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Name the 2 SI Ferry Terminals
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Whitehall St – Manhattan
St. George – Staten Island Na |
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Name the 4 Eastbound Midtown Thru Streets
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36th, 46th, 50th, 54th
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Name the 5 Westbound Midtown Thru Streets
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37th, 45th, 49th, 53rd, 60th
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What Times are Midtown Thru Streets Enforced?
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10AM – 6PM
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Name the 3 most prominent buildings of Lincoln Center
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Metropolitan Opera House
Avery Fisher Hall New York State Theater |
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The NY State Theater is also known as this since its renovation
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David H Koch Theater
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What 2 organizations perform at the NY State Theater?
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NYC Ballet
NYC Opera |
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Where does the NY Philharmonic perform?
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Avery Fisher Hall
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The Sailor's Retirement Community is in which neighborhood, borough?
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Snug Harbor, SI
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What is the largest public park in NYC?
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Pelham Bay Park, The Bronx
2772 Acres |
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Name 3 features of Van Cortland Park
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Biggest freshwater lake in NYC,
Van Cortland House Museum, Old Croton Aqueduct Hiking Trail |
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Name the 3rd Largest Park in NYC
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Van Cortland Park, The Bronx
1186 Acres |
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Name the 4th largest park in NYC
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Flushing Meadow Park, Queens
897 Acres |
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Who designed Prospect Park?
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Frederick Law Olmstead and Calvert Vaux
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What year did Prospect Park open?
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1867
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What is the main feature of The Cloisters?
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Art from 5 Medieval European Abbeys
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Where is the Children's Museum of Manhattan located?
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W 83rd St
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Where is the Frick Collection located? |
5th Ave btw 70th & 71st Sts |
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Who is not admitted inside the Frick Collection?
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Children under 10
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Where is Museum Mile?
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5th Ave betw 82nd & 105th Sts
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What year did the Metropolitan Museum of Art open?
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1870
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What year did the American Museum of Natural History open?
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1869
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Name 5 famous artists whose work is featured in the Museum of Modern Art |
Matisse Gaugin Picasso Van Gogh Cezanne |
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Where is the Museum of Modern Art located?
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53rd St betw 5th & 6th Aves
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Who designed the Guggenheim Museum building?
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Frank Lloyd Wright
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What year did Central Park open? What year was it completed?
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1857
1873 |
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Name 5 famous artists whose work is featured in the Solomon R Guggenheim Museum |
Kandinsky Klee Mondrian Chagall Picasso |
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Name 4 artistic movements represented in the Guggenheim Museum
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Impressionism
Post Impressionism Early Modernism Contemporary |
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Where is the Solomon R Guggenheim Museum located?
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5th Ave & 88th St
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Who designed Central Park?
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Frederick Law Olmstead and Calvert Vaux
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Name 5 famous burials in Woodlawn Cemetery
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FW Woolworth
Herman Melville Robert Moses Fiorello LaGuardia Oliver Belmont |
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Name 5 famous burials in Greenwood Cemetery
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Boss Tweed
DeWitt Clinton Leonard Bernstein Louis Comfort Tiffany William Chase |
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Name 7 famous artists whose work is featured in the Brooklyn Museum |
Webber Rothko Hopper Rockwell Homer Degas O'Keefe |
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What architectural style is the Brooklyn Museum building?
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Beaux Arts
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Who designed the Whitney Museum of American Art building?
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Marcel Breuer
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Where is the Whitney Museum of American Art located?
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Madison Ave & 75th St
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Where is El Museo del Barrio located?
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5th Ave & 104th St
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Where is the Museum of Modern Art located?
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53rd St btw 5th & 6th Aves
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Where is the New Museum of Contemporary Art located?
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Bowery btw Stanton & Rivington Sts
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When is the New Museum of Contemporary Art free?
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Thursdays 7–10PM
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What was NYC's first museum?
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The New York Historical Society
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Where is the Museum of the City of New York located?
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5th Ave & 103rd St
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Where is the main location of the NY Transit Museum?
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Court St Station, Brooklyn
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What is the architectural style of the Tenement Museum building?
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Italianate
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Where is the Tenement Museum located?
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97 Orchard St
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Where is the George Gustav Heye Center located?
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1 Bowling Green
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What is the architectural style of the George Gustav Heye Center building?
What was the building originally? |
Beaux Arts
US Customs House |
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Where is the Museum of Jewish Heritage located?
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36 Battery Pl
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Where is the Morgan Library located?
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Madison Ave & 36th St
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What does the Rubin Museum specialize in?
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Himalayan and Tibetan Art
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Where is the Rubin Museum located?
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17th St btw 6th & 7th Aves
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Name 2 Smithsonian Museums in NYC
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George Gustav Heye Center
Cooper–Hewitt National Design Museum |
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Which museum houses the world's largest collection of decorative arts?
