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62 unusual facts about Manhattan


4th Wall Theatre, Inc.

(aka 4th Wall Musical Theatre) is a non-equity theatre company in residence at the Westminster Arts Center on the campus of Bloomfield College, in Bloomfield, New Jersey, approximately 10 miles from Manhattan.

5th New York Volunteer Infantry

The regiment was formed on April 12, 1861, by a group of military enthusiasts in Manhattan and deployed from Fort Schuyler at Throgs Neck, New York Harbor.

A New Day in the Old Town

A mysterious man involved in a downtown Manhattan collision with a SUV flees the scene to a nearby apartment building.

A Picture Is Worth a 1,000 Bucks

An art dealer named Antonio Monatti buys the painting for $5,000 and urges Peter to bring Chris to Manhattan, where he could become a famous artist.

A.D.O.R.

Castellanos was born in Washington Heights, New York City.

Albert Blumberg

He enjoyed somewhat more success as the Democratic Party district leader in Manhattan.

Albert E. Mead

There is conflicting information about his town of birth: most reliable sources say it was Manhattan, Kansas, but there is one claim he was born in Ashland, Kansas.

Alice Elliott

Her first movie, Diamonds in the Rough, is an hour long documentary about a gifted, inner-city high school baseball team located in the largely Dominican, Washington Heights neighborhood, of New York City.

Alphonso Sgroia

On 24 June 1916, members of the rival Manhattan Sicilian Morello Gang met with the Navy gang and its ally, the Coney Island gang, to discuss the division of criminal activities in New York.

Andrew I. Porter

He had been calling science fiction writers in the Bronx and Manhattan telephone books to discuss science fiction, and Donald Wollheim put him in touch with local science fiction fandom in New York City.

Booth's Theatre

In 1869, Edwin Booth, then one of the world's most distinguished stage tragedians and arguably America's greatest Hamlet, opened his theatre, Booth's Theatre, in Manhattan on the southeast corner of 23rd Street and Sixth Avenue.

Center for an Urban Future

The Center for an Urban Future is an American public policy think tank based in Manhattan, a borough of New York City in the United States.

Children's Museum of the Arts

The Children’s Museum of the Arts (“CMA”) is located at 103 Charlton Street, Manhattan, New York, USA in the South Village district.

Classic Case

After several months of touring and writing, the band delved into a Manhattan recording studio for 3 months to record their debut full-length, Dress to Depress.

Claudio Teehankee, Sr.

After his retirement, he was appointed as the Philippine Ambassador to the United Nations, where he died of cancer in Manhattan, New York on November 27, 1989.

Craig Berkman

In June 2013, Berkman pled guilty to securities and wire fraud at the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York in Manhattan.

Craig Nevill-Manning

Craig Nevill-Manning is a New Zealand computer scientist who founded Google's first remote engineering center, located in midtown Manhattan, where he is an Engineering Director.

Dell'Arte Opera Ensemble

Performances during the past three seasons have taken place in the East Village at Theatre 80 St. Mark's and The East 13th Street Theatre.

Donald Deskey

Deskey first gained note as a designer when he created window displays for the Franklin Simon Department Store in Manhattan in 1926.

Downtown Paterson

The neighborhoods on this side of the river are up a steep hill that gives many of the houses and streets in the northside great views of Manhattan.

Drop Dead Festival

The festival was originally held at the famous CBGB punk rock club, but subsequent Drop Dead Festivals moved to the much larger Knitting Factory, also in lower Manhattan.

Environmental Measurements Laboratory

The NUSTL is located at the Federal Office Building at 201 Varick Street in SoHo, Manhattan, New York.

Femme for DKNY

Shot on the streets of Manhattan by photographer Scott Schuman, the ads are designed to reflect the individual style of trendsetting New Yorkers.

Fergus McCann

McCann returned to North America where he founded LimoLiner, a company running luxury bus services between Boston and Manhattan.

Gay Village, Montreal

After living in New York City, it was his intention to create a strong vibrant gay community similar to the East Village in New York.

Henry Dyer Grindle

Henry Dyer Grindle (November 19, 1826 – September 14, 1902) was a Manhattan physician and abortion provider in the 1870s who worked under the name H.D. Grindle.

James A. Forbes

The church stands on the border of the Morningside Heights and Harlem neighborhoods, and serves an interdenominational congregation.

Jennifer Alexander

Alexander, Bragado-Young and a third dancer were returning to Manhattan after Bragado-Young had performed in The Nutcracker in Williamsport, Pennsylvania when they came upon a multiple-vehicle collision on Route 3.

Jon Ballantyne

Now based in Manhattan, Jon leads a critically acclaimed quartet featuring bassist Boris Kozlov, drummer Jeff Hirshfield and saxophonist/bass clarinetist Douglas Yates.

