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What borough has Edgar Allen Poe's cottage? |
The Bronx
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What is in The Dahesh Museum
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Only museum in US devoted to collecting, exhibiting and interpreting works by Europe's academically trained artists of the 19th and early 20th century. |
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What is the newest museum on Museum Mile
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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" |
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What is the best example of Art Deco in NYC
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The Chrysler Building
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What is a Brownstone?
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Originally a row house built almost entirely of brown sand stone, later faced with brownstone only.
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What is the tallest structure in NYC outside of Manhattan?
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Citicorp Office building in Queens. |
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The Ansonia Hotel was known for what unusual features?
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All.
World's largest swimming pool Roof top farm with goats and pigs Indoor fountain with seals Home to Babe Ruth |
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What is The Woolworth Building's nickname?
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The Cathedral of Commerce
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What is the 21 Club?
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A famous upscale speakeasy during prohibition.
21 W 52nd St |
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Where can you find the greatest consecration of cast iron buildings in the world?
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SoHo
(South of Houston) |
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Where is The Forbes Gallery?
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60 5th Ave. near 12th St.
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What is the current name of Hurting and Seamon's
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Apollo Theater
Opened in 1914 |
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What and where is the 2nd oldest monument in NYC
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Worth Monument
23rd St and Broadway |
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What does Gustavino refer to?
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A type of timberal roof vaulting that uses lighter Terra Cotta tiles.
Ex: Ellis Island, Custom House, GCT (Oyster Room) etc |
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Which of these theater's doesn't belong in the category of Broadway Theaters?
Hilton, Music Box, Beacon, St. James |
Beacon
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What is the name of the famous hotel at 59 W 44th st. between 5th and 6th ave? Famous a hangout for writers?
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Algonquin.
Famous for Roundtables where actors, critic, writers and wits would gather aka "The Vicious Circle" |
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What is the finest example of Greek Revival Architecture in the city?
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Federal Hall National Memorial
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What is the Haugwaut's Building known for?
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Selling the Lincoln's china and silver wear for The White House.
First with Otis elevator. Building from a catalog. |
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What is the address if the NY Stock Exchange?
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11 Wall St.
*Trick Question NOT Wall and Broad* |
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What is Federal Hall? Where is it?
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Site of Washington's Presidential Inauguration.
26 Wall St. |
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What is the name of the garden at The Brooklyn Botanical Museum famous for it's cherry trees?
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Japanese Hill and Pond Garden
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What is Bloomingdale Asylum?
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Administration building of Columbia University
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Where is The Gotham Hotel and what is it currently called?
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700 5th Ave at 55th St
The Peninsula |
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What is another name for the AT&T building?
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"Golden Boy"
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What is "Civic Fame"?
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25 ft tall golden statue on top of Municipal Building (1898)
Designed by Adolph A. Weinman |
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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 |
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Buildings design end by Henry Hardenburg
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Dakota
Plaza Org. Waldorf and Astoria on 5th Ave Willard Copley Plaza Schermerhorn Building |
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What was the Campbell Apartment?
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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.
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Where can you find the famous smallpox hospital?
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Roosevelt Island
Designed by James Fenwick Jr. |
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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 |
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What is Chumley's
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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) |
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What is the name of the mayor's house?
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Gracie Mansion
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What is the name of the Giant's Stadium in Harlem?
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Polo Grounds
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What is the name of the Greek Revival Row houses north of Washington Square?
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The Row
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What is the history of the many Ray's Pizza stores in Manhattan?
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When Albanians were overrun in war time Europe they found refuge in Italy, where they learned to make pizza.
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Who sold Manhattan to the Dutch?
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Algonquin Lenape Indians,
Wappinger Federation |
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What were the Stonewall Riots?
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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. |
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To what does the Dispensary Triangle refer?
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Medical care for the poor
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What is known at "The House That Ruth Built"?
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Yankee Stadium
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What Latin dance was popular in the 80s?
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Salsa
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Bryant Park
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Named after William Cullen Bryant.
Behind current NYC Library. Site of Croton Reservoir and later The Crystal Palace. |
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What is the name of an early black settlement in Brooklyn purchased by African American freed men in 1838?
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Weeksville now in Bedford Stuyvesant
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What was the name of a popular vending machine system for food?
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Automats
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How has the grid of 1811 affected the city?
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All of the Above (Huh?)
