Local questions in New York

The ice skating rink at Bryant Park in New York City is open from the last weekend in October through to the end of the last weekend in March each year. Located between 40th and 42nd Streets at Sixth Avenue in midtown Manhattan, the Bryant Park skating rink opens at 8 am daily, including holidays. Skating at Bryant Park can Read more...

The dress code at Gramercy Tavern in Manhattan is business casual. Jackets for men are optional, but collared shirts would be appropriate, especially in the more formal setting of the Dining Room. Smart jeans can be worn, particularly in the walk-in Tavern area, where the atmosphere is a little more casual. It is advisable that overly casual attire such as Read more...

New York public radio station WNYC transmitted its AM signal from the WNYC Transmitter Park in Brooklyn’s Greenpoint neighborhood for over 50 years from 1937 to 1990. When WNYC started broadcasting in 1924, it was owned by the City of New York, and broadcast from a transmitter located on the 25th floor of the Municipal Building in Manhattan. The proliferation Read more...

WFUV radio is located in the basement of Keating Hall on the Rose Hill campus of Fordham University in the Bronx, New York City. The station moved to its present location in 2005, having previously been based on the third floor of Keating Hall since first signing on in 1947. Owned by Fordham University, WFUV is a listener-supported NPR affiliate Read more...

The highest natural point in Brooklyn, New York, is Battle Hill, at 216 feet (or 66 meters) above sea level. Also known as Gowan’s Heights, it is located in Green-Wood Cemetery in the western portion of Brooklyn. The hill is part of Harbor Hill Moraine, a terminal moraine formed during the Wisconsin Glaciation, one of the last major continental glacier Read more...

During summer, Seastreak operates a fast passenger ferry between New York and Nantucket, via Oak Bluffs, Martha’s Vineyard, departing 4 pm on Fridays and returning 2:30 pm Sundays. The New York City ferry terminal is at East 35th Street and FDR Drive on the east side of midtown Manhattan. The crossing time to Nantucket takes approximately 6 hours 15 minutes, Read more...

LaGuardia Airport terminals for arrivals and departures are shown below. In case of terminal changes, contacting the airline to confirm before travel is advisable. Airline Terminal Air Canada B American Airlines B American Shuttle B Delta C / D Delta Shuttle C Frontier Airlines C JetBlue Airways A Spirit Airlines B Southwest Airlines C United Airlines B WestJet C Read more...

Ari Halberstam was a yeshiva student killed, aged 16, when Lebanese-born terrorist Rashid Baz shot at the van he was traveling in on the Brooklyn Bridge in New York City, on the morning of March 1st, 1994. Halberstam was one of 15 Chabad-Lubavitch Orthodox Jewish students in the van that had just joined the bridge from the FDR Drive on-ramp, Read more...

Just before 6 pm on June 28th, 1981, two diagonal steel cable stays on the Brooklyn Bridge snapped due to corrosion. One crashed down into the wooden-slatted pedestrian walkway, while the other whipped back and struck Akira Aimi as he was crossing the bridge on foot. 32-year-old Aimi, a Japanese professional photographer living in New York, was critically injured, suffering Read more...

The Holland Tunnel emerges in Lower Manhattan parallel to Canal Street in the Tribeca neighborhood. The Holland Tunnel Rotary road loops around Saint John’s Park, with right-lane exits in the following order: Exit 1: West Street (or West Side Highway 9A) via Laight Street Exit 2: Uptown via Hudson Street Exit 3: Brooklyn via Manhattan Bridge or Williamsburg Bridge Exit Read more...

Greeley Square Park is a small, triangular, tree-lined, paved park in midtown Manhattan at 6th Avenue and West 34th Street, near the 33rd Street subway and PATH station. There are many things to see and do within a short walking distance: See Alexander Doyle’s bronze statue of Horace Greeley, founder and editor of the New York Tribune newspaper. Bring your Read more...

Alexander Hamilton’s 1802 home, The Grange, was relocated in June 2008 to the northern end of Saint Nicholas Park in Harlem’s Hamilton Heights neighborhood. The Founding Father’s yellow and white Federal-style house previously stood a block north, next to Saint Luke’s Episcopal Church on Convent Avenue at 141st Street. Despite becoming a National Memorial in 1962, it was hemmed in Read more...

Engine 54, Ladder 4, Battalion 9 in midtown Manhattan lost 15 members on 9/11, the biggest loss of any firehouse in New York City. When two planes struck the World Trade Center twin towers on the morning of September 11th, 2001, all 15 members of the night shift turned out but none made it back to the firehouse. The firehouse Read more...

New York’s Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge was named after Italian explorer Giovanni da Verrazzano, but a mistake meant that the bridge’s official name was spelled with only one ‘z’ instead of two. The mis-spelled name remained in use from the bridge’s opening in 1964 until 2018, when a public campaign resulted in a bill being passed unanimously by the New York State Read more...

The New York 1 cable TV news channel broadcasts from studios on the sixth floor of the Chelsea Market Building at 9th Avenue and West 15th Street in Manhattan’s Meatpacking District. NY1 has been at this location since January 2002, and programs produced here include: Mornings on 1 In Focus with Cheryl Wills Inside City Hall NY1 Live at Ten Read more...

The statue of Hans Christian Andersen is located near Manhattan’s Conservatory Water pond on the east side of Central Park, just north of the entrance at East 772nd Street and 5th Avenue. The oversize bronze sculpture depicts the seated Danish author reading from a book, which is open at his tale The Ugly Duckling. At his feet is a bronze Read more...

WQXR-FM is a classical music radio station licensed to Newark, New Jersey, broadcasting to New York City and North Jersey at 105.9 MHz FM, and streaming online. The station is owned by the nonprofit New York Public Radio and broadcasts from their studios in Hudson Square, Manhattan via a transmitter atop the Empire State Building. WQXR also reaches central and Read more...

For Tandon School of Engineering students, New York University’s ID card, the NYUCard, may be picked up on weekdays at the Tandon NYUCard Center on the ground floor of 2 MetroTech Center in Brooklyn. NYUCard applicants must bring government issued ID with a current photo, and an N number or NetID. New students may upload a photo via photoid.nyu.edu and Read more...

New York University’s ID card, the NYUCard, may be picked up on weekdays at the Washington Square NYUCard Center located in the ground floor lobby of 7 Washington Place (at the corner of Mercer Street). NYUCard applicants must bring government issued identification with a current photo, and an N number or NetID. New students may upload a photo via photoid.nyu.edu. Read more...

There are two bronze statues in Duffy Square, the northern triangle of Times Square in Manhattan, New York City, one of Chaplain Francis P Duffy and the other of musical theater star George M Cohan. The statue of Father Duffy, a military chaplain and priest after whom the square is named, was sculpted by Charles Keck and dedicated on May Read more...