Joseph Owades

Born in Manhattan and raised in the Bronx, he graduated from City College of New York (undergraduate) and Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute (Master’s and PhD in biochemistry, with a dissertation on cholesterol).

Julian Beck

Beck was born in the Washington Heights section of Manhattan in New York City, the son of Mabel Lucille (née Blum), a teacher, and Irving Beck, a businessman.

Kenny Rankin

On Saturday, November 4, 1972, Kenny Rankin performed live on Broadway, at Manhattan's Palace Theatre as the opening act for The George Carlin Show.

Kenny Rankin (Los Angeles, February 10, 1940 - June 7, 2009) was an American pop and jazz singer and songwriter, originally from the Washington Heights neighborhood of New York City, New York.

Kunihiko Iwadare

Iwadare was hired to work in an Edison facility in Manhattan at Goerck Street.

La Víbora, Havana

In the musical In the Heights, Abuela Claudia tells of growing up in La Víbora in "Paciencia Y Fe", describing it as "the Washington Heights of Havana".

La Vie Bohème

The song is a celebration of bohemianism, especially the type present in the 1980s Alphabet City, Manhattan, and begins with a mocking of the character Benny's statement that "Bohemia is dead".

Le sens de la vie

Other scenes show Tal jogging in Manhattan or display New York's streets, the subway system and the city's skyline.

LeSportsac

In 2001, LeSportsac opened its first US Flagship store on Madison Avenue in Manhattan, followed by its Tokyo flagship in the renowned Omotesando district in November 2001.

Loew's Wonder Theatres

Loew's 175th Street Theatre, Manhattan (opened 1930) - In 2011, it operates as a church and an entertainment venue under the name United Palace Theater.

Marco Glorious

As a young boy he was engulfed by the flavored sounds of New York City's Washington Heights.

Mark Saunders

He relocated to New York City in 1996 and currently works from his facility in Manhattan - Beat360 Studios.

Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie

The first national tallgrass prairie ever designated in the U.S. and the largest conservation site in the Chicago Wilderness region, it is located on the site of the former Joliet Army Ammunition Plant between the towns Elwood, Manhattan and Wilmington in northeastern Illinois.

Mildred Dixon

142 , Sugar Hill, Manhattan along with Ellington’s parents, son and daughter.

Missy Chase Lapine

On January 7, 2008, Lapine sued Jerry and Jessica Seinfeld for defamation, plagiarism, or copyright and trademark infringement in the Manhattan, U.S. District Court.

Oklahoma County, Oklahoma

Oklahoma County is one of seven counties in the United States to share the same name as a state it is located in (the other six counties are Arkansas County, Arkansas, Hawaii County, Hawaii, Idaho County, Idaho, Iowa County, Iowa, New York County, New York and Utah County, Utah).

P. Cameron DeVore

Together with Robert D. Sack, a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in Manhattan, he coauthored the 1998 book Advertising and Commercial Speech: A First Amendment Guide.

Raquel Cepeda

There, in the Inwood/Washington Heights section of Upper Manhattan, she resided with her father, who was abusive, and her Scandinavian stepmother.

Remote Control / Three MC's and One DJ

The video was shot in the basement of 262 Mott Street located in the Little Italy neighborhood in Manhattan, New York City.

Semiconductor device

After hunting one down at a used radio store in Manhattan, he found that it worked much better than tube-based systems.

Sol Friedman House

The Friedman House forms part of the post-war development of Wright's use of the circle, culminating in his Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in Manhattan.

Sonic the Hedgehog: The Movie

This is where Robotnik's empire of Eggmanland is located (landmarks strongly suggest that it resides in what was once Manhattan).

Stephan Dweck

Dweck and Ivey lived in the Frederick Douglass Houses housing project in Manhattan.

Talitha MacKenzie

Following her time at Connecticut College, MacKenzie worked at the Manhattan record store World Tone Music, where she immersed herself in the "exotic modes and unusual rhythms" of folk dance from around the world.

The Joshua Light Show

It was renowned for its psychedelic art and served as a lighting backdrop behind many live band performances at the Fillmore East in the East Village area of Manhattan and throughout the New York City suburbs from Connecticut to New Jersey during the late 1960s and early 1970s.

The Possession of Joel Delaney

In one session, Erika asks why someone from such an affluent background would want to live in the East Village.

Toni Blum

She lived at the time with her family on 91st or 92nd Street near Park Avenue in Manhattan.

Toquima Range

South of this area are the historic mining district of Manhattan, Spanish Peak (10,746 ft, 3275 m), and Shoshone Mountain (10,907 ft, 3324 m).

Vaughn Bodē

In 1968, he moved to Manhattan and joined the staff of the underground newspaper the East Village Other.

