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JANUARY 6, 2022 | The Jewish Home OCTOBER 29, 2015 | The Jewish Home
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Big Apple Facts of 40 minutes to work each population New Yorkers travel an average
day…and 40 minutes back from work. The average commute in the U.S. is 26.4 minutes. (Hey boss, now you understand why I want to work from home?)
More than 47 percent of New York City’s residents over the age of five speak a language other than English at home. (I kspeas gip natil.)
of 4.9 million people ride the
In “normal” times, an average
New York City subway each weekday. (And half of them also call it home.)
200 ticker-tape parades have taken place in Lower-Broadway’s “Canyon of Heroes.” The first ticker-tape parade celebrated the dedication of the Statue of Liberty in 1886. (In 2086, there may be a ticker tape parade for the Mets.)
36% of the current of New York City was born outside the United States. (Chai com from Moser Rassah.)
The Federal Reserve Bank on New York’s Wall Street contains vaults that are located 80 feet beneath the bank and hold about 25 percent of the world’s gold bullion. (On another note, I happen to be looking for a good locksmith, if anyone knows of one…)
New York City was founded as New Amsterdam in 1626 but didn’t consolidate the five boroughs which make up modern New York City – Manhattan, Staten Island, Queens, Brooklyn, and the Bronx – until 1898. (Whoever put this concoction together should probably stay out of the kitchen.)
New York City was the capital of the United States of America for five years, from 1785 to 1790,
before the capital was moved to Washington, D.C. (It’s enough that we have to put up with so much pollution and trash. Imagine if we had to put up with politicians, too?)
vendors of street food. (And
New York City has over 40,000
they all get their glazed bowtie donuts from the same doughnut shop.)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art (“The Met”) contains over 2 million works, making it one of the largest art museums in the world. (My paint-by-number Chanukah painting even made it in!)
The New York Post, founded by Alexander Hamilton in 1803, is the longest running newspaper in the United States. (Or, as the NY Post would say, “Old, Gray and Haggard Paper Keeps Chugging Along.”)
Riddle Me This?
A train goes between Chicago and New York. The brakeman, the fireman and the engineer are named Smith, Jones, and Brown. (The names are not necessarily in order.) There are also three passengers named Mr. Smith, Mr. Jones, and Mr. Brown on the train. Mr. Brown lives in New York. The brakeman lives halfway between New York and Chicago. Mr. Jones earns exactly $20,000 per year. Smith beat the fireman at their last game of golf. The passenger who lives in Chicago has the same name as the brakeman. The brakeman’s next door neighbor is a passenger on this train and earns exactly three times as much as the brakeman. What is the name of the engineer? Answer to riddle: Smith
