the new york crossword

Andrew Smith | Compiler

  • 100% thematic!
  • 52 challenging crossword puzzles
  • Over 1,500 clues and answers about New York City
  • Includes over 150 quotes

“Being a New Yorker is never having to say you’re sorry.”—Lily Tomlin

Do you know...

  • Where the Yankees originally played
  • The original name of Ellis Island
  • The year Manhattan police officers began carrying guns
  • About the country’s first price-fixing law, over a loaf of bread
  • Who invented the frankfurter
  • How many traffic lights there are in NYC
  • The name of the first Harlem nightclub
  • When people stopped farming in Manhattan
  • Who bought Staten Island
  • The bar that is home to the modern gay rights movement
  • The first African American elected to Congress, from Harlem
  • The original purchase price for Manhattan
  • Which newspaper was edited by Walt Whitman
  • The name of the first Hebrew newspaper in America

Test your knowledge! Try this sample puzzle!


ACROSS
8. Twin-sign and Innaurato play
9. Number of times the Yanks lost to the Dodgers in the World Series
10. This railroad accelerated Brooklyn's growth in the 1880s (abbr)
11. Gambino family leader murdered in restaurant in 1992
12. Vacation newspaper
13. Mexican muralist and one-time Village resident
16. Elected in 1900, Goldfoggle was New York's first Jew elected to this body
17. Sang "Fly Me to the Moon" and developed a strong Village following: ___ Saunders
18. Yankees Reggie's nickname, Mr ___
22. In a surprising change of pace, he turned Wharton's "The Age of Innocence" into a 1993 film
25. If you can't go right, left, over, or under, use this
26. In 1815, St Patrick's Cathedral, the city's first Catholic church, opened on this street
27. Soccer team that plays in Giants Stadium
30. Average weeks vacation allotted Coney Island's working-class visitors in 1900
31. First national radio network in 1925
32. This Labor Day Weekend event is New York's largest parade: West ___

 DOWN
1. Madison Avenue bridal gown favorite: ___ Wang
2. Yankee Whitey ___ was knocked unconscious by a bottle thrown by a St Louis fan in 1927
3. US attorney who exposed corruption in the Koch administration
4. Once farmed in the Village
5. In the early part of this century, drug marketed as a cough suppressant
6. West Side neighborhood synonymous with prostitution
7. Popular burritoville
14. US President who served as president of Columbia University
15. Industrial Savings Bank created to protect the savings of immigrants
19. In 1995, there were 31 of these churches in New York City
20. Bette Davis wasn't this character in Mankewicz's film skewering the theater world
21. The owners of Estiatorio Milos will tell you that an authentic Greek salad doesn't contain this
23. On New Year's Eve, this gallery hosts a "Marathon Reading of a Literary Classic"
24. Sheepshead Bay's main thoroughfare
28. Very expensive casual footwear: J P ___ on 57th Street
29. Thomas Fortune ___, Belmont's partner in subway development; sculpted by Rodin