Landmarks
Parks
Public Transit
Roads/Highways
People
100
Designed by McKim, Mead & White, this monumental Pink Granite Beaux-Arts transit hub was demolished in 1963, driving the public outrage that created the NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission.
What is Penn Station (the original Pennsylvania Station)?
100
Designed by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux after winning an 1858 competition, this 843-acre park featured a "Greensward Plan" that cleverly separated pedestrian traffic from sunken cross-town roadways.
What is Central Park? 
100
When the 6 train reaches its final station, stay on to see a piece of New York City history. Name this site, where Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani took his oath of office.
What is the City Hall Loop?
100
Stretching 13 miles across the full length of Manhattan, this roadway defines the city’s theater culture.
What is Broadway? 
100
This urban planner radically reshaped the landscape of New York. Defying democracy itself, his legacy still leaves questions to this day for how we should build our city.
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200
Completed in 1907 by George Browne Post, this soaring Neo-Gothic landmark at the City College of New York was constructed using dark Manhattan schist excavated directly from the subway lines, trimmed with ornate white terra-cotta.
What is Shepard Hall?
200
Once an elevated freight rail line on Manhattan’s West Side abandoned in 1980, this linear park designed by James Corner Field Operations and Diller Scofidio + Renfro opened in 2009 and sparked global imitators.
What is the High Line? 
200
This route of more than 20 miles snakes its way from three separate Queens termini to its terminus in Manhattan. It has the longest distance between two stations anywhere in the subway. Name the line and all three of its termini.
What is the A train, with termini at Lefferts Blvd, Rockaway Park–Beach 116 St, and Far Rockaway–Mott Av? 
200
Located in the heart of Brooklyn, this crumbling relic of the Robert Moses era is due for a complete multi-year rebuild or risks a multi-level collapse.
What is the Brooklyn Queens Expressway (BQE)?
200
This 2000s-era Transportation Commissioner of New York City transformed the pace which the city built safe bike infrastructure. She built some of the first bike lanes going up and down Manhattan.
Who is Janette Sadik-Khan?
(ALSO, SHE'S COMING TO TALK AT HUNTER IN 2 WEEKS!)
300
This former amusement ride shut down in 1964 and remains an iconic part of the southern Brooklyn skyline.
What is the Coney Island Parachute Jump?
300
Opened in 2021 off Pier 55, this $260 million artificial island park designed by Thomas Heatherwick rests on 132 concrete tulip-shaped pilings driven into the Hudson River bed.
What is Little Island?
300
Embroiled in a heated legal battle among the states of New Jersey and New York and the federal government, this ambitious project would double Amtrak and NJ Transit capacity across the Hudson River if it’s ever completed.
What is the Gateway Project?
300
Designed by same landscape architects as Central Park, this Brooklyn artery features America's oldest dedicated bike path
What is Ocean Parkway?
300
Coining the term "Gridlock" in 1980 during NYC's transit strike, this former NYCDOT Chief Engineer has since built a career in consulting and urban planning, and is now teaching Transportation Planning at Hunter College.
Who is "Gridlock" Sam Schwartz?
(He is also chair of the Sam Schwartz Transportation Research Program, where David works!)
400
General George Washington used this as his residence for a month in 1776. It remains a registered landmark mansion to this day.
What is the Morris–Jumel Mansion?
400
Built on a former post-industrial Queens shoreline, this award-winning 11-acre park, designed by WEISS/MANFREDI, doubles as climate resiliency infrastructure, engineered to absorb floodwaters from the East River using tidal marshes and bioswales.
What is Hunter's Point South Park?
400
One station stands a whopping 87.5 feet above ground and is useful if you want to get to IKEA. The other is buried 180 feet below the surface. Together, they are the highest and lowest stations in all of New York, respectively. (Half credit allowed.)
What are Smith-9th Streets and 191 St? 
400
A 30-ton dump truck collapsed part of this NYC elevated highway in 1973 at the peak of New York City’s fiscal crisis, clearing the way for the city’s busiest bike path.
What was the West Side Highway?
400
This famed and renowned activist and organizer and poet went to Hunter College, and now has an adjacent street to campus named after her.
Who was Audre Lorde?
500
This former home of Christopher Billop, the historical figure who mythically attributed to have won the first Race to Staten Island in the late 17th century, sits at the southern tip of the borough in Tottenville.
What is the Conference House? 
500
To protect Manhattan’s Lower East Side from rising sea levels, this massive flood-mitigation project is burying a historic 57-acre park under 8 to 10 feet of landfill before completely reconstructing it as a floodable coastal park.
What is East River Park (or the East Side Coastal Resiliency project / ESCR)? 
500
This Manhattan station features the first reverse-direction cross-platform transfer in any metro system, implemented in 1940. It remains the only such transfer in the entire NYC subway system.
What is 7 Av?
500
Started as a pandemic-era experiment to increase access to pedestrianized public space, this Jackson Heights thoroughfare is set to become NYC’s first permanent Open Street.
What is the 34th Avenue Open Street? 
500
This former NYC mayor helped to create the first city-owned Subway operator, driving the last major Subway construction boom in the city's history.
Who was John Hylan?