---
title: "19 Photo Quests in New York, United States of America — GetMap"
description: "19 photo quests in New York, United States of America — led by art, history and sport. Get there, take a photo within 200 m, and the check-in counts."
source: https://getmap.travel/quests/city/us/new-york
---

# New York

United States of America · 19 quests

## History

5 quests
![Rockefeller Center, New York](https://gpuvmfylzaflwxeawisb.supabase.co/storage/v1/render/image/public/assets/Quests/History/ChIJ9U1mz_5YwokRosza1aAk0jM.png?width=400&quality=70&resize=contain) 🇺🇸 New York
[Rockefeller Center](https://getmap.travel/quests/ChIJ9U1mz_5YwokRosza1aAk0jM)
It was meant to be an opera house

![Brooklyn Bridge, New York](https://gpuvmfylzaflwxeawisb.supabase.co/storage/v1/render/image/public/assets/Quests/History/ChIJK3vOQyNawokRXEa9errdJiU.png?width=400&quality=70&resize=contain) 🇺🇸 New York
[Brooklyn Bridge](https://getmap.travel/quests/ChIJK3vOQyNawokRXEa9errdJiU)
The first bridge ever hung from steel wire

![One World Trade, New York](https://gpuvmfylzaflwxeawisb.supabase.co/storage/v1/render/image/public/assets/Quests/History/ChIJy7cGfBlawokR5l2e93hsoEA.png?width=400&quality=70&resize=contain) 🇺🇸 New York
[One World Trade](https://getmap.travel/quests/ChIJy7cGfBlawokR5l2e93hsoEA)
The height matches a year in history

![Flatiron Building, New York](https://gpuvmfylzaflwxeawisb.supabase.co/storage/v1/render/image/public/assets/Quests/History/ChIJZx8c96NZwokRJklw7SVhKt4.png?width=400&quality=70&resize=contain) 🇺🇸 New York
[Flatiron Building](https://getmap.travel/quests/ChIJZx8c96NZwokRJklw7SVhKt4)
The name came from a household tool

![Statue of Liberty, New York](https://gpuvmfylzaflwxeawisb.supabase.co/storage/v1/render/image/public/assets/Quests/History/ChIJPTacEpBQwokRKwIlDXelxkA.png?width=400&quality=70&resize=contain) 🇺🇸 New York
[Statue of Liberty](https://getmap.travel/quests/dMoYYFlQD7wEEnTttrRW)
There is a broken chain at her feet

## Nature

2 quests
![Central Park, New York](https://gpuvmfylzaflwxeawisb.supabase.co/storage/v1/render/image/public/assets/Quests/Nature/ChIJ4zGFAZpYwokRGUGph3Mf37k.png?width=400&quality=70&resize=contain) 🇺🇸 New York
[Central Park](https://getmap.travel/quests/ChIJ4zGFAZpYwokRGUGph3Mf37k)
None of this landscape is natural

![High Line, New York](https://gpuvmfylzaflwxeawisb.supabase.co/storage/v1/render/image/public/assets/Quests/Nature/ChIJ5bQPhMdZwokRkTwKhVxhP1g.png?width=400&quality=70&resize=contain) 🇺🇸 New York
[High Line](https://getmap.travel/quests/ChIJ5bQPhMdZwokRkTwKhVxhP1g)
Train tracks still run through the plants

## Art

5 quests
![Carnegie Hall, New York](https://gpuvmfylzaflwxeawisb.supabase.co/storage/v1/render/image/public/assets/Quests/Art/ChIJ2RFUePdYwokRd5R6XF6xFD0.png?width=400&quality=70&resize=contain) 🇺🇸 New York
[Carnegie Hall](https://getmap.travel/quests/4Fk4GnEQvd5S2zVwL53U)
One of its three halls is underground

![MoMA, New York](https://gpuvmfylzaflwxeawisb.supabase.co/storage/v1/render/image/public/assets/Quests/Art/ChIJKxDbe_lYwokRVf__s8CPn-o.png?width=400&quality=70&resize=contain) 🇺🇸 New York
[MoMA](https://getmap.travel/quests/ChIJKxDbe_lYwokRVf__s8CPn-o)
Starry Night and soup cans hang here

![New York Public Library, New York](https://gpuvmfylzaflwxeawisb.supabase.co/storage/v1/render/image/public/assets/Quests/Art/ChIJqaiomQBZwokRTHOaUG7fUTs.png?width=400&quality=70&resize=contain) 🇺🇸 New York
[New York Public Library](https://getmap.travel/quests/IiHcQ2XdUcd46TU39hXF)
The two lions out front have names

![Metropolitan Opera, New York](https://gpuvmfylzaflwxeawisb.supabase.co/storage/v1/render/image/public/assets/Quests/Art/ChIJwVmwc15YwokRiyj-7qS1gX4.png?width=400&quality=70&resize=contain) 🇺🇸 New York
[Metropolitan Opera](https://getmap.travel/quests/TShDE3Ste2UHudouT41I)
175 of its places are standing room

![The Met, New York](https://gpuvmfylzaflwxeawisb.supabase.co/storage/v1/render/image/public/assets/Quests/Art/ChIJb8Jg9pZYwokR-qHGtvSkLzs.png?width=400&quality=70&resize=contain) 🇺🇸 New York
[The Met](https://getmap.travel/quests/WTiy1UtaedBQ5u5w2zCA)
1.5 million works under one roof

