CCNY History
The first free public institution for higher education in the United States.
What is City College?
The musician married to Rihanna.
Who is A$AP Rocky?
Showtime at the _______!
What is The Apollo?
This park sits directly across from City College Campus.
What is Saint Nicholas Park?
The time period between the 1910s and 1930s that is considered the Golden Age of African American culture.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
Office created in 2022 by Dr. Valdés whose main initiative is Harlem 2032.
What is the Office of Community Engagement?
This famous politician's home is located on the way to City College.
Who is Alexander Hamilton?
Open since 1962, this restaurant is a staple of Soul Food.
What is Sylvia's?
This park runs along the Hudson River.
What is Riverside Park?
What Harlem and most of upper Manhattan was before being settled.
What is agricultural/farm land?
Founded in 1867, this student-run organization was the first of its kind in the United States.
What is student government?
The actor known for his line, "Say hello to my little friend."
Who is Al Pacino?
Premier prohibition-era nightclub that hosted musicians such as Count Basie, Ella Fitzgerald, and Dizzy Gillespie.
What is The Cotton Club?
This statue of a famous American historical figure at the Northwest corner of Central Park stands as a pillar and icon of the Harlem community.
What is "Frederick Douglas"?
Event resulting in a black soldier being shot by a white police officer for attempting to stop an arrest.
What is the Harlem Race Riot of 1943?
This famous speaker came to speak at the CCNY Commencement ceremony in 2016.
What is "Michelle Obama"?
The jazz singer nicknamed "Lady Day."
Who is Billie Holiday?
This public library on Malcom-X Blvd is one of the world's leading centers for research in Black Culture.
What is the Schomburg Center?
This famous basketball court located on West 155th Street is known to breed street court stars and has hosted the likes of Kobe Bryant and Kevin Durany.
What is Rucker Park?
Harlem jazz singer Esther Jones modeled her look off of which famous cartoon?
What is Betty Boop?
This protest consisted of Black and Puerto Rican students protesting student rights and inclusivity of diversity in April of 1969.
What is "The Five Demands"?
This former NYC Mayor has a bridge named after him.
Who is Robert Van Wyck?
Harlem institution sometimes referred to as the, "living room of the Harlem Renaissance."
What is the Harlem YMCA?
Museum whose mission is preserving, displaying, and interpreting the art of Caribbean and Latin American Cultures.
What is El Museo del Barrio?
This all-Black Harlem basketball team became the very first professional basketball champions in 1939.
Who are the New York Rens?