Jewish Population 10.9 percent NYC was capital of the US between 1789 and 1790. The Cathedral of St. John the Divine is the largest Gothic cathedral in the world.
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Its first stone was laid in 1892. Macy's, the world's largest store, covers 2.1 million square feet of space and stocks over 500,000 different items. The Panorama of the City of New York in the Queens Museum of Art is the world's largest architectural model, containing 895,000 individual structures at a scale of 1 inch equals 100 feet. The country's oldest municipal golf course, opened in 1939, is in Van Courtlandt Park in the Bronx. Babe Ruth hit his first home run in Yankee Stadium in the first game ever played there.