There is a super story in the NY Times about the recently discovered 1950s-1960s era bomb shelter discovered on the Manhattan side mooring of the Brooklyn Bridge. Work crews from the Department of Transportation stumbled upon the "dank and lightless room where the walls are lined with dusty boxes" while doing some routine inspection of the bridge, which just makes you wonder how routine inspection is if they missed it for five decades. But, anyway, it sounds really amazing, possibly more so because the city won't divulge where it's located (did city officials blindfold reporters and spin 'em around before they entered?):

For decades it waited in secret inside the masonry foundations of the Brooklyn Bridge, in a damp, dirty and darkened vault near the East River shoreline of Lower Manhattan: a stockpile of provisions that would allow for basic survival if New York City were devastated by a nuclear attack.... more ›

Why does "Bronx" have to be prefaced with "The?" Why not "A Bronx" or, most reasonably, just plain old "Bronx?" more ›

How did "Gotham" become a synonym for New York City? more ›

Huh. The New York Times decided to do a web search with the words "New York" and "Did you know" (no word if it was a Google search; it probably was, but the NYT can't really endorse one search engine over another...) and came up with some "baubles." Yeah, it's underwhelming and it seems like a throwaway in USA Today, but Gothamist did like these two facts: more ›