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>Under New York City are about 45,000 miles of pipes, conduits, mains and ducts for water, gas, electricity, telephone and telegraph. By concentrating on these subterranean life lines "a small crew of saboteurs could probably make New York uninhabitable within seventy-two hours."
>Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia is tired of being called the Little Flower. His Government costs $600,000,000 a year.
>New York City's able 19,000 police answer a call every 47 seconds. But the city's felony rate (1,028 per 100,000) is below the nation's (1,168 per 100,000).
>Negro Harlem has an annual tuberculosis death rate of 250 per 100,000 (against 69 for the city as a whole); the median rent in its crowded, stinky black-holes is $50 a month; in the city at large, $35. "The first race riot in New York was in 1712. The most recent was in 1935. The last is not yet." But Negroes like their Harlem. ("I'd rather be a lamppost on Lenox Avenue [Harlem's Main Street] than Governor of Georgia.")
>The city's 200,000 acres of land and its buildings are valued at more than $21,000,000,000. It includes 841,716 parcels of taxable property, 458,597 private homes, 1,118 grain elevators, 141,808 apartment buildings. Owning real estate is not a paying business in New York City, what with taxes, oversupply (particularly in office space), maintenance.
> The U. S. since 1933 has contributed or pledged $1,029,200.000 to Relief and related public works in New York City. The City has put up $778,700,000.
>One in every 23 persons in the U. S. at large filed Federal income tax returns for 1937; in New York City, one in every eleven.
> In New York City last year, 102,045 people were born; 73,775 died.
> As the city's surrounding waters warm each spring, 200 bodies rise to the surface.