NYC Tour Guide Test 333 questions

What does Bowery mean?

Dutch, for farm

Where is a revolutionary war monument that honors 11,500 patriots that died on prison ships?

Fort Greene Park, Brooklyn has the Prison Ships Martyrs Monument.

Which President regularly used a pew at St. Paul's Chapel?

George Washington

Name buildings designed by Henry Hardenbergh

Dakota, Plaza, Schermerhorn Building, the original Waldorf Astoria on 5th (Empire State Building there now), Willard, Copley Plaza,

What are the cross town bus routes (7,7,7,11)?

Don't try to learn. (65,72,79,86,97)

What famous author hated brownstones?

Edith Wharton

Who sculpted Bethesda Fountain? Where is it?

Emma Stebbins, Central Park

Equitable Building - Who, where, when. What did it cause?

Ernest Graham, 120 Broadway, 1915, Zoning setback restrictions resulting in the Wedding Cake Silhouette architecture.

What is in the Dahesh Museum?

Europe's academically trained artists of the 19th and early 20th century, only museum in US.

What is the finest example of Greek Revival Architecture in the city?

Federal Hall National Memorial

What's the nickname of the AT&T building?

Golden Boy

What is the name of the Mayor's house?

Gracie Mansion

What is the Grand Boulevard in the Bronx also known as?

Grand Concourse

What's famous about the Chelsea Hotel?

Home of famous artistic and bohemian people, like Bob Dylan, Dylan Thomas, Sid Vicious, Arthur C. Clarke

What did Jacob Riis write?

How The Other Half Lives

Which train will take you from the Native American caves of Inwood in Upper Manhattan to the ocean beaches of the Rockaways in Queens?

IND A train

What John Lennon song name is found in Central park, in Italian mosaic?

Imagine

What were the Stonewall Riots?

In 1969, gay people fought with police at 53 Christopher St. and began the gay pride/rights movement.

What did William Cullen Bryant do for a living?

Romantic poet and editor of NY Evening Post who spearheaded the campaign for Central Park.

Where can you find a famous smallpox hospital?

Roosevelt Island. Designed by James Renwick, Jr.

Where can you find the greatest concentration of cast iron buildings in the world?

SOHO (SOuth of HOuston)

What Latin dance was popular in the 80's?

Salsa

What is Federal Hall and where is it?

Site of George Washington's Inauguration as President. Federal Hall Memorial is the former Custom House building rebuilt on the original site on Wall Street.

What areas were reduced as the result of the 1924 Johnson-Reed Immigration Act?

Southern and Eastern Europe, East Asians and Asian Indians

Who designed the Washington Arch?

Stanford White

What famous architect was shot by Harry K. Thaw on the roof of Madison Square Garden?

Stanford White, of McKim, Mead and White He killed him in a jealous rage. White had fling with Thaw's wife before there marriage

What is the Haughwaut's building known for?

Store sold the Lincolns their china and silverware for the White House. Also, first Otis elevator and earliest use of cast iron.

Who was the first conductor to perform at Carnegie Hall?

Tchaikovsky

Which of these is not a Broadway theater? Hilton, Music Box, Beacon, St. James

The Beacon

What borough has Edgar Allen Poe's cottage?

The Bronx

What is the nickname of the Woolworth Building?

The Cathedral of Commerce

Oldest Jewish newspaper

The Forward

What is the name of the poem written by Emma Lazurus on the Statue Of Liberty?

The New Colossus

What's the name of the Greek Revival houses north of Washington Square?

The Row

What event caused the National Historic Preservation Movement to begin?

The destruction of the original Pennsylvania Train Station. When Grand Central Terminal was slated, resistance began, spearheaded by Jackie O.

What is unique about a black congregation in a synagogue in Harlem?

The faithful are black and Jewish.The Commandment Keepers: Holy Church of the Living God are a sect of Black Jews, founded in 1919 by Wentworth Arthur Matthew that believe Ethiopian descendants represent a lost tribe of Israel. Headquartered since 1962 at 1 West 123rd Street in Harlem.

What was the original name of the Cotton Club?

Club Deluxe

What was the purpose of the 1965 Hart-Cellars Act?

Correct the flaws of the 1924 Johnson-Reed Act. Allowed many more Asians. Immigration quotas were based on skills and resident relatives.

