Portal:New York City/Did you know/9


 * ... that exhibits at the New York City Police Museum (pictured) include the machine gun used by Al Capone's gang in the 1928 murder of Frankie Yale?
 * ... that while Mayor Michael Bloomberg said it was a "very appropriate place" to build it, 64% of polled Americans felt it was wrong to build the Park51 mosque near Ground Zero?
 * ... that New York talent agent Sam Cohn, who Time magazine called "the first superagent of the modern age", liked to eat paper?
 * ... that Andrew Freedman, owner of the National League's New York Giants, bought the American League's Baltimore Orioles from John Mahon to raid Baltimore's best players?
 * ... that in 2005, the Bruce High Quality Foundation pulled a floating island of parkland, complete with living trees, around New York Harbor, turning a drawing by Robert Smithson into reality?