Winter Events
Let It Snow
Winter Travel
NYC Silver Screen
Outer Borough
100

This annual holiday is counted down every year in Times Square.

What is New Year's Eve?

100

Often mistaken for white this substance is truly translucent.

What is snow/snowflakes?

100

These are the months that comprise winter in NYC.

What are November, December, January, February and March?

100

Part of this iconic movie was filmed during the 1946 Macy's Thanksgiving Parade.

What is Miracle on 34th Street?

100

This NYC borough zoo features the famous Holiday Lights walk through beginning in November every year.

What is the Bronx Zoo?

200

This annual seasonal exhibition brings more than 500 butterflies and lush tropical plants inside a warm habitat within a NYC museum, from November thru May.

What is the Butterfly Conservatory at the American Museum of Natural History.

200

It's forbidden at school.

But kids find it cool.

If one of these you throw,

To the principal's office you'll go.

What is a snowball?

200

These structures will likely freeze before typical roads.

What are bridges?

200

Steiner Studios, spread across 20 acres and 17 sound stages, where The Producers, Fur, and The Tourist were filmed, is located in this borough.


What is Brooklyn? Inside the Brooklyn Navy Yard.

200

The NYC Winter Lantern Festival at Snug Harbor Cultural Center and Botanical Garden is hosted in this Borough/County.

What is Staten Island/Richmond County?

300

This Pennsylvanian 1993 film set in February made Punxsutawney Phil a celebrity.


What is Groundhog Day. Punxsutawney Phil was named after King Phillip.

300

This shaved ice treat is commonly referred to as a  ____.

What is a snow cone.

300

Allowing for this many seconds following distance while driving will help you avoid incidents in inclement weather.

6-10 seconds

300

This iconic ice skating rink, at the south end of Central Park with a backdrop of Manhattan’s skyscrapers, is often featured in Movies, including When Harry Met Sally, Love Story, Serendipity, August Rush and Home Alone 2.

What is the Wollman Rink in Central Park? 

300

This Brooklyn neighborhood competes for the best holiday light displays, since the 1980’s. Some homeowners spend up to $20,000 on professional lighting designers.

What is Dyker Heights?

400

Starting February 12th you just might hear Jerry Seinfeld, Awkwafina & other celebrities making announcements here.

What is the MTA Subway and Buses?

400

This was the largest snow total ever recorded in Central Park.

27.5 inches in 2016

400

This small handheld tool should be used on your vehicle before leaving the driveway on a snowy day.

What is an ice scraper and brush? 

400

Sony's animated take on this classic Marvel superhero had part of the film set in the wintertime in NYC.

What is Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse (2018)

400

This outdoor drive in is located at the New York Hall of Science in Flushing Meadows Corona Park, co-presented by Rooftop Films, Museum of the Moving Image, and NYSCI.

What is the Queens DRIVE-IN ?

500

What famous sonic festival is held in downtown Manhattan every January since 2005?


What is the Winter Jazz Festival, now called Winter Jazzfest?

500

This snowiest city in NYS tried to make snow illegal in 1992.

What is Syracuse.

500

Keeping your car's gas tank at 50% full or more can prevent this from happening when temperatures are below freezing.

What is a frozen fuel line?

500

This NYC film and production studio was once a bakery.

Silvercup Studios, located in Long Island City in existence since 1983. 

500

Over in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, ice-skating gets taken to new heights. Located on the 23rd floor of this hotel, the sky-high rink invites guests to come and "skate the skyline."

What is The William Vale?