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3. When Jefferson Market was first a market in 1833, what products were the only things available ?
6. Sixth Avenue was not developed past Herald Square for several reasons: due to the huge stores like Macy's, the shadow from 6th Avenue El train tracks, and the fact that 5th Avenue lead to the wealthy Upper East Side. B. Altman among the first on 6th Ave in 1876. What did the B stand for ?
9. John Jacob Astor's first NYC job was selling doughnuts, cakes and cookies to small NYC shops. Waldorf born George Dieterich was a NYC baker who gave John Jacob a great way to explore and meet the merchants. John Jacob's second job after he grew tired and uninspired from selling baked goods was selling product from his older brother Peter who manufacturered musical instruments. What musical instruments did John Jacob Astor sell ?
10. The import company, Bloomingdales Hoopskirt and the Ladies Notions Shop was started with his father Benjamin Bloomingdale/Blumenthal in the 1860 on the Lower East Side. From April 1872 to 1886 at 938 Third Avenue (56th street) was Bloomingdale's first semi department store that specialized in European wood-framed undergarments called hoop skirts. Lyman and his partner and brother Joseph lived upstairs from their store called the Great East Side What ?
11. Arnold Constable moved up to its new store on 18th street and Broadway (now ABC Carpets) in . What actors 1862-1865 home was once on the site of the new store ?
13. Siegel's started at 526 Sixth Avenue on the east side of Sixth Avenue between 13th and 14th. When Macy's moved uptown, Henry Siegel sold off his interest in the 6th Avenue and 18th street giant 1896 store (Siegel-Cooper, now Bed Bath & Beyond) to expand the spot where Macy's started from (which lead him to disaster). Henry Siegel was know as the WHAT of the Department Store industry ?
14. 466-468 Broadway at Grand Street, was the 2nd location of Brooks Brothers between 1857-1874. The store was very fancy with Tiffany chandeliers and gas fixtures. 670 Broadway at Bond Street was Brooks Brothers 3rd location after 1874. Broadway and 22nd Street was the 4th location of Brooks Brothers that opened after 1884. One Wall Street at Broadway opposite Trinity Church was Brooks Brothers 5th location that opened in 1932. The 6th location that opened after WW2 was at 67 Liberty Street. It then moved to One Liberty Plaza in 1976, and is currently still open (as well as 666 5th Ave, and 346 Madison Ave). During the early 1800's a History Professor from Columbia University History named Eric Foner, was quoted to have said Brooks Brothers supplied cheap fabrics (racistly called Negro cloth) to clothe the South's WHAT ?
15. The 1878 six-story cast-iron Stern Brothers Department Store was at 32-36 West 23rd Street. Stern Brothers sold merchandise for the working classes and upper classes. Stern Brothers Department Store was a real family business, the whole family worked there. The Stern's were the children of immigrants from Buffalo NY. What did the Stern's door men wear to stand out from the other NYC shops ?
17. Most of the horses and carriages today are around the south side of Central Park. In the old days due to the crusing around lower 5th Avenue there was many stables surrounding Washington Square Park. Where in old NYC was the predominant horse and carriage trade ?
19. A terracotta and brick Dry Goods Store at 632 Sixth Ave. at West 18th Street was the first on Ladies Mile to give out free samples. It was known for the circular fountain in its lobby. What was this largest store in New York (15.5 acres) in 1896 ?
21. Brooks Brothers is the oldest surviving men's clothier in the United States, founded in 1818, by Henry Sands Brooks. The first Brooks Brothers store opened on the northeast corner of Cherry street and what other NYC street ?
23. The 1869 Arnold Constable building is still at 307-11 Canal Street. Arnold Constable was on the corner of Mercer until 1914. Aaron Arnold's and son-in-law James Constable's store offered Everything From Cradle to WHAT ?
24. NYC Paint company owners Edwin Binney and Harold Smith invented what toy by mixing paraffin wax with pigments (an insoluble powder mixed with a liquid to produce paint) ?
25. Out of the first original five thousand Monopoly games in 1934, F. A. O. Schwarz, bought two hundred sets which made Parker Brothers think twice about previously rejecting it. What NYC building was the sales office of Parker Brothers ?
