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What borough has Edgar Allen Poe's cottage?
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The Bronx
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What is in the Dahesh Museum?
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Europe's academically trained artists of the 19th and early 20th century, only museum in US.
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What is the best example of Art Deco architecture in NYC?
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Chrysler Building
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What is a Brownstone?
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Originally a rowhouse built almost entirely out of brown sandstone, later only faced with brownstone.
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The Ansonia Hotel was known for what unusual features?
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All of the above? World's largest swimming pool, rooftop farm with goats and pigs, indoor fountain with seals, home to Babe Ruth, Igor Stravinsky, etc.
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What did William Cullen Bryant do for a living?
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Romantic poet and editor of NY Evening Post who spearheaded the campaign for Central Park.
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What is the nickname of the Woolworth Building?
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The Cathedral of Commerce
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What and where is the Salmagundi Club (47)?
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A club for artists. At 47 Fifth Ave between 11th and 12th Streets, named after The Salmagundi Papers by Washington Irving.
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Where can you find the greatest concentration of cast iron buildings in the world?
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SOHO (SOuth of HOuston)
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Where is the Forbes Gallery (60)?
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60 Fifth Ave. near 12th St.
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What is the current name of Hurtig and Seamon's?
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Apollo Theater
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Where and what is the 2nd oldest monument in NYC?
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Worth Monument is in Worth Square at 25th and Broadway near Madison Square Park. The obelisk honors General Worth for his service in the Mexican-American War and Seminole War.
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What does Guastavino refer to?
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A type of timbrel roof vaulting that uses lighter terra cotta tiles. Ellis Island, Custom House, GCT used them.
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Which of these is not a Broadway theater? Hilton, Music Box, Beacon, St. James
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The Beacon
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What is the name of the hotel at 59 W. 44th between Fifth and Sixth, famous as a hangout for writers?
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Algonquin Hotel, famous for its Round Table, where actors, critics, writers and wits would gather, nicknamed 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 Haughwaut's building known for?
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Store sold the Lincolns their china and silverware for the White House. Also, first Otis elevator and earliest use of cast iron.
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Where is the New York Stock Exchange?
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11 Wall St. (This is a trick question, they want you to say Wall and Broad)
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What is Federal Hall and where is it?
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Site of GW's Inauguration as President. Federal Hall Memorial is the former Custom House building rebuilt on the original site on Wall Street.
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What is Bloomingdale Asylum and where is it?
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Buell Hall, the administration building of Columbia University in Morningside Heights, formerly a lunatic asylum from 1821.
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What is the name of the garden at the Brooklyn Botanical Museum, famous for its cherry trees?
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Japanese Hill And Pond Garden
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What's the nickname of the AT&T building?
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Golden Boy
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Where is the Gotham Hotel, and what is it now called?
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700 Fifth Ave at 55th Street - The Peninsula
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What is Civic Fame?
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A 25-foot tall golden statue on top of the Manhattan Municipal Building. Designed by Adolph A. Weinman to celebrate the merging of the 5 boroughs in 1898.
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Where is the Dakota Building, who designed it, and who is living or has has lived there?
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Central Park West (Eighth Ave) and W. 72nd Street. Henry Hardenbergh design. Lauren Bacall, Connie Chung & Maury Povich, Roberta Flack, Rudolf Nureyev, Boris Karloff, Judy Garland, John Lennon.
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Name buildings designed by Henry Hardenbergh
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Dakota, Plaza, Schermerhorn Building, the original Waldorf Astoria on 5th (Empire State Building there now), Willard, Copley Plaza,
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What was the Campbell Apartment?
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An opulent space in GCT, occupied by a friend of William Kissam Vanderbilt. Police thought it was lived in when they saw a shower and toilet. It is now an opulent bar.
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Where can you find a famous smallpox hospital?
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Roosevelt Island. Designed by James Renwick, Jr.
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Equitable Building - Who, where, when. What did it cause?
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Ernest Graham, 120 Broadway, 1915, Zoning setback restrictions resulting in the Wedding Cake Silhouette architecture.
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What was Chumley's?
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A former speakeasy in the Village frequented by writers. There will be a picture. Look for curved top door, courtyard.
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What was the reason for purchasing and who sold Manhattan to the Dutch?
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Peter Minuit acquired Manhattan in 1626 from the Lenape tribe in exchange for goods worth 60 guilders. The Dutch wanted a protective citadel for their fur trading post, according to the document by Pieter Janszoon Schagen.
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What is the name of the Mayor's house?
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Gracie Mansion
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What was the name of Giants' Stadium in Harlem?
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Polo Grounds
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What's the name of the Greek Revival 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 the Albanians were overrun in wartime Europe, they found refuge in Italy and learned to make pizza. OR a mob guy decided to open a pizza store and it was so good many people copied the name until it became a joke in NYC.