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Must look up
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What is the origin if the word "Bowery"
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Dutch for farm
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What was the Tenement Law of 1879 designed to correct?
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The flaws of the 1867 Laws that caused "Dumbbell Apartments".
(this new law made sure that there were windows facing open air) |
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What areas of Europe were reduced as a result of the 1924 Immigration Act? (Johnson-Reed Act)
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Southern and Eastern Europe
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What was the original function of "Tavern On The Green"? (currently an eccentric restaurant in Central Park)
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It was a sheep barn
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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 |
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When were the 5 boroughs consolidated?
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1898
In result the Manhattan Municipal Building with "Civic Fame" on top was developed by McKim, Mead and White. |
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What caused the National Historic Preservation Movement?
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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) |
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What was the purpose of the 1965 Hart-Cellars Act?
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Correct the flaws of the 1924 Johnson-Reed Act.
Immigration based on skills which led to an influx of Asians allowed in the country. |
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When was slavery abolished?
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1827
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Where is the Star Walk?
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Pearl Theater
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Who founded the AME Zion Church?
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Peter Williams
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What was the name of the original Cotton Club?
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Club Deluxe
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Where is the Diamond Distract?
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47th st between 5th & 6 the ave.
Originally on Canal st in Chinatown |
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What was the name of the poem written by Emma Lazarus of the Statue of Liberty?
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The New Colossus
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What are Wallace K Harrison's architectural accomplishments?
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UN
Rockefeller Center Lincoln Center Battery Park City Albany Plaza Corning Glass Center |
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Who was the first conductor to perform at Carnegie Hall?
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Tchaikovsky
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What was the old elevated railway of 9th ave called?
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Ninth Ave Elevated (El)
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What is the Grand Boulevard in the Bronx also known for?
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Grand Concourse
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Who designed the Equitable building?
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Ernest Graham (1915)
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Where is a revolutionary War Monument that honors the 11,500 patriots that died on prison ships?
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Forty Greene Park, Brooklyn
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What famous author hated brownstones?
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Edith Wharton
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Who designed the copper dome of the Woolworth Building?
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Cass Gilbert
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Jimmy Walker
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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. |
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Who were the architects of Grand Central Terminal?
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-Warren and Westmore
-Reed and Stem |
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What did Jacob Riis write?
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How the Other Half Lives
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Who designed the Status of Liberty? Outside and Inside
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August Bartholdi
Gustave Eiffel |
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Who were the architects of The Manhattan Municipal Building?
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McKim, Mead and White
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What famous NYC resident invented the telephone?
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Antonio Meucci
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Which president regularly used a pew at St. Paul's Chapel?
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George Washington
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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) |
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Robert Moses - major mover and shaker
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Answer: All of the above
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Who did Lou Gehrig play for?
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Yankees
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Who lived in the Turtle Bay Apartments?
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Kathrine Hepburn
Tyrone Powers Stephen Sondheim Mary Martin E.B. White |
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What Governor was reprimanded for allowing only Dutch Reformed people to settle? (Tried to exclude Jews - no passports)
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Peter Stuyvesant
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Who went to the Salmagundi Club at 47 5th Ave?
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Washington Irving
Louis B Tiffany John LaFarge Stanford White |
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What black leader was deported out of the country?
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Marcus Garvey
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Who sculpted Bethesda Fountain?
Where is it? |
Emma Stebbins
Central Park |
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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 |
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What was Jackie O's 5th ave address?
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1040 (think tax return)
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Throg's Neck Bridge connects which two boroughs?
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Queens and the Bronx
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What famous sculptor did 'General Sherman' near Central Park by the Plaza Hotel?
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Augustus St. Gaudens
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What famous architect was shot by Harry K Thaw on top of Madison. Square Garden?
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Stanford White
(McKim, Mead and White) |
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Which train will take you from the Native American caves of Inwood in Upper Manhattan to the ocean beaches of the Rockaways in Queens?
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A
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Where is the hall of fame for great Americans?
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Bronx Community College
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Who was the Russian Jew (with a French name) that did the panels at Lincoln Center?
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Marc Chagall
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Where is Tom's restaurant from 'Seinfeld' located?
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Morningside Heights
W 112th and Broadway (one block west of St. John the Divine) |
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Who designed the Washington Arch?
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Stanford White
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Any question involving a building being moved should be answered this way
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Hamilton Grange (Alexander Hamilton's home)
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Who was the architect of the Chrysler Building?
