NEW YORK 



NEW YORK 



RESEARCH QUESTIONS ON NEW YORK CITY 



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What does the name of Wall Street immediately suggest? Fifth Avenue? 



Where is Castle Garden? What important events have taken place there? What 

 would you find there to-day? 



Where are the Palisades? Describe them. What memorial to a great man is to 

 be found in Riverside Park? 



What enterprise assured the supremacy of New York as a commercial center? 

 Which is heavier, the coastwise or the foreign trade? How much? 



In what sense can New York be called the largest city in the world? 



On an average, how many immigrants enter New York each day in normal 1 1 



What is the "Great White Way?" 



What were the original geographical limits of the city? How does Greater New 

 York differ from this earlier city? 



How many islands are included in the city? Name them. Tell for what at least 

 two of them are famous. 



How is the harbor of the city guarded? Describe the most conspicuous object to 

 be seen in the harbor bay. 



Why is the arrangement of streets on lower Manhattan Island so irregular and 

 confused? 



What is the Bowery? How has its character changed? What class of people 

 makes up the greater part of its population? 



What famous church is at the very commercial center of the city? Name some 

 great Americans who are buried in its cemetery. 



For what is the Jumel mansion famous? How long has it been in existence? 

 What well-known poem is connected with it? 



What is the highest building in the world? 



I ) -scribe New York's gigantic clock. Where is the "Bridge of Sigh 



What is the "cradle of Methodism," and why is it so called? 



Describe the city's most famous park. What are Cleopatra's Needles? About 

 how old are they? How long has New York possessed one? 



Name two important universities which are located in thr city. For what class 

 of people was Cooper Union founded? 



Why has the transportation problem of New York hem a particularly difficult 

 one? How has it been solved? 



Of what type was the first great bridge over the F.ast Hiver? What are the 

 peculiar tVatiip- of this type? 



What is Hell Gate, and why is it so called? What has been done to make the 

 < less applicable? 



terminals of almost all the great railroads which ntt i New York 

 from the West? 



Why are no soot and smoke from locomotives observable on Manhattan Island' 



What sweeping statnm nt may be made about the scope of New York's manu- 



What assistants has the mayor in the discharge of his executive duties? 

 To how many nations has the territory on which New York in situated belonged? 

 How large an area of what is now the most valuable real estate in 

 was bought for tu. .lollars? 



