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A) Community District 7 B) Community District 8 C) Community District 1 D) Community District 12
A) Manhattan B) Queens C) Brooklyn D) Staten Island
A) The East River B) The Harlem River C) The Hudson River D) The Bronx River
A) Central Park B) Yankee Stadium C) The Brooklyn Bridge D) The Empire State Building
A) Fordham Road B) Grand Concourse C) East 149th Street D) Gun Hill Road
A) Port Morris B) Mott Haven C) The Hub D) Belmont
A) The Cross Bronx Expressway B) The Major Deegan Expressway C) The Bruckner Expressway D) The Hutchinson River Parkway
A) Community District 8 B) Community District 7 C) Community District 12 D) Community District 6
A) Highbridge B) The Hub C) University Heights D) Crotona Park East
A) The Guggenheim B) The Bronx Children’s Museum C) The Metropolitan Museum of Art D) The American Museum of Natural History
A) Longwood B) Hunts Point C) Mott Haven D) Bedford Park
A) South Bronx B) Eastern Bronx C) Central Bronx D) Northwestern Bronx
A) Lincoln Hospital B) Montefiore Medical Center C) Bellevue Hospital D) Mount Sinai
A) Woodlawn Heights B) West Farms C) Belmont D) Riverdale
A) Hudson River B) Bronx River C) Harlem River D) East River
A) Bergen County B) Nassau County C) Westchester County D) Queens County
A) Bergen County, New Jersey B) New York County C) Westchester County D) Nassau County
A) 1900 B) 1895 C) 1880 D) 1874
A) 1895 B) 1905 C) 1885 D) 1874
A) Pelham Parkway B) Fordham Road C) Jerome Avenue D) Bronx River Parkway
A) Pelham Parkway B) Jerome Avenue C) Eastchester Road D) Fordham Road
A) East B) South C) North D) West
A) The northern border B) The eastern border C) A longitudinal halfway point D) The southern border
A) Four B) Two C) One D) Three
A) 57 square miles B) 15 square miles C) 75 square miles D) 42 square miles
A) 27% B) 42% C) 15% D) 57%
A) Marble Hill B) Hart Island C) City Island D) Rikers Island
A) 400 feet B) 280 feet C) 150 feet D) 85 feet
A) Anne Hutchinson B) John Bronx C) William Pelham D) Peter Stuyvesant
A) Harlem River B) East River C) Hudson River D) Long Island Sound
A) Marble Hill B) City Island C) Throggs Neck D) Hart Island
A) Marble B) Feldspar C) Gneiss D) Schist
A) 75 square miles B) 57 square miles C) 15 square miles D) 42 square miles
A) 1.3 million B) 100,000 C) 200,000 D) 500,000
A) 592,185 B) 1 million C) 1.3 million D) 200,000
A) 1950–1985 B) 1900–1929 C) 1980–2000 D) 1930–1945
A) The Gold Rush B) The Tech Bubble C) The Industrial Revolution D) The Great Depression
A) From moderate-income to lower-income B) From low-income to high-income C) Remained stable D) From rural to urban elite
A) Late 1990s B) Early 1920s C) Early 1950s D) Late 1980s
A) Military bases B) Small farms C) Heavy industrial factories D) Large apartment complexes
A) The subway system B) Buses C) Horse-drawn carriages D) Ferries
A) Automobile production B) Textile production C) Steel forging D) Piano manufacturing
A) 100 B) 20 C) 63 D) 5,000
A) Less than 1,000 B) Exactly 500 C) More than 5,000 D) 10,000
A) 1918 B) 1930 C) 1950 D) 1904
A) Polish Americans B) Irish Americans C) German Americans D) Jewish Americans
A) 1.3 million B) 54,000 C) 200,000 D) 592,185
A) Abandoned entirely B) Converted to other uses C) Destroyed by fire D) Expanded into museums
A) Siwanoy B) Munsee C) Mohawk D) Iroquois
A) 1693 B) 1759 C) 1846 D) 1639
A) Jacobus Dyckman B) Benjamin Palmer C) Frederick Philipse D) Pierre Lorillard
A) 1693 B) 1895 C) 1874 D) 1759
