Transportation
Moses built this highway through East Tremont in the Bronx destroying a crowded, thriving working class Jewish community.
Cross Bronx Expressway
According to legend, Peter Minuit bough Manhattan for
$24
The worst fire in NYC History, it destroyed over 600 buildings in about 50 acres of the city.
The Fire of 1835
This Swiss-French architect designed the UN buildings and is famous for his "tower in the park model"
Le Corbusier
The Gowanus Canal was declared a Superfund site in 2009 thanks to its persistent pollution problems. At one particularly low point in its history, the water had changed colors, earning it a derisive nickname. What was that nickname?
Lavender Lake
the IRT was built in _____ by investor August Belmont and engineer William Parsons.
1904
this the third Director-General of New Netherland, had a less than illustrious career in the Dutch colony in America. He is best known for his lack of diplomacy with Native Americans, resulting in years of warfare and disruption to the entire colony
Willem Kieft
This famous British author toured the in the Five Points and described it saying, "broken windows seem to scowl dimly, like eyes that have been hurt in drunken frays."
Charles Dickens
Declared open by President Herbert Hoover on 1 May 1931, the 'tallest building in the world' was hit by the Great Depression. A year on, just a quarter of its floors had been occupied; and it took until 1950 before what New Yorkers dubbed the 'Empty State Building' turned a profit.
Empire State Building
The architect of this museum, which is celebrating its 60th anniversary in 2019, claimed that his design would make the nearby Metropolitan Museum of Art “look like a Protestant barn.” Name the museum and the architect.
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
"Caisson disease," which is today known as "the bends," struck hundreds of the workers, and killed at least five. It also crippled this famous engineer who took over construction over the Brooklyn Bridge after his father died.
Washington Roebling
is a museum and restaurant in the United States, famous for being the site where then-General George Washington delivered a farewell speech to the Continental Army after the British had left New York during the American Revolution.
Fraunces Tavern
this was a large and complex water distribution system constructed for New York City between 1837 and 1842. It was built because local water resources had become polluted and inadequate for the growing population of the city
Croton Aqueduct
The Singer Building
Real estate in New York City has always been at a premium, so much so that service alleys were never constructed, leaving garbage to fester on sidewalks. But one island in the city has an underground pneumatic trash system that whisks refuse away. Name that island.
Roosevelt Island
A United Airlines flight and a Trans World Airlines plane collided mid-air above New York City on Dec. 16, 1960. The collision sent wreckage careening into an intersection in this neighborhood in Brooklyn, killing all 128 passengers on board the flights and six bystanders on the ground.
This battle took place on Aug 27, 1776 and centered around George Washington's efforts to fortify New York City from a British attack. The crushing defeat for the Americans allowed Britain to hold the valuable port until the end of the war.
Battle of Brooklyn
This community existed until 1857, when, through eminent domain, the villagers and other settlers in the area were ordered to leave and their houses were torn down for the construction of Central Park
Seneca Village
This Queens building, described by Robert A.M. Stern as the “Grand Central of the jet age,” recently reopened to the public after nearly 20 years during which it was rarely used.
TWA Terminal at JFK
New York City is home to hundreds of bridges, many of which are architectural landmarks and beloved icons. Name the oldest bridge in New York City. (Hint: it’s not open to vehicular traffic.)
The High Bridge
The General Slocum sank just off this Island with victims and debris washing up on shore. The staff of the hospitals of the island served as rescue staff for the event. 1,021 people died either by fire or drowning that day, with only a few hundred surviving.
North Brother Island
The Prison Ship Martyrs' Monument is a war memorial in this park, in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. It commemorates more than 11,500 American prisoners of war who died in captivity aboard sixteen British prison ships during the American Revolutionary War.
Fort Greene Park
he established himself as one of the wealthiest men in the United States by allowing women all over the country to purchase and order items from his wholesale department store. His Marble Palace can still be seen on Chambers Street
A.T. Stewart
What New York City bridge did Le Corbusier consider to be “the most beautiful bridge in the world”?
George Washington Bridge
New York City has just 11 city-designated scenic landmarks, with the most recent—which is close to the Brooklyn waterfront—approved in 2018. Name that landmark.
Coney Island Boardwalk (also known as the Riegelmann Boardwalk)