Portal:New York City/Did you know/9

... that exhibits at the New York City Police Museum (pictured) include the machine gun used by Al Capone's gang in the 1928 murder of Frankie Yale?
... that while Mayor Michael Bloomberg said it was a "very appropriate place" to build it, 64% of polled Americans felt it was wrong to build the Park51 mosque near Ground Zero?
... that New York talent agent Sam Cohn, who Time magazine called "the first superagent of the modern age", liked to eat paper?
... that Andrew Freedman, owner of the National League's New York Giants, bought the American League's Baltimore Orioles from John Mahon to raid Baltimore's best players?
... that in 2005, the Bruce High Quality Foundation pulled a floating island of parkland, complete with living trees, around New York Harbor, turning a drawing by Robert Smithson into reality?