Manhattan
About Manhattan
Manhattan is the most densely populated and geographically smallest of the five boroughs of New York City. Coextensive with New York County, Manhattan is the smallest county by area in the U.S. state of New York, and one of the smallest in the United States. Located almost entirely on Manhattan Island near the southern tip of the state, Manhattan is centrally located in the Northeast megalopolis and represents the urban core of the New York metropolitan area. Manhattan serves as New York City's economic and administrative center and has been described as the cultural, financial, media, and entertainment capital of the world.
On the show — 82 mentions total
In the 1820s, there were more pigs in Manhattan than there are cars in New York today.
from 475: No Such Thing As The Three Little Pigs of Wall Street, 2023-04-21 at 00:09:17 · read transcript
Other times Manhattan came up
They were looking at it and they noticed that it was unlike any of the 13,000 other species of ants that have ever been catalogued. They thought it might have come from Europe but they can't trace it to any known ant so they've got this one city dwelling that has evolved to be its own species and Manhattan. You look at an ant and then immediately access your mental catalogue of all the 13,000 other ants and just eliminate them all.
223: No Such Thing As A Worthless Doorstop, 2018-06-29 · listen
This was sent in to me, actually, by a guy called Justin Hince. It was that this biologist discovered this species of ant, which lives between 63rd Street and 76th Street in New York, which is in Broadway, in Broadway, Manhattan. Yeah, and they were looking at it And they noticed that it was unlike any of the 13,000 other species of ants That have ever been catalogued.
No Such Thing As A Worthless Doorstop, 2018-06-29 · listen
That is unpleasant, actually, tough to live with that. I've got a fact about kind of a celebrity neighbour disputes, because this does happen. For example, in Manhattan in the early 1970s, John Cage, famous composer, he lived next door to John Lennon, and he had to go round to complain about the noise. Can I just say, John Cage is most famous for writing that song, which is Complete Silence.
216: No Such Thing As A Lobster War, 2018-05-11 · listen
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