NYC CITY ASSESSOR EXAM PREP 2 2026
EXAM SCRIPT COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT ANSWERS GRADED A PLUS
◉ 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
◉ Who designed the outside of the Statue of Liberty? The inside?
Answer: Frederic 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)
◉ 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 Velazquez, 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.
EXAM SCRIPT COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT ANSWERS GRADED A PLUS
◉ 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
◉ Who designed the outside of the Statue of Liberty? The inside?
Answer: Frederic 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)
◉ 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 Velazquez, 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.
