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What borough has Edgar Allen Poe's cottage? |
The Bronx
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What is in The Dahesh Museum
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Only museum in US devoted to European academic art of the 19th and early 20th century. |
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What is the newest museum on Museum Mile?
When did it open and who founded it? |
Neue Galerie (1048 5th Ave.)
Opened 2001 Austrian and German art. Founded by Ronald Lauder (heir to Estee Lauder) and Serge Sabarsky. In Grace Vanderbilt's "Gardener's Cottage" |
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What is the best example of Art Deco in NYC
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The Chrysler Building
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What is a Brownstone?
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Originally a row house built almost entirely of brown sand stone, later faced with brownstone only.
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What is the tallest structure in NYC outside of Manhattan?
How many stories? |
Citicorp Office building in Queens. |
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The Ansonia Hotel was known for what unusual features?
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All.
World's largest swimming pool Roof top farm with goats and pigs Indoor fountain with seals Home to Babe Ruth |
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What is The Woolworth Building's nickname? |
The Cathedral of Commerce
Because of grand scale and Gothic influence.
Coined by clergyman Dr. S. Parks Cadman at opening ceremony. First recorded instance in NYT article in 1913, from Alan Francis. |
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What is the 21 Club?
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A famous upscale speakeasy during prohibition.
21 W 52nd St |
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Where can you find the greatest concentration of cast iron buildings in the world? |
SoHo (South of Houston) |
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Where is The Forbes Gallery? |
62 5th Ave. near 12th St. |
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What is the current name of Hurtig and Seamon's New Burlesque Theater? |
Apollo Theater Opened in 1914 |
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What and where is the 2nd oldest monument in NYC
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Worth Monument
23rd St and Broadway |
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What does Guastavino refer to? |
A type of timbrel vaulting that uses lighter Terra Cotta tiles.
Creates self-supporting arches and architectural vaults.
Ex: Ellis Island, Custom House, GCT (Oyster Room) etc |
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Which of these theaters doesn't belong in the category of Broadway Theaters? Hilton, Music Box, Beacon, St. James |
Beacon |
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What is the name of the famous hotel at 59 W 44th st. between 5th and 6th ave? Famous a hangout for writers?
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Algonquin.
Famous for Roundtables where actors, critic, writers and wits would gather aka "The Vicious Circle" |
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What is the finest example of Greek Revival Architecture in the city?
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Federal Hall National Memorial
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What is the Haughwout Building known for? |
Selling Mary Todd Lincoln china and silverware for The White House. First with Otis (passenger) elevator. On the cover of Badger's Illustrated Catalogue of Cast-Iron Architecture. |
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What is the address if the NY Stock Exchange?
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11 Wall St.
*Trick Question NOT Wall and Broad* |
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What is Federal Hall? Where is it?
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Site of Washington's Presidential Inauguration.
26 Wall St. |
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What is the name of the garden at The Brooklyn Botanical Museum famous for it's cherry trees?
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Japanese Hill and Pond Garden
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What is Bloomingdale Asylum?
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Insane Asylum in Morningside Heights, est. 1820s.
Last remaining building, Macy Villa, is now Buell Hall, and administration building of Columbia University (La Maison Franacaise) |
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Where is The Gotham Hotel and what is it currently called?
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700 5th Ave at 55th St
The Peninsula |
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What is another name for the AT&T building?
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"Golden Boy"
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What is "Civic Fame"? |
25 ft tall golden statue on top of Municipal Building (installed 1913)
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Who designed "Civic Fame"?
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Adolph A. Weinman (1913) |
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Where is The Dakota Building?
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1 W 72nd St
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Who has lived in the Dakota? |
John Lennon (shot in courtyard) Lauren Bacall Boris Karloff Roberta Flack |
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Who designed the Dakota and when was it built? |
Henry J Hardenbergh (1884) |
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Buildings designed by Henry Hardenbergh |
Dakota Plaza Org. Waldorf and Astoria on 34th & 5th Willard Hotel (D.C.) Copley Plaza Hotel (Boston) Schermerhorn Building |
Hope it's not full of rats Hard to pronounce (like his name) I just can't ____ with this |
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What was the Campbell Apartment?
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Tycoon John W Campbell's 1920s private office and salon in Grand Central Station which has been fully restored to its original splendor as a cocktail lounge.
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Where can you find the famous smallpox hospital?