Volkswagen advertising

In 1949, William Bernbach, along with colleagues, Ned Doyle and Maxwell Dane, formed Doyle Dane Bernbach (DDB), the Manhattan advertising agency that would create the revolutionary Volkswagen ad campaigns of the 1950s and 1960s.

Waynehead

It is about a young boy named Damien "Damey" Wayne from a poor background with a club foot and was based on Wayans' own childhood in the Chelsea neighborhood in the New York City Borough of Manhattan.

Xaviera Hollander

In 1968, she left her job as secretary of the Dutch consulate in Manhattan to become a call girl, where she made $1,000 a night.

Yonah

A Jewish bakery in Manhattan called Yonah Shimmel's Knish Bakery that has served fresh, oven-baked traditional Jewish delicacies since 1890.


2009 Bronx terrorism plot

On June 29, 2011, Cromitie, Onta Williams and David Williams were each sentenced to 25 years in prison for their parts in the attempted attack by Manhattan Federal Judge Colleen McMahon, who criticized both the defendants, as well as what she viewed as the government's overzealous handling of the investigation.

Agneta Eckemyr

Her most recent designs are featured at Älskling (Swedish for Darling), on Columbus Avenue, New York City; a block from where she lives in an apartment overlooking Central Park.

Alain Sailhac

On 13 May 2010 Sailhac, along with other chefs from The French Culinary Institute (now known as The International Culinary Center), Jacques Pepin, Jacques Torres and André Soltner, prepared a $30,000-per-couple dinner for President Barack Obama’s fund-raiser for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee at Manhattan’s St. Regis Hotel.

Anthony Federici

In the mid-1990s, Federici came under scrutiny during a New York State Senate investigation into corruption in the N.Y.C. District Council of Carpenters and the construction of the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in Manhattan.

Capital Steez

He committed suicide at the young age of 19, by jumping from a building in Manhattan's Flatiron District.

Cristina García

They settled in New York City where she was raised in Queens, Brooklyn Heights, and Manhattan, in predominantly Irish, Italian, and Jewish neighborhoods.

Daniel Boulud

Boulud set out on his own and opened his restaurant Daniel, in 1993, in Manhattan's Upper East Side.

Dynamo

Rotary converters were still used for the West Side IRT subway in Manhattan into the late 1960s, and possibly some years later.

First House

First Houses, a public housing project in Manhattan in New York City

Galia Solomonoff

Her notable projects include Dia:Beacon; the Defective Brick Project; multiple residential projects in Manhattan and Brooklyn; and competition proposals for institutional projects around the world.

George A. Blauvelt

In September 1914, he opened a law firm in Manhattan with New York Attorney General Thomas Carmody and Deputy Attorney General Joseph A. Kellogg, who both had just resigned, but left the firm in October 1915.

George Jefferson

When the spin-off series The Jeffersons began in January 1975, George and his family had moved "to a deluxe apartment in the sky" on the Upper East Side of Manhattan.

Grigore Gafencu

He participated at the founding of the Free Europe Committee and he organized each Tuesday evening in his apartment on Park Avenue, New York City a series of meetings called Tuesday Panels in which current events were discussed.

Ground Zero Gallery

Ground Zero Gallery was an art gallery formed in the East Village / Lower East Side of Manhattan, New York in the summer of 1983 as a vehicle for the partnership of artist James Romberger and his wife Marguerite Van Cook.

Henry Hudson Parkway

The covered portion is partially used for the highway and also expands the Riverside Park designed by Frederick Law Olmsted.

Interstate 78 in New York

I-478 is currently the Brooklyn–Battery Tunnel and approaches, connecting I-278 in Brooklyn with the Battery in Manhattan; it was once planned to continue north along the unbuilt Westway to I-78 at the Holland Tunnel.

Isabel Dodge Sloane

Educated at Detroit's exclusive Liggett School for Girls, her family's great wealth brought her in contact with America's social elite and in 1921 she married Manhattan stockbroker, George Sloane.

Jenny Q. Chai

Chai recently received her Doctor of Musical Arts degree at Manhattan School of Music, where she wrote her thesis (advisor, Marilyn Nonken) on composer Marco Stroppa.

John Hays Hammond

In May 1926, an organization called "The Company of Friends of John Hays Hammond" sponsored eleven dinners around the world (Manhattan, San Francisco, London, Paris, Tokyo, Manila, etc.) in honor of Hammond.

Jonathan Woodner

Jonathan Woodner, who was born in Manhattan, ran the company's Washington interests and was president of the Ian Woodner Family Art Collection Foundation.

Joshua Clay

As Carmichael, using funds borrowed from a local loan shark, he purchases a small Park Avenue medical practice and lives a quiet, respectable life treating rich hypochondriacs.

Judith Godwin

She lives in Greenwich Village, Manhattan, but as a native Virginian, remains a member of the Jamestowne Society.

