Films in NY
This film features four parapsychologists who save New York City from a ghoulish infestation.
What is Ghostbusters?
This thoroughfare in Harlem is known as the location for the Apollo Theater and the Studio Museum in Harlem, among many other notable places.
What is 125th Street?
This US Supreme Court Justice was the first Nuyorican lawyer to hold that judgeship.
Who is Sonia Sotomayor?
This statue was originally intended as a gift to Egypt, but was reconfigured as a gift from France to the United States.
What is the Statue of Liberty?
New York is the 4th most populous state after what three states?
This 1989 film took place in Bedford-Stuyvesant, and featured the acting debut of Martin Lawrence.
What is Do the Right Thing?
This is the North-South street in Manhattan that divides the East Side from the West Side.
What is 5th Avenue?
A secret train station was built beneath the Waldorf Astoria in the 1930s for this New York Governor, who later became President.
Who is Franklin Roosevelt?
The building was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, and is shaped like a giant upside down spiral.
What is the Guggenheim?
This state motto gained some attention when the state government used it as the title for the digital proof of COVID vaccination.
What is 'Excelsior'?
The film The Goldfinch, based on a book of the same name, begins after a fictional terrorist attack in what major NYC museum?
What is the Metropolitan Museum of Art?
This is what DUMBO stands for.
These two NYers collaborated on a version of Empire State of Mind, which won two Grammys.
Who are Jay-Z and Alicia Keys?
In 1930, this was considered the largest building in the world.
What is the Chrysler Building?
This city is the second most populous in the state, and is a short distance from Niagara Falls.
This busy New York City landmark was the location of a secret headquarters of Lex Luthor in the movie "Superman".
What is Grand Central Terminal?
This NY borough name derives from the Munsee Lenape language term meaning "the place for gathering (wood to make) bows."
What is Manhattan (Manaháhtaan)?
This club was the location where the careers of The Ramones, Blondie, and the Talking Heads were launched.
What is CBGBs?
This was the name of the 2,200 acre landfill in Staten Island, that is in the process of being transformed into public parkland.
What is Fresh Kills Landfill?
The Hudson River flows in two directions, North and South, because of what very reliable phenomenon?
What are tides?
The 2002 film Raising Victor Vargas follows the romantic foibles of teenagers in this neighborhood of Manhattan, just north of Two Bridges.
What is the Lower East Side?
With 168,000 people/square mile, this neighborhood is the most densely populated area of NYC, making its new train line especially essential!
What is the Upper East Side?
This choreographer led a group of Black male modern dancers in their first performance at the 92nd St Y in 1958.
Who is Alvin Ailey?
This NYC museum started in Gracie Mansion and later moved to 5th Ave. between 103rd and 104th.
What is the Museum of the City of New York?
What are the Finger Lakes?