Trivia: What event prompted the creation of the New York City subway?
Prohibition
Blizzard
Automobile ban
World’s Fair
The correct answer is Blizzard
So why is this answer correct? : The transit system in 19th-century New York relied on elevated lines, which transported steam-powered wooden cars along Manhattan’s streets. But the system was quickly revealed to be impractical when the Great Blizzard of 1888 paralyzed the city. The elevated trains couldn’t run in the snow, leaving people completely isolated. The first underground line of the subway opened six years later, in October 1904.