26 unusual facts about New York that will change your idea of ​​him

Invisible shrimp in drinking water, black squirrels, cemetery parks, an island sold for $ 10, the narrowest house in New York and a unique kind of ant that was not found anywhere else on Earth. Edition BuzzFeed prepared a selection of unusual facts about this city.

1. Just imagine: every year in New York, about 30 people become victims of squirrels that bite them.
2. In New York, there are proteins that are strikingly different from the gray and red ones that are familiar to us in that they have a rare genetic trait called melanism. This makes them very dark - almost black. Most of these squirrels are in City Hall Park.

3. The permit to operate the cart for hot dogs outside the Central Park zoo is $ 289,5 thousand / year. This is the most expensive handcart permit in town.
4. The cheapest permit for a handcart in New York is in northern Manhattan at Inwood Hill Park. It is only $ 700 / year.

5. On 11 of September in New York, only one murder was recorded, and it remains unsolved to this day.
6. The Penn Station, demolished between 1963 and 1966 for years, was once a beautiful building, the destruction of which is the subject of a New York legend of an act of architectural vandalism. Now it looks like this:

7. Garbage collectors in New York call the maggots "disco rice."
8. 20 thousand people are buried under Washington Square Park. Previously, it was an old pottery field where criminals and the poor were buried.

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9. If we are talking about the dead, it is worth recalling that Bryant Park, Union Square Park and Madison Square Park were also once graveyards.
10. About 1 of the 38 people in the United States live in New York.
11. The population of New York exceeds the population of 40 from 50 states.
12. If Brooklyn were a city, it would be the fourth largest city in the United States.

13. In New York's drinking water there are “invisible shrimps,” called copepods.
14. At the beginning of the 2000, sales of water filters increased by 500%, as Orthodox Jews in the city were worried that the water was not kosher due to copepod crustaceans.

15. The New York Public Library has in its collection about 40 of thousands of restaurant menus in the city from the 1850's to the present day.
16. South Brother Island, an island in the East River Strait, was sold for $ 10 in the 1975 year.
17. The price of a slice of pizza was almost the same as the price of a trip to the subway from 1960 of the year.

18. The 75½ Bedford West Village house is the narrowest in New York City. Its width is 2,9 meters, and in 2013 year it was sold for $ 3,5 million.
19. 41 buildings in New York have their own zip codes.
20. The first botanical garden in the United States was opened on the site of the modern Rockefeller Center.

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21. New York has a coastline of 837 km. According to the press service of the city hall, this makes the coastline wider than that of Miami, Boston, Los Angeles and San Francisco combined.

22. One of the earliest cases of terrorism in the United States occurred in September 1920 of the year on Wall Street. Then a horse-drawn cart filled with explosives was blown up, resulting in the deaths of more than 30 people. The culprit was never found.
23. The wall at 23 Wall Street still bears the "scars" of this bombing.
24. If you own real estate in New York, you can ask to plant a tree in your property for free.

25. In 1982, Lower Manhattan had a wheat field measuring 0,8 ha. It was an art project by Agnes Denes, and the New York Times called it "one of New York's greatest public art projects."
26. In 2012, a unique species of ant was discovered on the 63 and 76 streets in Manhattan. This ant was not found anywhere else on planet Earth.