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What borough has Edgar Allen Poe's cottage?

The Bronx
What is in The Dahesh Museum

Only museum in US devoted to collecting, exhibiting and interpreting works by Europe's academically trained artists of the 19th and early 20th century.

What is the newest museum on Museum Mile
Neue Galerie (1048 5th Ave.)
Opened 2001
Austrian and German art.
Founded by Ronald Lauder (heir to Estee Lauder) and Serge Sabarsky.
In Grace Vanderbilt's "Gardener's Cottage"
What is the best example of Art Deco in NYC
The Chrysler Building
What is a Brownstone?
Originally a row house built almost entirely of brown sand stone, later faced with brownstone only.
What is the tallest structure in NYC outside of Manhattan?

Citicorp Office building in Queens.
663 ft / 48 stories tall

The Ansonia Hotel was known for what unusual features?
All.
World's largest swimming pool
Roof top farm with goats and pigs
Indoor fountain with seals
Home to Babe Ruth
What is The Woolworth Building's nickname?
The Cathedral of Commerce
What is the 21 Club?
A famous upscale speakeasy during prohibition.
21 W 52nd St
Where can you find the greatest consecration of cast iron buildings in the world?
SoHo
(South of Houston)
Where is The Forbes Gallery?
60 5th Ave. near 12th St.
What is the current name of Hurting and Seamon's
Apollo Theater
Opened in 1914
What and where is the 2nd oldest monument in NYC
Worth Monument
23rd St and Broadway
What does Gustavino refer to?
A type of timberal roof vaulting that uses lighter Terra Cotta tiles.
Ex: Ellis Island, Custom House, GCT (Oyster Room) etc
Which of these theater's doesn't belong in the category of Broadway Theaters?
Hilton, Music Box, Beacon, St. James
Beacon
What is the name of the famous hotel at 59 W 44th st. between 5th and 6th ave? Famous a hangout for writers?
Algonquin.
Famous for Roundtables where actors, critic, writers and wits would gather aka "The Vicious Circle"
What is the finest example of Greek Revival Architecture in the city?
Federal Hall National Memorial
What is the Haugwaut's Building known for?
Selling the Lincoln's china and silver wear for The White House.
First with Otis elevator.
Building from a catalog.
What is the address if the NY Stock Exchange?
11 Wall St.
*Trick Question NOT Wall and Broad*
What is Federal Hall? Where is it?
Site of Washington's Presidential Inauguration.
26 Wall St.
What is the name of the garden at The Brooklyn Botanical Museum famous for it's cherry trees?
Japanese Hill and Pond Garden
What is Bloomingdale Asylum?
Administration building of Columbia University
Where is The Gotham Hotel and what is it currently called?
700 5th Ave at 55th St
The Peninsula
What is another name for the AT&T building?
"Golden Boy"
What is "Civic Fame"?
25 ft tall golden statue on top of Municipal Building (1898)
Designed by Adolph A. Weinman
Where is The Dakota Building?
Who designed it?
Who has lived there?
1 W 72nd St
Henry J Hardenberg (1884)
John Lennon (shot in courtyard), Lauren Bacall, Boris Karloff, Roberta Flack
Buildings design end by Henry Hardenburg
Dakota
Plaza
Org. Waldorf and Astoria on 5th Ave
Willard
Copley Plaza
Schermerhorn Building
What was the Campbell Apartment?
Tycoon John W Campbell's 1920s private office and salon in Grand Central Station which has been fully restored to its original splendor as a cocktail lounge.
Where can you find the famous smallpox hospital?
Roosevelt Island
Designed by James Fenwick Jr.
Equitable Building
Who designed it and When?
Where is it located?
What did it cause?
Ernest Graham (1915)
120 Broadway
Created need for "Set Back Law" preventing buildings from blocking all sunlight to the streets
What is Chumley's
Speakeasy in the West Village (86 Bedford; 1927)
Currently a restaurant that doesn't have a sign to honor its origin.
(Apparently there will be a picture on the test, loom for a curved top door, courtyard)
What is the name of the mayor's house?
Gracie Mansion
What is the name of the Giant's Stadium in Harlem?
Polo Grounds
What is the name of the Greek Revival Row houses north of Washington Square?
The Row
What is the history of the many Ray's Pizza stores in Manhattan?
When Albanians were overrun in war time Europe they found refuge in Italy, where they learned to make pizza.
Who sold Manhattan to the Dutch?
Algonquin Lenape Indians,
Wappinger Federation
What were the Stonewall Riots?
Stonewall Inn (53 Christopher St. Greenwich Village)
June 28th, 1969