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Cooper–Hewitt National Design Museum
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Which NYC museum features exhibits on Quilts and Quilt Making, and the art of self–taught artists?
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American Folk Art Museum
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What routes must NYC tour bus drivers travel along except when local bus routes or other roads are needed?
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NYC Truck Routes
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Which buses are prohibited in the Financial District?
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All buses over 30 feet
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Name 5 important works of E.B. White
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Strunk & White's Style Guide
The Elements of Style Charlotte's Web Stuart Little Trumpet of the Sun |
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Which NYC author is most associated with the Harlem Renaissance?
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Langston Hughes
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Who wrote House of Mirth?
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Edith Wharton
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Which NYC poet and Journalist is known as the Father of the Free Verse?
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Walt Whitman
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William Sydney Parks is better known as...?
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O. Henry
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Which 3 publications frequently published stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald?
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Saturday Evening Post
Esquire Collier's |
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Where is the Museum of the Moving Image located?
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35th Ave in Astoria
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Where must tour bus drivers leave NYC truck routes? |
At the intersection nearest to their destination |
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NYC tour bus operators must carry a document with what information?
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Point of origin
Destination Streets planned to take |
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Which buses can park at WTC?
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Only those registered for the 9/11 Memorial with a permit obtained from DOT
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What is considered Lower Manhattan for the purposes of tour bus rules?
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Below Chambers St
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When is the only time tour buses are allowed to idle and for how long?
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Below 40 degrees F
3 minutes |
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How long are buses allowed to park at meters in Lower Manhattan? How must they pay? How much?
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3 hour max
Pay by CC or NYC Parking Card $20/hr |
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Where are Arts For Transit Light Box Exhibits found?
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Grand Central Terminal
42nd St – Bryant Park Bowling Green Atlantic Ave |
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What does MUNY stand for?
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Music Under New York
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Name 4 Important works by Washington Irving
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The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Rip Van Winkle A History of New York Salamagundi |
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Name 3 important works by Jack Finney
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The Body Snatchers
Time and Again From Time to Time |
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What was Paule Marshall's first novel?
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Brown Girl, Brownstones
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What is the architectural style of the block of Greenwich Village town houses know as "The Row"?
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Greek Revival
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What happened on March 25th, 1911 on the current site of the NYU Brown Building?
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The Triangle Shirt–waist Company fire
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Sculptor Neil Estern cast the bronze figure of this former mayor in 1993.
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Fiorello H. LaGuardia
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The bronze statue of Giuseppe Garibaldi in Washington Sq was created by this sculptor.
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Giovanni Turini
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This original geographical feature of Manhattan still flows below the streets of Greenwich Village.
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Minetta Brook
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Who was the first American–born saint of the Catholic Church?
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Mother Elizabeth Ann Seton
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George Segal is the creator of this bronze sculpture group in Christopher Park.
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Gay Liberation
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The annual Gay Pride Parade commemorates this event that started on Christopher St in June 1969.
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The Stonewall riots
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The Jefferson Market Library building is in what architectural style?
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Victorian Gothic
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This "single most important document in NYC's development" created Manhattan's street grid plan.
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Commissioner's Plan of 1811
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The Puck Building on Lafayette St is built in which architectural style?
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Romanesque Revival
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The Old Merchant's House Museum at 29 E 4th Street is an example of which architectural style?
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Greek Revival
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Name 3 statues by Augustus Saint–Gaudens in NYC.
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Peter Cooper, Cooper Sq
Gen. William T. Sherman, southeast corner of CP Adm. David Farragut, Madison Sq Park |
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This marble and gilded bronze monument by is located at the Merchant's Gate of Central Park (59th St at Columbus Circle.
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USS Maine National Monument
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This oldest church building and oldest public building in NYC was completed in 1766.
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St. Paul's Chapel
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This architect (and firm) is credited with the re–design of the current WTC 1.
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David Childs of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill
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In what year were zoning laws first introduced establishing setback requirements for buildings?
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1916
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The current Trinity Church building dates to what year and was designed by whom?
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1846
Richard Upjohn |
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NYC's first park, this was the site of the statue of King George III torn down by patriots on July 9, 1776.
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Bowling Green
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This unsanctioned statue by sculptor Arturo DiModica and cast by Domenico Ranieri stands at the north end of Bowling Green.
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Charging Bull
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This sculpture, once located in the plaza of the WTC, was damaged on 9/11, and since relocated to Battery Park. Who was the artist?
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Sphere, by Fritz Koenig
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This monument in Battery Park consists of a group of 4 bronze figures, on of which is in the water and barely visible at high tide.
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American Merchant Marine Memorial
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This National Monument was built in 1807 as a fortification to protect the harbor.
