new york city, n.Trivia

New York is, after Hawaii, the state surrounded by the most water

New York only has a few alleys despite how it's depicted in film. Almost every alley scene is shot at the same location: Cortlandt Alley

New York City’s tap water is full of tiny crustaceans (copepods) which means it is technically not kosher.

New York’s Central Park is larger than the country of Monaco

There are no Walmart locations in New York City.

Is a taxi city --- there are over 13,000 operating there.

New York is the most linguistically-diverse city in the world, with over 800 languages represented

Central Park has over 9,000 benches

New York City's public school students represent about 188 different countries

New York has 571 miles of shoreline

Manhattan Island was once home to as many different species as Yellowstone National Park.

New York is a city of streets --- If you put them all in a straight line, they'd stretch to Japan.

Trillions of oysters once surrounded New York City, filtering bacteria and acting as a natural buffer against storm surges.

The EV is not a new concept --- In 1900, 1/3 of all automobiles in New York City were powered by electricity.

The cobblestones used to line the streets in New York were all originally stones found in the hulls of Belgian ships ballast

New York City is criss-crossed by over 800 miles of subway track

New York City has the area code 212 because rotary phones were used at the time, and the number uses the shortest dialing time.

New York was once called New Amsterdam

New York City has entire fake buildings that act as vents for the underground subway

New York is a diverse city --- New York taxi drivers collectively speak about 60 languages.