NEW YORK CITY LIFE
NEW YORK CITY PLACES I
NEW YORK CITY PLACES II
GENERAL NY KNOWLEDGE
100

Over 200 different languages are spoken in this place.

What is New York City?

100

I have an 80-foot wide boardwalk, opened on May 15, 1923, and I border the Atlantic Ocean.

What is Coney Island?

100

A public park built on a historic freight rail line elevated above the streets on Manhattan’s West Side.

What is Highline Park?

100

The capital of New York

What is Albany?

200

Most people in NYC use this to travel around the city and between the boroughs.

What is the metro or subway?

200

Some features in this place include The Lake, Bethesda Fountain, and Sheep Meadow

What is Central Park?

200

The first immigrants to arrive at this place were three unaccompanied minors.

What is Ellis Island?

200

This famous landmark lights up its lights on special occasions.

What is the Empire State Building?

300

A nickname for New York City

What is "The Big Apple" or "The City that Never Sleeps"?

300

Around 340,000 pedestrians pass through this place on a typical day.

What is Times Square?

300

This acronym stands for Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass.

What is DUMBO?

300

This NYC suspension bridge was the first to be built. 

What is the Brooklyn Bridge?

400

The average New Yorker _______ anywhere from two to five miles a day.

What is walks?

400

This place is composed of 154 interconnecting flights of stairs, with almost 2,500 individual steps and 80 landings.

What is the Vessel?

400

The names of the victims of the horrific event are inscribed on the edge of the reflecting pools, including the 2,977 from Sept. 11, 2001, and the names of the 6 people killed in the bombing in 1993.

What is the 9/11 Memorial?

400

This street has famous stores.  It stretches from Times Square to Central Park and beyond.  

What is 5th Avenue?

500

Common food sold on the streets in Manhattan.

What is hotdogs?

500

“Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me:
I lift my lamp beside the golden door.”
― Emma Lazarus

What is the Statue of Liberty?

500

 The first purpose of this place is to keep peace throughout the world.

What is the United Nations?

500

Name 4 of the 5 NYC boroughs.

What are the Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens, Staten Island?

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