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55 unusual facts about Manhattan


127th Street Repertory Ensemble

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

4th Wall Theatre, Inc.

(aka 4th Wall Musical Theatre) is a non-equity theatre company in residence at the Westminster Arts Center on the campus of Bloomfield College, in Bloomfield, New Jersey, approximately 10 miles from Manhattan.

A New Day in the Old Town

A mysterious man involved in a downtown Manhattan collision with a SUV flees the scene to a nearby apartment building.

Albert Blumberg

He enjoyed somewhat more success as the Democratic Party district leader in Manhattan.

Albert E. Mead

There is conflicting information about his town of birth: most reliable sources say it was Manhattan, Kansas, but there is one claim he was born in Ashland, Kansas.

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.

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.

Children's Museum of the Arts

The Children’s Museum of the Arts (“CMA”) is located at 103 Charlton Street, Manhattan, New York, USA in the South Village district.

Claudio Teehankee, Sr.

After his retirement, he was appointed as the Philippine Ambassador to the United Nations, where he died of cancer in Manhattan, New York on November 27, 1989.

Craig Berkman

In June 2013, Berkman pled guilty to securities and wire fraud at the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York in 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.

Dell'Arte Opera Ensemble

Performances during the past three seasons have taken place in the East Village at Theatre 80 St. Mark's and The East 13th Street Theatre.

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.

Edward Hopper Birthplace and Boyhood Home

It was the home of noted artist Edward Hopper (1882–1967) from the time of his birth until he moved to Manhattan in 1910.

Elaine Anderson Steinbeck

Anderson died of natural causes on April 27, 2003 in Manhattan, aged 88.

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.

James A. Forbes

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

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.

Julian Beck

Beck was born in the Washington Heights section of Manhattan in New York City, the son of Mabel Lucille (née Blum), a teacher, and Irving Beck, a businessman.

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.

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-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.

Manhattan, Montana

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

Marble Hill

Marble Hill, Manhattan, a section of the borough of Manhattan in New York City

Marco Glorious

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

Messerschmitt Me 328

After release, the Me 328 pilot would release a bomb over Manhattan and then ditch at sea near a U-boat.

Mildred Dixon

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

Murray Hill

Murray Hill, Manhattan, a neighborhood in the borough of Manhattan in New York City

Murray Hill, New Jersey

Murray Hill was named and founded by Carl H. Schultz, founder of a mineral water business once located at First Avenue between 25th and 26th Streets in the Murray Hill district of Manhattan.

My Comrade

It was very popular among the underground queer scene of New York City, and is still considered by many a great embodiment of Manhattan Lower East Side’s and East Village’s LGBT culture of the period.

Norbert Pearlroth

For 52 years, he took the subway into Manhattan in the morning and worked at his office until noon, answering some of the 3000 letters that arrived each week from readers all over the world.

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.

Organizations in Deus Ex

He sends an NSF distress signal from NSF's New York headquarters in Hell's Kitchen, allowing other NSF bases and resistance groups in Europe to take necessary counter measures.

PBA Bowling Tour: 1999 Season

Another highlight of the season was the PBA's first-ever outdoor finals at the NYC PBA Experience, which took place on specially-built lanes in mid-town Manhattan's Bryant Park.

Philip I. Kent

oversaw a strategic reorganization of the news business; initiated a sweeping redesign of CNN Headline News; construction and implementation of a new Manhattan street-side broadcast studio; instrumental in high-profile hires including Lou Dobbs, Aaron Brown and Paula Zahn.

Raquel Cepeda

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

Stanley White

He joined the New York City Police Department in, or around, 1970 and was originally based in Brooklyn before being transferred to the 5th Precinct in Chinatown, Manhattan.

Stephan Dweck

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

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".

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 Possession of Joel Delaney

In one session, Erika asks why someone from such an affluent background would want to live in the East Village.

The Son Also Draws

Peter insists on driving Chris and the rest of the family (Peter's wife Lois, their daughter Meg and their infant Stewie) to the Youth Scout headquarters, in Manhattan, to get Chris readmitted.

The Strong Box

The exterior of the apartment of Elaine's secretive new boyfriend is actually located in Manhattan's East Village at 4 St. Mark's Place.

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.

William Rumsey

In 1896, he was dispatched to Manhattan as an Associate Justice of the Appellate Division for the First Department, on which court he remained until the close of 1900.

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.


Adele Morales

Morales was descended from a Spanish mother and Native Peruvian father; she grew up in Bensonhurst but moved to Manhattan, where she studied painting with Hans Hofmann and took up a Bohemian lifestyle, being involved for several years with Edwin Fancher (who together with Mailer and Dan Wolf founded The Village Voice) and briefly with Jack Kerouac.

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.

Anthony Federici

In the mid-1990s, Federici came under scrutiny during a New York State Senate investigation into corruption in the N.Y.C. District Council of Carpenters and the construction of the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in Manhattan.

Bayley Seton Hospital

In 2000, Sisters of Charity turned over Bayley (along with their main Staten Island hospital) to Saint Vincent's Catholic Medical Center, itself the Manhattan and Westchester County New York's Sisters of Charity run hospitals, to create Saint Vincent's Catholic Medical Centers New York.

