NYC Sightseeing Guide Exam (2023) With Questions And Answers

The Dutch paid $24 for Manhattan, why? - Because 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? - The Lenape, Manhattan's original inhabitants, called the island Manahatta, which means "hilly island." What does halal mean? - Islamic Why are dumbbell apartments called so? - after 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? - 2 W 70th St (Central Park West & 70th st) Seneca Village is where? - The 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? - Long-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? - The 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? - Freie 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) Where does the Giglio Festival, italian festival take place? - Williamsburg Brooklyn What was the 1916 Zoning Law - The 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 The World Trade Center fell and many blamed Minoru Yamasaki, the architect. His daughter wrote a letter saying how he designed it actually prevented more deaths. - All of the above -the building imploded so prevented neighboring buildings from collapsing -no building was designed to handle 1000 degrees -planes flew into the center, no building was designed for that Times Square was originally Longacre Square, but changed it's name once the New York Times building moved there after the trains were connected there. What year was that? - 1904 Which street is the Hess Triangle near? - Christopher St Wallace Harrison's accomplishments? - UN, Lincoln Center, Rockerfeller Center Author of "Here is New York," also of Charlotte's Web. Shows quotes on New York - E.B. White Which museum would you direct people to, to find Picasso's art? - MOMA: museum of modern art