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William Van Alen
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Where was Seneca Village located?
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82nd - 89th st between 7th & 8th ave
Now Central Park |
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What is the oldest continuous Protestant Organization in NYC?
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Marble Collegiate Church
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Oldest Jewish newspaper
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The Forward
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What is famous about the Chelsea Hotel?
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Center of artistic and bohemian famous people.
Dylan Thomas Sid Vicious |
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The Church of Transfiguration
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Spiritual haven for actors/actresses
E 29th between Madison & 5th |
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Where was 'West Side Story' filmed?
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Lincoln Center
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What is at Arthur Ave in the Bronx?
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Little Italy (Belmont Area)
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Where would you go to learn about Santeria - a Caribbean religious mixture?
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A Botanica
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What does the SATMAR Jewish sect believe about Israel?
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They interfere with the coming of the Messiah and are not ordained to be here.
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What famous John Lennon song is found in Central Park on an Italian mosaic?
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Imagine
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Largest Jewish Synagogue in NYC
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Temple Emanu-El
2500 / more than St. Patrick's |
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Where was the Cosby Show shot?
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St. Luke's Place in Greenwich.
(Suppose to take place in Brooklyn on Stigwell Ave) |
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What is unusual about the statues surrounding the Fountain of Peace statue at St. John the Divine
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They were made by children
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Oldest Jewish Synagogue in NYC
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Shearith Israel (1654)
8 W 70th st |
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Where did Dylan Thomas drink himself silly shortly before dying?
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The White Horse
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What is unique about a black congregation at a synagogue in Harlem?
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The faithful are black and Jewish.
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Where is the original St. Patrick's church located?
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NoLita
263 Mulberry on the corner of Prince and Mott |
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Where is a large festival that celebrates the Feast of the Giglio?
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Williamsburg at Mt Carmel Church
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What is the Islamic Cultural Center?
Where is it located? |
First mosque built in US (1711) 3rd Ave between E 96th & 97th
(faces Mecca) |
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What is the oldest inhabited building in NYC?
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St Paul's Chapel (1766)
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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 |
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Which three trains will take you to Yankee Stadium?
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B, D, 4
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What is the address of the original Cotton Club?
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142nd and Lenox
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Where is "Swedish Broadway"?
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Atlantic Ave. Brooklyn
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How are deals made in the Diamond District?
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Hanshake
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What is Malcolm Shabbaz?
Where is it located? |
African goods market.
52 W 116th st (Harlem) |
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What is the UN address?
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1st Ave. 42nd - 49th St.
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What can be found on Roosevelt Island?
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Renwick Smallpox Hospital
Lighthouse Park Chapel of the Good Shepard FDRs Four Freedoms Park Blackwell Farmhouse Strecker Memorial Laboratory |
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The Kosciusko Bridge spans what waterway between Brooklyn and Queens?
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Newtown Creek
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Where can busses unload and pick up pax?
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Everyplace but NO STOPPING
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What streets are apart of the Thru St Program?
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36th-37th
45th-46th 49th-50th 53rd-54th |
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What subway line would you take to get to The Bronx Zoo
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2
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What subway lines DO NOT stop at Times Square?
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A,B,C,D,E,F,G, J,L,M,V,Z
4,5,6 |
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What subway line takes you to the Brooklyn Museum?
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2 or 3
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What housing development helped bring blacks to settle in Harlem?
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Striver's Row
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In what borough is the Belmont area of Italians and Albanians?
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Bronx
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Where is the Next Wave Festival held each year?
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BAM Brooklyn Academy of Music
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Which boroughs have a 5th Ave?
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All except Staten Island
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How does the charter bus get from the Astoria Hotel to the Cloisters?
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Turn up Madison and take the Henry Hudson Access road
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What subway do you take to get to the Hispanic Society of America?
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1 to 157th st
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What's on Staten Island?
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Snug Harbor
Richmondtown Meucci-Garibaldi Museum Alice Austen House Tibetan Retreat |
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What artists are on display at the Hispanic Society of America?
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El Greco
Valasquez Goya Bastida Sorollo |
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What is the Hess Triangle?
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NYC's smallest plot of land.
Fought for by the Hess family when 7th Ave was rerouted. (In front of cigar store) |
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What was Giovanni's on 43rd st and 9th ave?
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The Improv comedy club
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What is Kim Chi?
