26Native Americans
If the Native Americans really did sell Manhattan to the European for $16 in the 1600s and had invested that $16 at annual interest rates of 8%, today that $16 would be worth enough for them to buy back all of Manhattan and still have $222 Trillion dollars left over.
27. Decommissioned New York City Subway cars are dumped into the ocean to provide homes for sea creatures.
28. On 9/11, when all transport out of the city was shut down, citizen boat owners managed to transport over 500,000 people from Manhattan Island in an amazing act known as the "9/11 Boatlift".
29. 7 schools (Walton High School) in New York City look exactly the same, apparently because they only had money for 1 set of blueprints.
30. The population density of Manhattan is much lower today than it was 100 years ago, and total population has fallen by about 25%.
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31Charging Bull
The famous New York City tourist attraction, Wall Street's Charging Bull, cost $360,000 to build, was placed illegally in the middle of the night in 1989 after a stock market crash, was impounded, only to be returned to the streets due to public outcry.
32. Chinese mathematician Yitang Zhang could not get an academic job upon graduating, having to work as an accountant and a delivery worker for a New York City restaurant. He later went on to solve a math problem that had been unsolved for 150 years and won a MacArthur Genius Grant.
33. There is a 550-foot skyscraper (33 Thomas Street) in New York City with no windows. It was built to withstand the fallout of a nuclear blast for up to 2 weeks.
34. In 2012, an artist named Nate Hill dressed up as the Hamburglar and biked around New York City throwing partially-eaten McDonald’s cheeseburgers at bystanders. The artist said he wanted it to be “one of those little things that messes up your whole day.”
35. After the Empire State Building opened in New York City in 1931, much of its office space went unrented. It was nicknamed the "Empty State Building" by New Yorkers and didn't become profitable until 1950.
