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75 unusual facts about New York city


A Most Violent Year

The filming of the film A Most Violent Year began on January 29, 2014 in New York City.

Bam Thwok

The song's lyrics display a surrealistic and nonsensical nature typical of the band; Deal's inspiration was a discarded child's art book she found on a New York City street.

Barney Live In New York City

In New York City is a Barney & Friends stage show, taped at Radio City Music Hall in New York City on March 6, 1994 and released on video on August 26, 1994.

Bill Langan

Michael William Langan, (Bill Langan), (June 9, 1955 - December 31, 2010) was an American yacht designer who practiced his trade in New York, NY and Newport, RI.

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.

CBNA

Citibank National Association, a bank headquartered in New York City, United States, backing a lot of store credit cards

Center for Reproductive and Sexual Health

Center for Reproductive and Sexual Health (CRASH), at the time the largest freestanding abortion clinic in the world, opened in New York City after New York legalized abortion in 1970.

Compressed Gas Association

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

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 Blum

Edward Blum (c. 1867 – March 26, 1944) was an architect, born in Paris, who designed apartment and office buildings, many in New York City.

Ernst Freund

Ernst Freund (January 30, 1864 in New York City – October 20, 1932 in Chicago, Illinois) was a noted American legal scholar.

Estoy Aquí

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

Germán Pedro Ibáñez

The group were the first to record in New York City the son in 1925, which made the son fashionable.

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.

Greater New York City

the statistical New York metropolitan area consisting of New York City and surrounding counties of New York, New Jersey, Connecticut and Pennsylvania.

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".

Hats Off to Ice

The show was presented at the Center Theatre in New York City and ran from 1944-1946 for a total of 889 performances.

He Liked to Feel It

The video featured the band performing on a New York City rooftop interspersed with scenes of a boy pulling his tooth out in various ways, including tying the tooth to a taxicab, tying the tooth to a steak and throwing it to a dog on the other side of a fence, and tying the tooth to a crane.

Herstatt Bank

That day, a number of banks had released payment of Deutsche Marks (DEM) to Herstatt in Frankfurt in exchange for US Dollars (USD) that was to be delivered in New York.

Hotel Bethel

In 1876, they made contact with Ninna and Andreas Wollesen, a married couple who, for several years, had been involved in missionary work among sailors in New York City before being sent to Copenhagen by an organization to continue their activity there.

Irene Taylor

After that Taylor worked for a while with another local band, the Louisiana Ramblers, before going to New York City.

Jacob Ralph Abarbanell

Jacob Ralph Abarbanell (December 6, 1852 – November 9, 1922) was an American lawyer, author, and playwright from 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.

Jean Vergnes

Jean Vergnes (November 29, 1921 – April 22, 2010) was a prominent chef, a co-founder of the famed eatery Le Cirque in the borough of Manhattan in New York City, and an influence on American restaurant culture for more than four decades.

Jewish Bakers' Voice

The Jewish Bakers' Voice (in Yiddish: Idishe Bekers Shtime) was a trade paper for Jewish bakers published from New York City, the United States.

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.

Jones Hope Wooten

Nicholas Hope, an award-winning playwright, served as Director of Casting at Theatre Communications Group in New York City and The Goodman Theatre in Chicago, and ABC Television.

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.

Keith Aickin

In 1948, Aickin joined the legal department of the United Nations in New York City, becoming a legal adviser.

Kražiai

Isaac ha-Levi Hurwitz; David, rabbi at Meretz; Zevulun ben Lipman, rabbi at Plungian; and Rabbi Jacob Joseph, who died in New York in 1902, likewise were natives of Krozh.

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.

Lexington Avenue bombing

The Lexington Avenue bombing was the July 4, 1914 explosion of a bomb in an apartment at 1626 Lexington Avenue in New York City, killing four people and injuring dozens.

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 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.

Łagiewniki, Włocławek County

Part of Łagiewniki was formerly known locally as Nowy Jork (Polish for New York), from a nickname given by the parish priest in the 1950s, perhaps due to its distance from the village centre or its perceived prosperity.

Mania Days

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

Maria McAuley

Maria McAuley (1847, US - 19 September 1919), along with her husband Jerry, founded the McAuley Water St Mission in New York City.

