NYC Facts & Info
The best part about visiting New York City is a simple past time: WALKING!
Wandering
the neighborhoods is the best way to embrace the history of this city,
learn the nuances of the people who live here, and understand that for
every thing you may question about New York City, if you just ask a
person who is from here, they will give you an intelligent,
well-thought out purposeful reason for "something" existing!
Here's just a few interesting facts about the most wonderful city in the world...
(Exerpts from Little Known Facts about Well-Known Places by David Hoffman)
- The
Duane Reade drugstores you see on every corner in the city got its name
because the first store was located on Broadway (near downtown),
between Duane and Reade streets. (Thought it was a family, huh?)
- All the boroughs except Manhattan have a Main Street.
- With
a fleet of more than 6,000 cars, NYC subways carry an average of nearly
5 million passengers per week and 1.5 billion passengers each year.
- The
three-tone musical chime that identifies NBC is composed of three
notes-G, E and C-for the company's original (and current) owner,
General Electric Corporation.
- Central Park is 843 acres!
- Yankees great Lou Gehrig was the first athlete to appear on a box of Wheaties.
- Neil Simon's The Goodbye Girl began life as Bogart Slept Here and was based on Dustin Hoffman's life as a struggling New York actor prior to his starring film role in The Graduate.
- Donald
Trump's first major real estate deal was converting the Commodore
Hotel, next to Grand Central Station, into the Grand Hyatt in 1980.
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