Why most New York City households do not own cars

52% of households

Most New York households lack a car

New York is the only American city where a majority of households do not own a car. High public-transit use helps residents spend less on transportation than the national average—an estimated $19 billion less each year than other urban Americans.

9,000-year-old Chinese flutes were made to play specific notes

Bone flutes from the ancient Chinese settlement of Jiahu were made carefully enough to produce particular musical notes. Their makers therefore appear to have understood how to shape an instrument to control its sound.

Cretan place-names helped decode Linear B

Michael Ventris noticed that some sign combinations appeared only on tablets from Crete. He thought they might be Cretan place-names, and that clue helped him identify Linear B as a script for writing Greek, against the prevailing view that it was not Greek.

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Why most New York City households do not own cars

Most New York households lack a car

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