Maurice Connolly

In 1898, at age twenty-one, he graduated from the New York University School of Law, in New York City.

Metropolitan Board of Health

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

Milton Fisher Scholarship

Four-year scholarships of varying amounts based on need are awarded to high school juniors and seniors, as well as college freshmen, who will be attending a university in the Connecticut and the New York City metropolitan area.

Napier Peak

The feature is named after Captain William Napier, Master of the schooner Venus, from New York, who visited the South Shetland Islands in 1820-21.

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 Bank Note Company

The New York Bank Note Company was an engraver of stock certificates in New York City.

New York City: the 51st State

Many of the candidates in the 1969 Democratic mayoralty primary race – three-time mayor Robert F. Wagner, Jr., long-time party worker and City Comptroller Mario Procaccino, Bronx Borough President Herman Badillo, and Congressman James H. Scheuer – were familiar, uninspiring mainstream politicians who offered few new or novel ideas on how to solve the city's problems.

New York Competition of Dramatic Arts

The NYCODA competition is typically held in the Fall of each year in the New York City borough of Brooklyn.

New York Theatre

Several theatres in New York City, New York, have been called New York Theatre at various times during the building's life.

NYC Thunder

Like the Internationalz, they are based throughout New York City and contain several former Internationalz on their roster.

NYcon

NYcon is the name given to three Worldcons held in New York City.

Philippe François Armand Marie de Noailles

His second wife was HRH Princess Joan of Luxembourg (née Joan Douglas Dillon (b. New York City, New York, 31 January 1935).

Photography in Denmark

A prominent user of flash, he was able to publish indoor scenes of the slums of New York City, contributing to the implementation of "model tenements".

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.

Public Affairs Council

First incorporated as the Effective Citizens Organization (ECO), the ECO relocated to Washington, DC from New York City in 1962 and changed its name to the Public Affairs Council in 1965.

Raging Bull Nation

When evacuees from New Orleans resettled temporarily in the New York City area, MetroNation hosted them at a MetroStars match on September 17, 2005 – a wild 5–4 MetroStars victory over New England Revolution.

Recurring Saturday Night Live characters and sketches introduced 1983–1984

He often appeared on "Saturday Night News" with ideas to clean up New York City.

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.

Shea's Castle

Shea, a New Yorker, moved to the dry climate of Southern California in hopes of improving the health of his wife, Ellen.

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.

Song One

Filming of Song One has begun in June 2013 in New York City.

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.

Stuyvesant Fish House

Stuyvesant Fish House is a house in Manhattan, New York City built for, occupied by or otherwise connected with railroad executive Stuyvesant Fish and his family.

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 Main Street WIRE

The Main Street WIRE is the community newspaper of Roosevelt Island, part of Manhattan in New York City.

The Pace Collection

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

Unique Quartette

The Unique Quartette was a black vocal quartet in New York City.

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).

Winthrop Kellogg Edey

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


Agneta Eckemyr

Her most recent designs are featured at Älskling (Swedish for Darling), on Columbus Avenue, New York City; a block from where she lives in an apartment overlooking Central Park.

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.

Amp'd Mobile

It was also one of the sponsors of the PBR's Built Ford Tough Series during the 2007 season; it was also the first year that the BFTS hosted an event in New York City's Madison Square Garden, and for 2007 only the event was named the Amp'd Mobile Invitational.

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.

Andy Gresh

While in college, Gresh interned for various sports radio stations including WFAN in New York City and ESPN Radio in Bristol.

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.

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.

Borden Chase

Born Frank Fowler, he went through an assortment of jobs, including driving for gangster Frankie Yale and working as a sandhog on the construction of New York's Holland Tunnel, before turning to writing, first short stories and novels, and later, screenplays.

C.L.C.G. Naomh Conaill

Columba later gained further fame as the first Donegal man to win a Senior All-Ireland football winners medal, when he lined out for Cavan in the 1947 final played at the Polo Grounds in New York City.

Charles Malik Whitfield

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

Cherry Boone

They had met in 1982, while Carpenter was attending resident therapy in New York City with psychotherapist Steven Levenkron.

