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Their names are Patience and Fortitude.
What are the Library Lions?
Much to many people's surprise, this tasty dance style was born in the Bronx, not Puerto Rico.
What is salsa?
This 5-block tourist attraction uses 161 megawatts of electricity every year.
What is Times Square?
This commonly used mode of transportation for Staten Islanders has been free to use since 1997.
What is the Staten Island Ferry?
This iconic 2009 song, which features two artists, became something of a New York City anthem.
What is Empire State of Mind?
The total number of NYPL locations across the Bronx, Manhattan, and Staten Island.
What is 92?
This NYPL Branch is in the heart of what many believe is the real Little Italy of NYC.
This Manhattan National Historic Landscape, which opened in 1858, became the first of its kind in an American city.
34.7% of the residents on Staten Island identify as descendents of this country, influencing the culture and food on the Island.
What is Italy?
More than this many languages are spoken in New York City, making it the most linguistically diverse city in the world.
What is 800?
The stuffed animals that influenced this children's book have lived at the Library since 1987 and can now be seen in the Treasures Exhibit.
What is Winnie-the-Pooh?
The Bronx was once a part of this county, just north of NYC.
What is Westchester County?
Mainland Manhattan is surrounded by 5 bodies of water: the Hudson River, Harlem River, Spuyten Duyvil Creek, Upper New York Bay, and this aptly titled body of water.
What is the East River?
In the early 2000s, this somewhat-flightless bird species was so invasive to the Dongan Hills neighborhood that they were collected and moved to an animal sanctuary in upstate NY.
What are turkeys?
The price of this classic New York food item has been roughly the same as the cost of a subway ride since the 1960s.
What is a slice of pizza?
This superhero movie, which has now featured 3 different leads, was filmed at the Library.
What is Spiderman?
This attraction, for both locals and tourists alike, is the biggest of its kind in any metropolitan area in the U.S. It opened in 1899 and spans across 265 acres!
What is the Bronx Zoo?
Manhattan is actually made up of this many individual islands.
What is 8?
This famous restaurant is known as one of the best spots for pizza in NYC, but still only accepts cash.
What is Denino's?
When Dutch colonists first arrived, they named named New York City this name instead.
What is New Amsterdam?
This author, best known for works such as Mrs. Dalloway, is Rachel Roseberry's favorite author, her dog's namesake, and was featured in an NYPL exhibit earlier this year.
Who is Virginia Woolf?
This 19th century American writer, most known for his poetry and horror short stories, lived in a cottage on Kingsbridge & Grand Concourse. You can still visit it to this day!
Who is Edgar Allan Poe?
"Manhattan" translates to "island of many this" in Algonquian language, the language spoken by the Lenape who were the original inhabitants of the area.
What are hills?
The New York City subway does not connect to Staten Island. Instead, the Island has its own train system called this.
This NYC landmark building has its own zip code, 10118, and gets struck by lightning at least 23 times a year.
What is the Empire State Building?