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Korean spicy fermented cabbage
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What is babaganoush?
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Indian dish. Eggplant or tahini
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What is the proper attire at an airport?
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Professional dress
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What is CBGB?
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'Country Blue Grass and Blues'
Club in the Village Launched punk &new wave music: Talking Heads Police Blondie B-52s |
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Of what profession are the people who live in Carnegie Towers?
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Musicians and Artists
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What is Dim Sum?
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'Touch the heart'
An assortment of light Chinese dishes |
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What is the difference between Hal-Al and Kosher?
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Hal-Al follows Islamic Laws
Kosher followers Jewish Laws |
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What is bialy?
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Polish bread with a center of onions, garlic or poppy seed (a flat bagel).
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What is naan?
What is the bread called when it is fried? |
Indian flat bread
Poori |
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What is Batido?
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Cuban smoothie or shake
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Where are many Taiwanese moving to?
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Flushing, Queens
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"Charlotte's Web" or Stuart Little question, answer will be...
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E.B. White
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Where would you find a collection of Fabergé Eggs?
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Forbes Gallery 62 5th ave
No longer there, sold to Russian Tycoon |
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What is unique about wood water towers?
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Wood expands when wet preventing leaks.
Cheaper to build and maintain. Water freezes later than in steel. |
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Why is it said that the constellations on the ceiling of GCT are best viewed by God?
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They are painted backwards (except for Orion)
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What is NYCs largest parade?
Where is it? |
West Indian Carnival Day Parade.
Brooklyn (42nd year) |
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How did the Brooklyn Dodgers get their name?
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The players and fans had to dodge trolley cars on their way to practice and games.
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Where can you take people to use the restroom during a tour?
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Hotel Lobbies
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Where is New York City Panorama (largest architectural model in the world) located?
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Queens Museum of Art.
Flushing - Corona Park. |
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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?
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General Slocum
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How many people pass through GCT everyday?
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500,000
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Who funds public arts in the subway?
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MTA - Arts for Transit
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What museum has two Dutch Farmhouses?
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Brooklyn Museum
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What is BAM?
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Brooklyn Academy of Music
(Home of Next Wave Festival) |
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What is the name of the river east of Manhattan?
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East River
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What is the name of the river west of Manhattan?
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Hudson River
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How much do tickets to Shakespeare in the Park cost?
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Free
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What city is the size of the Bronx?
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Paris
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Can you idle your coach of it's under 40° F?
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Yes
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Can you idle your coach if it's a very hot day?
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No
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Why did the World Trade Center fall?
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All of the Above
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What is the biggest cultural attraction in NYC?
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Broadway Plays
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What do you include in an invoice?
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Everything you can think of.
Name, date, time, where, when, what etc |
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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?
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The NYC Police department uses horses.
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Can tour guides accept commission or incentives to steer businesses to a vendor?
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No
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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) |
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What is the nickname for the Woolworth Building?
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Cathedral of Commerce
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If someone asked you in Times Square where they should go to see "The Nutcracker Suite" at Christmas time, where would you send them?
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New York State Theater at Lincoln Center
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A question about a house being moved refers to this man.
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Alexander Hamilton
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When was slavery abolished in NYC?
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1827
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What is a fam trip?
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Slang for "familiarization trip"
Professionals in training are taken to tourist sites to learn about them. |
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Where did James Van Der Zee Live?
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Across from St Phillips and the 10 row houses purchased by the church. (Harlem)
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Why does steam rise up from vents and other areas of the city's streets?
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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.
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Why did the Dutch settle in Manhattan?
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Financial Gain
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NBC radio greeting
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Similar to "faster than a speeding bullet, etc"
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French word for "market" tenements
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Apartment
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What borough has Edgar Allen Poe's cottage?
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The Bronx
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What is in The Dahesh Museum
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Only museum in US devoted to collecting, exhibiting and interpreting works by Europe's academically trained artists of the 19th and early 20th century.
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What is the newest museum on Museum Mile
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Neue Galerie (1048 5th Ave.)Opened 2001Austrian and German art. Founded by Ronald Lauder (heir to Estee Lauder) and Serge Sabarsky.In Grace Vanderbilt's "Gardener's Cottage"
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What is the best example of Art Deco in NYC
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The Chrysler Building
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What is a Brownstone?
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Originally a row house built almost entirely of brown sand stone, later faced with brownstone only.
