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When did the 5 boroughs consolidate? |
1898 - Honored with Manhattan Municipal Building with Civic Fame |
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Where is the Star Walk? |
Theatre 80 St. Marks, the former home of the Pearl Theatre |
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What was the original name of the Cotton Club? |
Club Deluxe |
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What was the purpose of the 1965 Hart-Cellars Act? |
Correct the flaws of the 1924 Johnson-Reed Act . Allowed many |
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When was slavery abolished in New York? |
1827 |
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Who founded the Free African Church of St. Philip in Harlem? |
Peter Williams, Jr. in 1809. |
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What are Wallace K. Harrison's accomplishments as an architect? |
UN, Rockefeller Center, Lincoln Center, |
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Where is the Diamond District? |
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 |
The New Colossus |
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Who was the first conductor to perform at Carnegie Hall? |
Tchaikovsky |
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What is the Grand Boulevard in the Bronx also known as? |
Grand Concourse |
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Who designed the Woolworth Building? |
Cass Gilbert |
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Who sculpted Bethesda Fountain? Where is it? |
Emma Stebbins, Central Park |
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Who designed the outside of the Statue Of Liberty? Inside? |
Auguste Bartholdi, Gustave Eiffel |
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Who were the architects of the Manhattan Municipal Building? |
McKim, Mead and White |
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What famous NYC resident invented the telephone? |
Antonio Meucci |
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Who was Robert Moses? |
All of the above? Manhattan Master Planner (controversial major |
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Who was Jimmy Walker? |
Mayor of NYC during the Jazz Age (Roaring 20's). Defeated Fiorello |
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Who were the architects of Grand Central Terminal? |
Warren & Wetmore and Reed & Stem |
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Who lived in the Turtle Bay apartments? |
Katherine Hepburn, E.B. White, Tyrone Power, Stephen Sondheim, |
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What borough has Edgar Allen Poe's cottage? |
The Bronx |
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What is in the Dahesh Museum? |
Europe's academically trained artists of the 19th and early 20th |
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What is the best example of Art Deco architecture in NYC? |
Chrysler Building |
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What is a Brownstone? |
Originally a rowhouse built almost entirely out of brown sandstone, |
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The Ansonia Hotel was known for what unusual features? |
All of the above? World's largest swimming pool, rooftop farm with |
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What did William Cullen Bryant do for a living? |
Romantic poet and editor of NY Evening Post who spearheaded the |
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What is the nickname of the Woolworth Building |
The Cathedral of Commerce |
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What and where is the Salmagundi Club (47)? |
A club for artists. At 47 Fifth Ave between 11th and 12th Streets, |
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Where can you find the greatest concentration of cast iron buildings |
SOHO (SOuth of HOuston) |
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Where is the Forbes Gallery (60)? |
60 Fifth Ave. near 12th St. |
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What is the current name of Hurtig and Seamon's? |
◦ Apollo Theater |
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Where and what is the 2nd oldest monument in NYC? |
Worth Monument is in Worth Square at 25th and Broadway near |
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What does Guastavino refer to? |
A type of timbrel roof vaulting that uses lighter terra cotta tiles. Ellis |
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Which of these is not a Broadway theater? Hilton, Music Box, |
The Beacon |
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What is the name of the hotel at 59 W. 44th between Fifth and Sixth, |
Algonquin Hotel, famous for its Round Table, where actors, critics, |
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What is the finest example of Greek Revival Architecture in the city? |
Federal Hall National Memorial |
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What is the Haughwaut's building known for? |
Store sold the Lincolns their china and silverware for the White |
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Where is the New York Stock Exchange? |
11 Wall St. (This is a trick question, they want you to say Wall and |
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What is Federal Hall and where is it? |
Site of GW's Inauguration as President. Federal Hall Memorial is the |
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What is Bloomingdale Asylum and where is it? |
Buell Hall, the administration building of Columbia University in |
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What's the nickname of the AT&T building? |
Golden Boy |
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Where is the Gotham Hotel, and what is it now called? |
700 Fifth Ave at 55th Street - The Peninsula |
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What is Civic Fame? |
A 25-foot tall golden statue on top of the Manhattan Municipal |
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Where is the Dakota Building, who designed it, and who is living or |
Central Park West (Eighth Ave) and W. 72nd Street. Henry |
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Name buildings designed by Henry Hardenbergh |
Dakota, Plaza, Schermerhorn Building, the original Waldorf Astoria |
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What was the Campbell Apartment? |
An opulent space in GCT, occupied by a friend of William Kissam |
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Where can you find a famous smallpox hospital? |
Roosevelt Island. Designed by James Renwick, Jr. |
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Equitable Building - Who, where, when. What did it cause? |
Ernest Graham, 120 Broadway, 1915, Zoning setback restrictions |
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What was Chumley's? |
A former speakeasy in the Village frequented by writers. There will |
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What was the reason for purchasing and who sold Manhattan to the |
Peter Minuit acquired Manhattan in 1626 from the Lenape tribe in |
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What is the name of the Mayor's house? |
Gracie Mansion |
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What was the name of Giants' Stadium in Harlem? |
◦ Polo Grounds |
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What's the name of the Greek Revival houses north of Washington |
