Interesting facts about New York City - New York FACTS

Interesting facts about New York City - New York FACTS

Think you know a lot about the Big Apple here's top facts about New York even New Yorkers don't know And Why It Is Called The Big Apple.

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Fact number One:

One in every 38 people in the US lives in New York City

Fact number 2 :

800 different languages are spoken there, making it the most linguistically diverse city in the world.

Fact number 3 :

Pinball Was Illegal In NYC For Over 30 Years, it was banned in the city until 1976.

Fact number 4 :

It's a illegal to fart in New York city churches.

Fact number 5 :

It's completely legal for women to be topless in public in New York.

Fact number 6 :

Up until world war two, everyone in the city who was moving apartments had to do so on May 1st,

Fact number 7 :

November 26, 2012 was the only day in recent history with no report a violent crime in the city.

Fact number 8 :

57 percent of all cigarettes sold in New York City are black market smoke smuggled illegally.

Fact number 9 :

15152 forms of life have been found in the New York subway system. These include insects and bacteria.

Fact number 10 :

Except for emergencies honking your car horn is actually illegal in New York City and yes I know I know everybody does it anyway.

Fact number 11 :

Philadelphia Cream Cheese was actually created at New York. The name was changed to Philadelphia because it was better known for cheese at the time.

Fact number 12 :

Albert Einstein's eyeballs are stored in a safe deposit box somewhere in the city. Go find them.

Fact number 13 :

Manhattan was purchased from the native people in 1626 for the modern equivalent of 1,000 USD dollars.

Fact number 14 :

Commercial delivery companies receive up to 7,000 parking tickets every day in Manhattan.

Fact number 15 :

The Empire State Building has its own zip code.

Fact number 16 :

There's an abandoned train platform under the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel.

Fact number 17 :

Madison Square Park, Washington Square Park, Union Square Park and Bryant Park all used to be cemeteries

Fact number 18 :

There are 20,000 bodies buried in Washington Square Park alone.

Fact number 19 :

Due to a clerical error Madison Square Garden has not paid property taxes since 1982.

Fact number 20 :

In 1981 a 9-year-old boy robbed a New York bank and got away with one hundred
and eighteen dollars.

Fact number 21 :

"Big Apple" is a nickname for New York City. It was first popularized in the 1920s by John J. Fitz Gerald, a sports writer for the New York Morning Telegraph. Its popularity since the 1970s is due to a promotional campaign by the New York Convention and Visit

Fact number 22 :

Three quarters at the crosswalk buttons in New York City or placebo they haven't worked since the 80's.

Tell us in the comment what's your favorite fact about New York City and which facts you knew already.

"L.A., it's nice, but I think of sunshine and people on roller-blades eating sushi. New York, I think of nighttime, I think of Times Square and Broadway and nightlife and the city that never sleeps." - Jimmy Fallon.