Gay people fought back against police raid, it is considered the beginning of the gay rights movement.
To what does the Dispensary Triangle refer?
Medical care for the poor
What is known at "The House That Ruth Built"?
Yankee Stadium
What Latin dance was popular in the 80s?
Salsa
Bryant Park
Named after William Cullen Bryant.
Behind current NYC Library.
Site of Croton Reservoir and later The Crystal Palace.
What is the name of an early black settlement in Brooklyn purchased by African American freed men in 1838?
Weeksville now in Bedford Stuyvesant
What was the name of a popular vending machine system for food?
Automats
How has the grid of 1811 affected the city?
All of the Above
What is the origin if the word "Bowery"
Dutch for farm
What was the Tenement Law of 1879 designed to correct?
The flaws of the 1867 Laws that caused "Dumbbell Apartments".
(this new law made sure that there were windows facing open air)
What areas of Europe were reduced as a result of the 1924 Immigration Act? (Johnson-Reed Act)
Southern and Eastern Europe
What was the original function of "Tavern On The Green"? (currently an eccentric restaurant in Central Park)
It was a sheep barn
Jewish Rialto
What is it and where is it located?
Jewish Theater District that was popular from the 1920s-40s
2nd Ave between 14th and Houston
When were the 5 boroughs consolidated?
1898
In result the Manhattan Municipal Building with "Civic Fame" on top was developed by McKim, Mead and White.
What caused the National Historic Preservation Movement?
The wanton and carelessness of the destruction of the original Pennsylvania Train Station.
(When talks of doing the same to Grand Central were slated, resistance began; spearheaded by Jackie O)
What was the purpose of the 1965 Hart-Cellars Act?
Correct the flaws of the 1924 Johnson-Reed Act.
Immigration based on skills which led to an influx of Asians allowed in the country.
When was slavery abolished?
1827
Where is the Star Walk?
Pearl Theater
Who founded the AME Zion Church?
Peter Williams
What was the name of the original Cotton Club?
Club Deluxe
Where is the Diamond Distract?
47th st between 5th & 6 the ave.
Originally on Canal st in Chinatown
What was the name of the poem written by Emma Lazarus of the Statue of Liberty?
The New Colossus
What are Wallace K Harrison's architectural accomplishments?
UN
Rockefeller Center
Lincoln Center
Battery Park City
Albany Plaza
Corning Glass Center
Who was the first conductor to perform at Carnegie Hall?
Tchaikovsky
What was the old elevated railway of 9th ave called?
Ninth Ave Elevated (El)
What is the Grand Boulevard in the Bronx also known for?
Grand Concourse
Who designed the Equitable building?
Ernest Graham (1915)
Where is a revolutionary War Monument that honors the 11,500 patriots that died on prison ships?
Forty Greene Park, Brooklyn
What famous author hated brownstones?
Edith Wharton
Who designed the copper dome of the Woolworth Building?
Cass Gilbert
Jimmy Walker
Mayor of NYC during Jazz Age 1920s.
Defeated Fiorella La Guardia.
His demise coincided with the stock market crash.
When Elliot Ness busted Club 21 he ticketed all of the Feds cars.
He loved chorus girls.
Who were the architects of Grand Central Terminal?
-Warren and Westmore
-Reed and Stem
What did Jacob Riis write?
How the Other Half Lives
Who designed the Status of Liberty? Outside and Inside
August Bartholdi
Gustave Eiffel
Who were the architects of The Manhattan Municipal Building?
McKim, Mead and White
What famous NYC resident invented the telephone?
Antonio Meucci
Which president regularly used a pew at St. Paul's Chapel?
George Washington
Who built Riverside Church?
Who was the architect?
Who was the minister?
John D Rockefeller (in memory of his mother Laura)
Allen, Collins and Pelton
Harry Emerson Fosdick (Baptist)
Robert Moses - major mover and shaker
Answer: All of the above
Who did Lou Gehrig play for?
Yankees
Who lived in the Turtle Bay Apartments?
Kathrine Hepburn
Tyrone Powers
Stephen Sondheim
Mary Martin
E.B. White
What Governor was reprimanded for allowing only Dutch Reformed people to settle? (Tried to exclude Jews - no passports)
Peter Stuyvesant
Who went to the Salmagundi Club at 47 5th Ave?
Washington Irving
Louis B Tiffany
John LaFarge
Stanford White
What black leader was deported out of the country?
Marcus Garvey
Who sculpted Bethesda Fountain?
Where is it?
Emma Stebbins
Central Park
What is Morningside Heights?
What was founded there?
Neighborhood on Upper West side.

