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gq: The only attempt at a peaceful solution to the war took place at the Conference House on Staten Island between American delegates, including Benjamin Franklin, and British general Lord Howe on September 11, 1776. Shortly after the British occupation began, the Great Fire of New York occurred, a large conflagration ... | Question: Who was the British representative at the Conference House meeting? Question: Who was the English general who met with Benjamin Franklin on Septermber 11, 1776? Question: On what date did the peace conference on Staten Island occur? Question: Which natural disaster happened after English occupation of Lower M... |
gq: In 1785, the assembly of the Congress of the Confederation made New York the national capital shortly after the war. New York was the last capital of the U.S. under the Articles of Confederation and the first capital under the Constitution of the United States. In 1789, the first President of the United States, Geo... | Question: In what year did New York become the United States capital? Question: Which organization made New York the national capital in 1785? Question: New York City became the first what under the new Constitution of the United States? Question: The first president, George Washington, took office in what year? Questi... |
gq: Under New York State's gradual abolition act of 1799, children of slave mothers were born to be eventually liberated but were held in indentured servitude until their mid-to-late twenties. Together with slaves freed by their masters after the Revolutionary War and escaped slaves, a significant free-black population... | Question: In what year did the state of New York pass a law to free the slaves? Question: The gradual abolition act in New York was formed in what year? Question: What borough was home to a notable population of free African-Americans? Question: Along with John Jay, who founded the New York Manumission Society? Questio... |
gq: In the 19th century, the city was transformed by development relating to its status as a trading center, as well as by European immigration. The city adopted the Commissioners' Plan of 1811, which expanded the city street grid to encompass all of Manhattan. The 1825 completion of the Erie Canal through central New ... | Question: What plan of 1811 spread a grid of streets across Manhattan? Question: In what year did the Erie Canal finish building? Question: The Erie Canal was finished being built in what year? Question: What political machine controlled New York politics in this era? Question: Along with German immigrants, immigrants ... |
gq: Several prominent American literary figures lived in New York during the 1830s and 1840s, including William Cullen Bryant, Washington Irving, Herman Melville, Rufus Wilmot Griswold, John Keese, Nathaniel Parker Willis, and Edgar Allan Poe. Public-minded members of the contemporaneous business elite lobbied for the ... | Question: What was the name of the first urban landscaped park in the United States? Question: In what year was Central Park founded? Question: Central park, in 1857, became the first park in America to become what? |
gq: The Great Irish Famine brought a large influx of Irish immigrants. Over 200,000 were living in New York by 1860, upwards of a quarter of the city's population. There was also extensive immigration from the German provinces, where revolutions had disrupted societies, and Germans comprised another 25% of New York's p... | Question: What event brought many Irish immigrants to the United States? Question: Which event brought upon a lot of Irish immigrants to NYC? Question: How many immigrants that were Irish were living in New York in 1860? Question: In 1860, approximately how many people of Irish extraction were in New York? Question: In... |
gq: Democratic Party candidates were consistently elected to local office, increasing the city's ties to the South and its dominant party. In 1861, Mayor Fernando Wood called on the aldermen to declare independence from Albany and the United States after the South seceded, but his proposal was not acted on. Anger at ne... | Question: Who was the mayor of New York City in 1861? Question: What was the commutation fee to avoid being conscripted during the American Civil War? Question: People of what ethnicity most visibly participated in the Draft Riots of 1863? Question: The Draft Riots caused which building to burn down in 1863? Question: ... |
gq: In 1898, the modern City of New York was formed with the consolidation of Brooklyn (until then a separate city), the County of New York (which then included parts of the Bronx), the County of Richmond, and the western portion of the County of Queens. The opening of the subway in 1904, first built as separate privat... | Question: In what year was the modern City of New York founded? Question: Portions of what modern-day borough were included in the County of New York? Question: In what year did the subway begin operation? Question: The subway of New York was first available in what year? |
