- The Empire State Building is struck by lightening about 100 times a year
- Walt Disney World Resort in Orlando, Florida, is nearly twice the size of New York’s Manhattan Island
- New York’s Adirondack Park is larger than Yellowstone, Yosemite, Grand Canyon, Glacier, and Olympic Parks combined
- In 1913 taxis in NYC were $0.50 a mile
- New York was the first state to require license plates on cars in 1901, and every plate was a vanity plate as it carried the owner’s initials
- The Walkway Over the Hudson, near Poughkeepsie, NY, is the longest pedestrian bridge in the world
- All of New York’s finger lakes are oriented north-to-south
- At 641 miles, the transportation network known as the Governor Thomas E. Dewey Thruway is the longest toll road in the United States
- Programs to divert water from Niagra Falls at night cause it to appear taller – the natural height is 155 feet for Horseshoe Falls and 170 feet
- for American and Bridal Veil Falls, but it increases to 180 and 195 feet respectively when water is diverted