Columbia University
Tom's Restaurant (Seinfeld)
St. John the Divine
Riverside Church
Grant's Tomb
What was Jackie O's 5th ave address?
1040 (think tax return)
Throg's Neck Bridge connects which two boroughs?
Queens and the Bronx
What famous sculptor did 'General Sherman' near Central Park by the Plaza Hotel?
Augustus St. Gaudens
What famous architect was shot by Harry K Thaw on top of Madison. Square Garden?
Stanford White
(McKim, Mead and White)
Which train will take you from the Native American caves of Inwood in Upper Manhattan to the ocean beaches of the Rockaways in Queens?
A
Where is the hall of fame for great Americans?
Bronx Community College
Who was the Russian Jew (with a French name) that did the panels at Lincoln Center?
Marc Chagall
Where is Tom's restaurant from 'Seinfeld' located?
Morningside Heights
W 112th and Broadway (one block west of St. John the Divine)
Who designed the Washington Arch?
Stanford White
Any question involving a building being moved should be answered this way
Hamilton Grange (Alexander Hamilton's home)
Who was the architect of the Chrysler Building?
William Van Alen
Where was Seneca Village located?
82nd - 89th st between 7th & 8th ave
Now Central Park
What is the oldest continuous Protestant Organization in NYC?
Marble Collegiate Church
Oldest Jewish newspaper
The Forward
What is famous about the Chelsea Hotel?
Center of artistic and bohemian famous people.
Dylan Thomas
Sid Vicious
The Church of Transfiguration
Spiritual haven for actors/actresses
E 29th between Madison & 5th
Where was 'West Side Story' filmed?
Lincoln Center
What is at Arthur Ave in the Bronx?
Little Italy (Belmont Area)
Where would you go to learn about Santeria - a Caribbean religious mixture?
A Botanica
What does the SATMAR Jewish sect believe about Israel?
They interfere with the coming of the Messiah and are not ordained to be here.
What famous John Lennon song is found in Central Park on an Italian mosaic?
Imagine
Largest Jewish Synagogue in NYC
Temple Emanu-El
2500 / more than St. Patrick's
Where was the Cosby Show shot?
St. Luke's Place in Greenwich.
(Suppose to take place in Brooklyn on Stigwell Ave)
What is unusual about the statues surrounding the Fountain of Peace statue at St. John the Divine
They were made by children
Oldest Jewish Synagogue in NYC
Shearith Israel (1654)
8 W 70th st
Where did Dylan Thomas drink himself silly shortly before dying?
The White Horse
What is unique about a black congregation at a synagogue in Harlem?
The faithful are black and Jewish.
Where is the original St. Patrick's church located?
NoLita
263 Mulberry on the corner of Prince and Mott
Where is a large festival that celebrates the Feast of the Giglio?
Williamsburg at Mt Carmel Church
What is the Islamic Cultural Center?
Where is it located?
First mosque built in US (1711) 3rd Ave between E 96th & 97th
(faces Mecca)
What is the oldest inhabited building in NYC?
St Paul's Chapel (1766)
What is Sniffen Court?
Where is it located?
A courtyard for beautiful apts
(A former horse stable "mews")
E 36th between 3rd Ave and Lexington on Murray Hill
Which three trains will take you to Yankee Stadium?
B, D, 4
What is the address of the original Cotton Club?
142nd and Lenox
Where is "Swedish Broadway"?
Atlantic Ave. Brooklyn
How are deals made in the Diamond District?
Hanshake
What is Malcolm Shabbaz?
Where is it located?
African goods market.
52 W 116th st (Harlem)
What is the UN address?
1st Ave. 42nd - 49th St.
What can be found on Roosevelt Island?
Renwick Smallpox Hospital
Lighthouse Park
Chapel of the Good Shepard
FDRs Four Freedoms Park
Blackwell Farmhouse
Strecker Memorial Laboratory
The Kosciusko Bridge spans what waterway between Brooklyn and Queens?
Newtown Creek
Where can busses unload and pick up pax?
Everyplace but NO STOPPING
What streets are apart of the Thru St Program?
36th-37th
45th-46th
49th-50th
53rd-54th
What subway line would you take to get to The Bronx Zoo
2
What subway lines DO NOT stop at Times Square?
A,B,C,D,E,F,G, J,L,M,V,Z
4,5,6
What subway line takes you to the Brooklyn Museum?
2 or 3
What housing development helped bring blacks to settle in Harlem?
Striver's Row
In what borough is the Belmont area of Italians and Albanians?
Bronx
Where is the Next Wave Festival held each year?
BAM Brooklyn Academy of Music
Which boroughs have a 5th Ave?
All except Staten Island
How does the charter bus get from the Astoria Hotel to the Cloisters?
Turn up Madison and take the Henry Hudson Access road
What subway do you take to get to the Hispanic Society of America?
1 to 157th st
What's on Staten Island?
Snug Harbor
Richmondtown
Meucci-Garibaldi Museum
Alice Austen House
Tibetan Retreat
What artists are on display at the Hispanic Society of America?
El Greco
Valasquez
Goya
Bastida
Sorollo
What is the Hess Triangle?
NYC's smallest plot of land.
Fought for by the Hess family when 7th Ave was rerouted.
(In front of cigar store)
What was Giovanni's on 43rd st and 9th ave?
The Improv comedy club
What is Kim Chi?
Korean spicy fermented cabbage
What is babaganoush?
Indian dish. Eggplant or tahini
What is the proper attire at an airport?
Professional dress
What is CBGB?
'Country Blue Grass and Blues'
Club in the Village
Launched punk &new wave music:
Talking Heads
Police
Blondie
B-52s
Of what profession are the people who live in Carnegie Towers?
Musicians and Artists
What is Dim Sum?
'Touch the heart'
An assortment of light Chinese dishes
What is the difference between Hal-Al and Kosher?
Hal-Al follows Islamic Laws
Kosher followers Jewish Laws
What is bialy?
Polish bread with a center of onions, garlic or poppy seed (a flat bagel).
What is naan?

