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62 unusual facts about Manhattan


5th New York Volunteer Infantry

The regiment was formed on April 12, 1861, by a group of military enthusiasts in Manhattan and deployed from Fort Schuyler at Throgs Neck, New York Harbor.

A Picture Is Worth a 1,000 Bucks

An art dealer named Antonio Monatti buys the painting for $5,000 and urges Peter to bring Chris to Manhattan, where he could become a famous artist.

Alice Elliott

Her first movie, Diamonds in the Rough, is an hour long documentary about a gifted, inner-city high school baseball team located in the largely Dominican, Washington Heights neighborhood, of New York City.

Alphonso Sgroia

Sgroia opened a butcher shop and lived with his brother Biagio on 117th Street in Manhattan.

B-Boy Bouillabaisse

Said Mike D: "That money enabled us to make the move for independence. We got a floor in this Chinese sweatshop building on Chrystie Street (on the lower East Side of Manhattan)."

Bellanca Airfield

In the same time, conditions favoring, they could have flown from Manhattan to Vienna.

Booth's Theatre

In 1869, Edwin Booth, then one of the world's most distinguished stage tragedians and arguably America's greatest Hamlet, opened his theatre, Booth's Theatre, in Manhattan on the southeast corner of 23rd Street and Sixth Avenue.

Capital Steez

He committed suicide at the young age of 19, by jumping from a building in Manhattan's Flatiron District.

Center for an Urban Future

The Center for an Urban Future is an American public policy think tank based in Manhattan, a borough of New York City in the United States.

Chatham Garden Theatre

It was located on the north side of Chatham Street on Park Row between Pearl and Duane streets in lower Manhattan.

Chef Tony

His informal chef training includes working in his grandmother's Southern Italian restaurant in lower Manhattan.

Craig Nevill-Manning

Craig Nevill-Manning is a New Zealand computer scientist who founded Google's first remote engineering center, located in midtown Manhattan, where he is an Engineering Director.

Deemi

Her song of choice was Whitney Houston's "Greatest Love of All." She was accepted into Manhattan's Talent Unlimited High School to perfect her craft.

Donald Deskey

Deskey first gained note as a designer when he created window displays for the Franklin Simon Department Store in Manhattan in 1926.

Drop Dead Festival

The festival was originally held at the famous CBGB punk rock club, but subsequent Drop Dead Festivals moved to the much larger Knitting Factory, also in lower Manhattan.

Dryinus grimaldii

The type specimens are currently preserved in the paleoentomology collections housed in the American Museum of Natural History, located in Manhattan, New York City, USA.

Duncan Curry

. . . On this afternoon I have already mentioned, Cartwright came to the field – the march of improvement had driven us further north and we located on a piece of property on the slope of Murray Hill, between the railroad cut and Third avenue – with his plans drawn up on paper.

Environmental Measurements Laboratory

The NUSTL is located at the Federal Office Building at 201 Varick Street in SoHo, Manhattan, New York.

Femme for DKNY

Shot on the streets of Manhattan by photographer Scott Schuman, the ads are designed to reflect the individual style of trendsetting New Yorkers.

Gay Village, Montreal

After living in New York City, it was his intention to create a strong vibrant gay community similar to the East Village in New York.

George F. Ellis

Born in Portales, New Mexico May 11, 1903, he graduated from the Kansas State Agricultural College (now Kansas State University) in Manhattan, Kansas in animal husbandry.

Glitter in Their Eyes

However, the Glitter in Their Eyes single was mixed at Eden Studios in London, and Mastered by Ted Jensen and Paul Angeli at Sterling Sound in NYC.

Henry Dyer Grindle

Henry Dyer Grindle (November 19, 1826 – September 14, 1902) was a Manhattan physician and abortion provider in the 1870s who worked under the name H.D. Grindle.

Heshang, Changle

A big part of its population is living abroad, mainly in New York City (Chinatown, Manhattan), Europe (Chinatowns in Europe), and Taiwan.

Inger Stevens

At eighteen, she left Kansas to return to New York City, where she worked as a chorus girl and in the Garment District while taking classes at the Actors Studio.

James A. Forbes

The church stands on the border of the Morningside Heights and Harlem neighborhoods, and serves an interdenominational congregation.

Jean Vergnes

Jean Vergnes (November 29, 1921 – April 22, 2010) was a prominent chef, a co-founder of the famed eatery Le Cirque in the borough of Manhattan in New York City, and an influence on American restaurant culture for more than four decades.

Jennifer Alexander

Alexander, Bragado-Young and a third dancer were returning to Manhattan after Bragado-Young had performed in The Nutcracker in Williamsport, Pennsylvania when they came upon a multiple-vehicle collision on Route 3.

Jon Ballantyne

Now based in Manhattan, Jon leads a critically acclaimed quartet featuring bassist Boris Kozlov, drummer Jeff Hirshfield and saxophonist/bass clarinetist Douglas Yates.

