New York Facts And Figures

Here are some interesting, fun and sometimes strange facts about the city of New York.

The Statue of Liberty is actually made out off copper. It was actually pink but due to pollution turned green
New York was the nations first capital city
On the 28th July 1945 a B-25 Bomber crashed into the 79th floor of the Empire State Building
The New York Police Department (NYPD) has an annual budget of $3.3 billion, more than all but 19 of the worlds armies

There are 40,000 registered cab drivers in New York who collectively drive more than a million miles a day
The empire state building was built in just 1 year and 45 days
Central Park is larger than Monaco
36% of people living in New York were born overseas

New York City has 722 miles of subway track
Toilet paper was invented in New York
There are more than 10 million bricks in the empire state building
Before concord was decommissioned is was possible to fly from London to New York and arrive 2 hours before you left

The New York phone book had 22 Hitler’s registered before world war two, afterwards there were none
As late as the 1840’s thousands of pigs roamed Wall Street which is now the hub of the worlds financial markets
The New York stock exchange is with an annual trading volume of $5.5 trillion
46% of visitors to New York come from outside the United States
In 1664 the tallest building in New York was a 2 storey windmill
New York was named after the British seized control from the Dutch in 1664
Between 1882 and 1924 12 million immigrants entered the United States through Ellis Island
The Brooklyn Bridge was the first bridge to be lit using electricity