New York City Trivia Questions

Times Square is named after the newspaper, but The New York Times moved its headquarters to a different building in 1913 and later left the area.

Pizza originated in Naples, Italy, centuries earlier. NYC popularized it in the U.S., but did not invent it.

Broadway runs 33 miles across Manhattan and the Bronx, while Fifth Avenue is only about 6 miles long within Manhattan.

Central Park spans 843 acres, while Monaco is about 499 acres—so the park is indeed bigger than the sovereign city-state.

Manhattan, Staten Island, and parts of Brooklyn and Queens are on islands, but the Bronx is on the U.S. mainland, connected to the rest of New York State.

Frédéric Bartholdi’s original plan included a lighthouse function; it actually served as one from 1886 to 1902, though poorly.

Though its spire was intended as a mooring mast for airships, it was only used once (unsuccessfully) and never became a functional zeppelin dock.

The abandoned Court Street station in Brooklyn, now the Transit Museum, is not under a library; but there is a ghost station under the 42nd Street library.