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68 unusual facts about New York city


9th Connecticut Regiment

That June, the regiment was involved in the Battle of Springfield, in which a British attempt to penetrated from New York City to the Continental Army camp at Morristown was repulsed.

Albert Mannheimer

Albert Mannheimer (9 March 1913, New York City, New York - 19 March 1972, Los Angeles County, California) was an American writer, principally of screenplays, including the Academy Award nominated screenplay for Born Yesterday, which screenplay also received the Writers Guild of America award for Best Written American Comedy Award.

Barney Live In New York City

In New York City is a Barney & Friends stage show, taped at Radio City Music Hall in New York City on March 6, 1994 and released on video on August 26, 1994.

Bruderschaft

Bruderschaft is an electronic music artist's collective led by New York City-based DJ Rexx Arkana.

Bruno Radicioni

From 1953 to 1962 he was in Canada and the United States of America, living in Toronto, Montreal and New York City, where he participated in group exhibitions at national and international.

Center for Reproductive and Sexual Health

Center for Reproductive and Sexual Health (CRASH), at the time the largest freestanding abortion clinic in the world, opened in New York City after New York legalized abortion in 1970.

Central Embarcadero Piers Historic District

Unlike the piers south of the Ferry Building that were designed in the Mission and Gothic Revival styles, the piers north of the Ferry Building were built in the Beaux-Arts architecture style, similar to New York City's Chelsea Piers.

Chabad-Lubavitch related controversies

At the start of the Second World War, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchok escaped Nazi occupied Poland, and settled in New York City.

Chōjin Sentai Jetman

She is taken care of by her butler, Jiiya, since her parents live in New York City.

Compressed Gas Association

By March of the same year, the Association moved into offices in New York City.

Cornelis Schut

Works by Cornelis Schut are represented at e.g. the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City and the Art Museum of Estonia, Tallinn.

Danny Says

Another reference in the song is to Christmas, reflecting the difference at that time of year between where the band were recording in Los Angeles and the Ramones' home town of New York City - "It ain't Christmas if there ain't no snow".

Dillingham Flaw

Named after its chairman, U.S. Senator William P. Dillingham of Vermont, the Dillingham Commission over a 4-year period listened to testimony from civic leaders, educators, social scientists, and social workers and made on-site visits to Ellis Island and New York City’s Lower East Side.

Doug Bailey

In January 2008, Bailey and fellow Unity08 co-founder Gerald Rafshoon left that organization to launch a national effort to draft New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg to run for president as an independent candidate.

Edward Blum

Edward Blum (c. 1867 – March 26, 1944) was an architect, born in Paris, who designed apartment and office buildings, many in New York City.

Edward von Kloberg III

Born Edward Joseph Kloberg III (he added a "van" to his name in the 1960s and changed it to "von" on the advice of Arnaud de Borchgrave, who told him it was more "distinguished") in New York City, he was the son of an engineer who built housing projects.

Elinor Guggenheimer

Elinor Sophia Coleman "Ellie" Guggenheimer (11 April 1912 – 29 September 2008) was an American civic leader, author, and philanthropist in New York City.

Empire Supporters Club

For most away games and US men's national team games, the ESC organizes viewing parties, usually at the Football Factory in Legends in New York City.

Ernst Freund

Ernst Freund (January 30, 1864 in New York City – October 20, 1932 in Chicago, Illinois) was a noted American legal scholar.

Estoy Aquí

In August 1999, Shakira sang "Estoy Aquí" during an episode of MTV Unplugged in New York City.

Ex-Factor

Recorded at RPM Studios, (NYC), Marley Music, Inc. (Kingston, Jamaica) and Chung King Studios (NYC)

Frank Holloway

Season three saw Frank reunite with his second wife Liz, though the relationship didn't last as Liz was offered a job in New York City.

Germán Pedro Ibáñez

The group were the first to record in New York City the son in 1925, which made the son fashionable.

Gian-Carlo Wick

In 1965 he became a tenured professor at Columbia University in New York City, where he collaborated with Tsung-Dao Lee; after his retirement from Columbia he worked at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa.

