- Track 61 from Grand Central Station in New York was used to ferry FDR in a private train car from the terminal to the Waldorf-Astoria hotel so that the wheelchair-bound President could continue to hide his polio from the general public
- With 800 languages, New York is the most linguistically diverse city in the world
- The world’s first underground park will be inaugurated in 2018 in New York
- NYC homeowners can request that a tree be planted outside their homes for free
- New York gets 15 times as much snow as the South Pole
- All the departure boards at NYC’s Grand Central Station are exactly one minute wrong
