10 Interesting Facts about New York | 10 Interesting Facts
New York City is a big city with million stories and thousand interesting facts. Every square mile of the town is inhabited by 26,000 people and not many people in or outside the city know this fact. Next, we give you 10 interesting facts about New York here. You might already have not heard some of the New York fact on the following list.
Fact 1; A Dutch Explorer bought the whole area of Manhattan Island from Algonquin tribe for mere US$24 in the form of trinkets and tools. He named the Island New Amsterdam afterwards.
New Amsterdam map
Fact 2; New York City is the biggest city in US and it became the capital of the US started from 1789 until 1790. Eugenius Harvey Outerbridge is the fist leader of New York and to honor his contribution a bridge that connects Staten Island and New Jersey has named The Outbridge crossing.
Eugenius Harvey Outerbridge
Fact 3; Every day, average New Yorkers spend forty minutes to reach their workplace. At home, 47% of New Yorker’s children speak other than English. Thousand New Yorkers regularly visit New York’s Central Park to sport and the size of park is bigger than the princedom Monaco.
Fact 4; New York City administers 5 boroughs: Brooklyn, the Bronx, Queens, Staten Island, and Manhattan and the city’s council hosts 51 members from different legislative cities.
NY map
Fact 5: Since the last quarter of 2007, the average price of one apartment in Manhattan has rose to US$ 1.49 million per unit. One of the major factors of the rising is 790,000 operating companies in the city.
NY apartment
Fact 6: John Hertz, the founder of New York’s Yellow cabs, made a right decision to pick Yellow as a main color for his taxi’s armada. If he picked other color, he might not have 12,700 yellow taxis and more right now.
Taxi cab NY
Fact 7: Federal Reserve Bank of Wall Street saves 25% of all gold reserve in the world. The bank hosts all those gold reserves inside a giant vault 80 feet below the grown. Unearthed those gold illegally are almost impossible.
Federal Reserve Bank of Wall Street
Fact 8: 46 million domestic and international tourists visited New York in 2007 and they made the city US$ 28 billion richer than a year before.
Fact 9: New York’s City has become the set of 250 films and 40,000 video shoot and films yearly.
Fact 10: New York City is the house of 19,378,102 people according to census 2010. The number is growing constantly every year and this is our last New York facts we can give to you. Thanks for reading
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