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Roosevelt Island
Designed by James Renwick Jr. |
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Equitable Building Who designed it and When? Where is it located? What did it cause? |
Ernest Graham (1915) 120 Broadway Created need for "Setback Law" (1916 Zoning Resolution) preventing buildings from blocking all sunlight to the streets |
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What is Chumley's
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Speakeasy in the West Village (86 Bedford; 1927)
Currently a restaurant that doesn't have a sign to honor its origin. (Apparently there will be a picture on the test, loom for a curved top door, courtyard) |
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What is the name of the mayor's house?
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Gracie Mansion
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What is the name of the Giant's Stadium in Harlem?
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Polo Grounds
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What is the name of the Greek Revival Row houses north of Washington Square?
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The Row
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What is the history of the many Ray's Pizza stores in Manhattan?
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When Albanians were overrun in war time Europe they found refuge in Italy, where they learned to make pizza.
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Who sold Manhattan to the Dutch?
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Algonquin Lenape Indians,
Wappinger Federation |
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Stonewall Riots:
Where, When, and What? |
Stonewall Inn (53 Christopher St. Greenwich Village)
June 28th, 1969 Gay people fought back against police raid, it is considered the beginning of the gay rights movement. |
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To what does the Dispensary Triangle refer?
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Northern Dispensary, triangular bldg between Christopher/Grove and Waverly.
Free medical care for the poor |
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What is known at "The House That Ruth Built"?
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Yankee Stadium
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What Latin dance was popular in the 80s?
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Salsa
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Bryant Park:
Named for? Where? What used to be there? |
Named after William Cullen Bryant.
Behind current NYC Library. Site of Croton Reservoir and later The Crystal Palace. |
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What is the name of an early black settlement in Brooklyn purchased by African American freed men in 1838?
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Weeksville now in Crown Heights/Bedford Stuyvesant
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What was the name of a popular vending machine system for food?
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Automats
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How has the grid of 1811 affected the city?
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All of the Above (Huh?)
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Must look up
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What is the origin if the word "Bowery"
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Dutch for farm
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What was the Tenement Law of 1879 designed to correct? |
The flaws of the 1867 Tenement Laws that required "a window in every room."
New law required that all windows face open air, and resulted in "Dumbbell Apartments," separated by narrow air shafts
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The 1924 Immigration Act (Johnson-Reed Act) primarily sought to restrict immigrants from what areas?
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Southern and Eastern Europe
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What was the original function of "Tavern On The Green"? (currently an eccentric restaurant in Central Park)
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It was a sheep barn
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Jewish Rialto
What is it and where is it located? |
Jewish Theater District that was popular from the 1920s-40s
2nd Ave between 14th and Houston |
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When were the 5 boroughs consolidated?
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1898
In result the Manhattan Municipal Building with "Civic Fame" on top was developed by McKim, Mead and White. |
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What caused the National Historic Preservation Movement?
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The destruction of the original Pennsylvania Train Station.
When talks of doing the same to Grand Central were slated, resistance began; spearheaded by Jackie O |
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What was the purpose of the 1965 Hart-Celler Act?
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Correct the flaws of the 1924 Johnson-Reed Act.
Abolished national origin quotas. Created preference visa categories based on skills. Led to an influx of Asians allowed in the country(?) Increase in immigrants from Asia, Africa, S & E Europe. |
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When was slavery abolished?
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1827
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Where is the Star Walk?
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Pearl Theater / 80 St Marks Theatre
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Who founded the AME Zion Church?
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Peter Williams
(broke away from John Street Church) |
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What was the name of the original Cotton Club?
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Club Deluxe
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Where is the Diamond District? Where was it originally?
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47th st between 5th & 6 the ave. Originally on Canal st in Chinatown |
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What was the name of the poem written by Emma Lazarus of the Statue of Liberty?
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The New Colossus
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Buildings designed by Wallace K Harrison |
UN Rockefeller Center Lincoln Center Battery Park City Empire State Plaza (Albany( Corning Museum of Glass |
MNEMONIC: Harrison Bergeron. Think totalitarian/50s.
State capitol Southern Manhattan
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Who was the first conductor to perform at Carnegie Hall?
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Tchaikovsky
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What was the old elevated railway of 9th ave called?
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Ninth Ave Elevated (El)
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What is the Grand Boulevard in the Bronx also known as?
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Grand Concourse
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Who designed the Equitable building?
