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Name the 2 SI Ferry Terminals |
Whitehall St - Manhattan St. George - Staten Island Na |
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Name the 4 Eastbound Midtown Thru Streets |
36th, 46th, 50th, 54th |
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Name the 5 Westbound Midtown Thru Streets |
37th, 45th, 49th, 53rd, 60th |
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What Times are Midtown Thru Streets Enforced? |
10AM - 6PM |
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Name the 3 most prominent buildings of Lincoln Centre |
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 |
David H Koch Theater |
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What 2 organizations perform at the NY State Theater? |
NYC Ballet NYC Opera |
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Where does the NY Philharmonic perform? |
Avery Fisher Hall |
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The Sailor's Retirement Community is in which neighborhood, borough? |
Snug Harbor, SI |
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What is the largest public park in NYC? |
Pelham Bay Park, The Bronx 2772 Acres |
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Name 3 features of Van Cortland Park |
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 |
Van Cortland Park, The Bronx 1186 Acres |
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Name the 4th largest park in NYC |
Flushing Meadow Park, Queens 897 Acres |
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Who designed Prospect Park? |
Frederick Law Olmstead and Calvert Vaux |
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What year did Prospect Park open? |
1867 |
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What is the main feature of The Cloisters? |
Art from 5 Medieval European Abbeys |
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Where is the Children's Museum of Manhattan located? |
W 83rd St |
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Where is the Frick Collection located? |
5th Ave betw 70th & 71st Sts |
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Who is not admitted inside the Frick Collection? |
Children under 10 |
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Where is Museum Mile? |
5th Ave betw 82nd & 105th Sts |
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What year did the Metropolitan Museum of Art open? |
1870 |
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What year did the American Museum of Natural History open? |
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? |
53rd St betw 5th & 6th Aves |
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Who designed the Guggenheim Museum building? |
Frank Lloyd Wright |
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What year did Central Park open? What year was it completed? |
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 |
Impressionism Post Impressionism Early Modernism Contemporary |
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Where is the Solomon R Guggenheim Museum located? |
5th Ave & 88th St |
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Who designed Central Park? |
Frederick Law Olmstead and Calvert Vaux |
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Name 5 famous burials in Woodlawn Cemetery |
FW Woolworth Herman Melville Robert Moses Fiorello LaGuardia Oliver Belmont |
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Name 5 famous burials in Greenwood Cemetery |
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? |
Beaux Arts |
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Who designed the Whitney Museum of American Art building? |
Marcel Breuer |
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Where is the Whitney Museum of American Art located? |
Madison Ave & 75th St |
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Where is El Museo del Barrio located? |
5th Ave & 104th St |
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Where is the Museum of Modern Art located? |
53rd St betw 5th & 6th Aves |
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Where is the New Museum of Contemporary Art located? |
Bowery betw Stanton & Rivington Sts |
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When is the New Museum of Contemporary Art free? |
Thursdays 7-10PM |
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What was NYC's first museum? |
The New York Historical Society |
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Where is the Museum of the City of New York located? |
5th Ave & 103rd St |
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Where is the main location of the NY Transit Museum? |
Court St Station, Brooklyn |
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What is the architectural style of the Tenement Museum building? |
Italianate |
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Where is the Tenement Museum located? |
97 Orchard St |
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Where is the George Gustav Heye Center located? |
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? |
36 Battery Pl |
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Where is the Morgan Library located? |
Madison Ave & 36th St |
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What does the Rubin Museum specialize in? |
Himalayan and Tibetan Art |
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Where is the Rubin Museum located? |
17th St betw 6th & 7th Aves |
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Name 2 Smithsonian Museums in NYC |
George Gustav Heye Center Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum |
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Which museum houses the world's largest collection of decorative arts? |
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? |
American Folk Art Museum |
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Which NYC museum features exhibits on Quilts and Quilt Making, and the art of self-taught artists? |
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? |
NYC Truck Routes |
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Which buses are prohibited in the Financial District? |
All buses over 30 feet |
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Name 5 important works of E.B. White |
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? |
Langston Hughes |
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Who wrote House of Mirth? |
Edith Wharton |
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Which NYC poet and Journalist is known as the Father of the Free Verse? |
Walt Whitman |
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William Sydney Parks is better known as...? |
O. Henry |
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Which 3 publications frequently published stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald? |
Saturday Evening Post Esquire Collier's |