Joseph Owades

Born in Manhattan and raised in the Bronx, he graduated from City College of New York (undergraduate) and Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute (Master’s and PhD in biochemistry, with a dissertation on cholesterol).

Kenny Rankin

On Saturday, November 4, 1972, Kenny Rankin performed live on Broadway, at Manhattan's Palace Theatre as the opening act for The George Carlin Show.

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Kenny Rankin (Los Angeles, February 10, 1940 - June 7, 2009) was an American pop and jazz singer and songwriter, originally from the Washington Heights neighborhood of New York City, New York.

King Alfred Plan

When his novel was first published, Williams photocopied portions of the book detailing the King Alfred Plan and left copies in subway car seats around Manhattan.

Kunihiko Iwadare

Iwadare was hired to work in an Edison facility in Manhattan at Goerck Street.

La Víbora, Havana

In the musical In the Heights, Abuela Claudia tells of growing up in La Víbora in "Paciencia Y Fe", describing it as "the Washington Heights of Havana".

La Vie Bohème

The song is a celebration of bohemianism, especially the type present in the 1980s Alphabet City, Manhattan, and begins with a mocking of the character Benny's statement that "Bohemia is dead".

LeSportsac

In 2001, LeSportsac opened its first US Flagship store on Madison Avenue in Manhattan, followed by its Tokyo flagship in the renowned Omotesando district in November 2001.

Manhattan, Montana

David Meirhofer, serial killer, was a Manhattan resident until his suicide in custody in 1974.

Marco Glorious

As a young boy he was engulfed by the flavored sounds of New York City's Washington Heights.

Mark Saunders

He relocated to New York City in 1996 and currently works from his facility in Manhattan - Beat360 Studios.

Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie

The first national tallgrass prairie ever designated in the U.S. and the largest conservation site in the Chicago Wilderness region, it is located on the site of the former Joliet Army Ammunition Plant between the towns Elwood, Manhattan and Wilmington in northeastern Illinois.

Midnight in Chelsea

The song's video was shot in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan, with the Hotel Chelsea as a primary location.

Mildred Dixon

142 , Sugar Hill, Manhattan along with Ellington’s parents, son and daughter.

Photograph conservation

Galleries in the Chelsea neighborhood of New York City send new works to conservation facilities in order to assure new collectors that an art purchase will become a financially solvent investment.

Raquel Cepeda

There, in the Inwood/Washington Heights section of Upper Manhattan, she resided with her father, who was abusive, and her Scandinavian stepmother.

Remote Control / Three MC's and One DJ

The video was shot in the basement of 262 Mott Street located in the Little Italy neighborhood in Manhattan, New York City.

Rutiodon

A second species, R. manhattanensis, was discovered in 1910 near Fort Lee, New Jersey, and named in reference to its close proximity to Manhattan.

Sol Friedman House

The Friedman House forms part of the post-war development of Wright's use of the circle, culminating in his Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in Manhattan.

Sonic the Hedgehog: The Movie

This is where Robotnik's empire of Eggmanland is located (landmarks strongly suggest that it resides in what was once Manhattan).

Stephan Dweck

Dweck and Ivey lived in the Frederick Douglass Houses housing project in Manhattan.

The Joshua Light Show

It was renowned for its psychedelic art and served as a lighting backdrop behind many live band performances at the Fillmore East in the East Village area of Manhattan and throughout the New York City suburbs from Connecticut to New Jersey during the late 1960s and early 1970s.

The Never War

He hates Max because Max has become wealthy, whereas Winn's own, more reckless actions made him resort to living in an abandoned slaughterhouse in the Meatpacking District of New York and hiring gangsters to do his bidding.

The Teenagers

The Teenagers had their origins in The Earth Angels, a group founded at Edward W. Stitt Junior High School in the Washington Heights section of Manhattan by second tenor Jimmy Merchant and bass Sherman Garnes.

Tionna T. Smalls

After completing her primary education, Tionna attended the High School for Environmental Studies in Manhattan and studied Sociology at Stony Brook University.

Toni Blum

She lived at the time with her family on 91st or 92nd Street near Park Avenue in Manhattan.

Union Prayer Book

Associate Rabbi Judah Leon Magnes of Manhattan's Congregation Emanu-El delivered a Passover sermon in 1910 in which he advocated changes in the Reform ritual to incorporate elements of traditional Orthodox Judaism, expressing his concern that younger members of the congregation were driven to seek spirituality in other religions that cannot be obtained at Temple Emanu-El.

Until It Beats No More

The commercial, entitled "My World", depicts Lopez leaving Manhattan and making her way to The Bronx, her hometown.

Vaughn Bodē

In 1968, he moved to Manhattan and joined the staff of the underground newspaper the East Village Other.

