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1. Henry Hudson traded knives, axes, colorful cloth and mirrors with the Indians for their tobacco and furs. Henry Hudson never realized that Manhattan or Long Island were what ?
8. Great Minnefords Island was owned by the Pell family in 1654, and not settled until 1761. This Island was owned by a staunch supporter of the Revolution named Benjamin Palmer. This caused the British to ransack the sland in 1776. What is the current name of this Island of the Bronx ?
9. Who was the first European to sail into Long Island Sound to realized that Manhattan and Long Island were indeed islands ?
12. Used for sick and destitute immigrants, the Verplanck State Emigrant Refuge was the world's biggest hospital complex. Situated on a 255-acre island which is joined by landfill to Randall's Island. This Island used to be called Tenkenas, Buchanan's Island and Great Barn Island. What is this NYC island which also had an immigration station from 1860 until the 1892 opening of Ellis Island ?
13. Jan Rodrigues was a mixed African and Spanish fur trader that came from Santo Domingo who crossed paths with Dutch explorer Captain Adrian Block. Jan Rodrigues was the first non indian merchant in NYC, as well as the first non native to live in NYC. Jan Rodrigues was living on Governors Island in 1624, what was that island called before it was named Governors ?
14. Rocks and dirt from the excavation of what NYC Subway added 82 to 103 acres to the south side of Governors Island in 1912 ?
15. Two artificial islands off Staten island were used to quarantine contagious immigrants who came to Ellis Island. They were inhabited afterwards by soldiers with venereal disease, quarantined parrots and for training merchant Marines. Dix Island (4 acres) which had a crematorium was renamed in honor of American Civil War military surgeon Dr. John Swinburne. The bigger island (11 acres) was named after a NYC Mayor who served from 1866 to 1868 (and New York State Governor from 1869 to 1871). What was his last name and the name of this bigger northern island ?
16. What one feature made the island of NYC a very important city to be reckond with ?
18. The head of the New York Subway Commission named William (who died in 1896) started to build a tunnel under the East River for Astoria's horse-drawn trolley to get easily to Midtown NYC. The rocks and dirt from this tunnel were used to create Belmont Island (renamed U Thant in 1976). What was William's last name ?
21. The native Indians called one NYC Island, Long Island, while the Dutch named it Hogs Island. The Blackwell family in 1676 farmed its fruit trees and mined its quarries for the next 150 years on this island off NYC. What is Hog Island called today ?
22. Over 1000 people died from a fire on the steamer General Slocum, whose Captain beached the burning ship on a small NYC east River island. Typhoid Mary was the first healthy carrier of typhoid fever in the United States. In 1885 Riverside Hospital was built on a uninhabited island and used for quarantined patients. What NYC East River island was home to the bungalow where exiled Typhoid Mary Mallon and other undesirables were forced to live ?
23. A hospital designed by James Renwick Jr (the designer of Saint Patrick's Cathedral), was built in 1852 by convict labor on Roosevelt Island. This hospital known as the Renwick Ruin, is lit up by lamps taken from the old Roosevelt island hockey rink in 1991. What virus was this hospital built to battle ?
24. Between 1930 and 1955 what bridge had an Elevator Storehouse (which closed in 1955) that was big enough to transport cars and commuters from the bridge to the NYC island below ?
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2. After looking at his spectacles in his attendants hands, Aaron Burr's last word from his death bed in Port Richmond (then called Mersereau's Ferry), was Madame (referring to Madame Jumel, who he wanted to inherit the glasses). Aaron Burr died on September 14th, 1836, at the ripe old age of 80. What NYC island did Aaron Burr die on ?
3. One NYC island was the home to Fort Wood (nicknamed Star Fort), an eleven pointed star-shaped granite battery with a famous beacon lighthouse which closed in 1902. What NYC island had this 14 arc lamp lighthouse after 1886 ?
4. The smallest railroad on the islands around NYC only had 3 flat cars. These flat cars carried coal, machinery and supplies on just 1¾ miles of track to get from a pier to the shops and warehouses on this small island. President Reagan hosted a U.S.- U.S.S.R. summit with Mikhail Gorbachev in 1988 on this island as well. What island shaped like an ice cream cone had NYC's smallest railroad ?
5. Washington Irving horrified Army Major Ichabod Crane when he used his name without permission in his book The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. Ichabod Crane was buried on Staten Island at the New Springville Cemetery. What section of Staten Island was Ichabod buried in ?
6. Walter, a nephew of the patroon Kiliaen Van Rensselaer influenced the drinking habits of the Dutch colonists to such an extent that drunkenness soon became a very common occurrence in the community. Walter bought Governor's Island, Randall's Island, Roosevelt Island, Ward's Island, and a huge tobacco field in Greenwich village from the Indians. What was Walter's last name ?
7. The Roosevelt Island Tramway was built in 1976. The 1872 Blackwell Island lighthouse looks 50 feet over the treacherous Hell Gate section of the East River. Before the lighthouse was built, a four foot fort that was built by asylum inmate John Mc Carthy (or Thomas Maxey) was on its site. Delusions about an attack made McCarthy build this fort from East River clay to protect the north side of the island. In the early 1870's who did the crazy McCarthy believe would attack the island ?
10. Gennaro Lombardi opened his pizza store at 53 1/2 Spring street, (now at 32 Spring Street), but pizza's back then were called tomato pies. Lomabardi's opened in 1905, and is considered Americas first pizzeria. Lombardi came from Naples with his recipe in 1897. His pizza maker Antonio Totonno Pero left Lombardi's in 1924 to open up his own pizza place (Totonno's) on what NY Island ?
11. In 1661 on the first NYC map (Dukes Plan), what name did settlers call Manhattan ?
17. John Marsh built a mill on either Great or Little Mill Island which were off East 96th Street. Mill Rock was created from an island destroyed by the US Army in 1885 which filled the gap between these two islands. This US Army blast was created from 300,000 pounds of explosives and one of the most forceful explosions in NYC history, heard as far as Princeton, NJ. Which decimated island was the most treacherous impediment to East River shipping ?
19. Constructed in 1892, Strecker Laboratory opened as a pathology lab for the Charity Hospital (later called City Hospital) on Roosevelt Island. Besides pathological work Strecker Laboratory also did bacteriological work. A third floor museum and library was added to Strecker laboratory when it was remodeled in 1905, which also was used for histological examinations. Fifty two years before it was called Roosevelt Island, what name did this island adopt in 1921 ?
20. Which of New York City's five boroughs is not an island ?
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