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This Used to Be My Underground
New York, Or Not New York, That is the Question
The Colors of Conveyance
Manhattan Transfer
Can You Tell Me How To Get, How To Get To...
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Until 1940, this was the 2,3,4,5,6, and 7 trains.
What is the I.R.T.?
100
This city's subway carries over 1.7 billion riders each year.
What is New York?
100
This is the color of the 7 train.
What is PURPLE?
100
For Jay Street, Borough Hall (Brooklyn) on the A train to 86th Street and Lexington Avenue on the 4/5 train, take this Manhattan Transfer.
What is a transfer at Fulton Street?
100
How to get to Carnegie Hall.
What is the A, C, B, D, or 1 to 59th Street / Columbus Circle, N, Q, R to 57th Street / Seventh Avenue B, D, E to Seventh Avenue, or F to 57th Street / Sixth Avenue.
200
Until 1940, this was the J, L, M, N, Q, and R trains, the Franklin Avenue Shuttle, and parts of the B, D, and F.
What is the B.M.T.?
200
Due to its use of public transit, this U.S. city is considered to be one of the most carbon-efficient cities in the country.
What is New York? MTA mass transit helps New Yorkers avoid about 17 million metric tons of pollutants while emitting only 2 million metric tons, making it perhaps the single biggest source of greenhouse gas (GHG) avoidance in the United States.
200
This is the color of the shirts worn by MTA conductors.
What is BLUE?
200
From Atlantic Avenue/Barclay's Center on the N train to 28th street on the 6 train, take this Manhattan Transfer.
What is 14th street, Union Square?
200
How to get to The New York Botanical Gardens (in the Bronx).
What is the B, D, or 4 train to Bedford Park Blvd?
300
Until the G train line was officially extended to Church Avenue in 2012, this used to be the last stop on the G train in Brooklyn.
What is Smith/9th Street?
300
This city's public transit system is overseen by its mayor.
What is not New York? (Answer: London)
300
This is the color of the now-defunct NYC subway token.
What is GOLD?
300
IT'S THE DAILY DOUBLE! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! From the Roosevelt Island stop on the F train, to Marcy Ave in Williamsburg, Brooklyn on the J train, take this Manhattan Transfer.
What is Delancey Street?
300
How to get to the Statue of Liberty.
What is the 1 train to South Ferry, the R train to Whitehall, or the 4, 5 train to Bowling Green?
400
ITS THE DAILY DOUBLE! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! Before the W train was discontinued in 2010, this used to be the end of the W line in Queens.
What is Ditmars Boulevard?
400
This city *requires* employers to give all eligible employees transit benefits at a pre-tax rate.
What is not New York (YET - but with the Riders Alliance Transit Chek campaign, we will get there!).
400
This color was used to paint subway cars on certain lines in the 1970s and 1980s to combat graffiti.
What is RED? (these cars came to be known as "redbirds".)
400
From 175th Street in Washington Heights to the 1 train at Christopher Street, take this Manhattan Transfer.
What is a transfer at 59th street, Columbus Circle?
400
How to get to the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
What is any of the trains to Atlantic Avenue / Barclays Center (2 3 4 5 B Q N R D), the C to Lafayette Avenue or the G to Fulton Street in Brooklyn?
500
This train used to be the Rockaway Shuttle until 1993. It was briefly resurrected from 2012-2013 following Hurricane Sandy.
What is the H train?
500
This city has the world's best subway system as ranked by CNN, and is the world's second largest city transit system based on number of subway riders.
What is not New York. A: Seoul, Korea. Seoul's subways feature advanced technology such as 4G LTE, WiFi, DMB, and WiBro accessible in all stations and moving subway cars, digital TVs showing real time arrival of trains, and climate controlled cars, automatically air conditioned in summer and individually heated seats in the winter.
500
These are the TWO colors of subway globes outside of stations which were once used to indicate whether or not a station agent was on staff. (You must list both colors.)
What are RED AND GREEN? A green lamp used to mean that the station was open and running 24 hours a day, while a red lamp meant that it was an exit-only or part-time. With the use of the metrocard to facilitate access even when an agent is not present, these are no longer as relevant.
500
To get from Grand Central Station to Penn Station, you gotta take this Manhattan Transfer.
What is Times Square? (Take the Shuttle or the 7 train at Grand Central Station to Times Square, with a transfer to the 1, 2 or 3 train to Penn Station)
500
How to get to the Unisphere and site of 1964 World's Fair in Queens at Flushing Meadows/Corona Park.
What is the 7 train to Mets - Willets Point?