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Who are the architects of Grand Central Terminal? - correct answer ✅Warren and Wetmore, Reed and Stem What subway lines do NOT stop at Times Square? - correct answer ✅4/5/6, B/D/F/M, A/C/E, G, L What borough has Edgar Allan Poe's cottage? - correct answer ✅The Bronx Where can you find the greatest concentration of cast iron buildings in the world? - correct answer ✅SoHo (SOuth of HOuston) What's a nickname for the AT&T Building? - correct answer ✅Golden Boy What was the original function of the building that holds Tavern-on-the-Green, an exclusive, eccentric restaurant in Central Park? - correct answer ✅It was a sheep barn
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What are some of Wallace K. Harrison's accomplishments as an architect? - correct answer ✅United Nations, Rockefeller Center, Battery Park City, master plan for Lincoln Center and Metropolitan Opera House, Albany's Empire State Plaza, Corning Museum of Glass What famous book did Jacob Riis write about the conditions in tenement houses, to motivate social reform? - correct answer ✅How the Other Half Lives Who designed the outside of the Statue of Liberty? The inside? - correct answer ✅Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi; Gustave Eiffel Who designed the Washington Square Arch? - correct answer ✅Stanford White Who sculpted Bethesda Fountain? Where is it? - correct answer ✅Emma Stebbins; Central Park
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correct answer ✅1711 Third Avenue, between E 96th Street and E 97th Street Who was Malcolm Shabazz? What two locations on W 116th Street are named for him? - correct answer ✅Malcolm X's grandson; Malcolm Shabazz Mosque and Malcolm Shabazz Harlem Market (market for African goods and clothes) The Kosciuszko Bridge spans what waterway between Brooklyn and Queens? - correct answer ✅Newtown Creek Where is the New Wave Festival held each year? - correct answer ✅Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) Which great painters are on display at the Hispanic Society of America? - correct answer ✅El Greco, Diego Velázquez, Francisco de Goya, and others What is CBGB? - correct answer ✅A music club that opened in the East
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Village in 1973 and helped launch punk and new wave music. "Country, BlueGrass, and Blues." Police, the B- 52s, the Talking Heads, and Blondie played here. What is a bialy? - correct answer ✅A Jewish pastry similar to a bagel but without a hole. Usually covered with onions. What is unique about wooden water towers? - correct answer ✅Wood expands when wet, preventing leaks. Cheaper to build and maintain. Water freezes later than in steel. Where is the New York City Panorama, the largest architectural model in the world? - correct answer ✅Queens Museum in Flushing Meadows Corona Park What is the largest Jewish congregation in New York City? - correct answer ✅Temple Emanu-El
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What is the newest museum on Museum Mile? - correct answer ✅The Neue Galerie at 1048 5th Avenue. Austrian and German art, donated by Ronald Lauder, a cosmetics mogul. In C. Vanderbuilt's old house. What is the best example of Art Deco architecture in New York City? - correct answer ✅Chrysler Building What is a brownstone? - correct answer ✅Originally, a rowhouse built almost entirely of brown sandstone. Later, was faced with brownstone only. What is the tallest structure in New York City outside of Manhattan? - correct answer ✅Citigroup Building in Long Island City, Queens, at 663' or 48 stories tall The Ansonia Hotel was known for what unusual features? - correct answer ✅"All of the above": The world's largest swimming pool, a rooftop farm with goats and pigs, an
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indoor fountain with seals. It was home to Babe Ruth, Igor Stravinsky, Angelina Jolie, Natalie Portman, and others. What is the nickname of the Woolworth Building? - correct answer ✅The Cathedral of Commerce What is the 21 Club? - correct answer ✅A famous speakeasy from the '20s. There is a row of famous jockeys out front. Where is the Forbes Gallery? - correct answer ✅60 Fifth Avenue, near 12th Street What is the current name of Hurtig and Seamon's? - correct answer ✅Apollo Theater What and where is the second oldest monument in New York City? - correct answer ✅The Worth Monument, 25th Street and Broadway
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What is the E.V. Haughwout Building known for? - correct answer ✅It was the location of the world's first successful passenger elevator. The Lincolns bought china and silverware for the White House there. What is the address of the New York Stock Exchange?
correct answer ✅11 Wall Street What notable event happened at Federal Hall? - correct answer ✅George Washington's inauguration What is the name of the garden at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden that's famous for its cherry trees? - correct answer ✅Japanese Hill-and-Pond Garden What is the former Bloomingdale Asylum now used as, and where is it? - correct answer ✅Administration building at Columbia University What is the former Gotham Hotel now called, and where is it? -
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correct answer ✅Peninsula Hotel; 700 Fifth Avenue, at 55th Street What is Civic Fame? - correct answer ✅A 25-ft golden statue on top of the 1898 Manhattan Municipal Building, designed by Adolph Weinman. Where is the Dakota, and who lives or has lived there?
correct answer ✅8th Avenue and W 72nd Street; Lauren Bacall, Boris Karloff, Connie Chung, Maury Povich, Judy Garland, Roberta Flack, Rudolv Nureyev What buildings did architect Henry Hardenbergh design? - correct answer ✅Dakota, Plaza Hotel, original Waldorf and Astoria Hotels, Schermerhorn Building What was the Campbell Apartment? - correct answer ✅A recently-reopened bar in Grand Central Terminal, originally the office of American financier John W. Campbell.