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Castle Clinton
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In what year did Peter Minuit make his famous purchase from the natives?
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1626
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In what year was New Amsterdam ceded to the English, becoming New York?
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1664
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This "modern day Crystal Palace", partially destroyed on 9/11 but now refurbished, contains 16 palm trees from the Mojave Desert.
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The Winter Garden
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The 30+ little bronze sculptures found in the W 14th St–8th Ave subway station of the A,C,E and L lines are by which sculptor?
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Tom Otterness
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Schermerhorn Row, the centerpiece of the South Street Seaport Historic District, is the only surviving commercial block in the city built in these architectural styles.
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Georgian–Federal
Greek Revival |
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The building that houses Fraunces Tavern, although a 20th century re–creation, is an excellent example of this architectural style (inspired by the North–Italian Renaissance as applied by the architect Palladio).
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Georgian
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Which street is disproportionately wide due to the canal to the East River that existed in its place until filled in in 1676 due to pollution.
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Broad Street
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The NYSE building is of which architectural style?
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Classic–style
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This finest example of the Greek Revival–style building was completed in 1842 as the US Customs House on the site of NY's second City Hall.
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Federal Hall National Memorial
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The statue of Washington on the steps of Federal Hall is by what sculptor?
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John Quincy Adams Ward
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Why is there not a single structure left in Manhattan dating from the 17th Century?
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The Great Fire of 1835
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The Federal Reserve Bank of New York is built in which architectural style?
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Neo–Renaissance (it looks like a Florentine palazzo)
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The Municipal Building was built from 1907-1914 by this firm.
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McKim, Mead & White
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This 25 ft tall gilded statue by this sculptor sits atop the Municipal Building.
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Civic Fame
Adolph A. Weinman 1913 |
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The Woolworth Building was designed by this architect.
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Cass Gilbert
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A statue of this patriot by Frederick MacMonnies (1893) is located in a restricted area of City Hall Park.
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Nathan Hale
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The Italianate villa that sits back to back with City Hall is familiarly known as this.
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Tweed Court–house
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This building built in 1811 in a French Renaissance–Georgian style was designed by Joseph F. Mangin and John McComb Jr.
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City Hall
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What was the name of the building formerly located at Rose and Duane streets used by the British as a prison during the Revolution?
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The Rhinelander Sugar House
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What former slum no longer exists since the completion of the Foley Square courthouse complex?
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Five Points
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What was the name of the body of water that was originally on the site of the current Foley Square?
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The Collect Pond
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What year was the Brooklyn Bridge completed?
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1883
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What was the last of the downtown bridges connecting Manhattan to Brooklyn? |
The Manhattan Bridge |
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This SoHo building is known as the Parthenon of Cast–Iron Architecture in America.
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The Haughwout Building
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When was the Brooklyn Academy of Music founded?
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1859
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The "cobblestones" that were used to pave the streets and are still visible in some places are properly called this.
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Belgian blocks
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What is the architectural style of Brooklyn Borough Hall?
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Greek Revival (1849)
(with a Georgian cupola added later, 1898) |
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Who created the Angel of the Waters sculpture atop Central Park's Bethesda Fountain?
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Emma Stebbins
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Who is considered the "father of the Brooklyn Bridge"?
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John A. Roebling
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An 8ft bronze statue by John Quincy Adams Ward of this preacher and prominent abolitionist stands in Cadman Plaza.
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Henry Ward Beecher
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Who helped oversee the completion of the Brooklyn Bridge after her husband was stricken with caisson disease (the bends) during construction?
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Emily Roebling
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Who took over direction of the Brooklyn Bridge after his father died early during its construction?
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Washington Roebling
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This Gothic–style landmark stands at the bend of Broadway at 10th St.
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Grace Church
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This park takes its name from the place of "connection" of the Bowery Rd and Bloomingdale Rd (now Broadway) in the early 19th Century.
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Union Square Park
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This political organization was founded in 1788 as an outgrowth of the Sons of Liberty.
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Tammany Hall
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George Washington entered NYC marking the end of the British occupation on this date.
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November 25, 1783
(Evacuation Day) |
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The 1856 equestrian statue of George Washington in Union Sq Park was created by these 3 artists.
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Henry Kirke Brown
with John Quincy Adams Ward pedestal by Richard Upjohn |
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He sculpted the statue of Lafayette in Union Square Park.
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Frederic Auguste Bartholdi
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The sculptor of the bronze statue of Abraham Lincoln in Union Square Park.
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Henry Kirke Brown
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The only US President born in NYC.
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Theodore Roosevelt
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The address if the birthplace of Theodore Roosevelt.
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28 East 20th Street
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What is the only private park in Manhattan?