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What were the Stonewall Riots?
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In 1969, gay people fought with police at 53 Christopher St. and began the gay pride/rights movement.
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House That Ruth Built?
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Yankee Stadium
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To what does the Dispensary Triangle refer?
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Medical care for the poor.
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What Latin dance was popular in the 80's?
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Salsa
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What was previously in Bryant Park?
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Bryant Park, named after William Cullen Bryant, was the site of the Croton Reservoir, and later the Crystal Palace. Behind current NYC Library
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What is the name of an early black settlement in Brooklyn, settled by freedmen in 1838?
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Weeksville was named after James Weeks.
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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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What effect did the 1811 Grid Plan have on the city?
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All of the above? No alleys, single family homes, cross-ventilation, reduced construction costs.
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What team did Lou Gehrig play for?
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Yankees
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What does Bowery mean?
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Dutch, for farm
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What was Dumbbell Architecture and what was it intended to correct?
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Buildings with narrow spaces between them to act as air shafts and allow sunlight in. Designed to correct the flaws of the 1867 zoning laws but dumbbell apartments were worse.
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What areas were reduced as the result of the 1924 Johnson-Reed Immigration Act?
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Southern and Eastern Europe, East Asians and Asian Indians
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Tavern-On-The-Green, an exclusive, eccentric restaurant in Central Park was what before?
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It was a sheep barn
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What event caused the National Historic Preservation Movement to begin?
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The destruction of the original Pennsylvania Train Station. When GCT was slated, resistance began, spearheaded by Jackie O.
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What and where was the Jewish Rialto?
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A Jewish theater district on Second Ave, between 14th St. and Houston St. that was very popular from the 20's to 40's.
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When did the 5 boroughs consolidate?
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1898 - Honored with Manhattan Municipal Building with Civic Fame statue on top.
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Where is the Star Walk?
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Theatre 80 St. Marks, the former home of the Pearl Theatre Company.
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What was the original name of the Cotton Club?
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Club Deluxe
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What was the purpose of the 1965 Hart-Cellars Act?
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Correct the flaws of the 1924 Johnson-Reed Act . Allowed many more Asians. Immigration quotas were based on skills and resident relatives.
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When was slavery abolished in New York?
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1827
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Who founded the Free African Church of St. Philip in Harlem?
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Peter Williams, Jr. in 1809.
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What are Wallace K. Harrison's accomplishments as an architect?
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UN, Rockefeller Center, Lincoln Center,
Battery Park City, Albany Plaza, Corning Glass Center |
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Where is the Diamond District?
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On 47th St. between Fifth and Sixth Ave, near Rockefeller Center.
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What is the name of the poem written by Emma Lazurus on the Statue Of Liberty?
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The New Colossus
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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 called on Ninth Ave?
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Ninth Ave. El is now High Line Park.
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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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What famous author hated brownstones?
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Edith Wharton
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Who designed the Woolworth Building?
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Cass Gilbert
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Who sculpted Bethesda Fountain? Where is it?
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Emma Stebbins, Central Park
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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 outside of the Statue Of Liberty? Inside?
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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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Where is a revolutionary war monument that honors 11,500 patriots that died on prison ships?
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Fort Greene Park, Brooklyn has the Prison Ships Martyrs Monument.
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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 was Robert Moses?
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All of the above? Manhattan Master Planner (controversial major mover and shaker) - bridges, expressways, public housing, UN, Lincoln Center, Shea Stadium.
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Who was Jimmy Walker?
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Mayor of NYC during the Jazz Age (Roaring 20's). Defeated Fiorello La Guardia. His downfall spurred by the stock market crash and scandal forced him to resign in 1932. Favored chorus women. When Elliot Ness busted Club 21, he ticketed all the feds' cars!
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Who were the architects of Grand Central Terminal?
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Warren & Wetmore and Reed & Stem
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Who lived in the Turtle Bay apartments?
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Katherine Hepburn, E.B. White, Tyrone Power, Stephen Sondheim, Mary Martin
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What governor was reprimanded for allowing only Dutch Refomed people to settle? (Tried to exclude Jews and Quakers)
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Peter Stuyvesant
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Who went to the Salmagundi Club?
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Washington Irving, Louis Comfort Tiffany, Stanford White, John La Farge
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What black leader was deported out of the country?
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Marcus Garvey
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What famous sculptor created the statue of 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 the roof of Madison Square Garden?
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Stanford White, of McKim, Mead and White
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Who was the Russian Jew with the French name that did the panels at the Lincoln Center?
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Marc Chagall
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Who designed the Washington Arch?
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Stanford White
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Who were the architects of Riverside Church?
