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Bite into this bushel of facts about the Big Apple

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From: Chicago Sun-Times
Date: 19860827
Author:Sydney J. Harris

Things I Learned about New York City: That although the City of New York has a population greater than the combined populations of Alaska, Hawaii, Delaware, Idaho, Maine, Montana, Nevada, North Dakota, Rhode Island, Utah, Vermont and Wyoming, New York County is the smallest county in the continental United States (22 1/2 square miles).

That there is a winery operating in Manhattan.

That the Staten Island Ferry still costs only a quarter for an hour's round trip, and is free for the return to Manhattan.

That poetess Edna St. Vincent Millay once lived in the narrowest house in all New ...

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