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Ernest Graham (1915)
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Where is a revolutionary War Monument that honors the 11,500 patriots that died on prison ships?
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Forty Greene Park, Brooklyn
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What famous author hated brownstones?
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Edith Wharton
(Thought it was ugly) |
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Who designed the copper dome of the Woolworth Building?
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Cass Gilbert
(was Stanford White's assistant) |
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Who was Jimmy Walker?
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Mayor of NYC during Jazz Age 1920s.
Defeated Fiorella La Guardia. His demise coincided with the stock market crash. When Elliot Ness busted Club 21 he ticketed all of the Feds cars. He loved chorus girls. |
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Who were the architects of Grand Central Terminal? |
-Warren and Wetmore -Reed and Stem |
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What did Jacob Riis write?
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How the Other Half Lives
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Who designed the Statue of Liberty? Outside and Inside |
Frederic Auguste Bartholdi Gustave Eiffel |
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Who were the architects of The Manhattan Municipal Building?
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McKim, Mead and White
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What famous NYC resident invented the telephone?
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Antonio Meucci
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Which president regularly used a pew at St. Paul's Chapel?
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George Washington
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Who built Riverside Church?
Who was the architect? Who was the minister? |
John D Rockefeller (in memory of his mother Laura)
Allen, Collins and Pelton Harry Emerson Fosdick (Baptist) |
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Robert Moses - major mover and shaker
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Answer: All of the above
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Who did Lou Gehrig play for?
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Yankees
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Who lived in the Turtle Bay Apartments?
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Kathrine Hepburn
Tyrone Power Stephen Sondheim Mary Martin E.B. White |
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What Governor was reprimanded for allowing only Dutch Reformed people to settle? (Tried to exclude Jews - no passports)
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Peter Stuyvesant
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Who went to the Salmagundi Club at 47 5th Ave?
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Washington Irving
Louis B Tiffany John La Farge Stanford White |
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What black leader was deported out of the country?
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Marcus Garvey
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Who sculpted Bethesda Fountain?
Where is it? |
Emma Stebbins
Central Park |
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What is Morningside Heights?
What notable places are found there? |
Neighborhood on Upper West side.
Columbia University Tom's Restaurant (Seinfeld) St. John the Divine Riverside Church Grant's Tomb |
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What was Jackie O's 5th ave address?
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1040 (think tax return)
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Throg's Neck Bridge connects which two boroughs?
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Queens and the Bronx
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What famous sculptor did 'General Sherman' near Central Park by the Plaza Hotel?
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Augustus St. Gaudens
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What famous architect was shot by Harry K Thaw on top of Madison. Square Garden?
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Stanford White
(McKim, Mead and White) |
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Which train will take you from the Native American caves of Inwood in Upper Manhattan to the ocean beaches of the Rockaways in Queens?
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A
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Where is the hall of fame for great Americans?
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Bronx Community College
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Who was the Russian Jew (with a French name) that did the panels at Lincoln Center?
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Marc Chagall
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Where is Tom's restaurant from 'Seinfeld' located?
(neighborhood, address, and a reference point) |
Morningside Heights
W 112th and Broadway (one block west of St. John the Divine) |
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Who designed the Washington Arch?
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Stanford White
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Any question involving a building being moved should be answered this way
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Hamilton Grange (Alexander Hamilton's home)
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Who was the architect of the Chrysler Building?
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William Van Alen
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Where was Seneca Village located?
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82nd - 89th st between 7th & 8th ave
Now Central Park |
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What is the oldest continuous Protestant Organization in NYC?
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Marble Collegiate Church
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What is famous about the Chelsea Hotel?
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Center of artistic and bohemian famous people.
Dylan Thomas Sid Vicious |
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What is The Church of Transfiguration?
Address? |
Spiritual haven for actors/actresses
E 29th between Madison & 5th |
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Where was 'West Side Story' filmed?
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Lincoln Center
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What is at Arthur Ave in the Bronx?
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Little Italy (Belmont Area)
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Where would you go to learn about Santeria - a Caribbean religious mixture?
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A Botanica
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What does the Satmar Hasidic Jewish sect believe about Israel?
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They interfere with the coming of the Messiah and are not ordained to be here.
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What famous John Lennon song is found in Central Park on an Italian mosaic?
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Imagine
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Largest Jewish Synagogue in NYC
How many people? |
Temple Emanu-El
2500 / more than St. Patrick's |
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Where was the Cosby Show shot?