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Allen & Collens and Henry C. Pelton were the architects. John D. Rockefeller Jr. led the financing for Baptist Minister Harry Emerson Fosdick
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What is Morningside Heights, and what is found there?
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A neighborhood on the Upper West Side. Columbia University and the old Bloomingdale Asylum, Tom's Restaurant (Seinfeld), St. John the Divine, Riverside Church, Grant's Tomb
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Who was the Chrysler Building's architect?
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William Van Alen
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What's on Arthur Avenue in the Bronx?
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Little Italy is on Arthur Avenue in the Belmont section of the Bronx.
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Oldest Jewish newspaper
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The Forward
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Where is the Hall of Fame for Great Americans?
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Bronx Community College
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The Church of the Transfiguration, at E. 29th between Madison and Fifth, is known as a spiritual haven for what group of people?
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Actors and actresses
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Where is Tom's Restaurant of Seinfeld fame located?
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Morningside Heights at W.112th and Broadway, one block west of St. John the Divine and near Columbia University.
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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 Jewish sect believe about Israel?
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The state of Israel interferes with the coming of the Messiah. Not yet ordained to be there by God.
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Where was Seneca Village located?
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Central Park - Between 82nd and 89th streets between Seventh and Eighth Ave.
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What is the oldest continuous Protestant church in NYC?
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Marble Collegiate Church
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What are the cross town bus routes (7,7,7,11)?
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Don't try to learn. (65,72,79,86,97)
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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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IND A train
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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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What's famous about the Chelsea Hotel?
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Home of famous artistic and bohemian people, like Bob Dylan, Dylan Thomas, Sid Vicious, Arthur C. Clarke etc.
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What is unique about a black congregation in a synagogue in Harlem?
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The faithful are black and Jewish.The Commandment Keepers: Holy Church of the Living God are a sect of Black Jews, founded in 1919 by Wentworth Arthur Matthew that believe Ethiopian descendants represent a lost tribe of Israel. Headquartered since 1962 at 1 West 123rd Street in Harlem.
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What John Lennon song name is found in Central park, in Italian mosaic?
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Imagine
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Where is Old St. Patrick's Cathedral located?
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In Nolita, on corner of Prince and Mott, at 263 Mulberry.
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Where was the Cosby show filmed?
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Manhattan's St. Luke's Place, but supposed to be Brooklyn's Stigwell Ave.
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Where is the Islamic Cultural Center?
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1711 Third Ave between E. 96th and E. 97th.
It was the first mosque built in US, with donations from 46 countries and faces Mecca. |
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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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What housing structure helped bring blacks to settle in Harlem?
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Dunbar Apartments
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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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Which three trains will take you to Yankee Stadium?
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B, D, 4 (Baseball Diamond 4)
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Largest Jewish Synagogue in NYC
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Temple Emanu-El has 3000 families in its congregation and the building seats 2,500 people (more than St. Pat's).
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What is the address of the original Cotton Club?
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142nd and Lenox
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How are many deals made in the Diamond District?
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Handshake
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Oldest Jewish Congregation in NYC?
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Congregation Shearith Israel at Central Park West (Eighth) and 70th St. was founded in 1654.
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What is the location of the UN?
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First Ave, between E. 42nd and E.49th
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Where was West Side Story filmed?
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Lincoln Center area (was torn down)
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The Kosciusko Bridge spans what waterway between Brooklyn and Queens?
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Newtown Creek
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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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Where is a large festival that celebrates the Feast of the Giglio?
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Mt. Carmel Church, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
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What subway lines take 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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Strivers' Row - built for wealthy whites but sat empty then sold to blacks.
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In what borough is the Belmont area of Italians and Albanians?
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Belmont, Bronx
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What satellite of Trinity Church was built in 1766?
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St. Paul's Chapel.
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What was built in 1766?
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St. Paul's Chapel.
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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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How does a CHARTER BUS get from the Astoria Hotel (Park Ave between 49th and 50th Streets) to the Cloisters Museum (190th Street and Henry Hudson)?
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Do NOT take Park Ave. Take Henry Hudson Access Road.
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What is Sniffen Court, and where is it?
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A former mews (horse stables), it is now a courtyard of apartments on Murray Hill on E. 36th St, between Third Ave. and Lexington.
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What subway train do you take to get to the Hispanic Society of America?
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#1 train to 157th St. W.
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What's on Staten Island?
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Snug Harbor, historic Richmondtown, Meucci-Garibaldi Museum, Alice Austen house
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What great painters are on display in the Hispanic Society of the America?
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El Greco, Goya and Valasquez
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What was Giovanni's on 43rd and Ninth?
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Either Improv or Comedy Club
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Where is Swedish Broadway? (BroadwAABB)
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Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn (Broadway)
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What is Kim Chi?
