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73 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.

A Most Violent Year

The filming of the film A Most Violent Year began on January 29, 2014 in New York City.

Albert Hackett

Hackett was born to Maurice Hackett and actress Florence Hackett (née Hart) in New York City, New York where he attended Professional Children's School and started out as a child actor, appearing on stage and in films.

Audubon Park Historic District

Audubon Park Historic District, New York City in Manhattan, New York City, a designated New York City Landmark

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.

Bill Langan

Michael William Langan, (Bill Langan), (June 9, 1955 - December 31, 2010) was an American yacht designer who practiced his trade in New York, NY and Newport, RI.

C. C. Wang

In 1998, 25 paintings from his collection, including the famous hanging scroll "Riverbank" by 10th century master Dong Yuan, were given to the Metropolitan Museum of New York City.

CBNA

Citibank National Association, a bank headquartered in New York City, United States, backing a lot of store credit cards

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.

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.

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.

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)

Fort Hamilton Parkway

Fort Hamilton Parkway is a street in the New York City borough of Brooklyn.

General Commission on Christian Unity and Interreligious Concerns

The GCCUIC's office is located at The Interchurch Center 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.

Hats Off to Ice

The show was presented at the Center Theatre in New York City and ran from 1944-1946 for a total of 889 performances.

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.

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.

Jacob Ralph Abarbanell

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

Jagoda

Andy S. Jagoda, Professor and Chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine at the Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York City.

Jewish Bakers' Voice

The Jewish Bakers' Voice (in Yiddish: Idishe Bekers Shtime) was a trade paper for Jewish bakers published from New York City, the United States.

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.

John Jerome

In 1962, he moved to New York City to serve as managing editor of Car and Driver magazine until 1964.

Karl Meissner

On 9 April 1959, Meissner sailed from New York City for Europe to visit his sister and niece, visit the Bureau International des Poids et Mesures (International Bureau of Weights and Measures), teach in the summer semester at the Christian-Albrechts University of Kiel, and attend an interferometry conference in London.

Knox Burger

Knox Breckenridge Burger (November 1, 1922 – January 4, 2010) was an editor, writer, and literary agent who lived in New York City.

Kražiai

Isaac ha-Levi Hurwitz; David, rabbi at Meretz; Zevulun ben Lipman, rabbi at Plungian; and Rabbi Jacob Joseph, who died in New York in 1902, likewise were natives of Krozh.

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.

Lake Champlain Seaway

The objective was to allow easy ship traffic from New York City to Montreal through Lake Champlain, lowering transportation costs between the two cities.

Logie Awards of 1959

Como was presented with his award by George McCadden, the chief of TV Weeks American office, in New York City on 11 April 1959.

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.

Machold Rare Violins

Machold had branch establishments in Vienna, Zurich (Geigenbau Machold GmbH and Cadenza AG), Alpnach (Bomalu AG), Bremen, Berlin, New York City, Aspen, Chicago, Seoul and Tokyo, buying and selling, among others, Stradivari and del Gesù violins.

Maria McAuley

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

Maurice Connolly

In 1898, at age twenty-one, he graduated from the New York University School of Law, 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.

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 Jersey Journal

During the evacuation of New York in 1783, he moved his press to that city and established the New York Gazetteer, initially published weekly and then three times a week.

New York City Internationalz

The Internationalz benchmarked Minor-League basketball in New York City basketball, appearing in many web media and magazine publications while engaging all communities by hosting the first ever professional basketball tryout camps in public parks throughout New York City; Players from all over the world were present to try out for the Internationalz from: USA, Japan, Europe, Caribbean, South America, Asia, Africa, and Middle East.

New York Competition of Dramatic Arts

The New York Competition of Dramatic Arts (NYCODA) is an Annual Performance Festival and Competition for actors, located in New York City.

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.

New York Theatre

Several theatres in New York City, New York, have been called New York Theatre at various times during the building's life.

New York Times College Scholarship Program

The New York Times College Scholarship Program is a prestigious academic scholarship competition for New York City high school seniors.

