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New York

United States of America · 19 quests

History

5 quests
Rockefeller Center, New York🇺🇸 New York
Rockefeller Center
It was meant to be an opera house
Brooklyn Bridge, New York🇺🇸 New York
Brooklyn Bridge
The first bridge ever hung from steel wire
One World Trade, New York🇺🇸 New York
One World Trade
The height matches a year in history
Flatiron Building, New York🇺🇸 New York
Flatiron Building
The name came from a household tool
Statue of Liberty, New York🇺🇸 New York
Statue of Liberty
There is a broken chain at her feet

Nature

2 quests
Central Park, New York🇺🇸 New York
Central Park
None of this landscape is natural
High Line, New York🇺🇸 New York
High Line
Train tracks still run through the plants

Art

5 quests
Carnegie Hall, New York🇺🇸 New York
Carnegie Hall
One of its three halls is underground
MoMA, New York🇺🇸 New York
MoMA
Starry Night and soup cans hang here
New York Public Library, New York🇺🇸 New York
New York Public Library
The two lions out front have names
Metropolitan Opera, New York🇺🇸 New York
Metropolitan Opera
175 of its places are standing room
The Met, New York🇺🇸 New York
The Met
1.5 million works under one roof

Food

1 quest
Steak, New York🇺🇸 New York
Steak
The cut runs across the muscle fibres

Beach

1 quest
Coney Island, New York🇺🇸 New York
Coney Island
A big wheel turns behind the sand

Sport

3 quests
Yankee Stadium, New York🇺🇸 New York
Yankee Stadium
The old one stood across the street
Arthur Ashe Stadium, New York🇺🇸 New York
Arthur Ashe Stadium
The roof came nineteen years late
West Side Tennis Club, New York🇺🇸 New York
West Side Tennis Club
Its stadium later hosted concerts

Party

2 quests
Times Square, New York🇺🇸 New York
Times Square
A newspaper gave the square its name
Aldo Sohm Wine Bar, New York🇺🇸 New York
Aldo Sohm Wine Bar
The wine list is the whole night here

United States of America

Photo quests in New York

What the catalogue actually holds here, and which of it is worth rearranging a day around.

New York holds 19 quests across every category the catalogue keeps, with no single one of them defining the place: Art and History are level at five quests each.

Six of them are tier 1 — finds rather than fixtures, and the one tier whose check-in asks for PRO; the other 13 are open on any plan. Tier 3 covers seven of them, which is the label for what a visitor would expect a travel app to have anyway.

Art covers the work and the building around it, so a mural on an ordinary street counts alongside the collection with a ticket desk. History here means places where something happened and the ground still shows it, which is also where the famous version and the standing version most often part company. Every check-in works the same way: the geotag your camera wrote into the photo has to land within 200 m of the quest's own point.

By category

Each of these opens the whole category across every city, with the New York quests among them.

Tier 1

The unexpected ones

The six quests in New York the catalogue files as finds rather than fixtures — the half of a city a guidebook has no room for.

Nearby

Cities near New York

Ranked by distance rather than by border, because from here the next useful stop is often the one in the next country.

Questions

About quests in New York

How many photo quests are there in New York?
19, across all seven categories the catalogue uses. The deepest groups are History (5), Art (5) and Sport (3). Among them: Rockefeller Center, Central Park and Carnegie Hall.
What is there to do in New York beyond the obvious?
6 of the 19 quests in New York are tier 1, which is the catalogue's own mark for a find rather than a landmark: the pipeline that writes it is told that tier 3 is "everything a visitor would expect a travel app to have", and that tiers 1 and 2 are "only the unexpected finds". New York holds six at tier 1, six at tier 2 and seven at tier 3. The tier 1 quests here are Carnegie Hall, Rockefeller Center and MoMA, and three more, which fall under History, Art and Beach.
Can you do all the New York quests on one trip?
Most of them, with transport. The outermost of the 19 is 21 km from the middle of the New York list, so the cluster in the middle is an afternoon and the edges are a bus or a taxi each.
Which New York quests can you do for free?
13 of the 19 can be checked in on the free plan, and all 19 can be read and travelled to without paying anything — the catalogue is open signed out, on every plan. PRO covers the check-in on the hardest tier, which in New York means six quests: Carnegie Hall, Rockefeller Center and MoMA, and three more.
How do I prove I visited a place in New York?
Take the photo at the place and upload it. Your browser reads the location the camera wrote into that file and measures it against the quest's own coordinates; inside 200 m the check-in counts. The distance is measured to the point, not to the city: being in New York is not what is checked, and a photo taken across town from Rockefeller Center fails exactly the way one taken at home does. A file with no location in it cannot be checked at all, and a photo that has been through a messaging app usually arrives that way — upload the original out of the camera roll rather than a copy someone sent back to you. The Food quests in New York sit on the room where the dish is served rather than on the dish, so that address is what the 200 m is measured from.