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Korean pickled cabbage
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What is the Malcolm Shabbaz Harlem Market?
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African goods marketplace in Harlem at 52 W. 116th St.
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What is Babaganoush?
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Eggplant paste
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What can be found on Roosevelt Island?
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An Insane Asylum. A smallpox hospital designed by James Renwick Jr. A planned community. A tram to get back and forth from Manhattan. A prison. A lighthouse. Answer MAY be: All of Above.
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What is CBGB?
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It was a club in the Village (Country, Blue Grass, and Blues) that helped launch punk and new wave music - Talking Heads, Police, Blondie, and B-52's.
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Of what profession are the residents of Carnegie Towers?
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Musicians and artists
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Where can buses unload and pick up pax?
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Anywhere except NO STOPPING zones.
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What are the streets of the Thru-Street program?
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36 and 37, 45 and 46, 49 and 50, 53 and 54, 60
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What is the difference between Hal-Al and Kosher?
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Hal-Al is Islamic; Kosher is Jewish
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What subway lines do NOT stop at Times Square?
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Green, 4,5 and 6
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What is noam? Na'an?
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Indian flat bread
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What is a Batido?
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A Brazilian milkshake, made with fruit.
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Where are many Taiwanese moving to?
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Flushing, Queens
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Which boroughs have a Fifth Avenue?
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All but Staten Island
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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 in wood than in steel.
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Why is it sometimes 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 and where is NYC's largest Parade?
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West Indian American Day Carnival and Parade. In Crown Heights, Brooklyn, over Labor Day from Utica along Eastern Parkway to Grand Army Plaza. 44th year in 2011.
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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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What is a convenient place to take people to the bathroom while touring?
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Of choices, answer is hotel lobbies.
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To what does the Hess triangle refer?
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NYC's smallest plot of land, fought for by the Hess family, when 7th Ave. was rerouted. In front of a cigar store. There will be a picture of it.
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In 1880, over 1,000 people, mostly German, lost their lives in a maritime tragedy. What was the name of the steamboat?
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General Slocum
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How many people pass through Grand Central TERMINAL every day?
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500,000 (now 750,000?)
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What is the proper attire at an airport?
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Professional dress
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What museum has two Dutch Farmhouses?
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Brooklyn Museum
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What is Dim Sum?
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A variety of Chinese dumplings and appetizers.
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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 in Shakespeare In The Park cost?
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Free
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What is a bialy?
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A Jewish pastry, covered with onions
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What city is the same size as the Bronx?
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Paris
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What is poori?
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Indian flat bread (naan) that is deep fried.
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Can you idle your coach if it's under 40 degrees F? or if it's a very hot day?
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Yes; No
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Why did the World trade Center fall?
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All of the above? Fire weakened floor joists, floors detached and fell into each for a pancake effect pulling the outside pillars inward and collapsing.
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What are the biggest industries in New York?
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If biggest industry, answer is F.I.R.E. - Fire Insurance, Real Estate and Broadway Shows
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Who wrote Charlotte's Web and Stuart Little?
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E.B White
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What do you include on an invoice?
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Everything you can think of - name, date, time, where, when, what, etc.
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Where would you have found a collection of Faberge Eggs before 2004?
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Forbes Gallery
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The question involves a small discreet building in back of other buildings. You can tell there are horses there. Why are they there?
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NYC Police department uses horses.
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Can a tour guide accept commissions or incentives to steer business to a vendor?
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No
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What was the name of the area now known as Times Square? When and why did the name change?
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Longacre Square. When the subway reached there in 1904, the New York Times newspaper moved there.
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New York City Panorama, largest architectural model in the world, is where?
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Queens Museum of Art in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park.
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Who funds public arts in the subway?
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MTA's Arts for Transit Fund
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What is BAM ?
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Brooklyn Academy of Music
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What and when was the Harlem Renaissance?
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African American cultural period form 1924-29 featuring Langston Hughes with many other writers, musicians, artists and intellectuals.
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Where is the State Ballet Company's Nutcracker performed?
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State Theater at Lincoln Center.
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Where will you find Picasso's paintings?
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Museum of Modern Art (MOMA).
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Who was New York's first Saint?
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St. Elizabeth Ann Seton's Shrine is at 7 State Street near Battery Park.
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During what war was the USS Maine battleship sunk?
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Spanish American War
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When and where is the West Indian American Day Parade and Carnival?
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Labor Day in Crown Heights, Brooklyn.
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Who donated the largest bell carillon in NYC and why?
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John D. Rockefeller donated the carillon at Riverside Church to honor his mother.
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Where is the Malcolm Shabazz Mosque and why is it significant?
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Originally Mosque #7, Malcolm-X's mosque is at 116th and Lenox in Harlem.
