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Who are the architects of Grand Central Terminal?
✓ Warren and Wetmore, Reed and Stem
What subway lines do NOT stop at Times Square?
✓ 4/5/6, B/D/F/M, A/C/E, G, L
What borough has Edgar Allan Poe's cottage?
✓ The Bronx
Where can you find the greatest concentration of cast iron buildings in the
world?
✓ SoHo (SOuth of HOuston)
What's a nickname for the AT&T Building?
✓ Golden Boy
What was the original function of the building that holds Tavern-on-the-Green,
an exclusive, eccentric restaurant in Central Park?
✓ It was a sheep barn
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What are some of Wallace K. Harrison's accomplishments as an architect?
✓ United Nations, Rockefeller Center, Battery Park City, master plan for Lincoln
Center and Metropolitan Opera House, Albany's Empire State Plaza, Corning
Museum of Glass
What famous book did Jacob Riis write about the conditions in tenement
houses, to motivate social reform?
✓ How the Other Half Lives
Who designed the outside of the Statue of Liberty? The inside?
✓ Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi; Gustave Eiffel
Who designed the Washington Square Arch?
✓ Stanford White
Who sculpted Bethesda Fountain? Where is it?
✓ Emma Stebbins; Central Park
What home of a Founding Father was moved from its original location to St.
Nicholas Park?
✓ Hamilton Grange (Alexander Hamilton's home)
What is the oldest continuous Protestant organization in New York City?
✓ Marble Collegiate Church
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Where was West Side Story filmed?
✓ Lincoln Center
What's at Arthur Avenue in the Bronx?
✓ Belmont, the "Little Italy of the Bronx"
What is the oldest Jewish synagogue in New York City (founded in 1654), and
where is it?
✓ Congregation Shearith Israel, W 70th Street and Central Park West
Where is the Islamic Cultural Center, the first mosque built in the US, which
faces Mecca?
✓ 1711 Third Avenue, between E 96th Street and E 97th Street
Who was Malcolm Shabazz? What two locations on W 116th Street are named
for him?
✓ Malcolm X's grandson; Malcolm Shaba Mosque and Malcolm Shabazz Harlem Market
(market for African goods and clothes)zz
The Kosciuszko Bridge spans what waterway between Brooklyn and Queens?
✓ Newtown Creek
Where is the New Wave Festival held each year?
✓ Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM)
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