New York Culture

10 Interesting Facts About NYC

Gena Vazquez
New York Voice
3 min readJun 15, 2020

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Photo by Luca Bravo on Unsplash

The big apple is filled with interesting facts, things, places, and people. Did you know…?

Architecture

The Brooklyn Bridge is eleven years older than Tower Bridge in London.

Photo by Hannes Richter on Unsplash

Banking

The Federal Reserve Bank in NYC has the largest gold storage in the world. On Wall Street, sits the largest storage of gold in the world. It holds 5% of all the world’s most precious metal ever mined.

Photo by iBank

Birthrate

There is a birth taking place every 4.5 minutes in New York City.

Photo by Christian Bowen on Unsplash

Culture

It’s not illegal to go topless in New York. They’ve got the French beat!

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Gena Vazquez
New York Voice

Silicon Valley to Hollywood and Wall St. in between.