It's been reported that a significant 25% of the world's gold reserves are secured in a vault located beneath which famous island in New York City?

Many older apartment buildings in New York City are around six stories tall due to limitations in what city infrastructure?

The 1977 New York City blackout inadvertently contributed to the rise of which musical genre due to looting of DJ equipment?

Due to low rental rates after its opening in 1931, the Empire State Building was briefly nicknamed what by New Yorkers?

After a stock market crash in 1989, a now-iconic statue was illegally installed on Wall Street overnight. What is this statue?

What New York City island is known for being a public cemetery where unclaimed bodies are buried in mass graves?

New York City is unique among major US cities because its drinking water doesn't require treatment plants. From which natural area does NYC primarily source its water?

Since the late 1980s, a large number of crosswalk buttons in New York City have become essentially what?

What type of shellfish once naturally filtered the waters surrounding New York City?

Which famous New York City venue has reportedly avoided paying property taxes since 1982 due to a clerical error that made a tax abatement perpetual?