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Grammercy Park
(There are two in the city, the other is Sunnyside Gardens Park in Queens) |
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Who designed the Statue of Liberty? Who designed her iron truss skeleton?
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Frederic Auguste Bartholdi
Gustave Eiffel |
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The stretch of 28th Street near Broadway where popular music publishers were located around the turn of the 20th Century was known as this.
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Tin Pan Alley
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Dr. Norman Vincent Peale's sermon's that reached a nationwide radio audience originated from this church on 29th Street.
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Marble Collegiate Reformed Church
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Stanford White's 1890 masterpiece was which incarnation of Madison Square Garden?
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The 2nd
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Who designed The NY Life Insurance Company Building?
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Cass Gilbert
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This building completed in 1909 is based on the campanile in St Mark's Square in Venice.
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Metropolitan Life Tower
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A 51ft tall granite obelisk sits atop this New Yorker's grave site on Broadway.
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Gen. William Jenkins Worth
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The 1876 bronze statue of this statesman in Madison Sq Park represents the first New Yorker honored with a public monument.
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William Henry Seward
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The Flatiron Building was designed by who and in what style?
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Daniel H. Burnham
Italian Renaissance |
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This 1883 Victorian building on 23rd St has had the likes of Mark Twain, Dylan Thomas, and O. Henry grace its guest register. |
Chelsea Hotel
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This New Yorker and professor at the General Theological Seminary in Chelsea made Santa Claus popular with his poem "A Visit from St Nicholas".
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Clement Clarke Moore
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What is NY's only museum dedicated exclusively to photography?
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International Center of Photography
43rd and 6th |
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The Croton Distributing Reservoir (1842–1911) stood on this current site.
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The NY Public Library (5th Ave– Bryant Park)
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NY's first World's Fair, held on the site of Bryant Park in 1853, was called...?
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The Crystal Palace Exposition
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The 2 lions flanking the entrance to the New York Public Library are by this sculptor.
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Edward C Potter
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The firm that designed the NYPL Central Research Library building on 5th Ave. What style is the building?
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Carrere & Hastings
Beaux Arts |
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The sculpture group atop the center arch of Grand Central Terminal was designed by...?
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Jules Coutan
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Architects of the Grand Central Terminal building (2) and the interior if the terminal (2)...
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Whitney Warren & Charles D. Wetmore
Charles A. Reed & Allen H. Stem |
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Who was responsible for the concept and execution of the original Sky Ceiling in GCT?
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Concept: Warren & Paul Cesar Helleu
Execution: James Monroe Hewlett & Charles Basing |
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Who replicated the Sky Ceiling in GCT in 1944, after the original was irreparably damaged by leaks?
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Charles Gulbrandsen
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This building was originally known as The Pan Am Building when it was built in 1963.
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the MetLife Building
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This English Cottage style community was developed between 1925–1928.
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Tudor City
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The sculptures "The Garment Worker" and "Needle threading a button" are both located at the NE corner of this intersection.
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39th & 7th
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Located along 7th Ave in the Garment District, this is the only permanent landmark to American Fashion.
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The Fashion Walk of Fame
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In what year did the Queensboro Bridge open?
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1909
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Disaster befell this paddlewheel steamer while sailing through Hell Gate on June 15, 1904.
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General Slocum
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This country manor house built in the Federal Style in 1799 is now part of Carl Schurz Park.
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Gracie Mansion
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This was previously known as Welfare Island, Blackwell's Island, and Hog Island.
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Roosevelt Island
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The city's first luxury apartment house, completed in 1884.
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The Dakota
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The disastrous Battle of Brooklyn took place on this date.
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August 27, 1776
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This monument to the Union victory was unveiled in 1892 in Brooklyn's Grand Army Plaza.
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Soldiers' and Sailors' Arch
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Stanford White designed this monument to American POWs located in Brooklyn's Fort Greene Park.
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Prison Ship Martyrs' Monument
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This Gothic style building on Mott St, completed in 1815, is the oldest Roman Catholic building in the city.
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St Patrick's Old Cathedral
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This building at 240 Centre St, now housing luxury condominiums, was built in the Beaux Arts, Edwardian Baroque, and Renaissance Revival styles between 1905–1909.
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Old NYC Police Headquarters
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This church on 5th Ave whose designer Ralph Adams Cram believed that if a building is Gothic in style it should be Gothic in construction was built without steel.
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St Thomas Episcopal Church
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Who designed St Patrick's Cathedral and in what year was it dedicated?
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James Renwick; 1879
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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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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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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 three bridges connect Manhattan and Brooklyn?
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Brooklyn Bridge
Williamsburg Bridge 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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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. Connects Upper East Manhattan (Harlem), The Bronx and Queens.
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Where is the Willis Avenue Bridge?
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First Avenue in Upper East Manhattan (Harlem) 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 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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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 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. |
