6 facts about the New York state
The Erie Canal, completed in 1825 after eight years of construction, connected the Hudson River to Lake Erie and opened…
The Statue of Liberty was a gift to the United States from France, conceived by French political thinker Edouard de Labo…
New York City's subway system, which opened in 1904, is one of the few major transit systems in the world that operates…
Niagara Falls on the New York-Canada border is not the tallest waterfall in the world, or even the tallest in North Amer…
The first Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade was held in New York City on November 27, 1924. Macy's employees dressed in cos…
Before 1904, roughly one in every four trees in the eastern United States was an American chestnut — an estimated four b…