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100
The Dutch named their island settlement this, NOT New York.
What is New Amsterdam?
100
The "shot heard 'round the world" was fired in this colony, not New York.
What is Massachusetts?
100
People worried that NYC would become too "square" when this system was put in place.
What is the grid system?
100
This American hero bid farewell to his troops at the Fraunces Tavern in lower Manhattan.
Who is George Washington?
100
The immortal cells of this woman have been used in hundreds of medical experiments.
Who is Henrietta Lacks?
200
This growing European power defeated the Dutch without firing a shot.
Who are the English?
200
An important early battle of the Revolution took place in this town, which is now NYC's most populous borough.
What is Brooklyn?
200
This engineering feat, much longer than 15 miles, linked NYC to the American west causing many "SAL-aries" to increase.
What is the Erie Canal?
200
Mayor of NYC and Governor of NY State, he may not have had a mule named Sal, but he spearheaded the push for the Erie Canal.
Who is Dewitt Clinton?
200
This funky Brooklyn neighborhood is home to The Sketch book Project and Mast Bros. Chocolate.
What is Williamsburg?
300
This one-legged governor of Dutch New York was an unloved ruler who brought order to the colony.
Who is Peter Stuyvesant?
300
This aid to General Washington later became the nation's first Secretary of the Treasury.
Who is Alexander Hamilton?
300
When one Roebling died another took over. When he got sick, his wife supervised the completion of this project.
What is the Brooklyn Bridge?
300
Though his middle name points to a career in the courts, he won a contest to design Central Park.
Who is Frederick Law Olmsted?
300
This prominent NY writer helped liberate concentration camps in Europe at the end of WWII.
Who is J.D. Salinger?
400
This long central boulevard wasn't yet the Great White Way, but it did organize the young Dutch city.
What is Broadway?
400
By controlling NYC, the British separated it from this city to the south, the nation's largest at the time.
What is Philadelphia?
400
It was way up town at the time, but smart buyers purchased land on either side of this green miracle.
What is Central Park?
400
He sang of himself, and of New York, and of America, crossed Brooklyn on many ferries and in the process became America's most famous poet.
Who is Walt Whitman?
400
If he were mapping Manhattan, this new NYC major would be sure to include Gracie Mansion on his map.
Who is Bill de Blasio
500
This Dutch Explorer whose names lives on in this New York River.
Who is Henry Hudson?
500
After early battles, NYC was quiet and the Revolutionary War ended at this battle in the largest southern colony.
What is Yorktown?
500
This southern port city on the Gulf of Mexico, might have rivaled NY as the center of trade, were it not for the Erie Canal.
What New Orleans?
500
As a sitting Vice-President, he killed Alexander Hamilton in a Weehawken duel.
Who is Aaron Burr?
500
This famous Depression-era painter captured New York City with scenes of movie houses, diners and quiet streets.
Who is Edward Hopper?
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