Guavaween

Referencing this local history in the 1970s, local newspaper columnist Steve Otto planted the idea that if New York City is the "Big Apple", then Tampa must be the "Big Guava".

Herstatt Bank

That day, a number of banks had released payment of Deutsche Marks (DEM) to Herstatt in Frankfurt in exchange for US Dollars (USD) that was to be delivered in New York.

Hotel Bethel

In 1876, they made contact with Ninna and Andreas Wollesen, a married couple who, for several years, had been involved in missionary work among sailors in New York City before being sent to Copenhagen by an organization to continue their activity there.

Howdy Mr. Ice

Howdy Mr. Ice was one of a series of ice shows at the Center Theatre in Rockefeller Center, New York City that was produced by Sonja Henie and Arthur M. Wirtz in the 1940s.

Irene Taylor

After that Taylor worked for a while with another local band, the Louisiana Ramblers, before going to New York City.

Jacob Ralph Abarbanell

Jacob Ralph Abarbanell (December 6, 1852 – November 9, 1922) was an American lawyer, author, and playwright from New York City.

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.

Johann von Berenberg-Gossler

Johann von Berenberg-Gossler was less inclined to take risks than his father, and closed the bank's branches in New York City and Boston in 1880 and 1891 respectively.

Jūnigatsu no Love Song

In 2001 Gackt went to visit one of the poorest countries in the world, Madagascar, and afterwards the world was in a state of tension due to September 11 attacks in the New York City, and he was moved and impressed how the children smile in the moment when they're hungry and there's a gap between the rich and the poor worldwide.

Keith Aickin

In 1948, Aickin joined the legal department of the United Nations in New York City, becoming a legal adviser.

Kryptonite lock

In an early test of the Kryptonite lock, a bicycle was locked to a signpost in Greenwich Village in New York City for thirty days.

Lexington Avenue bombing

The Lexington Avenue bombing was the July 4, 1914 explosion of a bomb in an apartment at 1626 Lexington Avenue in New York City, killing four people and injuring dozens.

Louise Thaden

She set a new world record of 14 hours, 55 minutes from New York City to Los Angeles, California.

Łagiewniki, Włocławek County

Part of Łagiewniki was formerly known locally as Nowy Jork (Polish for New York), from a nickname given by the parish priest in the 1950s, perhaps due to its distance from the village centre or its perceived prosperity.

Maria Leavey

Leavey was born to an American soldier stationed in Pisa, Italy, grew up mostly in New York, and attended Trinity University in Washington and got a master's in American History from Pennsylvania State University.

Maria McAuley

Maria McAuley (1847, US - 19 September 1919), along with her husband Jerry, founded the McAuley Water St Mission in New York City.

Metropolitan Board of Health

The New York City Metropolitan Board of Health was the first modern municipal public health authority in the United States.

Milton Fisher Scholarship

Four-year scholarships of varying amounts based on need are awarded to high school juniors and seniors, as well as college freshmen, who will be attending a university in the Connecticut and the New York City metropolitan area.

Moy Yat

After Yip Man's death, Moy Yat moved to New York City and began teaching there until he retired from teaching at age 60.

Napier Peak

The feature is named after Captain William Napier, Master of the schooner Venus, from New York, who visited the South Shetland Islands in 1820-21.

New York City Regional Center

The EB-5 Program has become a contributor to New York City’s economic revitalization by helping to fund a series of public/private real estate projects that create jobs and investment.

New York Majesty

Despite its "New York" name, home games were played at the Sovereign Center in Reading, Pennsylvania, which is over 100 miles fron New York City and New York State, and is not located within the New York metropolitan area.

Paul G. Hoffman

Paul Gray Hoffman (26 April 1891 – 8 October 1974, New York City) was an American automobile company executive, statesman and global development aid administrator.

Peavine Peak

Brooklyn, named for the New York Borough, was settled in March, 1875, on the southeast face of the mountain about midway between Reno and Verdi.

