PLU JEOPARDY 2025

LOVABLE LANDMARKS

100

This elevated area, also known as America's First Suburb, was designated as the City's first Historic District

BROOKLYN HEIGHTS

200

Covering over 100 blocks with nearly 2,200 buildings, NYC's largest Historic District preserve a unique collection of early American architecture and historic streetscapes

GREENWICH VILLAGE

300

This landmark Supreme Court case upheld the city's Landmarks Law as a reasonable restriction on private property rather than a taking

PENN CENTRAL VS. NYC

400

This landmark near City Hall was the tallest building in the world when it was completed in 1899, a distinction it held for nearly 10 years but is now mostly forgotten

THE PARK ROW BUILDING

500

Designated in 1995, this relic of the 1960's initially symbolized the theme of "Peace Through Understanding" but has become a broader symbol of Queens 

THE UNISPHERE

CITY OF WATER

100

New York's newest waterfront State Park, transforming the site of a former massive landfill into recreation for the masses

Shirley Chisholm State Park

200

Until this reservoir system was completed in the 1840's, the City relied on dwindling groundwater supplies from beneath Brooklyn and Queens

CROTON

300

Walking distance from City Hall, this was one of colonial NYCs water sources but slowly became a pestilential bog due to population growth and dumping. No trace of it remains but a name on the map

The Collect Pond

400

This spot on the East River was a treacherous site of many shipwrecks until the invention of dynamite allowed the clearing of underwater rocks and a calming of the currents

THE HELL GATE

500

For hundreds of years, these salty souls have boarded large ships outside of New York Harbor and guided them into port through the treacherous sand bar

SANDY HOOK PILOTS

NAME THAT DISTRICT

100

This district is home to both the Bronx Zoo and New York Botanical Garden

D15/Feliz

200

This District's Council Member is the only current Member who has been parodied on Saturday Night Live

HARVEY EPSTEIN - 2

300

This district is home to a large Primary Industrial Area and is extremely grouchy about sidewalk cafes

D30/Holden

400

Home to one of the City's three newly-approved gaming facilities, this Council District is the only one which did not go through a ULURP action to secure a license.

[28/Adams]

500

This district includes NYC's only indigenous peoples-related landmark, the Aakawaxung Munahanung (Island Protected from the Wind) archaeological site

51/Morano

CM ANAGRAMS

100

ITALIAN MANS SHAWL

NANTASHA WILLIAMS

200

DANIELLE

LINDA LEE

300

NERDY SUSAN

SANDY NURSE

400

ACRONYM FIASCO

FRANCISCO MOYA

500

CANONICAL SERENE I

ELSIE ENCARNACION

CHARTER CHAOS

100

This Community District will almost certainly be among the "bottom 12" since it has produced a grand total of 7 affordable housing units in the last 5 years

BROOKLYN CB 10

200

Consolidation and modernization of City Map operations will generally replace but not necessarily eliminate this division, within each of the Borough President offices

THE TOPOGRAPHICAL BUREAU

300

According to the most recently available data, this Borough likely does not have a Community District among the "bottom 12" of affordable housing production

THE BRONX

400

This nebulous term is a required finding for the BSA and ELURP applications that is intended to ensure that buildings fit in with their surroundings

NEIGHBORHOOD CHARACTER

500

Under "ELURP" , developers in single and two family districts will be able to apply for approval to build this maximum size of multi-family building

4 stories, 45'