NY Scaffolding
Passed in 1980 following a tragic accident at Columbia University, this city law requires facade inspections every five years, prompting thousands of sidewalk sheds across NYC.
What is Local Law 11?
Opening on October 27, 1904, the first underground line of the NYC Subway ran from City Hall up to 145th Street and was operated by this company.
What is the Interborough Rapid Transit Company (IRT)?
The US Open takes place annually in late summer at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center located in this NYC borough.
What is Queens?
Located along Museum Mile on Fifth Avenue, this is the largest art museum in the Americas.
What is The Metropolitan Museum of Art (The Met)?
Located on the center of the Park, this is the biggest waterbody in Central Park.
What is the Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Reservoir?
While commonly called "scaffolding," the green wooden and metal bridges built over city sidewalks to protect pedestrians are legally known by this term.
What are sidewalk sheds?
Serving as a major transit hub in Midtown Manhattan, this is the busiest subway station in the entire NYC transit system.
What is Times Square–42nd Street?
With a seating capacity of over 23,000, this main stadium at the US Open is the largest tennis venue in the world.
What is Arthur Ashe Stadium?
Designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, this iconic upper Manhattan museum features a continuous spiral ramp leading up to its skylight.
What is the Guggenheim Museum?
The main paved loop in Central Park stretches this exact number of miles, a favorite distance for local runners and cyclists.
What is 6 miles?
In 2023, Mayor Eric Adams and the Department of Buildings launched this catchy initiative to overhaul outdated scaffolding rules and tear down long-standing sheds.
What is "Get Sheds Down"?
Replacing the MetroCard, this contactless payment system was fully rolled out across all subway stations and buses by late 2020.
What is OMNY?
In 1978, the US Open switched its tournament surface from clay to this surface when it moved to Flushing Meadows.
What is hard court (or Decoturf / Laykold)?
Housed inside a former aircraft carrier docked along the Hudson River, this museum features space shuttles, historic aircraft, and a submarine.
What is the Intrepid Museum?
Opened in 1950 in Central Park, this 30,000-square-foot facility is one of Manhattan's largest outdoor ice rinks.
What is Wollman Rink?
Located in Harlem, a sidewalk shed at 409 Edgecombe Avenue made headlines in 2023 for standing continuously for over this many years.
What is 20 years?
Opening in 2017 after decades of delays, Phase 1 of this long-awaited Manhattan line added new stations at 63rd, 72nd, 86th, and 96th Streets.
What is the Second Avenue Subway (or the Q line/train)?
In 2021, this 18-year-old British player became the first qualifier in the Open Era to win a Grand Slam title at the US Open.
Who is Emma Raducanu?
This controversial 1884 John Singer Sargent portrait of Virginie Gautreau, featuring a dramatic black dress and stark pale skin, is one of the most famous oil paintings inside The Met. What is its famous lettered title?
What is Madame X?
Standing in Central Park right behind The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the ancient Egyptian obelisk known as "Cleopatra’s Needle" is the oldest man-made object in any NYC park. Which city gave it to New York as a gift in 1881?
What is Cairo / Alexandria (or Egypt)?
Standard NYC sidewalk sheds must be engineered to support a minimum uniform load of this many pounds per square foot.
What is 300 pounds per square foot?
At 180 feet below street level, this Manhattan station on the 1 train is the deepest station in the subway network.
What is 191st Street?
Before moving to Queens in 1978, the US Open was hosted for decades at this historic tennis club in Forest Hills.
What is the West Side Tennis Club?
The Frick Collection, housed in Henry Clay Frick’s former Gilded Age mansion on the Upper East Side, owns three of the world’s roughly 34 surviving paintings by which 17th-century Dutch master?
Who is Johannes Vermeer?
Beneath Grand Central Terminal lies Track 61, a famous abandoned subterranean platform and private siding. Which U.S. President secretly used this platform and his personal armored railcar to enter the Waldorf Astoria Hotel while hiding his disability?
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR)?