NEW YORK CITY LIFE
Over 200 different languages are spoken in this place.
What is New York City
I have an 80-foot wide boardwalk, opened on May 15, 1923, and I border the Atlantic Ocean.
What is Coney Island?
This idiom means to go to sleep.
What is "hit the sack"?
A public park built on a historic freight rail line elevated above the streets on Manhattan’s West Side.
What is Highline Park?
This idiom means a dollar.
What is a "buck"?
Most people in NYC use this to travel around the city and between the boroughs.
What is the metro or subway?
Some features in this place include The Lake, Bethesda Fountain, and Sheep Meadow
What is Central Park?
This idiom refers to a person that is really ambitious.
What is a "go-getter"?
The first immigrants to arrive at this place were three unaccompanied minors.
What is Ellis Island?
this idiom is called out if want to get the front passenger seat of the car.
What is "shotgun"?
Because there are so many different types of people (multicultural) around NYC, it is difficult to ____________ what a person from NYC is like.
What is stereotype?
Around 340,000 pedestrians pass through this place on a typical day.
What is Times Square?
This idiom means to get married.
What is "tie the knot"?
This acronym stands for Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass.
What is Dumbo?
This idiom means you are being honest or you are asking if someone is being honest/truthful.
What is "for real"?
The average New Yorker _______ anywhere from two to five miles a day.
What is walks?
This place is composed of 154 interconnecting flights of stairs, with almost 2,500 individual steps and 80 landings.
What is the Vessel?
This idiom describes a person that enjoys sweet-tasting foods.
What is a "sweet tooth"?
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?
We have a saying in the US, "don't _______ it until you have tried it"
What is knock?
Common food sold on the streets in Manhattan.
What is hotdogs?
“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?
This idiom refers to someone eating too much.
What is "pig out"?
The first purpose of this place is to keep peace throughout the world.
What is the United Nations?
This idiom is an expression of happiness due to a favorable situation. It is said with EMPHASIS!
What is "SWEET"?