NYC SIGHTSEEING GUIDE EXAM
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The Dutch paid $24 for Manhattan, why? - ANSWERBecause the people who sold it to
them were the Carnessa tribe, they didn't own the land and were just passing by.
Where did the term Manhattan derive from? - ANSWERThe Lenape, Manhattan's
original inhabitants, called the island Manahatta, which means "hilly island."
What does halal mean? - ANSWERIslamic
Why are dumbbell apartments called so? - ANSWERafter the shape of the building
footprint: the air shaft gives each tenement the narrow-waisted shape of a dumbbell,
wide facing the street and backyard, narrowed in between to create the air corridor.
The Congregation Shearith Israel is the oldest Jewish congregation in the United
States. Where is it? - ANSWER2 W 70th St (Central Park West & 70th st)
Seneca Village is where? - ANSWERThe landscape along what is now the Park's
perimeter from West 82nd to West 89th Street
Who was William Cullen Bryant, which Bryant Park was named after? - ANSWERLong-
time editor of the New York Evening Post and spearheaded Central Park
What was the time called when jazz was created and music, culture flourished
originating from Harlem? - ANSWERThe Harlem Renaissance
Part of lower east side used to be the 3rd largest population of Germans called "Little
Germany" known in German as Kleindeutschland. Which buildings show remnants of
that? - ANSWERFreie Bibliothek und Lesehalle ("Free Library and Reading Hall"; now
the Ottendorfer Branch of the New York Public Library) and Deutsches Dispensary
("German Dispensary", right; now Stuyvesant Polyclinic Hospital)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Germany,_Manhattan#:~:text=Little%20Germany
%2C%20known%20in%20German,Manhattan%20in%20New%20York%20City.
Where does the Giglio Festival, italian festival take place? - ANSWERWilliamsburg
Brooklyn
What was the 1916 Zoning Law - ANSWERThe resolution was a measure adopted
primarily to stop massive buildings from preventing light and air from reaching the
streets below, and established limits in building massing at certain heights, usually
interpreted as a series of setbacks
CORRECT 100%
The Dutch paid $24 for Manhattan, why? - ANSWERBecause the people who sold it to
them were the Carnessa tribe, they didn't own the land and were just passing by.
Where did the term Manhattan derive from? - ANSWERThe Lenape, Manhattan's
original inhabitants, called the island Manahatta, which means "hilly island."
What does halal mean? - ANSWERIslamic
Why are dumbbell apartments called so? - ANSWERafter the shape of the building
footprint: the air shaft gives each tenement the narrow-waisted shape of a dumbbell,
wide facing the street and backyard, narrowed in between to create the air corridor.
The Congregation Shearith Israel is the oldest Jewish congregation in the United
States. Where is it? - ANSWER2 W 70th St (Central Park West & 70th st)
Seneca Village is where? - ANSWERThe landscape along what is now the Park's
perimeter from West 82nd to West 89th Street
Who was William Cullen Bryant, which Bryant Park was named after? - ANSWERLong-
time editor of the New York Evening Post and spearheaded Central Park
What was the time called when jazz was created and music, culture flourished
originating from Harlem? - ANSWERThe Harlem Renaissance
Part of lower east side used to be the 3rd largest population of Germans called "Little
Germany" known in German as Kleindeutschland. Which buildings show remnants of
that? - ANSWERFreie Bibliothek und Lesehalle ("Free Library and Reading Hall"; now
the Ottendorfer Branch of the New York Public Library) and Deutsches Dispensary
("German Dispensary", right; now Stuyvesant Polyclinic Hospital)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Germany,_Manhattan#:~:text=Little%20Germany
%2C%20known%20in%20German,Manhattan%20in%20New%20York%20City.
Where does the Giglio Festival, italian festival take place? - ANSWERWilliamsburg
Brooklyn
What was the 1916 Zoning Law - ANSWERThe resolution was a measure adopted
primarily to stop massive buildings from preventing light and air from reaching the
streets below, and established limits in building massing at certain heights, usually
interpreted as a series of setbacks