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What is unique about Gramercy Park?
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It is the only private park in Manhattan; owned by the residents of the bordering townhomes.
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What is the oldest museum in NYC?
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The NY Historical Society Museum contains the works of John Audubon of The Birds of North America fame.
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Where is the largest collection of Egyptian art in NYC?
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The MET has the largest, the Brooklyn Museum the second largest.
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When was the Statue of Liberty completed?
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1886 - a gift from France to the US. The pedestal was built from people's donations and their names were printed in Pulitzer's newspaper.
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When was the Empire State building completed?
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1931 - It is 1,250 feet tall with observation decks on 86 and 102. Second largest office building after Pentagon.
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Who designed Central Park and when was it completed?
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Frederick Law Olmstead and Calvert Vaux, 1873.
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Where is the USS Maine Memorial?
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The southwest corner of Central Park near the Merchant's Gate.
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Who designed Grace Church?
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James Renwick Jr. It is located at Broadway and E. 10th Street.
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Where is St. Patrick's Cathedral (50-51) now?
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Fifth Avenue between 50th and 51st Streets. Completed in 1878 by James Renwick Jr.
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Who designed the Washington Arch and where is it?
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Stanford White designed the arch to honor the 1889 centennial of GW's NY inauguration, and the permanent one near Fifth Avenue in Greenwich Village.
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When was Rockefeller Center completed and where is it?
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1933 - Straddles Sixth Avenue from 48th to 51st Streets.
Named after John D. Rockefeller, it is 19 buildings including Radio City, 30 Rock (GE), etc. |
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Where is Carnegie Hall?
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Located on Seventh Ave between 56th and 57th Streets, south of Central Park. Completed in 1890.
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What is architect Ralph Walker's most significant building?
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The first Wedding Cake Silhouette building - New York Telephone Building (now the Barclay-Vesey) with Art Deco styling.
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What is a unique feature of Varick Street in Tribeca?
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It contains a police horse stables.
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What Beaux-Arts buildings did Carrere & Hastings design?
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NY Public Library, the Frick Museum, Grand Army Plaza,
Arlington Amphitheater. |
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Who were Beaux-Arts architects?
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Daniel Burnham, Cass Gilbert, Carrere & Hastings, McKim, Mead & White,
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Famous Beaux-Arts buildings?
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GCT, NY Public Library, Frick Museum, Ellis Island, Equitable Building, Algonquin, Ansonia Hotel, Custom House.
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Where is Museum Mile?
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Fifth Avenue from 82nd to 105th including the Met, Goethe-Institut, Neue Galerie, Gugenheim, National Academy, Cooper Hewitt, Jewish, City of New York, El Museo del Barrio, Museum for African Art.
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Where did Jackie Onassis live in New York City?
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1040 Fifth Avenue from 1964-94.
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What is the tallest building in NYC not in Manhattan?
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Citicorp Building in Queens is 48 stories tall.
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What is the newest museum in Manhattan?
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The Neue Galerie contains Austrian and German art donated by the Lauder cosmetics founder in the Vanderbilt mansion.
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When did the Apollo Theater open?
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1913 or 1914.
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What decorations adorn the 21 Club?
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Jockeys of famous member's stables.
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What did Washington Irving write?
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Rip Van Winkle and Legend of Sleepy Hollow from The Sketch Book, Salmagundi, Tales of the Alhambra, created "Gotham" nickname.
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What did E.B. White write?
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Charlotte's Web, Stuart Little, Elements of Style, Trumpet of the Swan.
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What did Edith Wharton write?
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House of Mirth, Age of Innocence, The Buccaneers, Ethan Frome.
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What did Langston Hughes write?
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The Ways of White Folks, Not Without Laughter, The Weary Blues (incl. poem The Negro Speaks of Rivers), The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain.
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What did Paule Marshall write?
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Brown Girl Brownstones, Soul Clap Hands and Sing, The Fisher King.
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What did Jack Finney write?
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The Body Snatchers, Of Missing Persons, The Love Letter, The Invasion, Time and Again.
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What did Walt Whitman write?
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Leaves of Grass, Democratic Vistas.
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What did O. Henry write?
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Gift of the Magi, Ransom of Red Chief, coined "banana republic".
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What did F. Scott Fitgerald write?
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The Great Gatsby, Tender is the Night, The Last Tycoon, The Beautiful and the Damned.
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What are the Portals of Paradise?
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The bronze doors of St. John the Divine, with elaborate carvings of biblical scenes and stone carvings of the people of the world before the Lamb of God.
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What architectural style is Grand Central Terminal?
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Beaux-Arts
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What architectural style is The Row on Washington Square?
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Greek Revival.
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What is unique about the Flatiron Building?
