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In 1789, the first president of the United States was inaugurated on Wall Street in New York City.
Who is George Washington?
100
Approximately this percentage of the city's population is foreign born.
What is 40%?
100
The most visited city park in the United States.
What is Central Park? The park contains lakes and ponds, two ice-skating rinks, the Central Park Zoo, the Central Park Conservatory Garden. Indoor attractions include Belvedere Castle the Swedish Cottage Marionette Theater, and the historic Carousel.
100
The most densely populated borough. Home to Central Park, UN headquarters and most of the city's skyscrappers.
What is Manhattan?
100
A common icon of transportation in New York City.
What is a yellow taxi?
200
The new bulding is the tallest skyscraper in the Western Hemisphere and the fourth-tallest building in the world. It was built to commemorate this significant day in American History.
What is the One World Trade Center? (I'ts spire reaching a symbolic 1,776 feet in reference to the year of American independence).
200
A great famine in this country brought a large influx of immigrants to New York City.
What is Ireland? (25% of the population was Irish)
200
A major commercial intersection and neighborhood in Midtown Manhattan, at the junction of Broadway and Seventh Avenue. Brightly adorned with billboards and advertisements, it ts sometimes referred to as The Crossroads of the World.
What is Times Square?
200
Known as the birthplace of rap and hip-hop culture, this borough is also home to the New York Yankees (basebakll team).
What is The Bronx?
200
The name of the largest marathon in the world.
What is the New York Marathon?
300
The original name of New York City.
What is New Netherland? The first documented visit by a European was in 1524 by Giovanni da Verrazzano, a Florentine explorer in the service of the French crown, who sailed his ship La Dauphine into New York Harbor. He claimed the area for France and named it "Nouvelle Angoulême" (New Angoulême)
300
The most common religion in New York City.
What is Christianity?
300
A 102-story skyscraper located in Midtown Manhattan.
What is The Empire State Building?
300
Coney Island, the first amusement park in the US, is located in this borough.
What is Brooklyn?
300
New York City is famous for these types of foods.
What are bagels, cheesecake, pizza, falafel and kebabs?
400
New York grew in importance as a trading port for this "commodity."
What are slaves?
400
The population of New York City.
What is 8.4 milllion?
400
This was a gift from France.
What is The Statue of Liberty?
400
The most ethnically diverse urban area in the world!
What is Queens?
400
The largest rapid transit system in the world.
What is the subway system?
500
New York became the most populous urbanized area in the world in the early 1920s, overtaking this European capital.
What is London?
500
The number of languages spoken in New York City.
What is 880? Making it the most liguistically diverse city in the world!
500
The theatrical performances presented in 40 professional theatres, in the New York City borough of Manhattan. It is widely considered to represent the highest level of commercial theatre in the English-speaking world.
What is Broadway?
500
This borough is the most suburban.
What is Staten Island?
500
It is a tradition to gather at Times Square on this day.
What is New Year's Eve?