Where is the New York Stock Exchange?

11 Wall St. (This is a trick question, they want you to say Wall and Broad)

When was slavery abolished in New York?

1827

When did the 5 boroughs consolidate?

1898 - Honored with Manhattan Municipal Building with Civic Fame statue on top.

Where is the Forbes Gallery (60)?

60 Fifth Ave. near 12th St.

Where is the Gotham Hotel, and what is it now called?

700 Fifth Ave at 55th Street - The Peninsula

What is Civic Fame?

A 25-foot tall golden statue on top of the Manhattan Municipal Building. Designed by Adolph A. Weinman to celebrate the merging of the 5 boroughs in 1898.

Where would you go to learn about Santeria - a Caribbean religious mixture

A Botanica

What and where was the Jewish Rialto?

A Jewish theater district on Second Ave, between 14th St. and Houston St. that was very popular from the 20's to 40's.

What and where is the Salmagundi Club (47)?

A club for artists. At 47 Fifth Ave between 11th and 12th Streets, named after The Salmagundi Papers by Washington Irving.

What was Chumley's?

A former speakeasy in the Village frequented by writers. There will be a picture. Look for curved top door, courtyard.

What is Morningside Heights, and what is found there?

A neighborhood on the Upper West Side. Columbia University and the old Bloomingdale Asylum, Tom's Restaurant (Seinfeld fame), St. John the Divine, Riverside Church, Grant's Tomb

What does Guastavino refer to?

A type of timbrel roof vaulting that uses lighter terra cotta tiles. Ellis Island, Custom House, GCT used them.

The Church of the Transfiguration is known as a spiritual haven for what group of people? Located at E. 29th between Madison and Fifth,

Actors and actresses

What is the name of the hotel at 59 W. 44th between Fifth and Sixth, famous as a hangout for writers?

Algonquin Hotel, famous for its Round Table, where actors, critics, writers and wits would gather, nicknamed The Vicious Circle.

Who were the architects of Riverside Church?

Allen & Collens and Henry C. Pelton were the architects. John D. Rockefeller Jr. led the financing for Baptist Minister Harry Emerson Fosdick

What was the Campbell Apartment?

An opulent space in Grand Central Terminal, occupied by a friend of William Kissam Vanderbilt. Police thought it was lived in when they saw a shower and toilet. It is now an opulent bar. Formerly the private office and salon of 1920's tycoon, John W. Campbell, The Campbell Apartment has been fully-restored to its original splendor -- and reborn as a chic cocktail lounge cited in the national media as one of "the best bars in America".

What famous New York City resident invented the telephone?

Antonio Meucci

What is the current name of Hurtig and Seamon's?

Apollo Theater

Who designed the outside of the Statue Of Liberty? Who designed the inside?

Auguste Bartholdi designed outside and Gustave Eiffel designed the inside

What famous sculptor created the statue of General Sherman near Central Park by the Plaza Hotel?

Augustus St. Gaudens

What was the name of a popular vending machine system for food?

Automats

Where is the Hall of Fame for Great Americans?

Bronx Community College

What was previously in Bryant Park?

Bryant Park, named after William Cullen Bryant, was the site of the Croton Reservoir, and later the Crystal Palace. Behind current NYC Library

What is Bloomingdale Asylum and where is it?

Buell Hall, the administration building of Columbia University in Morningside Heights, formerly a lunatic asylum from 1821.

What was Dumbbell Architecture and what was it intended to correct?

Buildings with narrow spaces between them to act as air shafts and allow sunlight in. Designed to correct the flaws of the 1867 zoning laws but dumbbell apartments were worse.

Who founded the Free African Church of St. Philip in Harlem?

By free Africans worshiping at Trinity Church in 1809. First rector from 1826 to 1840 was the Rev. Peter Williams, Jr., a leading abolitionist.

Who designed the Woolworth Building?

Cass Gilbert

Where was Seneca Village located?

Central Park - Between 82nd and 89th streets between Seventh and Eighth Ave.

Where is the Dakota Building, who designed it, and who is living or has lived there?

Central Park West (Eighth Ave) and W. 72nd Street. Henry Hardenbergh design. Lauren Bacall, Connie Chung & Maury Povich, Roberta Flack, Rudolf Nureyev, Boris Karloff, Judy Garland, John Lennon.