Where was it supposed to take place? |
St. Luke's Place in Greenwich.
Supposed to take place in Brooklyn on Stigwell Ave |
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What is unusual about the statues surrounding the Fountain of Peace statue at St. John the Divine
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They were made by children
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Oldest Jewish Synagogue in NYC
(Name, Year established, Address) |
Shearith Israel (1654)
8 W 70th st |
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Where did Dylan Thomas drink himself silly shortly before dying?
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The White Horse
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Where was the original St. Patrick's church located?
(Neighborhood, address) |
NoLita
263 Mulberry on the corner of Prince and Mott |
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Where is a large festival that celebrates the Feast of the Giglio?
(Neighborhood and Church) |
Williamsburg at Mt Carmel Church
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What is the Islamic Cultural Center?
Where is it located? |
First mosque built in US (1711) 3rd Ave between E 96th & 97th
(faces Mecca) |
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What is the oldest inhabited building in NYC?
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St Paul's Chapel (1766)
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What is Sniffen Court?
Where is it located? |
New York's smallest historic district.
Former stable mews. Runs SW off 36th btw 3rd & Lex in Murray Hill |
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Which three trains will take you to Yankee Stadium?
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B, D, 4
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What is the address of the original Cotton Club?
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142nd and Lenox
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Where is "Swedish Broadway"?
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Atlantic Ave. Brooklyn
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How are deals made in the Diamond District?
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Handshake
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What is Malcolm Shabbaz?
Where is it located? |
African goods market.
52 W 116th st (Harlem) |
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What is the UN address?
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1st Ave. 42nd - 49th St.
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What can be found on Roosevelt Island?
(six things)
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Renwick Smallpox Hospital Lighthouse Park Chapel of the Good Shepard FDRs Four Freedoms Park Blackwell Farmhouse Strecker Memorial Laboratory |
Stryker would have used a place like this.
Island former name
Crazy people need a... |
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The Kosciusko Bridge spans what waterway between Brooklyn and Queens?
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Newton Creek
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What streets are apart of the Thru St Program?
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36th-37th
45th-46th 49th-50th 53rd-54th |
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What subway line would you take to get to The Bronx Zoo
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2
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What subway lines DO NOT stop at Times Square?
(This includes underground transfers if the station name does not include "Times Square") |
A,B,C,D,E,F,G, J,L,M,V,Z
4,5,6 |
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What subway line takes you to the Brooklyn Museum?
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2 or 3
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What housing development helped bring blacks to settle in Harlem?
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Striver's Row
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In what borough is the Belmont area of Italians and Albanians?
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Bronx
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Where is the Next Wave Festival held each year?
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BAM Brooklyn Academy of Music
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Which boroughs have a 5th Ave?
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All except Staten Island
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How does the charter bus get from the Astoria Hotel to the Cloisters?
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Turn up Madison and take the Henry Hudson Access road
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What subway do you take to get to the Hispanic Society of America?
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1 to 157th st
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What's on Staten Island?
(five) |
Snug Harbor
Richmondtown Meucci-Garibaldi Museum Alice Austen House Tibetan Retreat |
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What artists are on display at the Hispanic Society of America?
(five) |
El Greco
Valasquez Goya Bastida Sorollo |
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What is the Hess Triangle?
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NYC's smallest plot of land.
Fought for by the Hess family when 7th Ave was rerouted. (In front of cigar store) |
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What was Giovanni's on 43rd st and 9th ave?
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The Improv comedy club
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What is Kim Chi?
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Korean spicy fermented cabbage
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What is babaganoush?
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Indian dish. Eggplant or tahini
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What is the proper attire at an airport?
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Professional dress
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What is CBGB?
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'Country Blue Grass and Blues'
Club in the Village Launched punk &new wave music: Talking Heads Police Blondie B-52s |
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Of what profession are the people who live in Carnegie Towers?
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Musicians and Artists
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What is Dim Sum?
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'Touch the heart'
An assortment of light Chinese dishes |
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What is the difference between Hal-Al and Kosher?
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Hal-Al follows Islamic Laws
Kosher followers Jewish Laws |
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What is bialy?
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Polish bread with a center of onions, garlic or poppy seed (a flat bagel).
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What is naan?
What is the bread called when it is fried? |
Indian flat bread
Poori |
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What is Batido?
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Cuban smoothie or shake
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Where are many Taiwanese moving to?