A) 1896 B) 1855 C) 1846 D) 1873
A) Jordan L. Mott B) Jacobus Dyckman C) Benjamin Palmer D) Pierre Lorillard
A) St. Raymond's Cemetery B) Calvary Cemetery C) Ferncliff Cemetery D) Woodlawn Cemetery
A) 1898 B) 1895 C) 1894 D) 1896
A) 1912 B) 1898 C) 1895 D) 1914
A) 1898 B) 1914 C) 1874 D) 1912
A) The Bronx Borough President B) The New York City Council C) United States Postal Service D) The Bronx County Historical Society
A) A description of the local landscape B) A naming contest held in 1898 C) Visiting the settler's family D) A reference to a local bridge
A) Never, under any circumstances B) Only in mailing addresses C) Whenever the word is spoken D) At the beginning of a sentence
A) Not capitalizing the 'e' in 'East River' B) Not capitalizing the 's' in 'Staten Island' C) Not capitalizing the 'b' in 'Brooklyn Bridge' D) Not capitalizing the 'i' in 'Island of Manhattan'
A) It is omitted B) It is placed at the end C) It is lowercase D) It is always capitalized
A) John Bronx B) Lloyd Ultan C) The Mayor of New York D) The Postmaster General
A) Aquahung B) Rananchqua C) Keskeskeck D) New Netherland
A) Pieter Bronck B) William Bronk C) Jonas Bronck D) Brian G. Andersson
A) Keskeskeck B) Rananchqua C) Emmaus D) New Haarlem
A) 1000 acres B) 200 acres C) 50 acres D) 500 acres
A) William Bronk B) Siwanoy C) Brian G. Andersson D) Jonas Bronck
A) Jonas Bronck B) Brian G. Andersson C) William Bronk D) Pieter Bronck
A) Germany B) Netherlands C) Sweden D) England
A) No relation B) Father and son C) Nephew or cousin D) Brother
A) 35 B) 42 C) 50 D) 60
A) Mohawk B) Lenape C) Cherokee D) Iroquois
A) About half B) About ten percent C) About a third D) About a quarter
A) Third B) Fifth C) Second D) First
A) 1910-1920 B) 1920-1933 C) 1930-1960 D) 1940-1950
A) Affluent retirees B) Middle-class Hispanic families C) Moderate and upper income non-Hispanic Whites D) Low-income immigrant laborers
A) The Cross Bronx Expressway B) Marble Hill Apartments C) Co-op City D) The Bronx Courthouse
A) Eastern and northwestern sections B) Southwestern and southern sections C) Central and western sections D) The South Bronx
A) Richard Enright B) Robert Caro C) Robert Moses D) Peter J. McQuillan
A) Urban renewal B) Redlining C) Gentrification D) Planned shrinkage
A) 40% B) 80% C) 60% D) 20%
A) Five-Year Infrastructure Plan B) Urban Renewal Act C) Ten-Year Housing Plan D) South Bronx Recovery Program
A) Nos Quedamos B) Bronx Renewal Group C) City Neighborhood Project D) South Bronx Housing Alliance
A) Window decals B) Construction cranes C) Potted plants D) Drawn curtains
A) Kingsbridge Armory B) South Bronx Armory C) Bronx County Armory D) Grand Concourse Armory
A) Robert Moses B) Frederick Law Olmsted C) John Mullaly D) George W. Perkins
A) 1863 B) 1888 C) 1865 D) 1904
A) Oak forest B) Chestnut forest C) Hemlock forest D) Pine forest
A) A botanical garden B) A zoological garden C) A racetrack D) A cemetery
A) 1904 B) 1863 C) 2006 D) 1888
A) 70 B) 28 C) 300 D) 7,000
A) Chestnut Blight B) Dutch Elm Disease C) Hemlock Woolly Adelgid D) Emerald Ash Borer
A) Under Orchard Beach B) Under Wave Hill C) Under the Bronx Zoo D) Under Mosholu Golf Course
A) 69 B) 68 C) 49 D) 61
A) Hagstrom B) The New York Times C) Mayor's Community Assistance Unit D) Department of City Planning
A) Pelham Bay B) Hagstrom C) Manny Fernandez D) Adolfo Carrión Jr.
A) 10 B) 12 C) 11 D) 9
A) Seafood restaurants B) Industrial factories C) Large public housing complexes D) High-rise apartments |