Portal:New York City/Did you know/13


 * ... that the schooner Shearwater (pictured) was hit by falling debris from the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001?
 * ... that the NYU University Village is a former Mitchell-Lama housing complex that hosts a Pablo Picasso sculpture?
 * ... that much of the recorded rowdyism in New York of the 1820s took place at the short-lived Lafayette Circus?
 * ... that the Drexel Collection, a collection of over 6,000 volumes of books about music and musical scores owned by The New York Public Library, was donated by Joseph W. Drexel?
 * ... that the term "hatchet man" originated from the weapon of choice used in killings on Chinatown's Doyers Street, known as the "Bloody Angle" for its frequent gang murders in the early 20th century?