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What is the tallest structure in NYC outside of Manhattan?
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Citicorp Office building in Queens.663 ft / 48 stories tall
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The Ansonia Hotel was known for what unusual features?
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All.World's largest swimming poolRoof top farm with goats and pigsIndoor fountain with sealsHome to Babe Ruth
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What is The Woolworth Building's nickname?
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The Cathedral of Commerce
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What is the 21 Club?
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A famous upscale speakeasy during prohibition.21 W 52nd St
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Where can you find the greatest consecration of cast iron buildings in the world?
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SoHo(South of Houston)
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Where is The Forbes Gallery?
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60 5th Ave. near 12th St.
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What is the current name of Hurting and Seamon's
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Apollo TheaterOpened in 1914
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What and where is the 2nd oldest monument in NYC
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Worth Monument23rd St and Broadway
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What does Gustavino refer to?
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A type of timberal roof vaulting that uses lighter Terra Cotta tiles.Ex: Ellis Island, Custom House, GCT (Oyster Room) etc
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Which of these theater's doesn't belong in the category of Broadway Theaters? Hilton, Music Box, Beacon, St. James
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Beacon
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What is the name of the famous hotel at 59 W 44th st. between 5th and 6th ave? Famous a hangout for writers?
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Algonquin.Famous for Roundtables where actors, critic, writers and wits would gather aka "The Vicious Circle"
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What is the finest example of Greek Revival Architecture in the city?
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Federal Hall National Memorial
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What is the Haugwaut's Building known for?
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Selling the Lincoln's china and silver wear for The White House.First with Otis elevator.Building from a catalog.
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What is the address if the NY Stock Exchange?
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11 Wall St.*Trick Question NOT Wall and Broad*
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What is Federal Hall? Where is it?
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Site of Washington's Presidential Inauguration.26 Wall St.
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What is the name of the garden at The Brooklyn Botanical Museum famous for it's cherry trees?
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Japanese Hill and Pond Garden
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What is Bloomingdale Asylum?
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Administration building of Columbia University
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Where is The Gotham Hotel and what is it currently called?
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700 5th Ave at 55th StThe Peninsula
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What is another name for the AT&T building?
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"Golden Boy"
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What is "Civic Fame"?
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25 ft tall golden statue on top of Municipal Building (1898) Designed by Adolph A. Weinman
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Where is The Dakota Building?Who designed it?Who has lived there?
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1 W 72nd St Henry J Hardenberg (1884)John Lennon (shot in courtyard), Lauren Bacall, Boris Karloff, Roberta Flack
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Buildings design end by Henry J Hardenbergh
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DakotaPlazaOrg. Waldorf and Astoria on 5th AveWillardCopley Plaza Schermerhorn Building
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What was the Campbell Apartment?
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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.
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Where can you find the famous smallpox hospital?
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Roosevelt IslandDesigned by James Fenwick Jr.
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Equitable BuildingWho designed it and When?Where is it located?What did it cause?
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Ernest Graham (1915)120 BroadwayCreated need for "Set Back Law" preventing buildings from blocking all sunlight to the streets
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What is Chumley's
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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)
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What is the name of the mayor's house?
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Gracie Mansion
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What is the name of the Giant's Stadium in Harlem?
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Polo Grounds
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What is the name of the Greek Revival Row houses north of Washington Square?
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The Row
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What is the history of the many Ray's Pizza stores in Manhattan?
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When Albanians were overrun in war time Europe they found refuge in Italy, where they learned to make pizza.
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Who sold Manhattan to the Dutch?
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Algonquin Lenape Indians,Wappinger Federation
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What were the Stonewall Riots?
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Stonewall Inn (53 Christopher St. Greenwich Village) June 28th, 1969Gay people fought back against police raid, it is considered the beginning of the gay rights movement.
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To what does the Dispensary Triangle refer?
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Medical care for the poor
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What is known at "The House That Ruth Built"?
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Yankee Stadium
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What Latin dance was popular in the 80s?
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Salsa
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Bryant Park
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Named after William Cullen Bryant.Behind current NYC Library.Site of Croton Reservoir and later The Crystal Palace.
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What is the name of an early black settlement in Brooklyn purchased by African American freed men in 1838?
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Weeksville now in Bedford Stuyvesant
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What was the name of a popular vending machine system for food?
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Automats
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How has the grid of 1811 affected the city?