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It was one of the first buildings to have a steel skeleton.
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What makes brownstone brown?
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Iron ore
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What architectural style is Grand Central Terminal?
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Beaux-Arts
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What architectural style is The Row on Washington Square?
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Greek Revival
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Who oversaw the completion of the Brooklyn Bridge and why?
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Emily Roebling, because her husband Washington developed Caisson's Disease. His father, John Roebling designed the bridge but died from tetanus before building began.
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What is Manhattan's oldest house?
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The Morris-Jumel Mansion was built in 1765.
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Name five Manhattan museums:
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MOMA, Natural History, Whitney, Guggenheim, Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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Who coined the term "burning the candle at both ends"?
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Edna St. Vincent Millay
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Who wrote "We have pulled down the stars to our will."?
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Ezra Pound
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What was the nickname of John James Audubon's estate?
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Minniesland
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What and where is the 11 Tears Memorial?
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A 600 pound tear-shaped quartz stone above an 11 sided pool inscribed with the names of the Am Ex employees who died on 9/11. It is in the AmEx building.
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What and where is The Sphere?
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A large metallic sculpture, formerly in the WTC plaza, now in Battery Park that survived the attacks with minor dents and holes.
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Where can you find Alice in Wonderland's characters?
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In Central Park, north of the Conservatory Water.
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What and where is the Trinity Root?
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An 18 foot tall tree root sculpture made from the sycamore tree that shielded St. Paul's Chapel (part of Trinity Church) from the 9/11 attacks.
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What and where is the Knotted-Gun Sculpture?
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Non-Violence, at the United Nations complex was inspired by the death of John Lennon and donated by Luxembourg.
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What is in the Lenox Library of the NYC Public Library?
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A Gutenberg Bible, and the paintings and books of James Lenox, the 3rd richest man in America in 1855.
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Where is the Jacques Marchais Museum of Tibetan Art?
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Staten Island
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Who wrote the book Invisible Man about the intellectual struggles of African-Americans?
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Ralph Ellison
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What school inspired the movie Fame?
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New York City High School of Performing Arts
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What is the oldest Broadway Theatre?
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The Lyceum Theatre
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What are some NYC walks of fame?
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Seventh Avenue Fashion Walk, Brooklyn Botanical Garden Celebrity Walk, Theatre 80 Film Star Walk, Second Avenue Deli's Yiddish Theatre Walk.
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Name Greek Revival buildings in NYC:
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Federal Hall National Memorial, The Row, Snug Harbor, tower of St. Paul's Chapel,
Cushman Row, Merchant's House Museum, Brooklyn City Hall, |
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What two Broadway Theatres are named after critics?
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Walter Kerr Theatre and Brooks Atkinson Theatre
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What two jazz legends' orchestras played at The Cotton Club?
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Duke Ellington's Orchestra and Cab Calloway's Brown Sugar Revue.
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What and where is Cleopatra's Needle?
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The obelisk in Central Park was a gift from Egypt in 1855 because the US stayed neutral when France and England fought over them.
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Where is the Great White Way and the Theatre District?
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Broadway between 40th and 54th and between between Sixth and Eighth Avenues, including Times Square.
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What is the difference between Broadway and Off-Broadway?
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Broadway has more than 500 seats and Off-Broadway has between 100-499 seats.
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Is The Cloisters part of the Metropolitan Museum of Art?
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Yes
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What is a knish?
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A knish is a filling covered with dough that is baked, grilled, or deep fried.
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Which Theatre District restaurant has caricatures of show business stars on the walls?
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Sardi's
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Where is Manhattan's Restaurant Row?
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West 46th Street between Eighth and Ninth Avenues.
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What neighborhood has a very large Greek population?
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Astoria, Queens
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What is a falafel?
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A Middle Eastern dish with a ball or patty made from ground chickpeas and/or fava beans, usually served in a pita, or wrapped in a flatbread known as lafa.
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Where is the Canyon of Heroes?
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Section of lower Broadway in the Financial District that is the location of ticker-tape parades. The traditional route of the parade is northward from Bowling Green to City Hall Park.
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What three bridges connect Manhattan and Brooklyn?
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Brooklyn Bridge, Williamsburg Bridge and Manhattan Bridge.
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What bridge connects Long Island City, Queens with Midtown Manhattan?
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Queensborough Bridge
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What is the Triborough or RFK Bridge?
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Upper East Manhattan, The Bronx and Queens. Three separate bridges over the Harlem River, the Bronx Kill, and the Hell Gate (part of the East River) via Randall's Island and Wards Island.
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Where is the Willis Avenue Bridge?
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First Avenue in Upper East Manhattan and Willis Avenue in the South Bronx.
It is a swing bridge over the Harlem River. |
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Where is the George Washington Bridge?