## Food

1 quest
![Steak, New York](https://gpuvmfylzaflwxeawisb.supabase.co/storage/v1/render/image/public/assets/Quests/Food/ChIJhWkA1eVYwokRPKlaxy81SAY.png?width=400&quality=70&resize=contain) 🇺🇸 New York
[Steak](https://getmap.travel/quests/WuMy2lCEBwy5Yt3SAmWA)
The cut runs across the muscle fibres

## Beach

1 quest
![Coney Island, New York](https://gpuvmfylzaflwxeawisb.supabase.co/storage/v1/render/image/public/assets/Quests/Beach/ChIJy3Wdl0hEwokReRGPPNxadFQ.png?width=400&quality=70&resize=contain) 🇺🇸 New York
[Coney Island](https://getmap.travel/quests/ChIJy3Wdl0hEwokReRGPPNxadFQ)
A big wheel turns behind the sand

## Sport

3 quests
![Yankee Stadium, New York](https://gpuvmfylzaflwxeawisb.supabase.co/storage/v1/render/image/public/assets/Quests/Sport/ChIJcWnnWiz0wokRCB6aVdnDQEk.png?width=400&quality=70&resize=contain) 🇺🇸 New York
[Yankee Stadium](https://getmap.travel/quests/ChIJcWnnWiz0wokRCB6aVdnDQEk)
The old one stood across the street

![Arthur Ashe Stadium, New York](https://gpuvmfylzaflwxeawisb.supabase.co/storage/v1/render/image/public/assets/Quests/Sport/ChIJeXwTRdlfwokRIY-HcNLJRWA.png?width=400&quality=70&resize=contain) 🇺🇸 New York
[Arthur Ashe Stadium](https://getmap.travel/quests/JUMBx6g65Q9gYqRtfH3P)
The roof came nineteen years late

![West Side Tennis Club, New York](https://gpuvmfylzaflwxeawisb.supabase.co/storage/v1/render/image/public/assets/Quests/Sport/ChIJd1ePJyJewokRfJLLpXg8QcY.png?width=400&quality=70&resize=contain) 🇺🇸 New York
[West Side Tennis Club](https://getmap.travel/quests/ZywfOLaWNnrP1ayrIAvE)
Its stadium later hosted concerts

## Party

2 quests
![Times Square, New York](https://gpuvmfylzaflwxeawisb.supabase.co/storage/v1/render/image/public/assets/Quests/Party/ChIJmQJIxlVYwokRLgeuocVOGVU.png?width=400&quality=70&resize=contain) 🇺🇸 New York
[Times Square](https://getmap.travel/quests/ChIJmQJIxlVYwokRLgeuocVOGVU)
A newspaper gave the square its name

![Aldo Sohm Wine Bar, New York](https://gpuvmfylzaflwxeawisb.supabase.co/storage/v1/render/image/public/assets/Quests/Party/ChIJFbIdkvhYwokRAicwcVjJ2io.png?width=400&quality=70&resize=contain) 🇺🇸 New York
[Aldo Sohm Wine Bar](https://getmap.travel/quests/LI2myBghIA0uKCttD6Mg)
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.

- [History quests](https://getmap.travel/quests/category/history) — five in New York
- [Nature quests](https://getmap.travel/quests/category/nature) — two in New York
- [Art quests](https://getmap.travel/quests/category/art) — five in New York
- [Food quests](https://getmap.travel/quests/category/food) — one in New York
- [Beach quests](https://getmap.travel/quests/category/beach) — one in New York
- [Sport quests](https://getmap.travel/quests/category/sport) — three in New York
- [Party quests](https://getmap.travel/quests/category/party) — two in New York

---

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.

- [Carnegie Hall](https://getmap.travel/quests/4Fk4GnEQvd5S2zVwL53U)
  One of its three halls is underground
  Art
- [Rockefeller Center](https://getmap.travel/quests/ChIJ9U1mz_5YwokRosza1aAk0jM)
  It was meant to be an opera house
  History
- [MoMA](https://getmap.travel/quests/ChIJKxDbe_lYwokRVf__s8CPn-o)
  Starry Night and soup cans hang here
  Art
- [Coney Island](https://getmap.travel/quests/ChIJy3Wdl0hEwokReRGPPNxadFQ)
  A big wheel turns behind the sand
  Beach
- [Flatiron Building](https://getmap.travel/quests/ChIJZx8c96NZwokRJklw7SVhKt4)
  The name came from a household tool
  History
- [Metropolitan Opera](https://getmap.travel/quests/TShDE3Ste2UHudouT41I)
  175 of its places are standing room
  Art

---

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.

- [Cleveland 13 quests](https://getmap.travel/quests/city/us/cleveland)
- [Quebec City 11 quests](https://getmap.travel/quests/city/ca/quebec-city)
- [Chicago 12 quests](https://getmap.travel/quests/city/us/chicago)
- [Nashville 7 quests](https://getmap.travel/quests/city/us/nashville)
- [Orlando 21 quests](https://getmap.travel/quests/city/us/orlando)
- [Havana 3 quests](https://getmap.travel/quests/city/cu/havana)

---

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.

---

This is the Markdown rendering of https://getmap.travel/quests/city/us/new-york. Site index for agents: https://getmap.travel/llms.txt