Still, it's a fascinating reference book, not to mention a fun read for natives and newcomers alike. The U.S. Capitol dome and the Lincoln Memorial's statue were cast in the Bronx. There were 131 Fortune 500 companies in NYC in 1955. In 1990, there were 41. Calvary Cemetery in Queens holds almost 3 million graves, the most in the nation.
Egg creams contain neither eggs nor cream but milk, chocolate syrup and seltzer.
And, as any New York schoolchild knows, scully is a street game played with bottle caps. That one fills five pages. There are glitches, though. Incredibly, Mickey Mantle doesn't get his own entry. Thomas Jefferson, who spent six months in the city in 1790 as secretary of State, does.