Greatest Facts About New York City

The Top Ten
1 The English conquered the city from the Dutch in 1664, and “New Amsterdam” became “New York”

Wow! Ha! I actually feel pretty smug right about now.

2 Approximately 790,000 companies operate in New York City

I visited the NBC headquarters

3 New York City is now the most populated city in the USA with more than 8.2 million people
4 New Yorkers travel an average of 40 minutes to work each day
5 New York City served as the capital of the United States in the 1780s before it was moved to Philadelphia and then Washington D.C.
6 An average of 4.9 million people ride the New York City subway each weekday
7 In 1698, New York City only had a population of 4,937 people
8 More than 12,700 licensed medallion taxis work the streets of New York City
9 Central Park attracts 25 million visitors per year and is larger than the principality of Monaco.

Now that's pretty cool.

10 More than 250 feature films are shot on location in New York City each year

Why I wanted to visit in the 1st place...cause I see it on T.V. all the time.

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