NYC Trivia!

Heeeeeellllllloooooo! PH8-KATHY! Come in please!

Your attention is needed in the TRIVIA THREAD! PLEASE RESPOND!

http://home.comcast.net/~coopcity/location.html

that's what it says - freedomland

OOPS sorry................didnt see this till now.........please forgive me......(next time,just PM me,will ya??)

Yup,Freedomland it is.........

Ok...Ad...Pete! Your question!

In 1893 a category 2 hurricane destroyed this off the coast of Long Island?

Hog Island?

You are correct your turn!

Ellis Island has an optional Audio Tour you can take.

Who is the narrator?

Little OT here,but your last question got me to looking at the Ellis Island website..........I did a search for my grandmother and found the records........she came over in 1911 when she was only 19(single).......and the ship she came on was only 9939 tons!!(515 ft long)........

No wonder they got seasick all the time.......

I found it very interesting(I could see her passenger record, the ships manifest and the ship picture and info).........

Thanks for asking that question,Pete!

Wow Kathy...cool! Maybe I should try to do some hunting there....nice find.

Now....who is the narrator????

Ummmmmm..........that I didnt find out.....................yet!!

I keep thinking Morgan Friedman,but that would be a wild guess........................Ill keep looking..

Got it........

Tom Brokaw??

That was a tough one..

Yep. Got it from New York for Dummies!

Ok, been waiting for you so I could post the next one..........two parter since we have so many smart people on here...

Broadway, originating from Lower Manhattan at Bowling Green and ending in Albany, is one of the world's longest streets . The official name of this street is ???

How long is it???

NDJollyMon wrote:

Wow Kathy...cool! Maybe I should try to do some hunting there....nice find.

Now....who is the narrator????

Pete,

The site you want is http://ellisisland.org/. It has most of the ships manifests from Ellis Island and you can do a search by last name. It will then show you the actual manifest. I was able to find one of my grandfathers. Not his original immigration but when he went back to Poland to bring one of his brothers to the USA.

I had no idea! Waaaaaay cool!

I thought it only went from Bowling Green to Inwood?

Adirondack Pete wrote:

I thought it only went from Bowling Green to Inwood?

Not according to what I read.....(Im not sure where Inwood is)

Giving you the answer since no one has guessed and I may not be on much the next 2 weeks..............(going on a cruise Jan 30th then again Feb 5th),so someone else can ask the next question.



Broadway, originating from Lower Manhattan at Bowling Green and ending in Albany, is one of the world's longest streets at 150 mi (241 km). The official name of this street is Highway 9.

Is it out of order to ask a non NYC question. It is related to the last one ?
What is the longest street in the world ? Shoot me down if you want.

Wondered if this thread was still active.............


Yonge Street

LT...you crack me up! That's a Canadian question....Yonge St in Toronto. (I had to look it up)

Ok...let's get this going again.....

NYC TRIVIA:

What famous baseball player hit his first home run in Yankee Stadium in the first game ever played there?

Babe Ruth


(just a guess... I'm so not a Yankees fan!)

Candy Cain

Right on Candy!
You get to ask the next question.

Okay, here is a geography question:

What famous landmark is on the corner of Pennsylvania Avenue and 34th Street, caddy-corner to Penn Station and Madison Square Garden?