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Nyc Tour Guide License Exam Questions with Verified Solutions Where is the diamond District? ✔✔47th St between 5th & 6th Avenues What is unusual about the diamond trade? ✔✔There are no cont... racts only handshakes Prior to its present location where was the Diamond District ✔✔Canal Street Where are the great Works of Picasso found? ✔✔Gasosian Gallery - Which has 3 locations in NYC and numerous worldwide Where does the New York Ballet perform the Nutcracker Suite during Christmas time? ✔✔David H Koch Theater - formerly the NY State Theater - which is part of the Lincoln Center for performing Arts What book did photographer/reformer Jacob Riis write? ✔✔"How the other Half Lives" that was a look at impoverished life in the tenement houses that motivated social reform Who was Elizabeth Ann Seton? ✔✔The first American born saint in the US & NY Where is the Shrine of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton located? ✔✔7 State St facing Battery Park Why was she canonized? ✔✔Helped establish the Catholic Church and schools in the U.S. What are the addresses of: Madison Square Garden? Grand Central Station? Time Square? ✔✔Madison Square Garden: 4 Penn Plaza Grand Central Station: 42nd and Park Ave Time Square: Junction of Broadway & 7th Ave between W 42th and W 47 St What style music in the 1970's blended Latin Puerto Rican and African American style music? ✔✔Salsa What is the current neighborhood name where the original St. Patrick's Church was built? ✔✔Notita (In Manhattan) - Mott Ave across from Prince St. During what war did the battleship USS Maine Sink ✔✔Spanish-American War, Mast of battleship is at Arlington Cemetery What 6 items would you find on Roosevelt Island? ✔✔Renwick Smallpox Hospital Blackwell Farmhouse - 6th oldest 18th Century house Lihthouse Park - Northern tip Chapel of the good Shepherd Strecker Memorial Laboratory - pathological bacteriological search FDR's Four Freedoms Park - speech, worship, want, and fear Where is Roosevelt Island? ✔✔Between Manhattan & Queens in the East River 2 miles long & 800 ft wide, total 147 acres. What is the name and purpose of the colorful Brooklyn parade that is held on Labor Day? ✔✔Brooklyn Labor Day Parade - West Indian American Day Parade & Carnival Where is the largest Carillon in NYC ✔✔Riverside Church - installed 1925 with additional bells later 490 Riverside Dr & W 120th St Who financed the Carillon at Riverside Church and Why? ✔✔John D Rockefeller, Jr, in memory of his mother Laura Rockefeller Who were the architects of the Riverside Church? ✔✔Allen & Collens & Henry Pelton What was the inspiration for the design of the Riverside Church? ✔✔The Cathedral of Chartres (Gothic Catherdral) Whats the biggest cultural attraction in NYC? ✔✔Broadway Plays What was the building before the Malcolm Shabazz Mosque was converted? ✔✔Lenox Casino Who designed the Malcolm Shabazz mosque ✔✔Sabbath Brown Where is it located? ✔✔Harlem - Malcolm X was assassinated here What park displays Greek Revival houses with old iron fences surrounding the properties and has the city's only private residential square? ✔✔Gramercy Park by Samuel B Ruggles Where did the Huxtables of the Bill Cosby Show live? ✔✔St. Luke's PL in Greenwich Village Where is the Empire State Building? ✔✔5th Ave & 34th St What are the dimensions and style of Empire State Building? ✔✔102 Stories and 1250 ft tall. Art Deco What is Art Deco ✔✔??????????? When was the ESB completed? ✔✔1931 When has the ESB been the tallest in NYC? ✔✔Before and after WTC Where can one find 1st biggest collection of Egyptian arts? ✔✔MET @ 1000 5th Ave Where is the 2nd biggest collection of Egyptian Art? ✔✔The Brooklyn Museum NY Major League sports teams and where they play? ✔✔Baseball NY Yankess - Yankee stadium in the Bronx NY Mets - Citi Field in Queens Football Jet&Giants - both teams share New Meadowlands stadium in East Rutherford NJ Basketball Ny Knickerbockers - Knicks - Mandison Square Garden, Manhattan Hockey NY Rangers - Madison Square Garden NY Islander - Nassau Coliseum on long Island Where is the apt where Audrey Hepburn's blind character from "wait until Dark" lived? ✔✔Greenwich Village What is the new elevated park called? where is it located? ✔✔The high Line 1.5 Mile Park is on the west side of Manhattan from Gansevoort St in the Meatpacking District to W 34th St between 10th & 11th Avenue What was the old elevated 9th Avenue railroad called? ✔✔9th Ave Elevated Describe the residents of the Lower East Side (LES) ✔✔Oldest immigrant NYC neighborhoods. Originally Irish, Italian, polish, Ukrainians, AKA Little Germany Currently home to Puerto Ricans & Dominicans What type of architecture can be found in LES ✔✔Greek Revival & Italinate Where is the Hispanic Society of America located? ✔✔613 W 115th St What famous artists worked at the Hispanic Society of America? (5 artists) ✔✔El Greco Francisco Goya Diego Valazquez Joaquin Sorollo Bastida What and where is the campbell Apartment? ✔✔Tycoon John W campbells' 1920's private office and Salon in Grand Central Station which has been fully restored to its original splendor and reborn as a cocktail lounge Who sold Manhattan to the Dutch? ✔✔Algonquin Lenape Indians, Wappinger Federation Who made the purchase of Manhattan from Indians? ✔✔Dutchman Peter Minuit How many people pass thru Grand Central Station daily? ✔✔500,000 Who funds public arts in the subway? ✔✔MTA Arts for Transit (Metropolitan Transit Authority) Whats is the oldest Jewish newspaper? ✔✔Jewish Daily Forward also called The Forvitz Whats the Salmagundi Club? Describe the club? Where is the club located? ✔✔A club for artists(not night club) Only surviving mansion - on Natl Reg of Historic Places Lower 5th Ave in Greenwich Village Name some famous artists from Salmagundi Club ✔✔Louis Comfort Tiffany Charles Dana Gibson John LaFarge Stanford White What is the 21 Club and where is it? ✔✔A bar that was most upscale speakeasy during prohibition 21 W 52nd St What did the law of 1879 concerning tenement construction affect in terms of architecture? ✔✔Required that windows face a source of fresh air to combat the dumbbell style construction Is what Museum would you find 2 surviving Dutch Farm houses ✔✔Brooklyn Museum Who originally owned the Dutch farm houses in the Brooklyn Museum? ✔✔Jan Martense Schenk & Nicholas Schenk Where can buses stop when picking up or dropoff pax? ✔✔White actively unloading or loading pax, buses May stop in: No parking, No standing, No standing-Except trucks loading & unloading zones. Note - buses may NOT top in a no stopping zone, red zone bus lanes or bus stops Name ✔✔ [Show More]

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