gq: In 1904, the steamship General Slocum caught fire in the East River, killing 1,021 people on board. In 1911, the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, the city's worst industrial disaster, took the lives of 146 garment workers and spurred the growth of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union and major improvem... | Question: In what year did the General Slocum disaster occur? Question: How many people died on the General Slocum? Question: In what building did the city's deadliest industrial disaster occur? Question: A catastrophe in 1911 that killed 146 workers was called what? Question: How many people died in the Triangle Shirt... |
gq: New York's non-white population was 36,620 in 1890. New York City was a prime destination in the early twentieth century for African Americans during the Great Migration from the American South, and by 1916, New York City was home to the largest urban African diaspora in North America. The Harlem Renaissance of lit... | Question: How many non-white people lived in New York in 1890? Question: What was the population of people in New York that were not Caucasian in 1890? Question: What was the name of the Prohibition-era African-American cultural flourishing in New York? |
gq: New York became the most populous urbanized area in the world in the early 1920s, overtaking London. The metropolitan area surpassed the 10 million mark in the early 1930s, becoming the first megacity in human history. The difficult years of the Great Depression saw the election of reformer Fiorello La Guardia as m... | Question: In the early 1920s, what was the second most highly populated city in the world? Question: What is the term for a city with a population of over 10 million? Question: In the 1930s, New York City had more than 10 million people becoming the first what in history? Question: Who was mayor of New York during the ... |
gq: Returning World War II veterans created a post-war economic boom and the development of large housing tracts in eastern Queens. New York emerged from the war unscathed as the leading city of the world, with Wall Street leading America's place as the world's dominant economic power. The United Nations Headquarters w... | Question: The headquarters what organization was done being build in 1952 in New York? Question: When was construction finished on the United Nations Headquarters? Question: What artistic movement caused New York to overtake Paris as the global art center? Question: Prior to New York, what city was the center of the wo... |
gq: The Stonewall riots were a series of spontaneous, violent demonstrations by members of the gay community against a police raid that took place in the early morning hours of June 28, 1969, at the Stonewall Inn in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Lower Manhattan. They are widely considered to constitute the sing... | Question: What event provoked the Stonewall riots? Question: On what date did the Stonewall riots take place? Question: The Stonewall riots are named after what building? Question: Where did the Stonewall riots happen? Question: In what neighborhood did the Stonewall riots occur? Question: In what borough did the Stone... |
gq: In the 1970s, job losses due to industrial restructuring caused New York City to suffer from economic problems and rising crime rates. While a resurgence in the financial industry greatly improved the city's economic health in the 1980s, New York's crime rate continued to increase through that decade and into the b... | Question: In what decade was there a significant decline in industrial jobs? Question: Which decade did massive job losses happen in NYC due to industrial issues? Question: In what decade did the crime rate drop significantly? Question: What was the name of a new sector of the New York economy that appeared in the 1990... |
gq: The city and surrounding area suffered the bulk of the economic damage and largest loss of human life in the aftermath of the September 11, 2001 attacks when 10 of the 19 terrorists associated with Al-Qaeda piloted American Airlines Flight 11 into the North Tower of the World Trade Center and United Airlines Flight... | Question: How many leader terrorists of Al Quada were involved with the 9/11 attacks directly that day? Question: What was the name of the aircraft that crashed into the World Trade Center's North Tower on September 11, 2001? Question: What was the plane named that crashed into the World Trade Center? Question: What wa... |
gq: The Occupy Wall Street protests in Zuccotti Park in the Financial District of Lower Manhattan began on September 17, 2011, receiving global attention and spawning the Occupy movement against social and economic inequality worldwide. | Question: In what park did the Occupy Wall Street protests occur? Question: In what district of Manhattan were the Occupy Wall Street protests? Question: In what borough did the Occupy Wall Street protests take place? Question: On what date did the Occupy Wall Street protests commence? Question: The Occupy Wall Street ... |