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1. Ladies Mile and Fashion Row (on 6th Avenue) became the department store district in the 1880's. A.T. Stewart started the department store district with his Marble Palace on Broadway. A.T. opened the first department store (store was so big that items had their own department) in 1846. The district for NYC department stores in 1860's was on Broadway between 14th Street and what NYC street ?
2. In 1865 B. Altman's first started on Third Avenue, near Tenth Street, a block away from A.T. Stewart's new Marble Palace. B. Altman moved to 6th Avenue between 21st and 22nd in the early 1870's. B. Altman's third NYC dry-goods store was on the famous Ladies Mile in an 1877 cast iron facade 5 story building. The entire block from 5th to Madison and 34th to 35th was the 4th location of B. Altman in 1906, until it closed in 1989. What was the B for in B Altman ?
4. A.T. Stewart built the Marble Palace still at NE corner of Broadway and Chambers Street in 1848. A new 2 1/2 acre store was built 8 floors high. A.T. Stewart's Marble Palace created NYC's first shopping district, this 3rd store on Broadway and 9th street created the start of the Ladies mile. What did they call the 1862 store on Broadway and 9th street ?
5. A 1857 five story building with two cast-iron facades and 92 keystone arches at 490 Broadway (off Broome street) had a hydraulic steam-powered elevator that was invented by Elisha Graves Otis Elijah Armstrong Otis, who created the Otis elevator company. Robert Moses proposed Lower Manhattan Expressway almost scraped this building. What NYC emporium that once sold cut glass, porcelains, mirrors and chandeliers had the first commercial passenger elevator in the world ?
7. F.A.O. Schwarz's first NYC location in 1870, was 757 Broadway, on the NW corner. The famous toy store was first called Toy Bazaar, when it started in Baltimore in 1862, by Frederick August Otto Schwarz. What was the cross street of this first NYC location of the oldest toy store in America, F.A.O. Schwartz ?
8. In 1994 vendors were urged off Grand street to set up non permanent structures in Sara D. Roosevelt Park between Grand and Broome, and Chrystie and Forsyth. These stores were closed after some vendors tried building permenent structures, the space is where the basketball court is now. What was this flea market called ?
12. The original 1858 location of Macy's lace ribbon store was 522-524 Sixth Avenue on the east side of Sixth Avenue between 13th and 14th Streets. Macy's was on the southern most point of the Ladies Mile. Besides ribbons what other item did the first Macy's specialize in ?
16. Hearn's (the king of quick turnover at low prices) was at 8-12 West 14th street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues. Hearn's was one of the oldest (1827) department stores in NYC. The 425 Broadway store was owned by brothers George A Hearn and James A Hearn until 1846. James Hearn opened a store at 775 Broadway (by 8th street). George Arnold Hearn partnered with his dad and created James Hearn and Son in 1850. In 1879 Hearn's moved to the southern side of 14th street (closing in 1955). Hecht's, Jona's, Lane's, May's, Davega, Busch's and Vim's were also on that part of 14th street. Not far was Ohrbach's, Klein's, Rothenberg & Company and G. Schirmer. Hearn owned 32 Fifth to Sixth Avenue land parcels in between 12th and 14th Streets. After Hearn's department store closed in 1955, what kind of store did the Hearn's run ?
18. Macy's has been at 34th and Broadway since 1902, for 40 years before that it was at 18th and Broadway, but it started its first NYC store further downtown in 1858 at 522-524 6th Avenue near the southeast corner of Sixth Avenue and 14th street. A teenage Rowland Hussey Macy got a red tattoo on the whaling ship Emily Morgan. What was the shape of this red tattoo ?
20. Herald Square was where Andrew Saks had his 7 story limestone clothing store from 1901 to 1924 (E. J. Korvette's took over the old Sak's- 34th street, which then became Herald Center). Abraham & Straus and Stern's both had their stores near Macy's in Herald Square just a block south from Sak's- 34th street. What big 27 acre store bought Saks in 1923 and was occupied by A & S and Stern's at different times after 1986 ?
22. Arnold Constable store opens in 1927 at 40th and 5th Avenue. It closed and was bought by the New York Public Library. Ten years before Aaron Arnold partnered with his son-in-law James Constable (in 1837), Aaron worked with his nephew George Arnold What ?
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