New York is one of the most famous and largest cities in the United States and it is the center for global business and commerce activity. New York is unofficially known as The City That Never Sleeps, so this is an obvious choice. We have found the most interesting facts about the “Big Apple”.
1. In 2013, more than 8.4 million people lived in New York City, which means that the city’s population was higher than in 39 other states in the United States. Despite the huge number of residents, every 21st inhabitant is a millionaire.
2. In 1626, Peter Minuit, purchased Manhattan from the Delaware Indians, for $24-worth of trade goods, which, according to scientists at the University of Oregon, an amount worth approximately $1,050 in 2015 dollars. Today, the average land value in Manhattan is about $1000/sqft.
3. If Manhattan had the same population density as Alaska, there would only live about 28 people.
4. The United States Federal Reserve Bank of New York holds a quarter of all the world’s gold reserves. They are safely guarded at a depth of 24 meters below Liberty Street.
5. The Statue of Liberty is one of New York City’s most iconic symbols and it was a gift from the French people commemorating the alliance of France and the United States during the American Revolution. The height of the statue from the base to the tip of the torch is 151 feet 1 inch (46 meters) and visitors have to climb 354 stairs to reach the statue’s crown.
6. In the Civic Center District in New York stands an unusual building, located at 33 Thomas Street, a skyscraper with no windows, officially called The Long Lines Building. It has been labeled one of the city’s weirdest and most iconic skyscrapers, but little information has ever been published about its purpose.
7. Albert Einstein’s Eyeballs are Stored in a Safety Deposit Box in New York City. Preserving the body parts of the famous is not uncommon and New York City area has the honor of having Napoleon’s penis (in a basement in New Jersey) and George Washington’s tooth in Fraunces Tavern.
8. If New York were its own country, its army, the New York City Police Department, would be the twentieth-best-funded army in the world.
9. New York City Subway is the largest rapid transit system in the world that runs 24 hours a day, seven days a week. The system now has 26 lines and 468 stations in operation. Around 6 million passengers take the subway every day. Matthew Ahn has broken Guinness World Record for the fastest trip to every single subway station in the New York City system and it took him 21 hours, 28 minutes and 14 seconds.
10. New Yorkers drink almost 7 times more coffee than other cities in the United States.
11. It is always a beautiful winter in New York, it gets 15 times more snow than the South Pole each year.
12. Also, New York City has the most famous and iconic urban park – Central Park. According to various estimates, today it costs about as much money as the entire state of Alaska, and it is larger in landmass then Vatican City and almost six times larger than Monaco.