The Row |
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What is the history of the many Ray's Pizza stores in Manhattan? |
When the Albanians were overrun in wartime Europe, they found |
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What were the Stonewall Riots? |
In 1969, gay people fought with police at 53 Christopher St. and |
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House That Ruth Built? |
Yankee Stadium |
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To what does the Dispensary Triangle refer? |
Medical care for the poor. |
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What was previously in Bryant Park? |
Bryant Park, named after William Cullen Bryant, was the site of the |
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What is the name of an early black settlement in Brooklyn, settled by |
Weeksville was named after James Weeks. |
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What was the name of a popular vending machine system for food? |
Automats |
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What effect did the 1811 Grid Plan have on the city? |
All of the above? No alleys, single family homes, cross-ventilation, |
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What team did Lou Gehrig play for? |
Yankees |
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What does Bowery mean? |
Dutch, for farm |
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What was Dumbbell Architecture and what was it intended to |
Buildings with narrow spaces between them to act as air shafts and |
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What areas were reduced as the result of the 1924 Johnson-Reed |
Southern and Eastern Europe, East Asians and Asian Indians |
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avern-On-The-Green, an exclusive, eccentric restaurant in Central |
It was a sheep barn |
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What event caused the National Historic Preservation Movement to |
The destruction of the original Pennsylvania Train Station. When |
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What and where was the Jewish Rialto? |
A Jewish theater district on Second Ave, between 14th St. and |
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Where is the Forbes Gallery? |
60 5th Ave. near 12th S |
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Why did the World Trade Center fall? |
All of above |
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Where is the Gotham Hotel, and what its it currently called? |
700 5th, at 55th. The Peninsula |
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Name buildings designed by Henry Hardenbergh |
Dakota, Plaza, original Waldorf Astoria on 5th (Empire State Building there now), |
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What was the Campbell Apartment? |
An opulent space in GCT, occupied by a friend of the Commodore Vanderbilt. |
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Where can you find a famous smallpox hospital? |
Roosevelt Island. Designed by James Renwick, Jr |
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Equitable Building Who, where, when. What did it cause? |
Ernest Graham, 120 Broadway, 1915, Zoning restrictions resulting in the |
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What is the history of the many Ray's Pizza stores in Manhattan ? |
When the Albanians were overrun in wartime Europe, they found refuge in Italy. |
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What were the Stonewall Riots? |
In 1969, gay people fought with police at 53 Christopher St. |
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Who are the architects of Grand Central Terminal? |
Warren and Wetmore |
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What governor was reprimanded for allowing only Dutch Refomed people to settle? |
Tried to exclude Jews - no passports ) Peter Stuyvesant |
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What black leader was deported out of the country? |
Marcus Garvey |
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What famous sculptor created General Sherman near Central Park by Plaza Hotel? |
Augustus St. Gaudens |
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Who was the Russian Jew with the French name that did the panels at the |
Marc Chagall |
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Who designed the Washington Arch? |
Stanford White |
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What famous architect was shot by Harry K. Thaw on top of the Madison Square |
Stanford White, of McKim, Mead and White |
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What is Morningside Heights, and what is found there? |
A neighborhood on the Upper West Side. Columbia University, the Old |
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Who was the Chrysler Building's Architect ? |
William Van Alen |
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Throg's Neck bridge connects which two boroughs? |
Queens and the Bronx |
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Where is the Hall of Fame for great Americans? |
Bronx Community College |
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The Church of the Transfiguration, at E. 29th between Madison and 5th, is known |
Actors and actresses |
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Where is Tom's restaurant of Seinfeld fame located? |
W.112th and Broadway. one block west of St. John the Divine. |
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Where would you go learn about Santeria - a Caribbean religious mixture |
A Botanica |
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What does the SATMAR Jewish sect believe about Israel? |
They interfere with the coming of the Messiah. Not ordained to be here. |
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Where was Seneca Village located? |
Central park - Between 82 and 89th streets between 7th and 8th Ave. |
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What is the oldest continuous Protestant Organization in NYC |
Marble Collegiate Church |
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What are the cross town bus routes? |
Don't try to learn NOT 9th.\ |
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Which train will take you from the Native American caves of Inwood in Upper |
IND A train |
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What is unusual about the statues surrounding the Fountain of Peace statue at |
They were made by children |
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What's famous about the Chelsea Hotel? |
Center of artistic and bohemian famous people, like Dylan Thomas, Sid Vicious |
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What is unique about a black congregation in a synagogue in Harlem? |
The faithful are black and Jewish |
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What John Lennon song is found in Central park, in an Italian mosaic? |
Imagine |
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Where is the original St. Patrick's church located? |
In Nolita, on corner of Prince |
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Where was the Cosby show shot? |
Shot in Manhattan, at St. Luke's Place, but supposed to be Brooklyn, on Stigwell |
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Where is the Islamic Cultural Center, 1st mosque built in US, gift of many |
