Monthly Archives: February, 2018
ANSWER:
Diamonds Congratulations to Judy Baker for getting the correct answer first!
QUESTION:
47th Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues hosts 90% of all the U.S.’s wholesale trade in what commodity?
It Happened Today in New York City
On February 26, 1993, a bomb explosion at the World Trade Center killed six people and injured over a thousand. The urea nitrate-hydrogen gas enhanced truck bomb went off in the underground parking garage in accordance with the plans of a group of Islamist terrorists led by Ramzi Yousef, who was later arrested and convicted …
It Happened Today in New York City
On February 25, 1643, Governor Willem Kieft, in an act of war against the natives, ordered the massacre of 120 Lenape men, women, and children in the areas of Pavonia and Corlears Hook (today’s Jersey City and Lower Manhattan respectively). The ensuing bloodshed would come to be known as Kieft’s War and would rage for …
Quotable NYC
“It was a cruel city, but it was a lovely one; a savage city, yet it had such tenderness; a bitter, harsh, and violent catacomb of stone an steel and tunneled rock, slashed savagely with light, and roaring, fighting a constant ceaseless warfare of men and of machinery; and yet it was so sweetly and …
Quotable NYC
“New York’s like a boxing match. In Hollywood, it’s like a Fellini movie or something.” — John Cusack
It Happened Today in New York City
On February 22, 1893, Lebanon Hospital opened at a former Ursuline convent in the Bronx. From a private donation from Jonas Weil, a prominent member of the community that was seeing a steadily increasing density of Jewish immigration, the hospital was intended to provide a charitable relief to impoverished patients who had previously been discharged …
ANSWER:
National Park Service Congratulations to Patrick for getting the correct answer first!
QUESTION:
What governmental agency runs, and holds authority on, Liberty Island?
Quotable NYC
“I can never put on paper the thrill of the underground ride to Harlem. At every station I kept watching for the sign, 135th Street. When I saw it, I held my breath.” — Langston Hughes
Beautiful New York 
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