King Alfred Plan

When his novel was first published, Williams photocopied portions of the book detailing the King Alfred Plan and left copies in subway car seats around Manhattan.

Manhattan Board of Coroners

In 1914 Israel L. Feinberg, President of the Manhattan Board of Coroners, suggested switching to a medical examiner style office like the one used in Massachusetts.

Manhattan Construction Company

Manhattan Construction built the Manhattan Building, Oklahoma State Capitol Dome, Reliant Stadium, the George Bush Presidential Library, Rangers Ballpark in Arlington, the Cato Institute headquarters, the Prayer Tower at the Oral Roberts University in Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States Capitol Visitor Center, and many more.

Manhattan-Kaboul

"Manhattan-Kaboul" is a French song written by Renaud and composed by Jean-Pierre Bucolo, sung by Renaud in duo with Axelle Red, in the album Boucan d'enfer, released in 2002.

Michael Newberry

He created and organized the Foundation for the Advancement of Art, which held a conference “Innovation, Substance, Vision: The Future of Art” at the Pierre Hotel in Manhattan on October 6, 2003, featuring speakers: philosophers Stephen Hicks and David Kelley, vision scientist Jan Koenderick, and sculptor Martine Vaugel.

Morris Schinasi

His family mansion built in 1907 at West 107th Street & 351 Riverside in Manhattan, New York City and called the Schinasi House today, is designated a New York City Landmark and listed in the National Register of Historic Places.

NBA on USA

Manhattan Cable (subsequently referred to as the MSG Network) debuted in the spring of 1969 and did all home events from the Madison Square Garden: New York Knicks basketball, New York Rangers hockey, college basketball, horse shows, Golden Gloves boxing, tennis, the Westminster Dog Show, ice capades, professional wrestling, etc.

New York Raiders

They play their home games in Manhattan, New York, and are a team partner of the Canberra Raiders of Australia's National Rugby League (NRL).

No Place to be Somebody

After an experimental production directed by Gordone, in November 1967, the play was produced in a showcase of three weekends at The Other Stage in Joe Papp's Public Theater in South Manhattan by director Edward Cornell.

Oil-for-Food Program Hearings

On January 16, 2007, former UN official Benon Sevan was indicted by a Manhattan federal prosecutor for taking about $160,000 in bribes.

Pace University School of Law

John P. Cahill '85 - Senior Policy Advisor & Secretary and Chief of Staff to New York State Governor George E. Pataki, and Development Chief of Lower Manhattan; former Commissioner, New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, Counsel at Chadbourne & Parke

Paul Kirk

Paul L. Kirk (1902–1970), American chemist, forensic scientist, and Manhattan Project participant

Ron Gorchov

Gorchov was part of a group of artists working in Manhattan in the 1960s and 70s that was responding to the concept of "Action Painting" as defined by Harold Rosenberg, a concept that purported to demolish pictorial conventions and held as suspect the notions of facility and harmonious composition.

Rose Museum

The Rose Museum, located on the second floor of Manhattan's Carnegie Hall at 154 West 57th Street, is a small museum dedicated to the history of Carnegie Hall.

Ruth Ryon

The column was the first of what eventually became a small stable of regular celebrity real estate columns or features in newspapers and magazines across the country, including "Private Properties" in the Wall Street Journal, "Manhattan Transfers" in the New York Observer, "Upper Bracket" in the Chicago Tribune (from 1998 until 2004), "Gimme Shelter" in the New York Post and "On the Block" in People magazine.

Spuyten Duyvil

Spuyten Duyvil Bridge, a swing bridge that carries Amtrak's Empire Corridor line across the Spuyten Duyvil Creek between Manhattan and the Bronx, in New York City

Tex Antoine

He had married Suzannah C. Glidden in summer 1965, and he died in Manhattan in 1983, at age 59, under the name "H. Jon Antoine".

The Lambs

When the club relocated to its current nine-story quarters at 3 West 51st Street adjacent to Rockefeller Center, it sold its own quarters to the Church of the Nazarene which intended to use the old building as a mission in Time Square.

Tim George, Jr.

Born on Manhattan's Upper East Side in 1980 as the son of an investment banker, Tim George, Jr. began his racing career in 2005.

Tropicana Club

On the TV series I Love Lucy, the character Ricky Ricardo (played by Cuban-born Desi Arnaz) was a singer and bandleader at Manhattan's fictional Tropicana nightclub, now recreated in reality in Jamestown, New York at the Lucille Ball-Desi Arnaz Center's Tropicana Room.

Un indien dans la ville

It was later adapted for an American audience under the title Jungle 2 Jungle, set in Manhattan and starring Tim Allen and Martin Short.

William W. Cook

He practiced law for many years in Manhattan, primarily for the Mackay telegraph and cable companies, and amassed a substantial fortune.