Saturday, 16 January 2010

Fun & Strange Facts About New York City

While reading the SBA Resource Guide New York City is a good way to become familiar with the legal state and local agency contact information for all five boroughs and the surrounding region.

State income tax rate varies from 4.0% to 7.7%, and the local income tax varies from 2.907% to 4.45%. The rate of VAT is 4%, and the local sales tax is 4.375%.

By city-data.com, the five largest employers in the cities of New York (New York) are by far, the NewYork Public Schools, Merrill Lynch, John F. Kennedy International Airport, and Goldman Sachs Group.

The climate is hot and humid in summer and cold in winter, with the possibility of any change of the time in the spring and autumn.

New York City is actually composed of five individual counties or districts of: Queens (Queens County), Brooklyn (Kings County), Bronx (Bronx County), Staten Iceland (Richmond County) and Manhattan (New YorkCounty).

TRADITIONS

Street vendors in the city are part of local culture. Almost everyone agrees that this is a good way to get a good, inexpensive food in a hurry.

The annual Easter Parade is probably more clothes on Easter Sunday, which is unusual for his hats and costumes that distinguishes them from other block.

From time to decide, New York, that an important event that deserves a parade AGI. The band "ticker" is derived from the stock remainedTicker tape that was used as a substitute for impromptu confetti when they decided to celebrate the inauguration of the Statue of Liberty. People do not use stock ticker tape, or more, but the name stuck, and includes any time a large parade in New York City with street throwing confetti to celebrate the occasion.

SPORTS

NFL Football: New York Giants (at Giants Stadium in East Rutherford, NJ)
NBA Basketball: New York Knicks (Madison Square GardenManhattan, NY)
MLB Baseball: New York Mets (at Shea Stadium / Citi Field in Flushing, NY) and New York Yankees (at Yankee Stadium in the Bronx, NY)
Hockey NHL: New York Rangers (Madison Square Garden in Manhattan, NY)
MLS Soccer: New York Red Bulls (at Giants Stadium in East Rutherford, NJ)

If the conversation is in a slump, and you're a baseball fan or two, they get the story of a baseball stadium in New York to tell. A good storyteller, you hear all about EbbetsField, the exodus of the Brooklyn Dodgers, and the end of an era at Yankee Stadium.

TRIVIA

The corner of 54th Street and Broadway, Big Apple Corner ", because there the Lord to use the term" Big Apple "used to live coined. A 1997 city ordinance says.

The residents of Staten Iceland (Richmond County), who after the passage of New York City secession, but the State of New York that the city the opportunity to veto the vote must be given. The mayor of the citywants to break the city budget or services, so that he refused the request of Staten Iceland.

Legend has it that Peter Minuit, the entire island of Manhattan from the Algonquin Indians for the equivalent of $ 24.00 USD in 1626th

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