dgmodel Posted September 1 Report Share Posted September 1 tell ppl when theyre drunk and theyll believe you either way, so here you go cool guy:• the only new york city structure designed by frank lloyd wright is the guggenheim museum - and that the day it opened in 1959 - more than 10,000 people lined up to pay 50¢ to get in (only 6,000 made it, and bribes to guards were turned down).• when the subway opened on october 27, 1904, 150,000 people paid a nickel each to ride. it ran from city hall to 145th street.• the titanic was scheduled to arrive at chelsea piers on april 16, 1912 at the conclusion of her maiden voyage.• jfk lived at the gramercy park hotel around 1928 when he was 11 years old.• toilet paper was invented in new york city by joseph gayety in 1857. it replaced newspapers and magazines.• john d. rockefeller initially built rockefeller center to help the metropolitan opera build a new home, but the stock market crash of 1929 forced the met to abandon the project.• patchin place (on west 10th street just west of sixth avenue) has the city’s last functioning gas lamp - put there in the 1800s.• irving berlin lived at 29 west 46th street from 1922 to 1930, and that’s where he wrote always, blue skies and puttin’ on the ritz.• the new york stock exchange was founded in 1792 when 24 brokers met under the buttonwood tree facing 68 wall street.• the astors developed land from 42nd to 47th streets between broadway and seventh avenue in the 1830s, but the name was changed to times square when the new york times moved to the neighborhood in 1904.• architect john sniffen built 10 stables on a dead-end alley - sniffen court - in 1850, which were converted to townhouses in the 1920s. (now very exclusive townhouses behind a locked gate on 36th between third and lex.)• greenwich village’s narrowest house is at 75 1/2 bedford street. built in 1873, edna st. vincent millay (one of america's most well-known poets and writers) lived in it from 1923-24.• ulysses s. grant (our 18th u.s. president) penned his memoirs at 3 east 66th street in 1884.• the statue of liberty came over the ocean on a french frigate in 1885, reduced to 350 individual pieces that were placed into 214 crates.• claremont stables on west 89th street are in a 1892 romanesque-revival townhouse that’s a national landmark.• little italy’s lombardi’s (53 spring street) was the first pizzeria in the united states in 1905. it is now located at 32 spring. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
i3itch Posted September 1 Report Share Posted September 1 tell ppl when theyre drunk and theyll believe you either way, so here you go cool guy:• jfk lived at the gramercy park hotel around 1928 when he was 11 years old.well i know for a fact that's true... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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