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Washington Heights in Upper Manhattan to Fort Lee, New Jersey.
Known informally as the GW Bridge, GWB, GW, or the George, it is a suspension bridge spanning the Hudson River. |
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Where is the Queens-Midtown Tunnel?
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East Midtown Manhattan to Long Island City, Queens.
The Midtown Tunnel crosses under the East River. |
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Where is the Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel?
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Battery (lower) Manhattan to Red Hook (western) Brooklyn.
It is a toll road which crosses under the East River at its mouth and passing underneath Governors Island. |
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Where is the Holland Tunnel?
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Lower West Manhattan to Jersey City, New Jersey.
It is a highway tunnel under the Hudson River. |
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Where is the Lincoln Tunnel?
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West Midtown Manhattan to Weehawken, New Jersey. It is a 1.5-mile long tunnel under the Hudson River.
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Where is the Throgs Neck Bridge?
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The newest bridge over the East River connects Throgs Neck Bronx with Bay Terrace Queens near the Long Island Sound.
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Where are the former Vanderbilt Mansion gates now located?
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Conservatory Gardens across from the Museum of the City of New York.
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Where would you find a completely privately owned area in NYC?
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Fieldston, in the Riverdale area of the Bronx.
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Where would you find Little Odessa?
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Brooklyn's Brighton Beach near Coney Island and the Atlantic Ocean.
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Where is the Federal Reserve Bank of New York?
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33 Liberty Street
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What is nicknamed the Longest Street in America?
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Broadway
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Who explored New York Bay in 1609?
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Henry Hudson first explored the area in his ship the Half Moon.
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What does NoLita mean?
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NOrth of LIttle ITaly.
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What does Tribeca mean?
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TRIangle BElow CAnal street.
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Times Square, Union Square, Washington Square, Herald Square, and Columbus Circle, are found where avenues cross which famous thoroughfare?
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Broadway
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Where is the Garment Worker statue?
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On Seventh Avenue between 39th and 40th Streets.
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What is the main street of Manhattan's Chinatown?
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Canal Street
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How was Battery Park City created?
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The land was created on the Hudson River using 1.2 million cubic yards of soil excavated during the construction of the World Trade Center in 1966 as well as from sand dredged from New York Harbor off Staten Island.
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How large is Central Park?
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843 acres
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What was the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire?
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146 workers died in a fire on March 25, 1911 because the doors were locked leading to sweatshop reform laws.
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What company built the apartments of Stuyvesant Town?
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Metropolitan Life Insurance Company built 35 buildings for whites only, which was upheld by the NY Supreme Court in 1947.
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Where is the Whispering Gallery?
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Near the Oyster Bar in Grand Central Terminal.
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What is unique about Edna St. Vincent Millay's home on Bedford Street?
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It is the narrowest building in NYC.
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Which borough has the largest Hispanic population?
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The Bronx
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Where would you find a statue of Eleanor Roosevelt?
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Riverside Park in Manhattan
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Who was assasinated in the Audubon Ballroom in 1965?
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Malcolm-X
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What honors the former owners of Macy's who died on the Titanic?
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The Strauss Park and Memorial Fountain at Broadway and W. 106th Street.
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Why is Marble Hill part of Manhattan but physically attached to The Bronx?
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The Harlem River was rerouted.
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What would you find in the Flatiron District?
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Ladies' Mile, Madison Square, MetLife Building,
NY Life Building, and the Toy Center. |
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Which park in the Bronx is the largest in NYC?
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Van Cortland Park
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Before Ellis Island, where were immigrants processed?
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Castle Garden or Castle Clinton
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Who was the first immigrant processed at Ellis Island?
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Annie Moore, a 14-year-old girl from Cork, Ireland, who arrived on the ship Nevada on January 2, 1892.
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What led to the downfall of the South Street Seaport?
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After 1880, steamships superseded the great sailing vessels and trade moved to the Hudson’s deep-water docks.
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How was the 1612 sailing ship, Tyger, found at the original World Trade Center excavation site?
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In 1613, the Tyger had moored in lower Manhattan on the Hudson to trade with the Lenape Indians. In November, fire broke out and the Tyger burned to the waterline. The hull was buried beneath what is now Greenwich and Dey Streets.
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What was torn down after the reading of the Declaration of Independence?
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The Bowling Green Park statue of Britain's George III.
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How did Alexander Hamilton's successful defense of Peter Zenger lead to the freedom of the press?
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If a statement can be proved true it is not libelous, even if it is defamatory.
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Where did George Washington bid farewell to his troops?
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Fraunces Tavern in 1783.
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How did Wall Street get its name?
