INDUSTRIAL SOUTHERN TIER
Before becoming BAE Systems, the company that grew out of Link Aviation was known locally by this two-word name.
What is Singer-Link?
The 1935 flood was primarily caused by the combination of heavy rainfall and this additional weather event.
What is rapid snowmelt?
The Binghamton Rumble Ponies are affiliated with this Major League Baseball team.
Who are the New York Mets?
The triple railroad junction made Binghamton a key interchange between the Erie, DL&W, and this third line.
What is the Delaware & Hudson?
This Binghamton-founded chain once advertised “Spiedies and Submarines” nationwide.
What is Lupo’s?
Endicott-Johnson once paid workers partly in this company-issued currency usable only at EJ stores.
What is company scrip?
In 2006 and again in 2011, downtown Binghamton was inundated when these two rivers overflowed.
What are the Susquehanna and Chenango Rivers?
Before becoming the Rumble Ponies, the team was known by this name.
What are the Binghamton Mets?
The last passenger rail service from Binghamton to New York City ended in this decade. (Lackawanna Cut-Off)
What are the 1970s?
The Forum Theatre opened in 1919 as this type of venue during the vaudeville era.
What is an opera house? (Accept: Vaudeville Theater)
IBM’s Endicott plant was once nicknamed this because of its massive scale and self-contained operations.
What is the IBM “Square Deal” campus? (Accept: “the IBM complex”)
This 1972 hurricane indirectly caused severe flooding in the Southern Tier.
What is Hurricane Agnes?
This legendary boxing champion trained in the Southern Tier before major fights in the 1970s.
Who is Muhammad Ali?
This defense contractor, formerly Link Aviation, developed flight simulators in the Southern Tier.
What is BAE Systems?
This long-running downtown Binghamton department store closed after more than 130 years in business.
What is Fowler’s?
This photographic chemical company, once known as Ansco, later operated on the site that required major environmental cleanup in Binghamton.
What is Anitec?
The flood control levees in Binghamton are maintained by this federal agency.
What is the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers?
The Endicott-Johnson Victory Field once hosted this Negro League baseball team.
Who were the New York Black Yankees?
The Triple Cities trolley system ceased operation in this decade.
What are the 1930s?
This longtime Johnson City department store was a rival to Fowler’s in the mid-20th century.
What is McLean’s?
This Johnson City-based hospital system originated in 1888 as the “Ideal Hospital” funded by Endicott-Johnson.
What is Wilson Memorial Hospital?
During the 2006 flood, water crested in Binghamton at approximately this height in feet.
What is approximately 25 feet?
Before the Rumble Ponies, and before the Mets, this was Binghamton's minor league baseball team.
What were the Binghamton Triplets?
The Chenango Canal, completed in 1837, connected the Erie Canal to this river.
What is the Susquehanna River?
The nickname “Parlor City” refers to Binghamton’s large number of these 19th-century architectural features.
What are parlors? (Accept: Victorian homes)