Ciudadela, Buenos Aires

The subject of ongoing controversy, its colloquial name stems from Fort Apache, The Bronx, a 1981 movie about a crime-ridden part of New York City.

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 Boehm

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

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.

Deirdre O'Connell

When she finished school, she pursued her interest in theatre studying first at Erwin Piscator's Dramatic Workshop, New York, and later at the Actors Studio run by Lee Strasberg.

Doc Cheatham

Cheatham played in Albert Wynn's band (and occasionally substituted for Armstrong at the Vendome Theater), and recorded on sax with Ma Rainey before moving to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1927, where he worked with the bands of Bobby Lee and Wilbur de Paris before moving to New York City the following year.

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.

Geogaddi

The album premiered in six cities around the world: London, New York, Tokyo, Edinburgh, Paris, and Berlin.

Gerald M. Levin

Jonathan Levin High School for Media and Communications in The Bronx, New York City, is named after the murdered teacher.

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.

Jedd Garet

The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, the Honolulu Museum of Art, the The Museum of Modern Art (New York City), the Phoenix Art Museum (Phoenix, Arizona), the Tate Gallery (London) and the Whitney Museum of American Art (New York City) are among the public collections holding works by Jedd Garet.

Jeffrey Mandula

Jeffrey Ellis Mandula (*1941 in New York City) is a physicist well known for the Coleman–Mandula theorem from 1967.

Josh Elliott

Elliott received a local Emmy Award in New York City in 2005 for writing and contributing to Angles on MSG Network and served as one of the co-hosts for Super Bowl XL for Westwood One Sports.

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.

Karla LaVey

The Church of Satan, under the leadership of Blanche Barton, was later moved to New York City, and subsequently transferred over to yet another administration.

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).

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.

Milenko Vlajkov

In 1998 he was elected as Member of the International Training Standards and Policy Review Committee of the Albert Ellis Institute in New York.

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.

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.

Old Lyme, Connecticut

John McCurdy (b.1724), whose home was the resting place for George Washington on April 10, 1776 while traveling to New York City to take on the British Army and Navy (source: Papers of George Washington, Connecticut State Library); grandfather of Connecticut Supreme Court judge Charles McCurdy

Plaza Accord

The five governments signed the accord on September 22, 1985 at the Plaza Hotel in New York City.

Raoul Bhaneja

In January 2006 Bhaneja debuted in Hamlet (solo), a one-man version of William Shakespeare's Hamlet directed by Robert Ross Parker, which has been performed across Canada including an engagement at The National Arts Centre in the fall of 2013, in the United Kingdom at The Assembly Rooms as part of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art as well as in New York City on a number of occasions, including Off Broadway.

Rosalyn Terborg-Penn

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

Salem Hanna Khamis

He soon accepted an invitation from the United Nations to work in its Statistical Office in Lake Success (1949-1950) then New York (1950-1953).

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.

Satan and Adam

Satan and Adam, a blues duo consisting of Sterling "Mister Satan" Magee (born May 20, 1936; Mount Olive, Mississippi) and Adam Gussow (born April 3, 1958; New York City, New York), were a fixture on Harlem's sidewalks in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

Sretno dijete

For example Darko Rundek is interviewed in Paris, France, Mirko Ilić in New York City in the United States, and there are also scenes shot on locations in the Netherlands, Germany, Hungary and other countries.

ST-X Ensemble

It was formed in New York City in 1994 by the conductor Charles Zachary Bornstein, who had served as an assistant conductor to Leopold Stokowski, and was the last private student of the Austrian conductor Hans Swarowsky.

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.

WDCW

WDCW is carried on satellite provider DirecTV (as standard definition only "CW-E") to serve the few areas of the eastern United States where a CW affiliate is not receivable over-the-air or through cable television, and on JetBlue's LiveTV inflight entertainment system though DirecTV (the other network stations featured on JetBlue are predominantly from New York City).

Westminster Records

It was co–founded in 1949 by Mischa Naida (who later founded Musical Heritage Society, the owner of the Westminster Record Shop in New York City, businessman James Grayson (1897–1980), conductor Henry Swoboda, and Henry Gage.

William H. Boole

William H. Boole (1827 - February 24, 1896) was a pastor of the Willet Street Methodist Church in the Bowery in New York City.