Pinta Art Show

Based in New York City, the art fair also travels to London, allowing visitors, galleries, artists, collectors, curators, and cultural institutions to strengthen their existing knowledge and develop new connections with the Latin American art world.

Plague Mass

It was recorded on October 12 and 13, 1990 at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, New York City and released in 1991.

Recurring Saturday Night Live characters and sketches introduced 1983–1984

He often appeared on "Saturday Night News" with ideas to clean up New York City.

Reminiscin

The song partially mixed in the France, and partially in New York City, was sponsored by a multiple world champion boxer, Evander Holyfield, and released in April on his own record label named after his nickname Real Deal.

Renzo Vespignani

After the 1970s, Vespignani rarely exhibited abroad, although two bodies of his work from the 1990s, Manhattan Transfer and An Afternoon in Chelsea, had been inspired by visits to New York City.

Richard-Brasier

In March 1906, the automobile was advertised in a national trade magazine as "Richard-Brasier" agent and sole importer located at 225-230 West 58th Street in New York City.

Samuel Schieffelin

Schieffelin was the son of Hamilton Schieffelin and was born in New York City, February 24, 1811.

Sävsjö

The Swedish emigrant Jonas Bronck, founder of the borough The Bronx, New York City, was born outside of today's Sävsjö town in the little village of Komstad.

Sig Herzig

Born Siegfried Maurice Herzig in New York City, Herzig began his career as the director of the comedy short Husband and Strife (1922), but he switched gears to create plot lines for more than three dozen silent films.

Song One

Filming of Song One has begun in June 2013 in New York City.

Stacia Napierkowska

In 1913, she was arrested during a performance of one of her dances in New York City when it was declared indecent.

Studholme Brownrigg

He sailed as Commodore of Convoy ON 16 in SS Ville de Tamatave (a ship captured from the Vichy French in 1941), departing Liverpool on 12 January 1943 en route for New York.

Swiss American Historical Society

The society publishes the Swiss American Historical Society Review three times a year and meets annually, the location rotating between Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., and New York.

The Corporate Presence

The Corporate Presence is a New York City-based design and marketing firm specializing in commemoratives for financial firms globally.

TIGER 21

Founded in 1999 by Michael Sonnenfeldt, TIGER 21 is headquartered in New York City and has chapters all around the United States and Canada.

Tom Dardis

In 1955, Dardis became the executive director for the Berkely Publishing Corporation in New York City.

Vermaport

The world's largest Vermaport is located in Kmart in Middle Village, Queens, New York City, New York.

Village Vanguard Live Sessions 3

Village Vanguard Live Sessions 3 is an unedited rough-mix of the Thad Jones / Mel Lewis Jazz Orchestra playing at the Village Vanguard club in New York City in 1967.

We Are The Boggs We Are

We Are The Boggs We Are (2002) is the debut album by New York band The Boggs.

WFUV: City Folk Live VII

WFUV: City Folk Live VII is a compilation album released by WFUV (90.7 FM in New York City) in November 2004 to highlight songs performed live in the studio by some of the year's favorite guests.


127th Street Repertory Ensemble

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

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.

Air rights

A good example of this is Grand Central Terminal in New York City, where William J. Wilgus, chief engineer of the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad, devised a plan to earn profit from air rights.

Amy Arbus

Amy Arbus (born 1954) is a New York City-based photographer and is the daughter of actor Allan Arbus and photographer Diane Arbus and the sister of writer and journalist Doon Arbus.

Andy Gresh

While in college, Gresh interned for various sports radio stations including WFAN in New York City and ESPN Radio in Bristol.

Anoplophora

It is also common in some major cities in North America, including Toronto, Chicago, and New York City, where it has infested and damaged thousands of street and park trees.

Charles Malik Whitfield

Charles Malik Whitfield (born August 1, 1972) is an American actor from The Bronx, New York City, New York.

Charles Matthau

Born in New York City, he appeared as a child actor alongside his father in such films as Charley Varrick (1973), The Bad News Bears (1976) and House Calls (1978).

