NYC "Wildlife"
Often friendly, these type of cats work tirelessly at night to keep the places they call home free from vermin and pests and get their nickname from the stores they live in.
What is a Bodega Cat?
Made on a grill with beef, onions, adobo and cheese, this popular bodega sandwich originated in New York.
What is a Chopped-Cheese?
Despite their names, these two teams do not have a stadium or play their sport in New York City.
Who are the Jets and Giants?
Where there are many places to go to be entertained, only this place, known at the Great White Way is where you can see some of the best musicals in the world.
What is Broadway?
This building is so large that it has its own zip code and lightning strikes its antenna 25 times per year on average.
What is the Empire State Building?
Seen in boroughs such as Brooklyn, Queens and The Bronx, these animals can be found at night in backyards and parks, sometimes rummaging through trash cans where they have earned the nickname "Trash Panda."
What is a Raccoon?
Founded in Coney Island in 1916, this "famous" food has been a staple of NYC culture and even hosts and annual eating contest every July.
What are Nathan's Famous Hot Dogs?
Holcombe Rucker Park and West 4th Street Courts are home to this sport that draw thousands to see semi professional players show off their skills.
What is Basketball?
In July 1977, for 20 hours, New Yorkers were left without power due to this type of power outage after a substation was struck by lightening.
What is a Blackout?
Boasting 472 stations, encompassing 665 miles of track and carrying an average of 5.5million passengers on weekdays, this is the the most extensive in the world.
What is the New York Subway System?
Plunging from great heights to catch prey, these birds can reach speeds of up to 180 mph and have been know to mistake small dogs for rodents in the park.
What are Peregrine Falcons?
This foods distinctive crust comes from high-gluten bread flour and minerals in New York City's tap water just don't put pineapple on it.
What is Pizza?
Arthur Ashe stadium is named after one of the greatest African American players to ever play this game which consists of Love, faults and advantages.
What is Tennis?
In 1993, a 16 year old illegally drove this for over 3 hours before being caught.
What is a Subway Train?
If you were to fly over this statue and look down, you will see the broken shackles around its ankles symbolizing freedom from bondage.
What is the Statue of Liberty?
Of the two known NYC birds, nicknamed Rats with Wings, these birds will move in a colony and steal your food at any of the NYC public beaches.
What are Seagulls?
In 1920 Arnold Reuben introduced cream cheese to this dessert giving it a rich and creamy texture.
What is Cheesecake?
Founded in 1962 to replace New York's departed NL teams, the Brooklyn Dodgers and the New York Giants, this team played at the Polo Grounds before moving to Queens.
Who are the NY Mets?
More than 800 of these are spoken in New York City, making it the most linguistically diverse city in the world.
What are languages?
Named for The New York Times after the newspaper moved its office there in 1904 this area was once known as Longacre Square.
What is Times Square?
Often mistaken as rodents, these marsupials, often seen at night, come out during the day to kill insects, ticks and even rodents but will play this if they feel threatened.
What is an Opossum?
For many New Yorkers, there’s no finer breakfast than a BEC, served hot, fresh, and cheap from the food trucks and bodegas dotting the city.
What is a Bacon, Egg and Cheese?
Outside of basketball and football, if you count NY State as a whole, this professional sport is the only other that has 3 teams with only one of them that has won the famed Stanley Cup.
What is Ice Hockey?
in August 1974, high wire artist Philippe Petit conducted a wire walk between the roofs of these two buildings for 45 minutes, making eight passes along the wire, during which he walked, danced, lay down on the wire, and saluted watchers from a kneeling position.
What is the World Trade Center Towers/Twin Towers?
Despite this building being in New York City, once you you step on the property, you're on international soil due to the multiple countries that meet there.
What is the United Nations?