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What is the name of the Greek Revival houses north of Washington Square? - correct answer ✅The Row What is the history of the many Ray's Pizza stores in Manhattan? - correct answer ✅Many Italian restaurants in Little Italy are now owned by ethnic Albanians who originally fled Eastern Europe for Italy and learned to make pizza there. What Native American group supposedly sold Manhattan to the Dutch? - correct answer ✅The Wappinger Federation or Lenni Lenape What were the Stonewall Riots? - correct answer ✅In 1969, riots broke out outside the Stonewall Inn in Greenwich Village, at 53 Christopher Street, protesting police raids of the gay bar. This is considered beginning of gay rights movement.
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To what does the dispensary triangle refer to? - correct answer ✅Medical care for the poor What is known as "The House That Ruth Built"? - correct answer ✅Yankee Stadium What Latin dance was popular in the '80s? - correct answer ✅Salsa What NYC landmark was once the site of the Croton Reservoir, and later the Crystal Palace? - correct answer ✅Bryant Park Whom is Bryant Park named after? - correct answer ✅William Cullen Bryant, a journalist and editor of the New York Evening Post What is the name of an early black settlement in Brooklyn that was settled by freedmen in 1838? Who was it named after? - correct answer ✅Weeksville; James Weeks
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correct answer ✅A Jewish theater district, on 2nd Avenue between Houston and 14th Streets; the '20s to '40s When did the five boroughs of New York City consolidate? - correct answer ✅1898. One result was the building of the Manhattan Municipal Building, designed by McKim, Mead, and White, and topped by Weinman's Civic Fame sculpture. What event inspired the National Historic Preservation Movement? - correct answer ✅The destruction of the original Penn Station. When Grand Central Terminal was also slated for destruction, Jackie Kennedy Onassis spearheaded a resistance effort. What was the purpose of the 1965 Hart-Cellars Act? - correct answer ✅Abolished the quota system based on national origin from the American immigration policy, in favor of one based on skills. This allowed many more Asians to immigrate to the US.
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When was slavery abolished in New York? - correct answer ✅ 1827 Where is the Star Walk? - correct answer ✅Pearl Theater Who founded the AME Zion Church? - correct answer ✅Peter Williams What was the original name of the Cotton Club? - correct answer ✅Club Deluxe Where is the Diamond District? Where did it used to be? - correct answer ✅47th Street between 5th and 6th Avenue; previously in Chinatown What is the name of the poem written by Emma Lazarus that is displayed on the Statue of Liberty? - correct answer ✅The New Colossus
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Who was Jimmy Walker? - correct answer ✅Mayor of New York City during the Jazz Age, after defeating Fiorello LaGuardia. He famously ticketed the cars of police officers conducting a raid on the 21 Club during Prohibition. He was involved with Tammany Hall. Eventually, he resigned in 1932 at the request of President Roosevelt. Who are the architects of the Manhattan Municipal Building? - correct answer ✅McKim, Mead, and White Which famous New York City resident invented the telephone? - correct answer ✅Antonio Meucci Which president regularly sat in a pew at St. Paul's Chapel? - correct answer ✅George Washington Who decided to build Riverside Church? Who designed it? - correct answer ✅John D. Rockefeller Jr. and Baptist
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Minister Harry Emerson Fosdick; Allen, Pelton, and Collens Who was Robert Moses? - correct answer ✅A public figure responsible for infrastructure building and maintenance in the city. NYC Parks Commissioner for 26 years. Responsible for: public swimming pools, including McCarren Park in Brooklyn; Northern State, Southern State, and Wantagh Parkways in Long Island; Triborough Bridge; (partly) the Dodgers leaving Brooklyn for Los Angeles. What team did Lou Gehrig play for? - correct answer ✅New York Yankees Who lived in Turtle Bay Gardens? - correct answer ✅Katherine Hepburn, Stephen Sondheim, E.B. White, Tyrone Power What governor was reprimanded for allowing only Dutch Reformed people to settle in New Amsterdam? - correct answer ✅Peter Stuyvesant
