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1. A four mile long NYC park takes up 330 acres between 62nd and 158th Streets. What is the name of Manhattan's second biggest park ?
3. Sheridan Square is shaped like a giant Butterfly. Tompkins Square Park is the closest square to a real square, as well as Stuyvesant Square. What open triangle shaped park, is actually called a triangle ?
6. In 1934 a zoo built by Robert Moses was built where the current zoo in Central Park is now. What was the theme of the old 1934 zoo ?
8. General James Wolfe was an English general who died at the Battle of Montreal during the French and Indian War. Wolfe's remains were taken to England, where a monument to his memory sits in Westminster Abbey. A granite obelisk was created in the city of Quebec and one in NYC (1754). The NYC obelisk disappeared at the end of the Revolutionary war (it may have been taken or hidden for safekeeping by the British). Monument Lane (or Obelisk Lane) met Art street (or Gerritsen Wagon Way) where Minetta Water split what NYC Square Park ?
12. In 1823 the site that would become Bryant Park started as a potter's field. In 1847 this potter's field was transformed into a park. In 1853, the glass and steel exhibition hall called the Crystal Palace was originally planned for Madsion Square Park but citizen protests forced it to relocate to Bryant Park on 42nd street (until it burned in 1858). Bryant Park was named in 1884 to honor a poet named William, who was the editor of the New York Evening Post. What was William Bryant's middle name ?
13. Mayor Jimmy Walkers Versailles, was at the old Casino. Jimmy prefered to do business at this Casino, than down at City Hall. What park was this Casino located ?
16. The 40 feet deep, 106-acre Reservoir, was named the Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Reservoir in 1994. Tropical plants were to be exhibited in the Conservatory Water glass building by 74th Street and Fifth Avenue, that was never built in Central Park, instead the water is known as the Model Boat Pond. The most uptown water in Central Park is the Harlem Meer, a 11-acre pond which is still used for fishing (catch and release). What is the island in the middle of the Harlem Meer called ?
19. Bone Alley was not in 5 Points, it was replaced by Hamilton Fish Park near Houston street (behind the NEST school). Thieves Alley was also in the Lower East Side and not in 5 points either, but there was a Bottle Alley and Ragpickers Row in 5 Points. Thieves Alley was off Rutgers Square (now Strauss Square) where the first permanent, municipally built playground in the United States was built. The playground opened on October 17, 1903. What NYC park did this become ?
20. What head of the Department of Parks named Peter was part of Tweeds City Hall lunch club that started his web of corruption called the Tammany Ring ?
24. Cornelia Street in 1794, was part of a farm owned by a man named Robert. Robert named the the street after his granddaughter Cornelia. What was Robert's last name, whose farm included Washington Square Park ?
25. The statues in Washington Square Park include George Washington, Giuseppe Garibaldi (an Italian national hero known as the Hero of the Two Worlds) and Alexander Lyman Holley, the engineer who invented the Bessemer process which helped start a huge American industry for mass producing what ?
26. On July 9, 1776, the Declaration of Independence was read in a NYC Park for George Washington and his troops. Afterwards the inspired crowd tore down the gold-plated 4,000 pound statue of King George III in Bowling Green. In what NYC Park was the Declaration of Independence read for Washington and his troops ?
27. Henry was one of NYC's richest citizens who owned 11 acres north of Washington Square Park. Henry had his pet bear chained up in front of his mansion at the NW corner of 5th Avenue and 9th street. What was Henry's last name ?
28. After an arsenal was built in the current Madison Square Park in 1806, this former potters field (1794-1797) was made into a parade ground in 1811. This former Parade ground stretched from 23rd Street to 34th street and from Third Avenue to what Avenue ?
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2. A Presbyterian cemetery was on a small patch of Washington Square Park land at the northeastern side of the park between Washington Square Park North and Waverly. What was the nationality of the people buried in this Church graveyard ?
4. Central Park was designed by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux in 1858. Where in Central Park could you once ride swan velocipede boats from 1877 until 1924 ?
5. The first fountain (100 feet in diameter) was completed in Washington Square park in 1852, this original fountain was replaced in 1872. What park in NYC is the citys oldest (1733) ?
7. City Hall Park was called the Commons, and was a former grazing area. An Indian village called Werpoes (Hare) was just north of City Hall Park for hundreds of years before the white men came. What NYC park that was used for military parade grounds and maypole celebrations, was mostly all landfill ?
9. In Battery Park a statue of a Swedish inventor who hated the US Navy. This inventor named John Ericson is holding a model of USS Monitor in his hand. Even though John hated the US Navy, Cornelius Scranton Bushnell convinced him to built an iron-clad armored battle ship called the Monitor. Approximately how many days did it take to build this warship from plans to launch ?
10. Astor Place was named in 1840, after John Jacob Astor who acquired the land in 1803. This street was closed between Sixth Avenue and Broadway in 1825, because it interrupted the symmetry of Washington Square Park. What was the name of this street before it was called Astor ?
11. NYC's Mayor from 1934 - 1945 was a NYU law grad, who built up NYC interstructure and widened its Parks Department by hiring Robert Moses. What was the last name of this famous NYC Mayor ?
12. Peter Williams and Molly Williams former slaves of tobacco merchant Benjamin Aymar, formed a Negro Methodist Church in 1796. The first meetings of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, were held in a rented house on Cross street (now Mosco) between Mulberry and Orange (now Baxter) streets. This was close to the 5 Points intersection of Anthony (now Worth) Orange and Cross streets. What park is now located at the old five points intersection ?
14. What NYC born city official named Abraham had a statue first in Bowling Green, then in Hanover Square and now this old statue (which should have been put on wheels) is heading to City Hall Park ?
15. A Creek entered Central Park around 79th street, and fed the Pond and Lake. Loeb Boathouse currently rents rowboats (seasonally) on the Lake at $10 per hour. What was the name of this creek that was the original source of its water ?
17. Samuel got a statue in the SW corner of Tompkins Square Park for tring to increase salaries and improve postal workers working conditions. Samuel lived from 1824 to 1889 and he is buried in Brooklyn's Greenwood Cemetery. What was Samuel's last name ?
18. What NYC university rents Washington Square Park for its graduation ceremonies, and includes the Washington Square Park Arch in its logo ?
21. The eastern 2/3rds of the almost 10 acre Washington Square Park was NYC's second potter's field from 1797 through May 25th 1825. David Marshall, Morris Ackerman and other potter field caretakers lived in a cottage on the northern side of the park. The caretaker cottage was created from materials that were taken from the City Hall Park almshouse. An old wooden drain channeled the Minetta waters diagonally through the park since the early 19th century. The stream entered the park just west of the Arch site, and exited the park just east of Washington Park Square West (MacDougal street). The western side of the Minetta stream was never used for burials. What current Square Park (rectangle actually) was the site of NYC's first pauper (or potters) field (1794 through 1797) ?
22. The 1858 Central Park design competition had a condition for the inclusion of a parade ground for military drilling, so one section was originally a military parade ground (to the dismay of Olmsteds and Vauxs vision of a quiet and serene atmosphere). What meadow in Central Park was the location of the old military parade ground ?
23. Madison Square Park was opened as a park in 1847, it was the site of an arsenal and soldier barracks. In 1825, Madison Square Park became a home for Juvenile Delinquents. Also in 1825, Washington Square Park was full so 20,000 bodies (mostly yellow fever victums) came to what Park ?
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