The Curious New Yorker [Idioma Inglés] - Softcover

Presents an entertaining and information-packed assortment of questions and answers about New York City, from its history and personalities to its subways, laws, restaurants, and landmarks. Original. 20,000 first printing.. NOTA: El libro no está en español, sino en inglés.

who is not curious?

Rare, indeed. New Yorkers are among the most curious people on the planet. Just ask the staff of the popular "F.Y.I." column in The New York Times. They receive more than a thousand questions each year, asking everything from how Manhattan clam chowder was named to why there are so few rainbows in New York City. Here are 329 of the most intriguing questions and amusing answers about the Big Apple's history, landscape, subways, architecture, laws, and personalities.

Each chapter of The Curious New Yorker offers solutions to some of the city's most confounding enigmas:

   "Myths and Mysteries" answers this puzzler: On The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan, who is the woman walking arm in arm with the singer, and what Greenwich Village street are they ambling down (page 45)?

  "What's in a Name?" explains why Sixth Avenue was renamed Avenue of the Americas (p. 8), and why so many