Cherry Boone

They had met in 1982, while Carpenter was attending resident therapy in New York City with psychotherapist Steven Levenkron.

Chicago VI

After recording all of Chicago's first five albums (including the live album Chicago at Carnegie Hall) in New York City, producer James William Guercio had his own Caribou Studios built in Nederland, Colorado during 1972, finished in time for the band to record their sixth album the following February.

Ciudadela, Buenos Aires

The subject of ongoing controversy, its colloquial name stems from Fort Apache, The Bronx, a 1981 movie about a crime-ridden part of New York City.

Crenshaw Christian Center

The Crenshaw Christian Center East was opened in May, 2001 in the former First Church of Christ, Scientist at 1 West 96th Street on the corner of Central Park West in the Upper West Side neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City.

David Boehm

David Boehm (1 February 1893 in New York – 31 July 1962 in Santa Monica, California) was an American screenwriter.

Dickstein Shapiro

Dickstein Shapiro was founded by Sidney Dickstein and David I. Shapiro in New York City in 1953.

Doc Cheatham

Cheatham played in Albert Wynn's band (and occasionally substituted for Armstrong at the Vendome Theater), and recorded on sax with Ma Rainey before moving to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1927, where he worked with the bands of Bobby Lee and Wilbur de Paris before moving to New York City the following year.

Everline

The system is identical to AirTrain JFK in New York City and the Vancouver Sky Train in Canada, using Bombardier Advanced Rapid Transit vehicles controlled by Bombardier CITYFLO 650 automatic train control technology.

Florian Habicht

During his stay in New York City he filmed and performed in Love Story, which premiered at the opening night of the New Zealand International Film Festival in 2011.

George Wein

Festival Productions' feature event is now called "the JVC Jazz Festival at Newport", and the company runs JVC Jazz Festivals in cities around including New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Paris, Warsaw, and Tokyo.

Gherasim Luca

From 1967, his reading sessions took him to places like Stockholm, Oslo, Geneva, New York City, and San Francisco.

Gordon Wasserman, Baron Wasserman

He worked with the Police Commissioners of New York City, Philadelphia and Miami as well as the Department of Justice.

Jacob Worth

Jacob Worth (May 1, 1838 New York City – February 21, 1905 Hot Springs, Garland County, Arkansas) was an American politician from New York.

Jedd Garet

The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, the Honolulu Museum of Art, the The Museum of Modern Art (New York City), the Phoenix Art Museum (Phoenix, Arizona), the Tate Gallery (London) and the Whitney Museum of American Art (New York City) are among the public collections holding works by Jedd Garet.

Jewish Life Television

Its spotlight on Israel and Jewish life is facilitated by broadcast studios in Los Angeles, New York City and Toronto as well as bureaus in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Washington, D.C., Miami, London and Moscow.

John B. Snook

Snook's 620 Broadway (1858) – called the "Little Cary Building" for its resemblance to the Cary Building by Gamaliel King and John Kellum (1856) – was fronted with cast iron from Badger's Architectural Iron Works.

Joseph Urban

Most of Urban's architectural work in the United States has been demolished, with the exceptions of Mar-A-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida and The New School and the base of The Hearst Tower in New York City.

Judith Crist

Crist was born Judith Klein in The Bronx, borough of New York City, New York, the daughter of Helen (née Schoenberg), a librarian, and Solomon Klein, a manufacturing jeweler.

June Jackson Christmas

Dr. Christmas was appointed Commissioner of Mental Health and Mental Retardation Services on August 16, 1972 by Mayor of New York City John Lindsay.

Ken Kirzinger

He appeared in 1989's Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan as a New York cook who gets in Jason's way while pursuing Rennie Wickham (Jensen Daggett) and Sean Robertson (Scott Reeves).

Lionello Venturi

After the establishment of the Vichy regime, he emigrated to the United States, living in New York City until 1945 and lecturing at a range of American universities.

Louise Fagan

Additional performances took place at Urban Stages, New York City, and The University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee.

