Portal:New York City/Did you know/19

• ... that the Tontine Coffee House (pictured), established in 1793, is recognized as the antecedent to the New York Stock Exchange?
• ... that 66th Street in the New York City borough of Manhattan was once proposed by Donald Trump as the site of a 150-story building that would have been the world's tallest?
• ... that U.S. Army Special Forces reservist Gary Rader was arrested in 1967 for draft-card burning in Central Park?
• ... that the Beaux Arts exterior of the 1907 Surrogate's Courthouse in New York features no fewer than 54 sculptures of historical and allegorical figures?
• ... that Super Bowl XLVIII has been dubbed the Mass Transit Super Bowl?