1711 3rd. Ave. between E 96th and E 97th |
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Hamilton Grange housing development helped bring blacks to settle in Harlem? |
Dunbar Apartments |
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Where did Dylan Thomas drink himself silly, shortly before dying? |
The White Horse Tavern |
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Which three trains will take you to Yankee Stadium? |
B, D, 4 |
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Largest Jewish Synagoge in NYC ? |
Temple Emanu-El |
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What is the address of the original Cotton Club? |
142nd and Lenox |
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From Astoria Hotel to the Cloisters - how does a charter BUS get there? |
Do NOT |
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Oldest Jewish Synagogue in NYC |
Shearith Israel 8 W. 70th St. |
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What is the address of the UN? |
1st Ave., between E. 42nd and E.49th |
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Where was West Side Story filmed? |
Lincoln Center area (was torn down) |
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The Kosciusko Bridge spans what waterway between Brooklyn and Queens? |
Newtown Creek |
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Where is a large festival that celebrates the feast of the Giglio? |
Williamsburg section of Brooklyn |
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What housing development helped bring blacks to settle in Harlem? |
Strivers' Row - built for wealthy whites but sat empty then sold to blacks |
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What satellite of Trinity Church was built in 1766? |
St. Paul's Chapel. |
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What is Sniffen Court, and where is it ? |
A former mews - horse stables, it is now a courtyard of little apartments, at E 36th |
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What subway train do you take to get to the Hispanic Society of America? |
No. 1 |
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What's on Staten Island? |
Snug Harbor, Richmondtown, Meucci-Garibaldi Museum, Alice Austen house |
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What great painters are on display in the Hispanic Society of the America? |
El Greco, Valasquez, Goya |
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What was Giovanni's on 43rd and 9th? |
Either Improv or Comedy Club |
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Where is Swedish Broadway? |
Atlantic Ave. Brooklyn |
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Malcolm Shabbaz? |
Grandson of Malcolm X |
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An African goods market |
n Harlem at 52 W. 116th St. |
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What can be found on Roosevelt Island? |
An Insane Asylum A smallpox hospital |
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What is CBGB? |
A club in the Village (Country, Blue Grass, and Blues) that |
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Of what profession are the people who live in Carnegie Towers? |
Musicians and artists |
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Where can buses unload and pick up pax? |
Everyplace except NO STOPPING areas. |
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What are the streets of the Thru St. program? |
36 and 37, 45 and 46, 49 and 50, |
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Where are many Taiwanese moving to? |
Flushing, Queens |
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Which boroughs have a Fifth avenue? |
All but Staten Island |
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What is unique about wood water towers? |
Wood expands when wet, preventing leaks. Cheaper to build and maintain. |
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Why is it sometimes said that the constellations on the ceiling are best viewed by |
They are painted backwards. |
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What and where is NYC 's largest Parade? |
West Indian Carnival Day and Parade. From Brooklyn over eastern Parkway. |
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How did the Brooklyn Dodgers get their name? |
The players and fans had to dodge trolley cars on their way to practice and |
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There is a question about where to take people to the bathroom while touring. |
Of choices, answer is hotel lobbies. |
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To what does the Hess triangle refer? |
NYC smallest plot of land, fought for by the Hess family, when 7th Ave. was |
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In 1880, over 1,000 people lost their lives in a maritime tragedy, almost all of |
General Slocum |
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What is the proper attire at an airport? |
Professional dress |
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What city is the same size as the Bronx? |
Paris |
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Can you idle your coach if it's under 40 degrees F?if it's a very hot day? |
Yes and No |
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If biggest industry, answer is F.I.R.E. - |
Fire Insurance, Real Estate Broadway Shows |
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If you have a question with Charlotte's Web or Stuart Little in it, the answer is |
E.B. White |
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What do you include on an invoice? |
Everything you can think of - name, date, time, where, when, what, etc. |
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Where would you find a collection of Faberge Eggs before 2004? |
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? |
NYC Police department uses |
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Can a tour guide accept commissions or incentives to steer business to a vendor? |
No |
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What was the name of the area now known as Times Square. When and why did the name change |
Longacre Square. When subway reached area, New York |
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New York City Panorama, largest architectural model in the world, is where? |
Queens Museum of Art. |
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Older inhabited building? |
1766 St Paul's |
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When was Apollo opened? |
1914 |
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Tallest structure outside manhattan? |
Citicorp office building in Queens, 663" or 48st |
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Where did James van des Zee live? |
Accross St Philips and 10 row houses |
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Noam? |
Indian food |
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Arthur avenue? |
Little italy Belmont neighborhood in Bronx |
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Giovanni's name? |
The Improv |
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House being moved? |
Hamilton Grange, Alex. |
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What was tenement law of 1978? |
To correct 1867 laws, created Dumbbell, worse |
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Newest museum on museum row? |
Neue Gallery, 1048 5th, austrian and german art |