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All of the Above
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What is the origin if the word "Bowery"
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Dutch for farm
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What was the Tenement Law of 1879 designed to correct?
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The flaws of the 1867 Laws that caused "Dumbbell Apartments". (this new law made sure that there were windows facing open air)
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What areas of Europe were reduced as a result of the 1924 Immigration Act? (Johnson-Reed Act)
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Southern and Eastern Europe
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What was the original function of "Tavern On The Green"? (currently an eccentric restaurant in Central Park)
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It was a sheep barn
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Jewish RialtoWhat is it and where is it located?
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Jewish Theater District that was popular from the 1920s-40s2nd Ave between 14th and Houston
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When were the 5 boroughs consolidated?
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1898In result the Manhattan Municipal Building with "Civic Fame" on top was developed by McKim, Mead and White.
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What caused the National Historic Preservation Movement?
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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)
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What was the purpose of the 1965 Hart-Cellars Act?
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Correct the flaws of the 1924 Johnson-Reed Act. Immigration based on skills which led to an influx of Asians allowed in the country.
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When was slavery abolished?
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1827
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Where is the Star Walk?
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Pearl Theater
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Who founded the AME Zion Church?
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Peter Williams
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What was the name of the original Cotton Club?
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Club Deluxe
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Where is the Diamond Distract?
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47th st between 5th & 6 the ave. Originally on Canal st in Chinatown
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What was the name of the poem written by Emma Lazarus of the Statue of Liberty?
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The New Colossus
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What are Wallace K Harrison's architectural accomplishments?
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UN, Rockefeller Center, Lincoln Center, Battery Park City, Albany Plaza, Corning Glass Center
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Who was the first conductor to perform at Carnegie Hall?
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Tchaikovsky
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What was the old elevated railway of 9th ave called?
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Ninth Ave Elevated (El)
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What is the Grand Boulevard in the Bronx also known for?
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Grand Concourse
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Who designed the Equitable building?
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Ernest Graham (1915)
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Where is a revolutionary War Monument that honors the 11,500 patriots that died on prison ships?
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Forty Greene Park, Brooklyn
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What famous author hated brownstones?
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Edith Wharton
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Who designed the copper dome of the Woolworth Building?
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Cass Gilbert
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Jimmy Walker
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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.
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Who were the architects of Grand Central Terminal?
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-Warren and Westmore-Reed and Stem
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What did Jacob Riis write?
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How the Other Half Lives
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Who designed the Statue of Liberty? Outside and Inside
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August Bartholdi (out) & Gustave Eiffel
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Who were the architects of The Manhattan Municipal Building?
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McKim, Mead and White
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What famous NYC resident invented the telephone?
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Antonio Meucci
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Which president regularly used a pew at St. Paul's Chapel?
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George Washington
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Who built Riverside Church? Who was the architect? Who was the minister?
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John D Rockefeller (in memory of his mother Laura)Allen, Collins and PeltonHarry Emerson Fosdick (Baptist)
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Robert Moses - major mover and shaker
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Answer: All of the above
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Who did Lou Gehrig play for?
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Yankees
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Who lived in the Turtle Bay Apartments?
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Kathrine HepburnTyrone PowersStephen SondheimMary MartinE.B. White
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What Governor was reprimanded for allowing only Dutch Reformed people to settle? (Tried to exclude Jews - no passports)
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Peter Stuyvesant
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Who went to the Salmagundi Club at 47 5th Ave?
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Washington IrvingLouis B TiffanyJohn LaFargeStanford White
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What black leader was deported out of the country?
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Marcus Garvey
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Who sculpted Bethesda Fountain? Where is it?
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Emma Stebbins Central Park
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What is Morningside Heights? What was founded there?
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Neighborhood on Upper West side. Columbia University Tom's Restaurant (Seinfeld) St. John the Divine, Riverside Church, Grant's Tomb
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What was Jackie O's 5th ave address?
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1040 (think tax return)
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Throg's Neck Bridge connects which two boroughs?
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Queens and the Bronx
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What famous sculptor did 'General Sherman' near Central Park by the Plaza Hotel?
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Augustus St. Gaudens
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What famous architect was shot by Harry K Thaw on top of Madison. Square Garden?
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Stanford White (McKim, Mead and White)
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Which train will take you from the Native American caves of Inwood in Upper Manhattan to the ocean beaches of the Rockaways in Queens?
