There are over 16,251 full-service restaurants in the vicinity of NYC. You could visit one every day for 40 years and still not have visited them all. This excludes counter service restaurants and cafeterias.
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If NYC were its own country, and the NYPD was its army, it would be the twentieth-best-funded army in the world, just behind Greece and just ahead of North Korea.
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Carlos Vasquez, a dry cleaner in New York, has a sign outside his shop that reads: If you are unemployed and need an outfit clean for an interview, we will clean it for free.
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In 2014, a college in upstate New York started offering classes on the sociology of Miley Cyrus.
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In New York, it is against the law for children to pick up or collect cigarette and cigar butts.
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MDIF, a New York based non-profit organisation, is planning to beam free Wi-Fi to the entire world from space.
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NYC's Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA) dumps old subway cars into the ocean to serve as artificial reef.
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