Noise Action Coalition

The Noise Action Coalition is a group of musicians in the New York City area that works for getting fair treatment and pay for musicians.

Norddeutsche Landesbank

NordLB maintains branch offices in all major financial and trading centers, including London, Singapore and New York City.

Northern League of Professional Baseball

DC Sports & Entertainment, LLC, a sports and entertainment management and consulting firm based out of New York City, New York, purchased the rights to the league name, logo, history and identity in January 2013.

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.

Permanent Observer of Holy See to the United Nations in Geneva

The Church also has a representative at the headquarters of the United Nations — in New York, United States of America — known as the Permanent Observer of the Holy See to the United Nations.

Philippe François Armand Marie de Noailles

His second wife was HRH Princess Joan of Luxembourg (née Joan Douglas Dillon (b. New York City, New York, 31 January 1935).

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.

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.

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.

Shea's Castle

Shea, a New Yorker, moved to the dry climate of Southern California in hopes of improving the health of his wife, Ellen.

Shwartzman phenomenon

The Shwartzman phenomenon is named for Gregory Shwartzman, the doctor at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City who was the first to develop the concept of immune system hypersensitivity in the 1920s.

Something Else Press

During the late 1960s in New York City some of the various artists who worked at the Something Else Press included Editor in Chief Emmett Williams, artist Alison Knowles, American/Israeli poet Larry Friefeld, Irish/American novelist Mary Flanagan, artist Ronnie Landfield, and publisher/founder Dick Higgins.

Stacia Napierkowska

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

Stuyvesant Fish House

Stuyvesant Fish House is a house in Manhattan, New York City built for, occupied by or otherwise connected with railroad executive Stuyvesant Fish and his family.

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.

Sylvia Schur

Along the way, she got into product development for various food companies, such as Ocean Spray Cran-Apple juice, and helped develop the original menu of The Four Seasons Restaurant in New York City.

Teleavia

Today, TELEAVIA is still an icon with TV models at the MOMA in New York City and in other design museums around the world.

The Corporate Presence

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

The Pace Collection

The company was founded by Irving and Leon Rosen in New York City.

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

Dardis was born in New York City in 1926 to Michael Gregory and Josephine Coletta Dardis.

Unique Quartette

The Unique Quartette was a black vocal quartet 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.

Voices Across America: A National Town Hall

The format featured questions from audiences across the nation being answered by Clinton in a New York City studio.

We Are The Boggs We Are

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


Adam Egede-Nissen

In Toronto he enlisted in the anti-Nazi struggle and was sent first to Reykjavík and later to New York City.

Amp'd Mobile

It was also one of the sponsors of the PBR's Built Ford Tough Series during the 2007 season; it was also the first year that the BFTS hosted an event in New York City's Madison Square Garden, and for 2007 only the event was named the Amp'd Mobile Invitational.

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.

Anthony Ross

Born in New York City, he may be best remembered for being the first to play the character of "the Gentleman Caller" in the original 1944 production of Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie.

Bam Thwok

The song's lyrics display a surrealistic and nonsensical nature typical of the band; Deal's inspiration was a discarded child's art book she found on a New York City street.

Batus Inc.

Saks Fifth Avenue of New York City, New York (still operating) BATUS acquired Saks Fifth Avenue in 1973 with its acquisition of Gimbels.

C.L.C.G. Naomh Conaill

Columba later gained further fame as the first Donegal man to win a Senior All-Ireland football winners medal, when he lined out for Cavan in the 1947 final played at the Polo Grounds in New York City.

Cape Cod Expressway

Coming out of New York City, the route would have followed Interstate 95 along the modern New England Thruway until the Connecticut border, where it would meet up with what later became the Connecticut Turnpike.

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).

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.

David Boehm

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

David Hoffman

Other feature films include: Earl Scruggs: His Family and Friends, starring Scruggs with Bob Dylan, Doc Watson, and The Byrds; Sing Sing Thanksgiving, a concert feature film at Sing Sing Prison in New York with B.B. King, Joan Baez and others; and It’s All Good, a film chronicling the lives of two aggressive inline skating teams in New York City and Los Angeles.

