Only A Real New Yorker Will Get More Than 70% On This Quiz

Although Metrocards were introduced in 1994, the NYC subway token — in use since 1953 — wasn't totally phased out until 2003.

RIP, Virgin Megastore, where all our teen music dreams were made.

Iconic punk venue Coney Island High was located at 115 St. Marks Place until the early '00s. These days, it's a sushi place.

Back when the M train was on the "brown line," along with buddies the J and Z trains, it stopped at Chambers Street. It was rerouted through Midtown in 2010.

The back section of the Village Voice was a bible for concertgoers.

You're damn right they did. Kids in the outer boroughs felt like gods on Brooklyn-Queens Day. (The first Thursday in June, it's since evolved into a holiday celebrated by students all throughout New York City.)

Bryant Park was never much of a destination for kids in any kind of ~scene~. The skaters hung out at Union Square, the punks at Tompkins Square Park, and the goths, alt kids, and others loitered at the Cube on Astor.

1983 + red pencil + white pencil = easy one-way ticket to boozetown. 1981 took a little more skill. (And you never forgot to change the expiration date too.)

In these here five boroughs, you stand on line in a store and go online when you use the internet.

Usually sold out of a cooler on the subway or in the park, nutcrackers are fruity, highly alcoholic beverages known to take any party up several notches – even if it's just a party of one, en route to your destination.

Jermaine Dupri is from Atlanta.

The number of strings someone had on their Jansport was directly proportional to their coolness factor. (Bonus points for straps decorated in Wite-Out.)

In 1997, it cost a measly $1.50 to ride the subway. The base fare went up to $1.75 in 2003.

Most kids secretly enjoyed filling out Delaney cards at the beginning of each year or semester because it meant 15 minutes of not having to do actual work.

Those mosquitos were the bane of New York's existence, and in 1999 you were probably *really* annoyed that you had to stay inside on a perfectly nice day.

They were the worst. You weren't fooling anyone, "Karen from Michigan."

Wetlands, officially known as Wetlands Preserve, was a venue on Hudson Street that also supported environmental activism.

Brick means really fucking cold.

These were all legit fears for kids who grew up in New York and went to school in decrepit buildings.

8th Street Lab was *the* place for all the Paul Frank baby tees, colorful accessories, and neon vinyl pants you could get your little paws on.

Before the Knitting Factory moved to Williamsburg in 2009, it was located at 74 Leonard St. in Tribeca.

Plenty of NYC public schools could easily serve as the film set for a prison show. Weird, but kids never really thought twice about it until they realized schools in the movies had open, bar-less windows and staircases without a weird cage around them.

Lukewarm fish with a block of unwanted cheese in the middle, soggy Jamaican beef patties, and pizza with ketchup-like sauce were school-lunch staples. Good news is that if you made it through years of those horrifying meals, you can make it through anything.

In addition to being one of the most ethnically diverse neighborhoods in the world, Jackson Heights is an Indian-restaurant hot spot.

Flushing is a Chinese food lover's paradise.

If the Hayden Planetarium at the Museum of Natural History doesn't fill you with the purest form of joy, you're either a monster or not familiar with New York's #1 school-trip spot.