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IMPROVED NYC Tour Guide Exam with Complete Solutions Who are the architects of Grand Central Terminal? - Answer-Warren and Wetmore, Reed and Stem What subway lines do NOT stop at Times Square? - Answer-4/5/6, B/D/F/M, A/C/E, G, L What borough has Edgar Allan Poe's cottage? - Answer-The Bronx ...

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IMPROVED NYC Tour Guide Exam
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Who are the architects of Grand Central Terminal? - Answer✔✔-Warren and Wetmore, Reed

and Stem


What subway lines do NOT stop at Times Square? - Answer✔✔-4/5/6, B/D/F/M, A/C/E, G, L


What borough has Edgar Allan Poe's cottage? - Answer✔✔-The Bronx


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

SoHo (SOuth of HOuston)


What's a nickname for the AT&T Building? - Answer✔✔-Golden Boy


What was the original function of the building that holds Tavern-on-the-Green, an exclusive,

eccentric restaurant in Central Park? - Answer✔✔-It was a sheep barn


What are some of Wallace K. Harrison's accomplishments as an architect? - Answer✔✔-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? - Answer✔✔-How the Other Half Lives




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Who designed the outside of the Statue of Liberty? The inside? - Answer✔✔-Frédéric Auguste

Bartholdi; Gustave Eiffel


Who designed the Washington Square Arch? - Answer✔✔-Stanford White


Who sculpted Bethesda Fountain? Where is it? - Answer✔✔-Emma Stebbins; Central Park


What home of a Founding Father was moved from its original location to St. Nicholas Park? -

Answer✔✔-Hamilton Grange (Alexander Hamilton's home)


What is the oldest continuous Protestant organization in New York City? - Answer✔✔-Marble

Collegiate Church


Where was West Side Story filmed? - Answer✔✔-Lincoln Center


What's at Arthur Avenue in the Bronx? - Answer✔✔-Belmont, the "Little Italy of the Bronx"


What is the oldest Jewish synagogue in New York City (founded in 1654), and where is it? -

Answer✔✔-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? -

Answer✔✔-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? -

Answer✔✔-Malcolm X's grandson; Malcolm Shabazz Mosque and Malcolm Shabazz Harlem

Market (market for African goods and clothes)




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The Kosciuszko Bridge spans what waterway between Brooklyn and Queens? - Answer✔✔-

Newtown Creek


Where is the New Wave Festival held each year? - Answer✔✔-Brooklyn Academy of Music

(BAM)


Which great painters are on display at the Hispanic Society of America? - Answer✔✔-El Greco,

Diego Velázquez, Francisco de Goya, and others


What is CBGB? - Answer✔✔-A music club that opened in the East Village in 1973 and helped

launch punk and new wave music. "Country, BlueGrass, and Blues." Police, the B-52s, the

Talking Heads, and Blondie played here.


What is a bialy? - Answer✔✔-A Jewish pastry similar to a bagel but without a hole. Usually

covered with onions.


What is unique about wooden water towers? - Answer✔✔-Wood expands when wet,

preventing leaks. Cheaper to build and maintain. Water freezes later than in steel.


Where is the New York City Panorama, the largest architectural model in the world? -

Answer✔✔-Queens Museum in Flushing Meadows Corona Park


What is the largest Jewish congregation in New York City? - Answer✔✔-Temple Emanu-El


Where was the Bill Cosby Show shot? Where were the Huxtable family supposed to live? -

Answer✔✔-St. Luke's Place in the West Village; Brooklyn Heights




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