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Peter Stuyvesant, using both African slaves and white colonists, built a strengthened 12’ wall against attack from various Native American tribes. In 1685 surveyors laid out Wall Street along the lines of the original stockade wall.
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What is replacing the twin towers?
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One World Trade Center (1WTC) will be 1,776 feet tall, the tallest in the US.
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What is significant about Pier 54?
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It is where the Titanic survivors were dropped off in 1912 and the doomed Lusitania set sail in 1915.
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What is the USS Intrepid?
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The Intrepid Sea Air Space Museum is the hub for Fleet Week.
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What is the African Burial Ground National Monument?
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In 1991, excavations uncovered over 400 African remains from the 17th and 18th centuries.
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What is Santeria?
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Santería is a system of beliefs that merge the Yoruba religion (brought to the New World by slaves imported to the Caribbean) with Roman Catholic and Native Indian traditions.
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Where were Columbia University's classes first held?
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Formerly King's College, classes were held adjacent to Trinity Church.
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Who helped found the AME Zion Church and why?
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James Varick, because blacks were not allowed to be ministers and were discriminated against. AME stands for African Methodist Episcopal.
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What is the oldest African-American congregation in NYC?
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St. Philip's Episcopal (formerly African) in Harlem.
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Where is Madison Square Garden?
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Eighth Avenue between 31st and 33rd Streets.
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How much does a single Metro fare cost?
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$2.50
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What does Don't Block The Box refer to?
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Don't enter an intersection unless you can get through to the other side. The box is the four corners of the intersection.
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Which way do Midtown Manhattan's even-numbered streets run?
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West to East
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What is the longest subway line?
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The A Train runs 31 miles.
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Why does the Macy's logo have a red star?
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Comes from a tattoo that R.H. Macy got as a teenager when he worked on a Nantucket whaling ship.
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What inspired the New York City flag?
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The 1625 flag of the United Netherlands,
(when New Amsterdam was settled on Manhattan), inspired the vertical tricolor of blue, white, and orange charged in the center bar with municipal seal in blue. |
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Where is the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian in NYC?
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The Heye Center is in the old US Custom House on Bowling Green in Lower Manhattan.
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When was the 100th anniversary of the NY Subway?
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October 27, 2004
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What is/was President Clinton's Foundation's Harlem address?
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55 West 125th Street
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What is unique about the Winter Garden Atrium, a 10-story glass pavilion in the World Financial Center.
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It contains 16 palm trees and was the first building completely rebuilt after 9/11.
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What is the oldest jazz club in NYC?
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The Village Vanguard was opened in 1935 by Max Gordon.
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Who takes over if the Mayor of NYC leaves office?
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The Public Advocate
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What is Columbia University's mascot? The CU School of General Studies?
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Lion and Owl respectively.
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Who are NY's Finest?
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Police Department
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Who are NY's Boldest?
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Department of Corrections
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Who are NY's Bravest?
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Fire Department
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Which borough has the highest population?
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Brooklyn
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Who uses the Tribeca Stables?
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NYPD
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What is now in the Silvercup Bakery Building?
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Silvercup Studios is the largest film and television production facility in NYC in Long Island City, Queens.
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What is the second largest Jesuit institute of higher learning in the US?
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Fordham University
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What does the American Merchant Mariners’ Memorial in Battery Park depict?
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A mariner with either a hand only, or hand and upper torso visible (depending on the tide), reaching out of the water to a kneeling, helping mariner.
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What does the Korean War Veterans Memorial (aka The Universal Soldier) in Battery Park depict?
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A Korean War soldier cut out of the center of a 15-foot tall black granite slab, leaving a cookie-cutter silhouette.
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What can be found in Federal Hall National Memorial?
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The original balcony upon which George Washington took his oath of office and a portion of what is believed to be the original wall for which Wall Street is named.
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How long and how tall is the Brooklyn Bridge?
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It is 1,595 feet long and 276 feet tall and opened in 1883.
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What are the entrances to Central Park called?
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The 18 Gates are named after intellectual and industrial pursuits of 1862.
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What can you learn from a Central Park lamppost?
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They have a number corresponding to the street number closest to where you are.
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When and where are turns prohibited from most Thru Streets?
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Weekdays from 10-6 between Third and Sixth Avenues.
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What is the new name of the AT&T building?
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Sony Building
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What streets border Central Park?
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59th and 110th Streets
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Where was the original diamond district?
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Canal Street
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What lower Manhattan landmark is near Theater Alley?
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City Hall
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Where was the first community of freed African Americans in New York?
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Sandy Ground, Staten Island
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What buildings did McKim, Mead & White design?
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Manhattan Municipal Building, Pennsylvania Hotel, General Post Office, Harvard Club, Brooklyn Museum, Columbia University, Metropolitan Museum north/south wings, original Penn Station.
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