Mark Saunders

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

NYC Thunder

Like the Internationalz, they are based throughout New York City and contain several former Internationalz on their roster.

Raoul Bhaneja

In January 2006 Bhaneja debuted in Hamlet (solo), a one-man version of William Shakespeare's Hamlet directed by Robert Ross Parker, which has been performed across Canada including an engagement at The National Arts Centre in the fall of 2013, in the United Kingdom at The Assembly Rooms as part of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art as well as in New York City on a number of occasions, including Off Broadway.

Republican National Convention

It was carried by an early version of the NBC Television Network, and consisted of flagship W2XBS (now WNBC) in New York City, W3XE (now KYW-TV) in Philadelphia and W2XB (now WRGB) in Schenectady/Albany.

Rosalyn Terborg-Penn

In 1951 her family moved to Queens, where she would graduate from John Adams High School in 1959.

Salem Hanna Khamis

He soon accepted an invitation from the United Nations to work in its Statistical Office in Lake Success (1949-1950) then New York (1950-1953).

Sally Regenhard

A former long-time resident of Co-op City in The Bronx in New York City who has degrees in behaviorial sciences and gerontology and has worked in the nursing home industry for over 20 years, Regenhard became an advocate for skyscraper safety after the death of her 28-year old son, Christian, a probationary firefighter with the New York City Fire Department, who perished in the collapse of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001.

Satan and Adam

Satan and Adam, a blues duo consisting of Sterling "Mister Satan" Magee (born May 20, 1936; Mount Olive, Mississippi) and Adam Gussow (born April 3, 1958; New York City, New York), were a fixture on Harlem's sidewalks in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

Seal of New York City

The seal of the city of New York, adopted in an earlier form in 1686, bears the legend SIGILLUM CIVITATIS NOVI EBORACI which means simply "The Seal of the City of New York": Eboracum was the Roman name for York, the titular seat of James II as Duke of York.

Shimon Lazaroff

Arriving in this country in 1958, he attended the Central Lubavitcher Yeshiva Tomchei Temimim at 770 Eastern Parkway in New York City.

Sonny White

Ellerton Oswald White (November 11, 1917, Panama City, Panama - April 28, 1971, New York City), better known as Sonny White, was a jazz pianist.

ST-X Ensemble

It was formed in New York City in 1994 by the conductor Charles Zachary Bornstein, who had served as an assistant conductor to Leopold Stokowski, and was the last private student of the Austrian conductor Hans Swarowsky.

St. Clair Entertainment Group

It also has corporate offices and representation in Atlanta, Dallas, Detroit, Miami, Minneapolis, Montreal, New York, Seattle, Toronto and Vancouver.

Stefan Kanchev

After leaving the National Academy of Arts shortly before graduation, Kanchev took part in exhibitions and biennales in Bulgaria and abroad over the next 22 years, including Belgrade, Budapest, Berlin, Moscow, Warsaw, Brno, Ljubljana and New York City.

The Pain Teens

Blood moved to New York City that year and began playing solo gigs on her ukulele doing 1920's tunes and original music, forming several groups, including The Moonlighters in 1998.

United States House of Representatives election in Pennsylvania, 1788

On July 8, 1788, the Congress of the Confederation passed a resolution calling the first session of the 1st United States Congress for March 4, 1789, to convene at New York City and the election of Senators and Representatives in the meanwhile by the States.

United States House of Representatives elections in New York, 1789

The 1st United States Congress had convened at Federal Hall in New York City on March 4, 1789, without any members from the State of New York, and without a quorum in either Senate or House.

W.N. Flynt Granite Co.

Many public buildings in Monson and the surrounding communities were constructed of Flynt granite, but the quarry also shipped granite for buildings in Boston, New York, Chicago, and even as far as Kansas and Iowa.

Westminster Records

It was co–founded in 1949 by Mischa Naida (who later founded Musical Heritage Society, the owner of the Westminster Record Shop in New York City, businessman James Grayson (1897–1980), conductor Henry Swoboda, and Henry Gage.