Everything you wanted to know about the unusual, arcane, and fascinating in the life of New York City. <p/>The term "only in New York" takes on new meaning in page after page of this intriguing survey of firsts in one of the world's greatest cities--from extraordinary people to ghosts and graves, from troubles and aspirations to crimes and disasters. <p/>For six years, the City had a governor who dressed in his wife's clothes and paraded along Broadway until his soldiers dragged him home. <p/>The City's first subway, dug in secret under Broadway in 1870, had elegant cars propelled by wind from a big fan. <p/>The City's first settlers were not Dutchmen, but French-speaking Protestant Belgians in 1624 who were followed by African Blacks in 1625. <p/>The first City Hall had a tavern on the premises to quench the thirst of City Fathers with beer and schnapps. <p/>The City's first bagel was produced in Clinton Street in 1896, but its ancestors date back to fourteenth-century German boar hunts.