What is the bread called when it is fried?
Indian flat bread

Poori
What is Batido?
Cuban smoothie or shake
Where are many Taiwanese moving to?
Flushing, Queens
"Charlotte's Web" or Stuart Little question, answer will be...
E.B. White
Where would you find a collection of Fabergé Eggs?
Forbes Gallery 62 5th ave
No longer there, sold to Russian Tycoon
What is unique about wood water towers?
Wood expands when wet preventing leaks.
Cheaper to build and maintain.
Water freezes later than in steel.
Why is it said that the constellations on the ceiling of GCT are best viewed by God?
They are painted backwards (except for Orion)
What is NYCs largest parade?
Where is it?
West Indian Carnival Day Parade.
Brooklyn (42nd year)
How did the Brooklyn Dodgers get their name?
The players and fans had to dodge trolley cars on their way to practice and games.
Where can you take people to use the restroom during a tour?
Hotel Lobbies
Where is New York City Panorama (largest architectural model in the world) located?
Queens Museum of Art.
Flushing - Corona Park.
In 1880 over 1,000 people lost their lives in a maritime tragedy, almost all of them German. What was the name of the boat?
General Slocum
How many people pass through GCT everyday?
500,000
Who funds public arts in the subway?
MTA - Arts for Transit
What museum has two Dutch Farmhouses?
Brooklyn Museum
What is BAM?
Brooklyn Academy of Music
(Home of Next Wave Festival)
What is the name of the river east of Manhattan?
East River
What is the name of the river west of Manhattan?
Hudson River
How much do tickets to Shakespeare in the Park cost?
Free
What city is the size of the Bronx?
Paris
Can you idle your coach of it's under 40° F?
Yes
Can you idle your coach if it's a very hot day?
No
Why did the World Trade Center fall?
All of the Above
What is the biggest cultural attraction in NYC?
Broadway Plays
What do you include in an invoice?
Everything you can think of.
Name, date, time, where, when, what etc
There is a question that involves a discreet building in the back of other buildings, you can tell there are horses, why are they there?
The NYC Police department uses horses.
Can tour guides accept commission or incentives to steer businesses to a vendor?
No
What was the name of the area known as Times Square?
When and why did the name change?
Longacre Square.
1904 the subway arrived in the area along with the New York Times, whose publisher persuaded the city to rename it after his newspaper.
(Competition with the Herald which Herald Square was named after)
What is the nickname for the Woolworth Building?
Cathedral of Commerce
If someone asked you in Times Square where they should go to see "The Nutcracker Suite" at Christmas time, where would you send them?
New York State Theater at Lincoln Center
A question about a house being moved refers to this man.
Alexander Hamilton
When was slavery abolished in NYC?
1827
What is a fam trip?
Slang for "familiarization trip"
Professionals in training are taken to tourist sites to learn about them.
Where did James Van Der Zee Live?
Across from St Phillips and the 10 row houses purchased by the church. (Harlem)
Why does steam rise up from vents and other areas of the city's streets?
Huge steam plants are built throughout the city to heat nearby buildings. The ground water hitting these 1,500° pipes turns to steam and then rises.
Why did the Dutch settle in Manhattan?
Financial Gain
NBC radio greeting
Similar to "faster than a speeding bullet, etc"
French word for "market" tenements
Apartment