Tour Guide NYC Exam Study Guide with complete
solution
When did the 5 boroughs consolidate? I
1898 - Honored with Manhattan Municipal Building with Civic Fame
statue on top.
Where is the Star Walk?
Theatre 80 St. Marks, the former home of the Pearl Theatre
Company.
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.
When was slavery abolished in New York?
1827
Who founded the Free African Church of St. Philip in Harlem?
Peter Williams, Jr. in 1809.
What are Wallace K. Harrison's accomplishments as an architect?
UN, Rockefeller Center, Lincoln Center,
Battery Park City, Albany Plaza, Corning Glass Center
Where is the Diamond District?
On 47th St. between Fifth and Sixth Ave, near Rockefeller Center.
What is the name of the poem written by Emma Lazurus on the
Statue Of Liberty?
The New Colossus
Who was the first conductor to perform at Carnegie Hall?
Tchaikovsky
What was the old elevated railway called on Ninth Ave?
Ninth Ave. El is now High Line Park.
What is the Grand Boulevard in the Bronx also known as?
Grand Concourse
What famous author hated brownstones?
Edith Wharton
Who designed the Woolworth Building?
Cass Gilbert
Who sculpted Bethesda Fountain? Where is it?
Emma Stebbins, Central Park
What did Jacob Riis write?
How The Other Half Lives
Who designed the outside of the Statue Of Liberty? Inside?
Auguste Bartholdi, Gustave Eiffel
Who were the architects of the Manhattan Municipal Building?
McKim, Mead and White
, What famous NYC resident invented the telephone?
Antonio Meucci
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
Who was Robert Moses?
Manhattan Master Planner (controversial major
mover and shaker) - bridges, expressways, public housing, UN,
Lincoln Center, Shea Stadium.
Who was Jimmy Walker?
Mayor of NYC during the Jazz Age (Roaring 20's). Defeated Fiorello
La Guardia. His downfall spurred by the stock market crash and
scandal forced him to resign in 1932. Favored chorus women. When
Elliot Ness busted Club 21, he ticketed all the feds' cars!
Who were the architects of Grand Central Terminal?
Warren & Wetmore and Reed & Stem
Who lived in the Turtle Bay apartments?
Katherine Hepburn, E.B. White, Tyrone Power, Stephen Sondheim,
Mary Martin
What borough has Edgar Allen Poe's cottage?
The Bronx
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 best example of Art Deco architecture in NYC?
Chrysler Building
What is a Brownstone?
Originally a rowhouse built almost entirely out of brown sandstone,
later only faced with brownstone.
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.
What did William Cullen Bryant do for a living?
Romantic poet and editor of NY Evening Post who spearheaded the
campaign for Central Park.
What is the nickname of the Woolworth Building?
The Cathedral of Commerce
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.
Where can you find the greatest concentration of cast iron buildings in the world?
SOHO (SOuth of HOuston)
solution
When did the 5 boroughs consolidate? I
1898 - Honored with Manhattan Municipal Building with Civic Fame
statue on top.
Where is the Star Walk?
Theatre 80 St. Marks, the former home of the Pearl Theatre
Company.
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.
When was slavery abolished in New York?
1827
Who founded the Free African Church of St. Philip in Harlem?
Peter Williams, Jr. in 1809.
What are Wallace K. Harrison's accomplishments as an architect?
UN, Rockefeller Center, Lincoln Center,
Battery Park City, Albany Plaza, Corning Glass Center
Where is the Diamond District?
On 47th St. between Fifth and Sixth Ave, near Rockefeller Center.
What is the name of the poem written by Emma Lazurus on the
Statue Of Liberty?
The New Colossus
Who was the first conductor to perform at Carnegie Hall?
Tchaikovsky
What was the old elevated railway called on Ninth Ave?
Ninth Ave. El is now High Line Park.
What is the Grand Boulevard in the Bronx also known as?
Grand Concourse
What famous author hated brownstones?
Edith Wharton
Who designed the Woolworth Building?
Cass Gilbert
Who sculpted Bethesda Fountain? Where is it?
Emma Stebbins, Central Park
What did Jacob Riis write?
How The Other Half Lives
Who designed the outside of the Statue Of Liberty? Inside?
Auguste Bartholdi, Gustave Eiffel
Who were the architects of the Manhattan Municipal Building?
McKim, Mead and White
, What famous NYC resident invented the telephone?
Antonio Meucci
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
Who was Robert Moses?
Manhattan Master Planner (controversial major
mover and shaker) - bridges, expressways, public housing, UN,
Lincoln Center, Shea Stadium.
Who was Jimmy Walker?
Mayor of NYC during the Jazz Age (Roaring 20's). Defeated Fiorello
La Guardia. His downfall spurred by the stock market crash and
scandal forced him to resign in 1932. Favored chorus women. When
Elliot Ness busted Club 21, he ticketed all the feds' cars!
Who were the architects of Grand Central Terminal?
Warren & Wetmore and Reed & Stem
Who lived in the Turtle Bay apartments?
Katherine Hepburn, E.B. White, Tyrone Power, Stephen Sondheim,
Mary Martin
What borough has Edgar Allen Poe's cottage?
The Bronx
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 best example of Art Deco architecture in NYC?
Chrysler Building
What is a Brownstone?
Originally a rowhouse built almost entirely out of brown sandstone,
later only faced with brownstone.
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.
What did William Cullen Bryant do for a living?
Romantic poet and editor of NY Evening Post who spearheaded the
campaign for Central Park.
What is the nickname of the Woolworth Building?
The Cathedral of Commerce
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.
Where can you find the greatest concentration of cast iron buildings in the world?
SOHO (SOuth of HOuston)
