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2026.
Alexander Hamilton - Answer✅✅Federalist
First Sec of Treasury
Killed in duel by Burr
Hated by Jefferson (anti-Federalist)
Born in Nevis
Defended John Peter Zenger (libel case -- freedom of press estb.)
Alexander Hamilton's House - Answer✅✅Was moved in 1889, as it stood in the grid
plan in Harlem, and moved again to its current location in 2006.
Minniesland - Answer✅✅NYC home of John James Audubon
General Thomas Howe - Answer✅✅An English general who participated at the
Battle of Brooklyn on August 27th, 1776. (1,200 Americans killed). Americans would
retreat to Brooklyn Heights which is now one of the most expensive neighborhoods.
It became a historic district in 1965. (Architecture: 1820-1830 = Federal Style; 183-
, 1840 = Greek Revival Style; 1840 = Gothic Style; 1880-1990 = Romanesque Revival
Style)
Rhinelander Sugar House - Answer✅✅Building formerly located at the corner of
Rose and Duane which was used by the British as a prison during the Revolution.
Evacuation Day - Answer✅✅November 25, 1783. George Washington entered NYC
marking the end of British occupation.
1827 - Answer✅✅Slavery is abolished in NY
General Jeremiah Johnson - Answer✅✅Mayor of Brooklyn in 1833 and Army officer.
Antonio Meucci - Answer✅✅NYC resident who invented the telephone.
1898 - Answer✅✅All 5 boroughs (Manhattan, Queens, Bronx, Brooklyn, Staten
Island) became part of Greater NYC. One result was the building of the Manhattan
Municipal Building, designed by McKim, Mead, and White, and topped by Civic Fame.
General Slocum - Answer✅✅Paddle wheel steamer that sank while sailing through
Hell's Gate on June 15, 1904. 1000 died.
Theodore Roosevelt - Answer✅✅Birthplace 28 E 20th St between Broadway and
Park Ave. (Gramercy Park). Only president born in NYC.
First Subway - Answer✅✅1904
Yellow Cabs - Answer✅✅John Hertz, who founded this company in 1907 chose
yellow because he had read a study conducted by the University of Chicago that
indicated it was the easiest color to spot.
Jacob Riis - Answer✅✅How the Other Half Lives. Photos depicting dire poverty and
conditions in NYC tenements.
Triangle Shirtwaist Company Fire - Answer✅✅March 25, 1911. Current site of NYU
Brown Building.
1924 Immigration Act - Answer✅✅Reduced southern and eastern Europeans.
The Big Apple - Answer✅✅In the 1920's, a sportswriter for the Morning Telegraph
named John Fitzgerald overheard stable hands in New Orleans refer to NYC's
racetracks as "the Big Apple." He named his column "Around the Big Apple." A
decade later, jazz musicians adopted the term and refer to New York City, and
especially Harlem, as the jazz capital of the world. There are many apples on the
trees of success, they were saying, but when you pick New York City, you pick the big
apple.