Why are the NYC taxi cabs yellow?
Because American businessman John Hertz, the same Hertz that we rent cars from today, read a study that said yellow was the easiest color for the eye to spot. Makes sense. • The Outerbridge Crossing, which is a small bridge that connects New Jersey and Staten Island, is actually named after Eugenius Harvey Outerbridge. Many locals still think that it is just some name for an “outer-bridge”…whatever that is. • Manhattan’s Chinatown has the largest collection of Chinese residents in the Western Hemisphere. • More than 25% of the world’s gold is located 80 feet beneath the Federal Reserve Bank on Wall Street. • Cleopatra’s Needle, which is a 3,000-year-old Egyptian ruin, can be located in Central Park. The Khedive of Egypt gave it to New York City as a gift in 1879. It took almost 10 years to transport the 220-ton, 66-foot-high monument. • For many years, the “tallest building in the world” title changed hands nearly 10 times, but one thing remained the same…they were all located in New Y