What is the best example of Art Deco architecture in NYC?

Chrysler Building

Tavern-On-The-Green, an exclusive, eccentric restaurant in Central Park was what before?

It was a sheep barn

What is the name of the garden at the Brooklyn Botanical Museum, famous for its cherry trees?

Japanese Hill And Pond Garden

Who lived in the Turtle Bay apartments?

Katherine Hepburn, E.B. White, Tyrone Power, Stephen Sondheim, Mary Martin

What's on Arthur Avenue in the Bronx?

Little Italy is on Arthur Avenue in the Belmont section of the Bronx.

Who was Robert Moses?

Manhattan Master Planner (controversial major mover and shaker) - bridges, expressways, public housing, UN, Lincoln Center, Shea Stadium. All of the above

What is the oldest continuous Protestant church in NYC?

Marble Collegiate Church

Who was the Russian Jew with the French name that did the panels at the Lincoln Center?

Marc Chagall

What black leader was deported out of the country?

Marcus Garvey

Who was Jimmy Walker?

Mayor of NYC during the Jazz Age (Roaring 20's). Defeated Fiorello La Guardia. His downfall was spurred by the stock market crash and scandal forced him to resign in 1932. He favored chorus women. When Elliot Ness busted Club 21, he ticketed all the feds' cars!

Who were the architects of the Manhattan Municipal Building?

McKim, Mead and White

To what does the Dispensary Triangle refer?

Medical care for the poor.

Where is Tom's Restaurant of Seinfeld fame located?

Morningside Heights at W.112th and Broadway, one block west of St. John the Divine and near Columbia University.

What was the old elevated railway called on Ninth Ave?

Ninth Ave. EL is now High Line Park.

What effect did the 1811 Grid Plan have on the city?

No alleys, single family homes, cross-ventilation, reduced construction costs. All of the above?

Where is the Diamond District?

On 47th St. between Fifth and Sixth Ave, near Rockefeller Center.

What is a Brownstone?

Originally a rowhouse built almost entirely out of brown sandstone, later only faced with brownstone. Brownstone made of iron ore

What was the reason for purchasing and who sold Manhattan to the Dutch?

Peter Minuit acquired Manhattan in 1626 from the Lenape tribe in exchange for goods worth 60 guilders. The Dutch wanted a protective citadel for their fur trading post, according to the document by Pieter Janszoon Schagen.

What governor was reprimanded for allowing only Dutch Refomed people to settle in New York? (he tried to exclude Jews and Quakers)

Peter Stuyvesant

What was the name of Giants' Stadium in Harlem?

Polo Grounds

What does the SATMAR Jewish sect believe about Israel?

The state of Israel interferes with the coming of the Messiah. Not yet ordained to be there by God.

Where is the Star Walk?

Theatre 80. 80 St. Marks Place, the former home of the Pearl Theatre Company.

What is unusual about the statues surrounding the Fountain of Peace statue at St. John the Divine?

They were made by children

What are Wallace K. Harrison's accomplishments as an architect?

UN, Rockefeller Center, Lincoln Center, Battery Park City, Albany Plaza, Corning Glass Center

Who were the architects of Grand Central Terminal?

Warren & Wetmore and Reed & Stem

Who went to the Salmagundi Club?

Washington Irving, Louis Comfort Tiffany, Stanford White, John La Farge

What is the name of an early black settlement in Brooklyn, settled by freedmen in 1838?

Weeksville was named after James Weeks.

What is the history of the many Ray's Pizza stores in Manhattan?

When the Albanians were overrun in wartime Europe, they found refuge in Italy and learned to make pizza. OR a mob guy decided to open a pizza store and it was so good many people copied the name until it became a joke in NYC.

Who was the Chrysler Building's architect?

William Van Alen

The Ansonia Hotel was known for what unusual features?

World's largest swimming pool, rooftop farm with goats and pigs, indoor fountain with seals, home to Babe Ruth, Igor Stravinsky, etc. All of the above?

Where and what is the 2nd oldest monument in NYC?

Worth Monument is in Worth Square at 25th and Broadway near Madison Square Park. The obelisk honors General Worth for his service in the Mexican-American War and Seminole War.

House That Ruth Built?

Yankee Stadium

What team did Lou Gehrig play for?

Yankees