Why New York Became America s Biggest City (It Wasn t Luck)

Why New York Became America's Biggest City (It Wasn't Luck)

The Hudson flows backwards. Most of Ellis Island is legally New Jersey. Niagara Falls was once switched off. And the reason New York City ended up the biggest city in America was decided by a glacier, a drowned river and a single gap in a mountain wall, long before anyone arrived. Twenty little-known facts about New York State, counting down to why New York won.

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