IMPROVED NYC TOUR GUIDE
EXAM QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT ANSWERS 2023/2024
GRADED A+.
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1. Who are the architects of Grand CentralTerminal?: Warren and Wetmore,Reed and Stem
2. What subway lines do NOT stop atTimes Square?: 4/5/6, B/D/F/M, A/C/E, G,L
3. What borough has Edgar Allan Poe's cott...
IMPROVED NYC TOUR GUIDE
EXAM QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT ANSWERS 2023/2024
GRADED A+.
,1. Who are the architects of Grand Central Terminal?: Warren and Wetmore,Reed and Stem
2. What subway lines do NOT stop at Times Square?: 4/5/6, B/D/F/M, A/C/E, G,L
3. What borough has Edgar Allan Poe's cottage?: The Bronx
4. Where can you find the greatest concentration of cast iron buildings in theworld?: SoHo
(SOuth of HOuston)
5. What's a nickname for the AT&T Building?: Golden Boy
6. What was the original function of the building that holds Tav-
ern-on-the-Green, an exclusive, eccentric restaurant in Central Park?: It wasa sheep barn
7. What are some of Wallace K. Harrison's accomplishments as an architect?: -United Nations,
Rockefeller Center, Battery Park City, master plan for Lincoln Centerand Metropolitan Opera House,
Albany's Empire State Plaza, Corning Museum of Glass
8. What famous book did Jacob Riis write about the conditions in tenementhouses, to motivate
social reform?: How the Other Half Lives
9. Who designed the outside of the Statue of Liberty? The inside?: FrédéricAuguste Bartholdi;
Gustave Eiffel
10. Who designed the Washington Square Arch?: Stanford White
11. Who sculpted Bethesda Fountain? Where is it?: Emma Stebbins; CentralPark
12. What home of a Founding Father was moved from its original location toSt. Nicholas Park?:
Hamilton Grange (Alexander Hamilton's home)
13. What is the oldest continuous Protestant organization in New York City?: -
Marble Collegiate Church
14. Where was West Side Story filmed?: Lincoln Center
15. What's at Arthur Avenue in the Bronx?: Belmont, the "Little Italy of the Bronx"
16. 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
17. Where is the Islamic Cultural Center, the first mosque built in the US, whichfaces Mecca?: 1711
Third Avenue, between E 96th Street and E 97th Street
18. Who was Malcolm Shabazz? What two locations on W 116th Street are named for him?:
Malcolm X's grandson; Malcolm Shabazz Mosque and MalcolmShabazz Harlem Market (market for
, African goods and clothes)
19. The Kosciuszko Bridge spans what waterway between Brooklyn andQueens?:
Newtown Creek
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