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A
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Where is the hall of fame for great Americans?
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Bronx Community College
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Who was the Russian Jew (with a French name) that did the panels at Lincoln Center?
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Marc Chagall
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Where is Tom's restaurant from 'Seinfeld' located?
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Morningside Heights W 112th and Broadway (one block west of St. John the Divine)
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Who designed the Washington Arch?
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Stanford White
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Any question involving a building being moved should be answered this way
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Hamilton Grange (Alexander Hamilton's home)
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Who was the architect of the Chrysler Building?
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William Van Alen
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Where was Seneca Village located?
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82nd - 89th st between 7th & 8th ave Now Central Park
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What is the oldest continuous Protestant Organization in NYC?
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Marble Collegiate Church
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Oldest Jewish newspaper
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The Forward
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What is famous about the Chelsea Hotel?
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Center of artistic and bohemian famous people. Dylan Thomas Sid Vicious
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The Church of Transfiguration
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Spiritual haven for actors/actresses E 29th between Madison & 5th
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Where was 'West Side Story' filmed?
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Lincoln Center
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What is at Arthur Ave in the Bronx?
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Little Italy (Belmont Area)
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Where would you go to learn about Santeria - a Caribbean religious mixture?
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A Botanica
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What does the SATMAR Jewish sect believe about Israel?
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They interfere with the coming of the Messiah and are not ordained to be here.
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What famous John Lennon song is found in Central Park on an Italian mosaic?
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Imagine
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Largest Jewish Synagogue in NYC
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Temple Emanu-El 2500 / more than St. Patrick's
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Where was the Cosby Show shot?
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St. Luke's Place in Greenwich.(Suppose to take place in Brooklyn on Stigwell Ave)
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What is unusual about the statues surrounding the Fountain of Peace statue at St. John the Divine
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They were made by children
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Oldest Jewish Synagogue in NYC
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Shearith Israel (1654)8 W 70th st
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Where did Dylan Thomas drink himself silly shortly before dying?
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The White Horse
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What is unique about a black congregation at a synagogue in Harlem?
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The faithful are black and Jewish.
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Where is the original St. Patrick's church located?
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NoLita 263 Mulberry on the corner of Prince and Mott
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Where is a large festival that celebrates the Feast of the Giglio?
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Williamsburg at Mt Carmel Church
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What is the Islamic Cultural Center?Where is it located?
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First mosque built in US (1711) 3rd Ave between E 96th & 97th (faces Mecca)
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What is the oldest inhabited building in NYC?
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St Paul's Chapel (1766)
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What is Sniffen Court?Where is it located?
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A courtyard for beautiful apts (A former horse stable "mews") E 36th between 3rd Ave and Lexington on Murray Hill
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stable people
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Which three trains will take you to Yankee Stadium?
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B, D, 4
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What is the address of the original Cotton Club?
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142nd and Lenox
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Where is "Swedish Broadway"?
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Atlantic Ave. Brooklyn
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How are deals made in the Diamond District?
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Hanshake
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What is Malcolm Shabbaz? Where is it located?
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African goods market. 52 W 116th st (Harlem)
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Near Moca Lounge
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What is the UN address?
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1st Ave. 42nd - 49th St.
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What can be found on Roosevelt Island?
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1) Renwick Smallpox Hospital. 2) Lighthouse Park. 3) Chapel of the Good Shepard. 4) FDRs Four Freedoms Park. 5) Blackwell Farmhouse. 6) Strecker Memorial Laboratory
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The Kosciusko Bridge spans what waterway between Brooklyn and Queens?
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Newtown Creek
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Where can busses unload and pick up pax?
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Everyplace but NO STOPPING
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What streets are apart of the Thru St Program?
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36th-37th. 45th-46th. 49th-50th. 53rd-54th.
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What subway line would you take to get to The Bronx Zoo
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2
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What subway lines DO NOT stop at Times Square?
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A,B,C,D,E,F,G, J,L,M,V,Z 4,5,6
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What subway line takes you to the Brooklyn Museum?
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2 or 3
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What housing development helped bring blacks to settle in Harlem?
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Striver's Row
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In what borough is the Belmont area of Italians and Albanians?
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Bronx
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Where is the Next Wave Festival held each year?
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BAM Brooklyn Academy of Music
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Which boroughs have a 5th Ave?
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All except Staten Island
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How does the charter bus get from the Astoria Hotel to the Cloisters?