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.

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

Capital Steez

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

Charles M. Schwab House

It was constructed for steel magnate Charles M. Schwab and was the grandest and most ambitious house ever built on the island of Manhattan.

Conduit current collection

Trolley lines from Brooklyn and Queens also entered Manhattan under wire, but did not use city streets.

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.

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.

Downtown music

Likewise, despite its origin in New York musical politics, "Downtown" music is not solely specific to Manhattan; many major cities such as Chicago, San Francisco, even Birmingham, Alabama have alternative, Downtown music scenes.

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.

Dynamo

Rotary converters were still used for the West Side IRT subway in Manhattan into the late 1960s, and possibly some years later.

Fred Stroppel

His musical "Tales from the Manhattan Woods," based on Strauss' Die Fledermaus, recently completed a successful run at the Wings Theatre.

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.

Grigore Gafencu

He participated at the founding of the Free Europe Committee and he organized each Tuesday evening in his apartment on Park Avenue, New York City a series of meetings called Tuesday Panels in which current events were discussed.

Heilbronner

Weber & Heilbroner, Lower Manhattan men's clothing company of the 20th century

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.

Isabel Dodge Sloane

Educated at Detroit's exclusive Liggett School for Girls, her family's great wealth brought her in contact with America's social elite and in 1921 she married Manhattan stockbroker, George Sloane.

Jen Miller

Reverend Jen Miller (also known as Saint Reverend Jen and Reverend Jen — born Jennifer Miller on July 24, 1972 in Silver Spring, Maryland) is an American performer, underground movie star, writer, painter, director, preacher, and poet from Manhattan, New York City.

Jewtopia

On October 21, 2004, the off-Broadway production, directed by John Tillinger and again starring the playwrights, opened at Manhattan's Westside Theatre after previews beginning on September 28, 2004.

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.

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).

Joshua Clay

As Carmichael, using funds borrowed from a local loan shark, he purchases a small Park Avenue medical practice and lives a quiet, respectable life treating rich hypochondriacs.

Judith Godwin

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

Landshuter Jugendbuchpreis

# Thea Dorn: Mädchenmörder. Manhattan, 2008, ISBN 978-3-442-47156-0

Léman Manhattan Preparatory School

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

Manhattan Board of Coroners

In 1914 Israel L. Feinberg, President of the Manhattan Board of Coroners, suggested switching to a medical examiner style office like the one used in Massachusetts.

Manhattan Construction Company

Manhattan Construction built the Manhattan Building, Oklahoma State Capitol Dome, Reliant Stadium, the George Bush Presidential Library, Rangers Ballpark in Arlington, the Cato Institute headquarters, the Prayer Tower at the Oral Roberts University in Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States Capitol Visitor Center, and many more.

Mark Saunders

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

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.

Michelle Valentine

Valentine graduated from Manhattan's Marymount College with a degree in Speech, Drama and Communications, and minors in Marketing and Creative Writing.

Oil-for-Food Program Hearings

On January 16, 2007, former UN official Benon Sevan was indicted by a Manhattan federal prosecutor for taking about $160,000 in bribes.

Pace University School of Law

John P. Cahill '85 - Senior Policy Advisor & Secretary and Chief of Staff to New York State Governor George E. Pataki, and Development Chief of Lower Manhattan; former Commissioner, New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, Counsel at Chadbourne & Parke

Patricia Buckley

Aside from their home in Stamford, Connecticut, the Buckleys also had an Upper East Side duplex in Manhattan and leased the Chateau de Rougemont, a former monastery, near Gstaad, Switzerland, for the winters.

Paul Kirk

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

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.

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.

Sand Hill Road

The annual rent in the area around Sand Hill Road peaked at around $144 (USD) per square foot ($1550 per m2) in mid-2000; at the time, this was higher than rates in Manhattan and London's West End.

The Good Rats

During the following years, the Rats performed at venues such as Madison Square Garden, The Philadelphia Spectrum, The Nassau Coliseum, The Hammersmith Odeon in England, and New York’s Central Park, as well as showcase rooms such as The Bottom Line (Manhattan), My Father’s Place (Roslyn, New York), Whiskey a Go Go (Los Angeles) and The Paradise Room (Boston).

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.

Tropicana Club

On the TV series I Love Lucy, the character Ricky Ricardo (played by Cuban-born Desi Arnaz) was a singer and bandleader at Manhattan's fictional Tropicana nightclub, now recreated in reality in Jamestown, New York at the Lucille Ball-Desi Arnaz Center's Tropicana Room.

Un indien dans la ville

It was later adapted for an American audience under the title Jungle 2 Jungle, set in Manhattan and starring Tim Allen and Martin Short.

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.

William W. Cook

He practiced law for many years in Manhattan, primarily for the Mackay telegraph and cable companies, and amassed a substantial fortune.

Yonah

A Jewish bakery in Manhattan called Yonah Shimmel's Knish Bakery that has served fresh, oven-baked traditional Jewish delicacies since 1890.