Volkswagen advertising

In 1949, William Bernbach, along with colleagues, Ned Doyle and Maxwell Dane, formed Doyle Dane Bernbach (DDB), the Manhattan advertising agency that would create the revolutionary Volkswagen ad campaigns of the 1950s and 1960s.

Waynehead

It is about a young boy named Damien "Damey" Wayne from a poor background with a club foot and was based on Wayans' own childhood in the Chelsea neighborhood in the New York City Borough of Manhattan.

William Schoell

William Schoell (pronounced shoal) is an American author, biographer and film historian, born November 30, 1958 in Manhattan and educated in Vermont, earning a B.A. from Castleton State College in 1978.

William Zakariasen

In the early 1970s he moved away from performance into the field of journalism, establishing himself as a respected Manhattan-based music critic.


127th Street Repertory Ensemble

The 127th Street Repertory Ensemble was a theater group based in Harlem, Manhattan, New York City.

2009 Bronx terrorism plot

On June 29, 2011, Cromitie, Onta Williams and David Williams were each sentenced to 25 years in prison for their parts in the attempted attack by Manhattan Federal Judge Colleen McMahon, who criticized both the defendants, as well as what she viewed as the government's overzealous handling of the investigation.

Agneta Eckemyr

Her most recent designs are featured at Älskling (Swedish for Darling), on Columbus Avenue, New York City; a block from where she lives in an apartment overlooking Central Park.

Alain Sailhac

On 13 May 2010 Sailhac, along with other chefs from The French Culinary Institute (now known as The International Culinary Center), Jacques Pepin, Jacques Torres and André Soltner, prepared a $30,000-per-couple dinner for President Barack Obama’s fund-raiser for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee at Manhattan’s St. Regis Hotel.

Arthur Dempster

Arthur Jeffrey Dempster (1886–1950), physicist at the University of Chicago and Manhattan Project participant

Bahman Maghsoudlou

The Suitors, selected for the Cannes in 1988; Manhattan by Numbers (by Amir Naderi), selected for Venice and Toronto 1993; Seven Servants by Daryush Shokof, selected for Berlin, Toronto and Locarno 1996, and Silence of the Sea, selected for the Mannheim Film Festival 2003.

Bonnie Franklin

Also in 1988, she appeared with Tony Musante at the Westside Arts Theatre (in Manhattan) in Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune by Terrence McNally.

Bonnie Garcia

Garcia was one of five children born in Manhattan's Lower East Side to a young Puerto Rican couple who divorced soon after her birth.

Brighter Than A Thousand Suns

"Brighter than a Thousand Suns: A Personal History of the Atomic Scientists", the first published account of the Manhattan Project and the German atomic bomb project by Robert Jungk

Classic Case

After several months of touring and writing, the band delved into a Manhattan recording studio for 3 months to record their debut full-length, Dress to Depress.

Clemente Soto Vélez

In 1995 on the Lower East Side of Manhattan (also known as Loisaida), author Edgardo Vega Yunqué and actor-director Nelson Landrieu founded the Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural and Educational Center (also known as the "CSV") to continue Clemente's legacy.

Collegiate Reformed Protestant Dutch Church

The Middle Dutch Church or Middle Collegiate Church, which was built from 1836–1839, was located on Lafayette Place, now Lafayette Street, near La Grange Terrace.

Colonial Airlines

By 1956, Colonial's executive offices were on Park Avenue in New York City and it was flying several routes including five daily nonstop DC-4 flights between LGA and Montreal.

Cristina García

They settled in New York City where she was raised in Queens, Brooklyn Heights, and Manhattan, in predominantly Irish, Italian, and Jewish neighborhoods.

Daniel Boulud

Boulud set out on his own and opened his restaurant Daniel, in 1993, in Manhattan's Upper East Side.

Downtown Paterson

The neighborhoods on this side of the river are up a steep hill that gives many of the houses and streets in the northside great views of Manhattan.

Galia Solomonoff

Her notable projects include Dia:Beacon; the Defective Brick Project; multiple residential projects in Manhattan and Brooklyn; and competition proposals for institutional projects around the world.

George Jefferson

When the spin-off series The Jeffersons began in January 1975, George and his family had moved "to a deluxe apartment in the sky" on the Upper East Side of Manhattan.

Interstate 78 in New York

I-478 is currently the Brooklyn–Battery Tunnel and approaches, connecting I-278 in Brooklyn with the Battery in Manhattan; it was once planned to continue north along the unbuilt Westway to I-78 at the Holland Tunnel.

Isaac H. Brown

Isaac H. Brown (1812-1880) was the sexton at Grace Episcopal Church in Greenwich Village, and arbiter of style in Manhattan where he planned weddings, arranged soirées and funerals for the wealthy of New York City.

