling the lives of two aggressive inline skating teams in New York City and Los Angeles.

Dickstein Shapiro

Dickstein Shapiro was founded by Sidney Dickstein and David I. Shapiro in New York City in 1953.

DJ UCH

Uchenna Martin Anyanwu (born August 30, 1979) in New York City, known professionally as Uch or DJ Uch is an American radio presenter, mixshow dj, and house music producer originally from The Bronx, New York.

Edward Francis Hutton

Edward Francis Hutton (September 7, 1875 in New York City – July 11, 1962 in Westbury, Long Island, New York) was an American financier and co-founder of E. F. Hutton & Co.

Everline

The system is identical to AirTrain JFK in New York City and the Vancouver Sky Train in Canada, using Bombardier Advanced Rapid Transit vehicles controlled by Bombardier CITYFLO 650 automatic train control technology.

Florian Habicht

During his stay in New York City he filmed and performed in Love Story, which premiered at the opening night of the New Zealand International Film Festival in 2011.

Gil Dodds

On March 11, 1944, Dodds broke the world indoor record for the mile run at the annual Knights of Columbus track meet in Madison Square Garden, New York City.

Gordon Wasserman, Baron Wasserman

He worked with the Police Commissioners of New York City, Philadelphia and Miami as well as the Department of Justice.

Hicks Street Line

The Hicks Street Line was a public transit line in Brooklyn, New York City, United States, running from the Ninth Avenue Depot at Greenwood Cemetery to the Brooklyn Bridge.

Irving Selikoff

Irving J. Selikoff (1915 in New York City – May 20, 1992 in Ridgewood, New Jersey) was a medical researcher who in the 1960s established a link between the inhalation of asbestos particles and lung-related ailments.

Jacob Worth

Jacob Worth (May 1, 1838 New York City – February 21, 1905 Hot Springs, Garland County, Arkansas) was an American politician from New York.

Jewish Life Television

Its spotlight on Israel and Jewish life is facilitated by broadcast studios in Los Angeles, New York City and Toronto as well as bureaus in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Washington, D.C., Miami, London and Moscow.

Joseph Urban

Most of Urban's architectural work in the United States has been demolished, with the exceptions of Mar-A-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida and The New School and the base of The Hearst Tower in New York City.

Judith Crist

Crist was born Judith Klein in The Bronx, borough of New York City, New York, the daughter of Helen (née Schoenberg), a librarian, and Solomon Klein, a manufacturing jeweler.

June Jackson Christmas

Dr. Christmas was appointed Commissioner of Mental Health and Mental Retardation Services on August 16, 1972 by Mayor of New York City John Lindsay.

Ken Kirzinger

He appeared in 1989's Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan as a New York cook who gets in Jason's way while pursuing Rennie Wickham (Jensen Daggett) and Sean Robertson (Scott Reeves).

Louise Fagan

Additional performances took place at Urban Stages, New York City, and The University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee.

Machold Rare Violins

Machold had branch establishments in Vienna, Zurich (Geigenbau Machold GmbH and Cadenza AG), Alpnach (Bomalu AG), Bremen, Berlin, New York City, Aspen, Chicago, Seoul and Tokyo, buying and selling, among others, Stradivari and del Gesù violins.

Mark Saunders

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

Milenko Vlajkov

In 1999 he became the founder and president of the Association for Cognitive Management and of the Institute for Cognitive Management in Stuttgart, Germany, an affiliated training centre of the Albert Ellis Institute in New York.

Nicholas Scoppetta

Mr. Scoppetta is a past President and former Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Children's Aid Society, a not-for-profit social service agency which annually serves more than 200,000 needy children in New York City.

Nicole Tieri

Tieri is a native of Hudsonville, Michigan but moved to New York City in 1999 after graduating from Unity Christian High School.

Nine West

Named for its founding location in the Solow Building at 9 West 57th Street in New York City, Nine West opened its first specialty retail store in 1983 in Stamford, Connecticut.

Queens Teens Voices

Queens Teens Voices is a local quarterly newspaper geared toward the youth in New York City and particularly in south-eastern Queens.

Republican National Convention

It was carried by an early version of the NBC Television Network, and consisted of flagship W2XBS (now WNBC) in New York City, W3XE (now KYW-TV) in Philadelphia and W2XB (now WRGB) in Schenectady/Albany.

Richard Titlebaum

His paintings are in the Fogg Art Museum, the Permanent Collection of the Leslie-Lohman Gay Art Foundation in New York City, Liberty University, and the Miami City Hall.

Rosalyn Terborg-Penn

In 1951 her family moved to Queens, where she would graduate from John Adams High School in 1959.

Sally Regenhard

A former long-time resident of Co-op City in The Bronx in New York City who has degrees in behaviorial sciences and gerontology and has worked in the nursing home industry for over 20 years, Regenhard became an advocate for skyscraper safety after the death of her 28-year old son, Christian, a probationary firefighter with the New York City Fire Department, who perished in the collapse of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001.

Seal of New York City

The seal of the city of New York, adopted in an earlier form in 1686, bears the legend SIGILLUM CIVITATIS NOVI EBORACI which means simply "The Seal of the City of New York": Eboracum was the Roman name for York, the titular seat of James II as Duke of York.

Speak Easily

Boarding a train bound for New York City, Prof. Post encounters James (Jimmy Durante), the manager of a dancing troupe that has an engagement in the backwater town of Fish's Switch.

St. Clair Entertainment Group

It also has corporate offices and representation in Atlanta, Dallas, Detroit, Miami, Minneapolis, Montreal, New York, Seattle, Toronto and Vancouver.

Stefan Kanchev

After leaving the National Academy of Arts shortly before graduation, Kanchev took part in exhibitions and biennales in Bulgaria and abroad over the next 22 years, including Belgrade, Budapest, Berlin, Moscow, Warsaw, Brno, Ljubljana and New York City.

Transcontinental Air Transport

It initially offered a 48-hour train/plane trip with the first leg being on the Pennsylvania Railroad overnight from New York City to Columbus, Ohio, where passengers boarded a plane at Port Columbus International Airport that included stops in Indianapolis, St. Louis, Kansas City, Wichita, and finally Waynoka, Oklahoma.

United States House of Representatives election in Pennsylvania, 1788

On July 8, 1788, the Congress of the Confederation passed a resolution calling the first session of the 1st United States Congress for March 4, 1789, to convene at New York City and the election of Senators and Representatives in the meanwhile by the States.

Whitney Warren

Whitney Warren (January 29, 1864 – April 23 1943) was an architect with Charles Delevan Wetmore (1866–1941) at Warren and Wetmore in New York City.