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Turn up Madison and take the Henry Hudson Access road
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What subway do you take to get to the Hispanic Society of America?
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1 to 157th st
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What's on Staten Island?
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Snug Harbor. Richmond town. Meucci-Garibaldi Museum. Alice Austen House. Tibetan Retreat
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What artists are on display at the Hispanic Society of America?
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El Greco. Valasquez. Goya. Bastida. Sorollo
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What is the Hess Triangle?
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NYC's smallest plot of land. Fought for by the Hess family when 7th Ave was rerouted.(In front of cigar store)
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What was Giovanni's on 43rd st and 9th ave?
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The Improv comedy club
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What is Kim Chi?
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Korean spicy fermented cabbage
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What is babaganoush?
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Indian dish. Eggplant or tahini
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What is the proper attire at an airport?
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Professional dress
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What is CBGB?
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'Country Blue Grass and Blues'. Club in the Village. Launched punk & new wave music: Talking Heads. Police. Blondie. B-52s
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Of what profession are the people who live in Carnegie Towers?
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Musicians and Artists
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What is Dim Sum?
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'Touch the heart'. An assortment of light Chinese dishes
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What is the difference between Hal-Al and Kosher?
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Hal-Al follows Islamic Laws. Kosher followers Jewish Laws
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What is bialy?
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Polish bread with a center of onions, garlic or poppy seed (a flat bagel).
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What is naan? What is the bread called when it is fried?
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Indian flat breadPoori
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What is Batido?
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Cuban smoothie or shake
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Where are many Taiwanese moving to?
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Flushing, Queens
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"Charlotte's Web" or Stuart Little question, answer will be...
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E.B. White
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Where would you find a collection of Fabergé Eggs?
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Forbes Gallery 62 5th ave. No longer there, sold to Russian Tycoon
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What is unique about wood water towers?
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Wood expands when wet preventing leaks. Cheaper to build and maintain.Water freezes later than in steel.
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Why is it said that the constellations on the ceiling of GCT are best viewed by God?
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They are painted backwards (except for Orion)
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What is NYCs largest parade? Where is it?
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West Indian Carnival Day Parade. Brooklyn (42nd year)
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How did the Brooklyn Dodgers get their name?
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The players and fans had to dodge trolley cars on their way to practice and games.
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Where can you take people to use the restroom during a tour?
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Hotel Lobbies
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Where is New York City Panorama (largest architectural model in the world) located?
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Queens Museum of Art. Flushing - Corona Park.
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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?
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General Slocum
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How many people pass through GCT everyday?
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500,000
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Who funds public arts in the subway?
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MTA - Arts for Transit
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What museum has two Dutch Farmhouses?
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Brooklyn Museum
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What is BAM?
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Brooklyn Academy of Music (Home of Next Wave Festival)
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What is the name of the river east of Manhattan?
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East River
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What is the name of the river west of Manhattan?
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Hudson River
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How much do tickets to Shakespeare in the Park cost?
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Free
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What city is the size of the Bronx?
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Paris
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Can you idle your coach of it's under 40° F?
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Yes
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Can you idle your coach if it's a very hot day?
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No
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Why did the World Trade Center fall?
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All of the Above
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What is the biggest cultural attraction in NYC?
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Broadway Plays
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What do you include in an invoice?
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Everything you can think of.Name, date, time, where, when, what etc
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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?
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The NYC Police department uses horses.
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Can tour guides accept commission or incentives to steer businesses to a vendor?
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No
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What was the name of the area known as Times Square? When and why did the name change?
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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)
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What is the nickname for the Woolworth Building?
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Cathedral of Commerce
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If someone asked you in Times Square where they should go to see "The Nutcracker Suite" at Christmas time, where would you send them?
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New York State Theater at Lincoln Center
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A question about a house being moved refers to this man.
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Alexander Hamilton
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When was slavery abolished in NYC?
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1827
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What is a fam trip?
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Slang for "familiarization trip" Professionals in training are taken to tourist sites to learn about them.
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Where did James Van Der Zee Live?
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Across from St Phillips and the 10 row houses purchased by the church. (Harlem)
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Why does steam rise up from vents and other areas of the city's streets?
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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.
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Why did the Dutch settle in Manhattan?
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Financial Gain
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NBC radio greeting
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Similar to "faster than a speeding bullet, etc"
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French word for "market" tenements
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Apartment
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