IMPROVED NYC TOUR GUIDE EXAM

TESTED AND CONFIRMED A+ ANSWERS 1. Who are the architects of Grand Central Terminal?: Warren and Wetmore, Reed and Stem 2. What subway lines do NOT stop at Times Square?: 4/5/6, B/D/F/M, A/C/E, G, L 3. What borough has Edgar Allan Poe's cottage?: The Bronx 4. Where can you find the greatest concentration of cast iron buildings in the world?: SoHo (SOuth of HOuston) 5. What's a nickname for the AT&T Building?: Golden Boy 6. What was the original function of the building that holds Tavern-on-the-Green, an exclusive, eccentric restaurant in Central Park?: It was a sheep barn 7. What are some of Wallace K. Harrison's accomplishments as an architect?- : 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 8. What famous book did Jacob Riis write about the conditions in tenement houses, to motivate social reform?: How the Other Half Lives 9. Who designed the outside of the Statue of Liberty? The inside?: Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi; Gustave Eiffel 10. Who designed the Washington Square Arch?: Stanford White 11. Who sculpted Bethesda Fountain? Where is it?: Emma Stebbins; Central Park 12. What home of a Founding Father was moved from its original location to St. Nicholas Park?: Hamilton Grange (Alexander Hamilton's home) 13. What is the oldest continuous Protestant organization in New York City?- : Marble Collegiate Church 14. Where was West Side Story filmed?: Lincoln Center 15. What's at Arthur Avenue in the Bronx?: Belmont, the "Little Italy of the Bronx" 16. What is the oldest Jewish synagogue in New York City (founded in 1654), and where is it?: Congregation Shearith Israel, W 70th Street and Central Park West