Name
____ is named after the New York Times. It was originally called Longacre Square until the Times moved there in 1904.
Times Square
True or false? UPS, FedEx, and other commercial delivery companies receive up to 7,000 parking tickets a day! Yikes. That results in approximately $120 million in revenue for the City.
True
True or false: Eating a New York bagel is the same as one consuming-quarter to one-half a loaf of bread
Ture
Credited in 532 movies,_______ is the most filmed location in the world.
Central Park
State animal of New York
Beaver
Standing at 1,250 feet tall, the _____ Building is currently the 4th tallest building in New York City, the 6th tallest in the United States, and the 43rd tallest tower in the world.
Empire State
At the time it was completed, in 1883, the 3,460-foot _______ was the longest suspension bridge in the world.
Brooklyn Bridge
A permit for running a ______ stand in Central Park will cost you around $289k/yr
hot dog
Spider-Man is from what borough in NY?
Queens
It takes 75k trees to print a Sunday edition of the ________
New York Times
Joseph C. Gayetty invented what modern convenience in New York?
toilet paper
Over 600,000 of these pets live in NYC
dogs
_______were so popular in New York in the 19th century that the shells were used to pave Pearl Street. They were also used for lime for the masonry of the Trinity Church
Oysters
What 1987 film shows the dark underside of New York's financial empire?
Wall Street
In 1885, ______ State Park became the first state park in the country
Niagra Falls
New York City’s _______ has the largest gold storage in the world. The vault is 80 feet below street level and contains $90 billion in gold.
Federal Reserve Bank
10118
There are 83 _____ restaurants in NYC within 22.3 sq miles. That means there are 4 per square mile.
McDonald's
Miracle on ____ was filmed on location in NYC, with the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade sequences filmed live while the 1946 parade was happening
True or false? You are 10 times more likely to be bitten by a New Yorker than a shark.
________ became the first capital of the United States in 1789
New York City
What occurs every 4.4 minutes in New York City?
a birth
______, a famous American breakfast or brunch dish, was invented in NYC.
Eggs Benedict
True or false: New York is the first most filmed city in the world
False, it'sLos Angeles
_____ cover 24% of the land area in the city
Trees