NYC Landmarks
NYC Museums
NYC Parks
Office Fun Facts
Office Hidden Talents
100
A City Service Corps host site, this city agency is responsible for designating and regulating over 37,000 historically, architecturally, or culturally significant buildings and sites around New York City.
What is the Landmarks Preservation Commission?
100
Designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, this art museum is pay-what-you-wish on Saturdays from 4-6pm.
What is the Guggenheim?
100
Contained within this Brooklyn park's 526 acres are a zoo, the first urban-area Audubon Center in the nation, an ice rink, a band shell, a carousel, and dozens of athletic and recreational facilities.
What is Prospect Park?
100
This staff member has run the NYC Marathon.
Who is Aaron?
100
This staff member can recite all the lyrics to REM's "It's the End of the World as We Know It."
Who is Christy?
200
First opened in Greenwich Village in 1967, this bar and community center was the site of a series of eponymous riots in 1969, led by Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera, among others. It was the first historical site recognized by NYC for its relevance for LBGTQ history!
What is the Stonewall Inn?
200
Dedicated to visual arts, film, television, and digital media, this Astoria museum holds regular film screenings in addition to its exhibitions on Jim Henson, the Simpsons, and the use of imagery of black women on movie posters. (This museum is also a Culture Pass NYC participant!)
What is the Museum of the Moving Image?
200
This Queens park was the site of the World's Fair and is a City Service Corps host site!
What is Flushing-Meadows Corona Park?
200
This staff member has been polygraphed by the FBI.
Who is Megan S.?
200
This staff member can make a bed with the tightest hospital corners.
Who is James?
300
You can see the Statue of Liberty from this site, which was once the first stop for over 12 million immigrants as they settled in the United States.
What is Ellis Island?
300
This northern Manhattan branch of the Metropolitan Museum of Art is a pay-what-you-wish museum and garden site dedicated to Medieval European art and architecture.
What are the MET Cloisters?
300
The park is home to the country's first public golf course, the oldest house in the Bronx, and the borough's largest freshwater lake.
What is Van Cortlandt Park?
300
This staff member loves plants and has over 25 plants at home!
Who is Sharon?
300
This staff member has played in competitive soccer leagues in both Italy and Spain!
Who is Alex?
400
This church, a short walk from the NYC Service office, stood tall on 9/11 and was featured prominently in the film National Treasure (2004).
What is Trinity Church?
400
Also called the George Gustav Heye Center, this Smithsonian museum dedicated to Native people is free to the public and a 20-minute walk from the NYC Service office. Its other location is a bit further of a walk, located at the National Mall in Washington D.C.
What is the National Museum of the American Indian?
400
A former battlesite in the Battle of Brooklyn (1776), this park was designated in 1847 and is the oldest official park in Brooklyn!
What is Fort Greene Park?
400
In advance of a big birthday, this staff member rented a van you could sleep in and drove around Yosemite on their own for a week to hike.
Who is Laura?
400
Who needs Google Maps? This staff member is very good with directions to the point that if they go to a place once, they'll remember how to get there for the rest of their life.
Who is Dylan?
500
Sometimes called "Brooklyn's first public park," this 478-acre cemetery is not a park, but it is the final resting place for Jean-Michel Basquiat, several Supreme Court Justices, Pop Smoke, and Samuel Morse, among thousands of others.
What is Greenwood Cemetery?
500
With a mission of creating a more "delicious future," this Civic Corps host site is closed for the pandemic but still offering off-site programming, including week-long culinary learning trips in Mexico, Spain, and France for 2022.
What is the Museum of Food and Drink?
500
This waterfront park was until recently an abandoned post-industrial area in Long Island City. A newly opened 5.5-acre expansion added a dog run, a bikeway, a waterside promenade, picnic terraces a basketball court, and a 30-foot-tall platform for viewing the skyline and waterfront.
What is Hunter's Point South Park?
500
This staff member can bend their thumbs almost a full 90 degrees backwards!
Who is Zach?
500
This staff member has a black belt in mixed martial arts and used to compete in tournaments!
Who is Jordan?