25 Amazing Facts About New York

New York is an amazing city, it is not so difficult to imagine 25 unexpected facts about it. At the moment, as many as 8.4 million people live in the Big Apple! But there are things even more amazing.

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1. 12,152 life forms (including insects and bacteria) have been identified in the New York subway.

2. Except in an emergency, honking is prohibited in New York City. And yes, we know, everyone is still honking!

3. In 1789, the city was designated the first capital of the United States. It lasted, however, only a year.

4. In 2018, the world's first underground park will open in New York.

5. There is a skyscraper in the city without windows.

6. Manhattan was bought from local residents in 1626 for an amount comparable to one thousand dollars today.

7. New Yorkers bite ten times more people a year than sharks.

8. In winter, the city authorities set fire to the railway tracks so that they are not covered with ice.

9. More New Yorkers die from suicide than from homicide.

10. Running a hot dog stand in the vicinity of Central Park costs about $300,000 a year.

11. In the language of the Delaware Indians, the word "Manhattan" means "island of many hills" (over the years, the hills were razed to the ground in order to develop urban construction).

12. New York is the city with the largest Polish population in the world (after Warsaw).

13. Approximately half of the city's population does not speak English at home.

14. There are no Walmart stores in New York.

15. There are more Chinese in New York than in any other non-Asian city, and more Jews than in any other city outside of Israel.

16. One in 38 Americans lives in New York.

17. Seven times more coffee is drunk in the city than in other regions of the United States.

18.​ 25% of the world's gold bullion is stored in vaults under Wall Street (at the Federal Reserve Bank).

19. One in 21 New Yorkers is a millionaire.

20. An inconspicuous harmless shrimp called copepod, or copepod crayfish, lives in the New York water system.

21. About 15 times more snow falls in the city than at the South Pole (this is not surprising at all, because Antarctica is a desert and there is little rainfall).

22. Einstein's eyes are locked in one of the safes in the city.

23. The Empire State Building has its own zip code.

24. 800 languages ​​are spoken in New York, it is the city with the largest linguistic diversity in the world.

25. While it was long believed that the origin of the expression "Big Apple" is unknown, researchers at the Missouri University of Science and Technology were able to establish a probable etymology. Apples were the name given to the massive horse races around New York (probably because horses love apples). The term was popularized by journalist John Fitz Gerald in The New York Morning Telegraph, where he mentioned he was going to the Big Apple.