- Manhattan could be holding 25 percent of the world’s gold reserve
- A man once drunkenly stole a plane and landed it in the middle of Manhattan in front of the bar he had been drinking at. Two years later he did it again because someone doubted
he had done it the first time.
- A hot-dog stand outside Central Park Zoo pays $289,500
annually just for the space
- Purchased by Dutch colonists from Native Americans in 1626 for the equivalent of $1050 (in 2014), Manhattan real estate has since become among the most expensive in the world, with the value of Manhattan Island, including real estate is estimated to exceed US$3 trillion in 2013.