James A. Hamilton

He attended Public School No. 32 in Manhattan, and graduated from New York Evening High School in 1892, and B.A. from University of Rochester in 1898.

Jonathan Woodner

Jonathan Woodner, who was born in Manhattan, ran the company's Washington interests and was president of the Ian Woodner Family Art Collection Foundation.

Joseph Benjamin Stenbuck

Joseph Benjamin Stenbuck (December 22, 1891 – June 1, 1951) was a leading Manhattan surgeon at Sydenham and Harlem Hospital.

Judith Godwin

She lives in Greenwich Village, Manhattan, but as a native Virginian, remains a member of the Jamestowne Society.

Léman Manhattan Preparatory School

Léman Manhattan has two sister schools, Léman International School in Chengdu, China and Collège du Léman in Geneva, Switzerland.

Manfred Stern

The apparatus kept a safe apartment on West 57th Street, owned by Paula Levine, later part of a Soviet spy ring in Paris, and kept a photographic studio on Gay Street in Greenwich Village, where "Charlie," in actuality Leon Minster the brother-in-law of Vyacheslav Molotov, microfilmed the stolen documents.

Manhattan-Kaboul

"Manhattan-Kaboul" is a French song written by Renaud and composed by Jean-Pierre Bucolo, sung by Renaud in duo with Axelle Red, in the album Boucan d'enfer, released in 2002.

Michael Newberry

He created and organized the Foundation for the Advancement of Art, which held a conference “Innovation, Substance, Vision: The Future of Art” at the Pierre Hotel in Manhattan on October 6, 2003, featuring speakers: philosophers Stephen Hicks and David Kelley, vision scientist Jan Koenderick, and sculptor Martine Vaugel.

Mike Ekeler

After seven years in private business for himself, Ekeler returned to the game when he began volunteer coaching for V. J. and Angela Skutt Catholic High School in Omaha, Nebraska from 1999 to 2001, and as an assistant coach at Manhattan High School in Manhattan, Kansas in 2002, back in the town where he had played for Kansas State almost a decade before.

Morris Schinasi

His family mansion built in 1907 at West 107th Street & 351 Riverside in Manhattan, New York City and called the Schinasi House today, is designated a New York City Landmark and listed in the National Register of Historic Places.

New York Raiders

They play their home games in Manhattan, New York, and are a team partner of the Canberra Raiders of Australia's National Rugby League (NRL).

No Place to be Somebody

After an experimental production directed by Gordone, in November 1967, the play was produced in a showcase of three weekends at The Other Stage in Joe Papp's Public Theater in South Manhattan by director Edward Cornell.

Norr Mälarstrand

Stepped gables then present were removed and replaced by the evenly spaced functionalist silhouettes — the nine floors of which resulted in comparisons with cities in America and the epithet "Manhattan of Stockholm".

Olympia Cafe

During the 1970s, there was a real-life Olympia Cafe on the Upper West Side of Manhattan which was very similar to the diner in the sketch.

Paul Kirk

Paul L. Kirk (1902–1970), American chemist, forensic scientist, and Manhattan Project participant

Rose Museum

The Rose Museum, located on the second floor of Manhattan's Carnegie Hall at 154 West 57th Street, is a small museum dedicated to the history of Carnegie Hall.

Ruth P. Smith

In 1962, she moved into a two-bedroom apartment in The Dakota on 72nd Street and Central Park West on the Upper West Side of Manhattan and she continued to live in this fifth-floor home for the next 50 years.

Ruth Ryon

The column was the first of what eventually became a small stable of regular celebrity real estate columns or features in newspapers and magazines across the country, including "Private Properties" in the Wall Street Journal, "Manhattan Transfers" in the New York Observer, "Upper Bracket" in the Chicago Tribune (from 1998 until 2004), "Gimme Shelter" in the New York Post and "On the Block" in People magazine.

Shecky's Media, Inc.

The New York event is held in Manhattan's landmark Puck Building.

Tamsen Fadal

Fadal resides in Manhattan is divorced from her former husband Matt Titus.

Tex Antoine

He had married Suzannah C. Glidden in summer 1965, and he died in Manhattan in 1983, at age 59, under the name "H. Jon Antoine".

Tickling Leo

Tickling Leo screened at the Stony Brook Film Festival on July 25, 2009 and then opened in Manhattan, Queens and on Long Island Theaters on September 4, 2009 with a simultaneous DVD release.

Tower 270

The initial proposed name for the development of the atomic bomb was "Laboratory for the Development of Substitute Materials." Fearing the name would draw undue attention General Leslie Groves changed it to the "Manhattan Engineer District" which was eventually shortened to the Manhattan Project.

William Targ

He was survived by his wife, Roslyn, of Manhattan, a literary agent; a son, Russell, of Palo Alto, California; two grandchildren, one of whom was Elisabeth Targ, and four great-grandchildren.