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Where is the Museum of the Moving Image located? |
35th Ave in Astoria |
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Where must tour bus drivers leave NYC truck routes? |
At the neatest intersection to their destination |
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NYC tour bus operators must carry a document with what information? |
Point of origin Destination Streets planned to take |
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Which buses can park at WTC? |
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? |
Below Chambers St |
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When is the only time tour buses are allowed to idle and for how long? |
Below 40 degrees F 3 minutes |
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When is the only time tour buses are allowed to idle and for how long? |
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? |
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? |
Grand Central Terminal 42nd St - Bryant Park Bowling Green Atlantic Ave |
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What does MUNY stand for? |
Music Under New York |
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Name 4 Important works by Washington Irving |
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 |
The Body Snatchers Time and Again From Time to Time |
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What was Paule Marshall's first novel? |
Brown Girl, Brownstones |
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What is the architectural style of the block of Greenwich Village town houses know as "The Row"? |
Greek Revival |
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Who designed the Washington Memorial Arch? Where is it located? |
Stanford White Washington Square Park |
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What happened on March 25th, 1911 on the current site of the NYU Brown Building? |
The Triangle Shirt-waist Company fire |
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Sculptor Neil Estern cast the bronze figure of this former mayor in 1993. |
Fiorello H. LaGuardia |
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The bronze statue of Giuseppe Garibaldi in Washington Sq was created by this sculptor. |
Giovanni Turini |
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This original geographical feature of Manhattan still flows below the streets of Greenwich Village. |
Minetta Brook |
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Who was the first American-born saint of the Catholic Church? |
Mother Elizabeth Ann Seton |
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George Segal is the creator of this bronze sculpture group in Christopher Park. |
Gay Liberation |
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The annual Gay Pride Parade commemorates this event that started on Christopher St in June 1969. |
The Stonewall riots |
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The Jefferson Market Library building is in what architectural style? |
Victorian Gothic |
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This "single most important document in NYC's development" created Manhattan's street grid plan. |
Commissioner's Plan of 1811 |
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The Puck Building on Lafayette St is built in which architectural style? |
Romanesque Revival |
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The Old Merchant's House Museum at 29 E 4th Street is an example of which architectural style? |
Greek Revival |
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Name 3 statues by Augustus Saint-Gaudens in NYC. |
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. |
USS Maine National Monument |
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This oldest church building and oldest public building in NYC was completed in 1766. |
St. Paul's Chapel |
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This architect (and firm) is credited with the re-design of the current WTC 1. |
David Childs of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill |
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In what year were zoning laws first introduced establishing setback requirements for buildings? |
1916 |
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The current Trinity Church building dates to what year and was designed by whom? |
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. |
Bowling Green |
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This un-sanctioned statue by sculptor Arturo DiModica and cast by Domenico Ranieri stands at the north end of Bowling Green. |
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? |
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. |
American Merchant Marine Memorial |
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This National Monument was built in 1807 as a fortification to protect the harbor. |
Castle Clinton |
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In what year did Peter Minuit make his famous purchase from the natives? |
1626 |
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In what year was New Amsterdam ceded to the English, becoming New York? |
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. |
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? |
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. |
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). |
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. |
Broad Street |
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The NYSE building is of which architectural style? |
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. |
Federal Hall National Memorial |
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The statue of Washington on the steps of Federal Hall is by what sculptor? |
John Quincy Adams Ward |
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Why is there not a single structure left in Manhattan dating from the 17th Century? |
The Great Fire of 1835 |
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The Federal Reserve Bank of New York is built in which architectural style? |
Neo-Renaissance (it looks like a Florentine palazzo) |
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The Municipal Building was built in 1914 by this firm. |
McKim, Mead & White |
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This 25 ft tall gilded statue by this sculptor sits atop the Municipal Building. |
Civic Fame Adolph A. Weinman |
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The Woolworth Building was designed by this architect. |
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. |
Nathan Hale |
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The Italianate villa that sits back to back with City Hall is familiarly known as this. |
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. |
City Hall |
