Nyc Tour Guide License Exam Questions
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Where is the diamond District? ✔✔47th St between 5th & 6th Avenues
What is unusual about the diamond trade? ✔✔There are no contracts only handshakes
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Nyc Tour Guide License Exam Questions
with Verified Solutions
Where is the diamond District? ✔✔47th St between 5th & 6th Avenues
What is unusual about the diamond trade? ✔✔There are no contracts only handshakes
Prior to its present location where was the Diamond District ✔✔Canal Street
Where are the great Works of Picasso found? ✔✔Gasosian Gallery - Which has 3 locations in
NYC and numerous worldwide
Where does the New York Ballet perform the Nutcracker Suite during Christmas time?
✔✔David H Koch Theater - formerly the NY State Theater - which is part of the Lincoln Center
for performing Arts
What book did photographer/reformer Jacob Riis write? ✔✔"How the other Half Lives" that was
a look at impoverished life in the tenement houses that motivated social reform
Who was Elizabeth Ann Seton? ✔✔The first American born saint in the US & NY
Where is the Shrine of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton located? ✔✔7 State St facing Battery Park
Why was she canonized? ✔✔Helped establish the Catholic Church and schools in the U.S.
What are the addresses of:
Madison Square Garden?
Grand Central Station?
Time Square? ✔✔Madison Square Garden:
4 Penn Plaza
Grand Central Station:
42nd and Park Ave
Time Square:
Junction of Broadway & 7th Ave between W 42th and W 47 St
What style music in the 1970's blended Latin Puerto Rican and African American style music?
✔✔Salsa
What is the current neighborhood name where the original St. Patrick's Church was built?
✔✔Notita (In Manhattan) - Mott Ave across from Prince St.
During what war did the battleship USS Maine Sink ✔✔Spanish-American War, Mast of
battleship is at Arlington Cemetery
What 6 items would you find on Roosevelt Island? ✔✔Renwick Smallpox Hospital
Blackwell Farmhouse - 6th oldest 18th Century house
Lihthouse Park - Northern tip
Chapel of the good Shepherd
Strecker Memorial Laboratory - pathological bacteriological search
FDR's Four Freedoms Park - speech, worship, want, and fear
Where is Roosevelt Island? ✔✔Between Manhattan & Queens in the East River 2 miles long &
800 ft wide, total 147 acres.
What is the name and purpose of the colorful Brooklyn parade that is held on Labor Day?
✔✔Brooklyn Labor Day Parade - West Indian American Day Parade & Carnival
Where is the largest Carillon in NYC ✔✔Riverside Church - installed 1925 with additional bells
later
490 Riverside Dr & W 120th St
Who financed the Carillon at Riverside Church and Why? ✔✔John D Rockefeller, Jr, in memory
of his mother Laura Rockefeller
Who were the architects of the Riverside Church? ✔✔Allen & Collens & Henry Pelton
What was the inspiration for the design of the Riverside Church? ✔✔The Cathedral of Chartres
(Gothic Catherdral)
Whats the biggest cultural attraction in NYC? ✔✔Broadway Plays
What was the building before the Malcolm Shabazz Mosque was converted? ✔✔Lenox Casino
Who designed the Malcolm Shabazz mosque ✔✔Sabbath Brown
Where is it located? ✔✔Harlem - Malcolm X was assassinated here
What park displays Greek Revival houses with old iron fences surrounding the properties and
has the city's only private residential square? ✔✔Gramercy Park by Samuel B Ruggles
Where did the Huxtables of the Bill Cosby Show live? ✔✔St. Luke's PL in Greenwich Village
Where is the Empire State Building? ✔✔5th Ave & 34th St
What are the dimensions and style of Empire State Building? ✔✔102 Stories and 1250 ft tall.
Art Deco
What is Art Deco ✔✔???????????
When was the ESB completed? ✔✔1931
When has the ESB been the tallest in NYC? ✔✔Before and after WTC
Where can one find 1st biggest collection of Egyptian arts? ✔✔MET @ 1000 5th Ave
Where is the 2nd biggest collection of Egyptian Art? ✔✔The Brooklyn Museum
NY Major League sports teams and where they play? ✔✔Baseball
NY Yankess - Yankee stadium in the Bronx
NY Mets - Citi Field in Queens
Football
Jet&Giants - both teams share New Meadowlands stadium in East Rutherford NJ
Basketball
Ny Knickerbockers - Knicks - Mandison Square Garden, Manhattan
Hockey
NY Rangers - Madison Square Garden
NY Islander - Nassau Coliseum on long Island
Where is the apt where Audrey Hepburn's blind character from "wait until Dark" lived?
✔✔Greenwich Village
What is the new elevated park called?
where is it located? ✔✔The high Line
1.5 Mile Park is on the west side of Manhattan from Gansevoort St in the Meatpacking District
to W 34th St between 10th & 11th Avenue
What was the old elevated 9th Avenue railroad called? ✔✔9th Ave Elevated
Describe the residents of the Lower East Side (LES) ✔✔Oldest immigrant NYC neighborhoods.
Originally Irish, Italian, polish, Ukrainians, AKA Little Germany
Currently home to Puerto Ricans & Dominicans
What type of architecture can be found in LES ✔✔Greek Revival & Italinate
Where is the Hispanic Society of America located? ✔✔613 W 115th St
What famous artists worked at the Hispanic Society of America? (5 artists) ✔✔El Greco
Francisco Goya
Diego Valazquez
Joaquin Sorollo
Bastida
What and where is the campbell Apartment? ✔✔Tycoon John W campbells' 1920's private office
and Salon in Grand Central Station which has been fully restored to its original splendor and
reborn as a cocktail lounge
Who sold Manhattan to the Dutch? ✔✔Algonquin Lenape Indians, Wappinger Federation
Who made the purchase of Manhattan from Indians? ✔✔Dutchman Peter Minuit
How many people pass thru Grand Central Station daily? ✔✔500,000
Who funds public arts in the subway? ✔✔MTA Arts for Transit (Metropolitan Transit
Authority)
Whats is the oldest Jewish newspaper? ✔✔Jewish Daily Forward also called The Forvitz
Whats the Salmagundi Club?
Describe the club?
Where is the club located? ✔✔A club for artists(not night club)
Only surviving mansion - on Natl Reg of Historic Places
Lower 5th Ave in Greenwich Village
Name some famous artists from Salmagundi Club ✔✔Louis Comfort Tiffany
Charles Dana Gibson
John LaFarge
Stanford White
What is the 21 Club and where is it? ✔✔A bar that was most upscale speakeasy during
prohibition
21 W 52nd St
What did the law of 1879 concerning tenement construction affect in terms of architecture?
✔✔Required that windows face a source of fresh air to combat the dumbbell style construction
Is what Museum would you find 2 surviving Dutch Farm houses ✔✔Brooklyn Museum
Who originally owned the Dutch farm houses in the Brooklyn Museum? ✔✔Jan Martense
Schenk & Nicholas Schenk
Where can buses stop when picking up or dropoff pax? ✔✔White actively unloading or loading
pax, buses May stop in: No parking, No standing, No standing-Except trucks loading &
unloading zones.
Note - buses may NOT top in a no stopping zone, red zone bus lanes or bus stops
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