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100

This New York City landmark can be found at the crossroads of Central Park West and Central Park South.


What is Columbus Circle?

100

This subway station is the busiest in New York City, with over 65 million riders a year.

What is Times Square–42nd Street?

100

This famous New York store was featured in the title and plot of a classic 1961 movie starring Audrey Hepburn.

What is Tiffany’s?

100

This restaurant located in Times Square is famous for its New York cheesecake.

What is Junior’s?

100

This is the day in which The World Trade Center was destroyed by a terrorist attack and nearly 3,000 people died.

What is September 11, 2001?

200

This art museum, located in NYC, is the largest in the Western Hemisphere.

What is the Metropolitan Museum of Art?

200

This is the name of what 6th Avenue is also known as. 



What is the “Avenue of the Americas?”

200

This American comedy series starring Andy Samberg follows the adventures of a team of NYPD detectives.

What is Brooklyn Nine-Nine?

200

This famous food festival is the largest weekly open-air food market in America, featuring 100 local vendors.

What is Smorgasburg?

200

This is the original name of New York.

What is New Amsterdam?



300

This famous concert hall was restored in the 1980s after Isaac Stern and a group of music lovers fought to save it.

What is Carnegie Hall?

300

This is what the acronym DUMBO stands for.

What is “down under the Manhattan Bridge overpass”?

300

This New York building and tourist attraction was the headquarters of Lex Luthor in the movie ‘Superman’.

What is Grand Central Terminal?  

300

This restaurant started as a cart serving “mobile halal food” on 53rd and 6th.

What is The Halal Guys?

300

This group of people was the first settler in New York. 

What is the Dutch?

400

This renowned artist designed a sculpture that sits between NYU’s Silver Towers.

Who is Pablo Picasso?

400

This New York City subway line has the longest route, carrying passengers for 31 miles.

What is the A train / A line?

400

This location was the setting for the music video for Beyonce’s song “XO”.

What is Coney Island?

400

This French bakery located in SoHo invented the cronut (doughnut plus croissant).

What is Dominique Ansel Bakery?

400

This is the time period that the Rockefeller Center was built in.

What is the Great Depression?

500

This Queens building, reopened in 2019 after nearly 20 years of no use, was designed as the “Grand Central of the jet age.”

What is TWA Terminal / TWA Hotel?

500

At the City Hall subway station, this building has its own secret entrance.

What is the Woolworth Building?

500

This neighborhood was the setting for an ABC soap opera that aired from 1975 to 1989, telling the story of an Irish-American family.

What is Washington Heights?

500

This restaurant, opened in Little Italy in 1905, was America’s first pizzeria and the birthplace of New York-style pizza.

What is Lombardi’s?

500

This group of people gave the name of "New York" to New York City.

What is the British?

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