A Man with a hat of tan and four more boroughs in NYC

Wizard199 Marvel's Manhattan
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NYC map inquiry

1. Identify the 2 states that border New York.
2. Name the capital of New York.
3. Four of the boroughs are located on islands. Name the two that share space on one island. Queens, Brooklyn.
4. Which one of these is a notable Manhattan neighborhood? a) Roxbury b) Crown Heights c) Watts d) Harlem e) all the above. Harlem.
5. Name the avenue famous for swank, snob-appeal stores. That would be a) Central Park West b) Madison Ave. c) Fifth Ave. d) Broadway. Fifth Ave.
6. On the Upper West Side is a complex of music schools (Juilliard) and concert halls (Avery Fisher Hall). The complex is called a) the Rotunda b) Walt Disney Concert Center c) Lincoln Center d) John Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Lincoln Center.
7. This multi-skyscraper complex was built near the end of the Depression by a scion of America’s wealthiest family. It is the a) Gates Pavilion b) Trump Towers c) Rockefeller Center d) Chrysler Building. Rockefeller Center.
8. Broadway at 42nd Street. This triangular plaza was once the site of the offices of NYC’s best-known newspaper. The spot is called __ __. Times Square.
9. This charming historic district is NYC’s oldest residential neighborhood. It was named for the city near London in which the Prime Meridian was established. It is __ Village. Greenwich.
10. The run-down Manhattan neighborhood in which many poor immigrants (notably East European Jews, Italians and Chinese) got their start is the a) Upper West Side b) the Midtown area
c) the Lower East Side d) Harlem. Lower East Side.
11. This famous site is near NY Harbor and the Hudson River. There was a restaurant atop the site called Windows on the World; today, a memorial and construction mark this large Lower Manhattan landmark. World Trade Center.
12. The earliest site of European settlement is at the southern tip of Manhattan. Today it is marked by a park named for the set of cannons that awaited any forces sailing into NY harbor. a) Central Park b) Grosvenor Park c) Riverside Park
d) Battery Park. Battery Park.
13. One of the islands in NY harbor was an immigration center - today an immigration museum. A nearby island is overshadowed by a gift from France to the US. Name the 2 islands. Ellis and Liberty.
14. There are two major airports on Long Island; one is LaGuardia Airport, one is JFK International. One of them is close to Long Island Sound. Which one is near the Atlantic? JFK.
15. In NYC landmarks, which “island” is actually a peninsula? Coney Is.
16. The East River and Harlem River border Manhattan on the east. On the west is the __ River. Hudson.
17. Name the 5 boroughs of NYC.
18. The tiny colony that became NYC was first established by people from the European nation of __. Holland. Later, it was taken over and renamed for the Duke of York by people from the nation of __. England.
19. Rip Van Winkle and the Knickerbocker Tales reflect the culture of the earliest Europeans settlers, the __ . Dutch.

20. Place these 10 immigrant groups in chronological order in regards their arrival in NYC:
- Chinese
- English
- Italians
- African-Americans
- Russians/Jews
- Dutch
- Germans
- Hispanics
- Algonquins
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23. Rockefeller Center is symbolic of several American strengths. Explain, please:
a) engineering
b) art & beauty
c) entrepreneurial energy
26. Are Wall Street and the NY Stock Exchange nearest the World Trade Center site or Central Park? WTC.
27. What's the longest major street in Manhattan? a) Broadway b) Fifth Avenue c) Riverside Drive. Broadway.
28. Is Harlem on the north or south end of Manhattan? N.
29. Which is on the north end, which on the southern end of Manhattan? Columbia U. (N) and NYU (S).