DeviantArt

Starting May 13, 2009, deviantArt embarked on a world tour, visiting cities around the world, including Sydney, Singapore, Warsaw, Istanbul, Berlin, Paris, London, New York City, Toronto and Los Angeles.

Dictionary of American Biography

The Dictionary of American Biography was published in New York City by Charles Scribner's Sons under the auspices of the American Council of Learned Societies.

DJ UCH

Uchenna Martin Anyanwu (born August 30, 1979) in New York City, known professionally as Uch or DJ Uch is an American radio presenter, mixshow dj, and house music producer originally from The Bronx, New York.

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.

Edward Tanjore Corwin

He was born in New York City, July 12, 1834; graduated at the College of the City of New York in 1853, and at the Theological Seminary in New Brunswick, N. J. in 1856.

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.

Geogaddi

The album premiered in six cities around the world: London, New York, Tokyo, Edinburgh, Paris, and Berlin.

Gherasim Luca

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

Irving Selikoff

Irving J. Selikoff (1915 in New York City – May 20, 1992 in Ridgewood, New Jersey) was a medical researcher who in the 1960s established a link between the inhalation of asbestos particles and lung-related ailments.

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.

Jeffrey Mandula

Jeffrey Ellis Mandula (*1941 in New York City) is a physicist well known for the Coleman–Mandula theorem from 1967.

Joseph Rakowski

During his four month term of office, Rakowski worked with New York City Mayor David Dinkins and New Jersey Attorney General Robert J. Del Tufo to address a problem where trucks full of garbage were being driven from New York City to Jersey City, New Jersey and their full trailers abandoned.

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).

Louis Lipsky

Lipsky began his career as a reporter in Rochester, NY eventually moving to New York City where he joined the staff of the New York Morning Telegraph as a reporter covering theater news and serving as a drama critic.

Lucy and Superman

Bandleader Ricky Ricardo (Desi Arnaz) and his young son Little Ricky (Richard Keith) watch the latest episode of the Adventures of Superman television series, which concludes with the narrator stating that Superman will be making personal appearances in the coming week at Macy's Department Store in New York City.

María Teresa Chacín

María Teresa Chacín has recorded over 50 albums, belonged to the University Choir of the Central University of Venezuela from 1963, standing out during 8 years as soloist, and participated in the First International festival of university choirs at the Lincoln Center of New York City in 1965.

Milenko Vlajkov

In 1999 he became the founder and president of the Association for Cognitive Management and of the Institute for Cognitive Management in Stuttgart, Germany, an affiliated training centre of the Albert Ellis Institute in New York.

Nathan Korn

Nathan Korn (1893-1941) was an American architect and builder in New York City.

Nicholas Scoppetta

Mr. Scoppetta is a past President and former Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Children's Aid Society, a not-for-profit social service agency which annually serves more than 200,000 needy children in New York City.

Queens Teens Voices

Queens Teens Voices is a local quarterly newspaper geared toward the youth in New York City and particularly in south-eastern Queens.

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).

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.

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.

Speak Easily

Boarding a train bound for New York City, Prof. Post encounters James (Jimmy Durante), the manager of a dancing troupe that has an engagement in the backwater town of Fish's Switch.

T. James Tumulty

He graduated from Xavier High School and attended Holy Cross University, graduated from Fordham University in 1935, from Seton Hall University in 1938 and from John Marshall Law School in Jersey City in 1938.

The Kingsnakes

The band has toured in various parts of the US and in Windsor- some of the highlights have been in New York City as part of an after-party for the MC5 documentary "A True Testimonial" shown at the Annual Tribeca Film Festival.

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.

Tish Rabe

Tish Rabe is a children's book author who lives in New York City, New York and Mystic, Connecticut.

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.

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.

Whitney Warren

Whitney Warren (January 29, 1864 – April 23 1943) was an architect with Charles Delevan Wetmore (1866–1941) at Warren and Wetmore in New York City.

William H. Boole

William H. Boole (1827 - February 24, 1896) was a pastor of the Willet Street Methodist Church in the Bowery in New York City.