New York is a city of streets --- If you put them all in a straight line, they'd stretch to Japan.
New York City is home to more more French restaurants than Paris
Is a taxi city --- there are over 13,000 operating there.
New York is the first state to require cars to have license plates
New York is, after Hawaii, the state surrounded by the most water
More billionaires are born in New York City than anywhere else in the world.
New York City is made up of 50 islands
New York’s Central Park is larger than the country of Monaco
The New York Subway system provides an average of five million rides each weekday.
There are no Walmart locations in New York City.
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 is a diverse city --- New York taxi drivers collectively speak about 60 languages.
New York City has so many restaurants that one person could eat out every night for 54 years and never visit the same place twice.
Trillions of oysters once surrounded New York City, filtering bacteria and acting as a natural buffer against storm surges.
Central Park has over 9,000 benches
New York was once called New Amsterdam
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 first Saint Patrick's Day parade was held on March 17th, 1766.
New York City is criss-crossed by over 800 miles of subway track