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Flushing, Queens
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"Charlotte's Web" or Stuart Little question, answer will be...
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E.B. White
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Where would you find a collection of Fabergé Eggs?
(Name and address) |
Forbes Gallery 62 5th ave
No longer there, sold to Russian Tycoon |
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What is unique about wood water towers?
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Wood expands when wet preventing leaks.
Cheaper to build and maintain. Water freezes later than in steel. |
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Why is it said that the constellations on the ceiling of GCT are best viewed by God?
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They are painted backwards (except for Orion)
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What is NYCs largest parade?
Where is it? When is it? |
West Indian Carnival Day Parade.
Brooklyn Happens on Labor Day |
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How did the Brooklyn Dodgers get their name?
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The players and fans had to dodge trolley cars on their way to practice and games.
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Where can you take people to use the restroom during a tour?
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Hotel Lobbies
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Where is New York City Panorama (largest architectural model in the world) located?
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Queens Museum of Art.
Flushing - Corona Park. |
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In 1880 over 1,000 people lost their lives in a maritime tragedy, almost all of them German, when a passenger steamer sank in the East River. What was the name of the boat?
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General Slocum
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How many people pass through GCT everyday?
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500,000
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Who funds public arts in the subway?
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MTA - Arts for Transit
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What museum has two Dutch Farmhouses?
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Brooklyn Museum
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What is BAM?
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Brooklyn Academy of Music
(Home of Next Wave Festival) |
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What is the name of the river east of Manhattan?
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East River
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What is the name of the river west of Manhattan?
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Hudson River
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How much do tickets to Shakespeare in the Park cost?
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Free
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What city is the size of the Bronx?
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Paris
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Can you idle your coach of it's under 40° F?
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Yes
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Can you idle your coach if it's a very hot day?
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No
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Why did the World Trade Center fall?
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All of the Above
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What is the biggest cultural attraction in NYC?
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Broadway Plays
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What do you include in an invoice?
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Everything you can think of.
Name, date, time, where, when, what etc |
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There is a question that involves a discreet building in the back of other buildings, you can tell there are horses, why are they there?
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The NYC Police department uses horses.
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Can tour guides accept commission or incentives to steer businesses to a vendor?
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No
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What was the name of the area known as Times Square?
When and why did the name change? |
Longacre Square.
1904 the subway arrived in the area along with the New York Times, whose publisher persuaded the city to rename it after his newspaper. (Competition with the Herald which Herald Square was named after) |
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If someone asked you in Times Square where they should go to see "The Nutcracker Suite" at Christmas time, where would you send them?
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New York State Theater at Lincoln Center
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A question about a house being moved refers to this man.
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Alexander Hamilton
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When was slavery abolished in NYC?
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1827
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What is a fam trip?
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Slang for "familiarization trip"
Professionals in training are taken to tourist sites to learn about them. |
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Where did James Van Der Zee Live?
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Across from St Phillips and the 10 row houses purchased by the church. (Harlem)
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Why does steam rise up from vents and other areas of the city's streets?
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Huge steam plants are built throughout the city to heat nearby buildings. The ground water hitting these 1,500° pipes turns to steam and then rises.
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Why did the Dutch settle in Manhattan?
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Financial Gain
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NBC radio greeting
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Similar to "faster than a speeding bullet, etc"
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French word for "market" tenements
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Apartment
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Where are the great works of Picasso found? |
Gagosian Gallery – which has 3 locations in NYC and numerous worldwide |
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Where does the NY ballet Perform the Nutcracker Suite during Christmas time? |
David H Koch Theater – formerly the NY State Theater – which is part of the Lincoln Center for performing Arts |
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Who was Elizabeth Ann Seton and what did she do? |
The first American born saint in the US & NY
Helped establish the Catholic Church and schools in the US |
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Where is the Shrine of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton located? |
7 State St facing Battery Park |
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What is the address of Madison Square Garden? |
4 Penn Plaza |
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What is the address of Grand Central Station? |
42nd St & Park Ave |
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What is the address of Times Square? |
Junction of Broadway & 7th Ave between W42nd – W 47th streets |
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During what war did the battleship USS Maine sink? |
Spanish–American War (not Mexican). Note: Mast of battleship is at Arlington Cemetery |
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Where is Roosevelt Island? How big is it? |
Between Manhattan & Queens in the East River. 2 miles long & 800 ft wide – 147 acres. |
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What other names has Roosevelt Island had? |
Roosevelt Island was originally named Blackwell's Island for it's owner and later Welfare Island |
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Where is the largest carillon in NYC?
When was it installed? |
Riverside Church – installed 1925 |
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What was the inspiration for the design of the Riverside Church? |
The Cathedral of Chartres (gothic cathedral in France) |
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What building was converted into the original Malcolm Shabazz Mosque? |
Lenox Casino
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Who designed the new Malcolm Shabazz mosque after the original was destroyed in a bombing? |
Sabbath Brown |
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Who preached in the Malcolm Shabazz Mosque? |
Malcolm X, before he converted to Sunni Islam
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Who was shot in the Malcolm Shabazz Mosque? |
NYPD Officer Phillip Cardillo, after responding to a false 911 call. 1972. |
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What Park displays Greek Revival houses with old iron fences surrounding the properties and has the city's only private residential square? |
Gramercy Park by Samuel B Ruggles |
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Where is the Empire State building? |
5th Ave @ 34th St
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What are the dimensions and style of the Empire State Bldg? When was it completed? |
102 stories, 1250 ft tall, Art Deco
1931 |
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When has the Empire State Building been the tallest building in NYC? |
Before and After the World Trade Center.
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Where can one find the largest collection of Egyptian art? |
MET – Metropolitan Museum of Art at 1000 5th Ave
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Where is the 2nd largest collection of Egyptian Art? |
The Brooklyn Museum
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NY Major league sports teams and where they play? |
NY Yankees – Yankee stadium in The Bronx
NY Mets – Citi Field in Queens Jets & Giants – both teams share New Meadowlands stadium in East Rutherford NJ Knickerbockers (Knicks) – Madison Square Garden, Manhattan NY Rangers – Madison Square Garden, Manhattan NY Islanders – Nassau Coliseum on Long Island |
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Where is the apt where Audrey Hepburn's blind character from Wait Until Dark" lived?" |
Greenwich Village
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What is the new elevated park called? Where is it located? |
The High Line The 1.5 Mile Park is on the West side of Manhattan from Gansevoort St in the Meatpacking District to W 34th St bet 10th & 11th Avenues |
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Describe the residents of the Lower East Side (LES) |
Oldest immigrant NYC neighborhoods. Originally Irish, Italian, Polish, Ukranians AKA Little Germany Currently home to Puerto Ricans & Dominicans |
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What type of architecture can be found in LES? |
Greek Revival & Italinate |
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Who was the man who made the purchase of Manhattan from the Indians? |
Dutchman Peter Minuit
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What was the price when Manhattan was sold to the Dutch? |
$24 in items that would have been useful to the Indians. Note: The Indians would not have perceived the deal as an exchange of ownership since they did not understand the concept of land ownership |
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What is the oldest Jewish newspaper? |
Jewish Daily Forward also called The Forvitz |
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What is the Salmagundi Club? Describe the club? Where is the club located? |
A club for artists (not night club). Only surviving mansion – on Natl Reg of Historic Places Lower 5th Ave in Greenwich Village |
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Who originally owned the Dutch farm houses in the Brooklyn Museum? |
Jan Martense Schenk Nicholas Schenk |
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Where can buses stop when picking up or discharging passengers? |
While actively discharging or loading passengers, buses MAY stop in: No Parking, No standing, No standing–Except Trucks loading & unloading zones. NOTE – buses may NOT stop in a no stopping zone, red zone bus lanes, or bus stops |
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What is solomagundi stew? |
A stew of British orginmade famous at the Salmagundi Club (pirates stew) |
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Where was the 1st & oldest community of free African–Americans in New York (and in the US) located? |
Sandy Ground, Staten Island Note – Land was purchased by freed blacks when slavery was abolished on July 4th 1827 |
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Where is the memorial fountain for Ida and Isidor Straus, a married couple that stayed together in the sinking of the Titanic? |
Broadway at W 106th St in Straus Park
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Why is the Jewish congregation The New Commandment Keepers unique? |
Sect of Black Ethiopian Jews that believe they are a part of the lost tribes of Israel |
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What museums are located on Museum Mile |
Museum for African Art El Museo del Barrio Museum of the City of New York The Jewish Museum Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum (part of the Smithsonian Institution) National Academy Museum and School of Fine Arts Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum Neue Galerie The Metropolitan Museum of Art |
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Where is Museum Mile |
Fifth Ave, from 82nd to 105th St |
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