gq: When one Republican presidential candidate for the 2016 election ridiculed the liberalism of "New York values" in January 2016, Donald Trump, leading in the polls, vigorously defended his city. The National Review, a conservative magazine published in the city since its founding by William F. Buckley, Jr. in 1955, ... | Question: A presidential candidate from what party derided the city for its liberalism? Question: What public figure defended New York in January 2016? Question: What individual established the National Review? Question: In what year was the National Review founded? |
gq: New York City is situated in the Northeastern United States, in southeastern New York State, approximately halfway between Washington, D.C. and Boston. The location at the mouth of the Hudson River, which feeds into a naturally sheltered harbor and then into the Atlantic Ocean, has helped the city grow in significa... | Question: In what geographical region of the United States is New York City located? Question: In what geographical region of New York state is New York City located? Question: New York City is about half the distance between Washington DC and what city? Question: What river is New York City located on? Question: New Y... |
gq: The Hudson River flows through the Hudson Valley into New York Bay. Between New York City and Troy, New York, the river is an estuary. The Hudson River separates the city from the U.S. state of New Jersey. The East River—a tidal strait—flows from Long Island Sound and separates the Bronx and Manhattan from Long Isl... | Question: Into what body of water does the Hudson River terminate? Question: Between New York City and what city is the Hudson River an estuary? Question: The Hudson River serves as a dividing line between New York and what state? Question: The Hudson River separates NYC from which US state? Question: Which river seper... |
gq: The city's land has been altered substantially by human intervention, with considerable land reclamation along the waterfronts since Dutch colonial times; reclamation is most prominent in Lower Manhattan, with developments such as Battery Park City in the 1970s and 1980s. Some of the natural relief in topography ha... | Question: What Manhattan development is the product of land reclamation? |
gq: The city's total area is 468.9 square miles (1,214 km2). 164.1 sq mi (425 km2) of this is water and 304.8 sq mi (789 km2) is land. The highest point in the city is Todt Hill on Staten Island, which, at 409.8 feet (124.9 m) above sea level, is the highest point on the Eastern Seaboard south of Maine. The summit of t... | Question: What is the total area of New York City in square miles? Question: How many square miles in NYC? Question: In square miles, how much of the city's total area is composed of water? Question: How many square miles are water in NYC? Question: In square miles, how much of the city's total area is land? Question: ... |
gq: New York has architecturally noteworthy buildings in a wide range of styles and from distinct time periods, from the saltbox style Pieter Claesen Wyckoff House in Brooklyn, the oldest section of which dates to 1656, to the modern One World Trade Center, the skyscraper at Ground Zero in Lower Manhattan and currently... | Question: What structure is an example of saltbox architecture? Question: In what borough is the Pieter Claesen Wyckoff House located? Question: In what year did construction on the oldest part of Pieter Claesen Wyckoff House begin? Question: What building is the priciest office tower in the world? Question: The most e... |
gq: Manhattan's skyline, with its many skyscrapers, is universally recognized, and the city has been home to several of the tallest buildings in the world. As of 2011, New York City had 5,937 high-rise buildings, of which 550 completed structures were at least 330 feet (100 m) high, both second in the world after Hong ... | Question: How many high-rises were present in New York City in 2011? Question: How many structures in New York City are over 100m tall? Question: How many buildings located in NYC are at least 330 feet in height? Question: How many buildings in New York City are over 200m high? Question: What city has the most high-ris... |
gq: The 1916 Zoning Resolution required setbacks in new buildings, and restricted towers to a percentage of the lot size, to allow sunlight to reach the streets below. The Art Deco style of the Chrysler Building (1930) and Empire State Building (1931), with their tapered tops and steel spires, reflected the zoning requ... | Question: The Chrysler Building reflects what architectural style? Question: When was the Chrysler building built in NYC? Question: In what year was the Empire State Building completed? Question: When was the Empire State Building constructed? Question: Which animal decorates the corners of the Chrysler Building? Quest... |
gq: The character of New York's large residential districts is often defined by the elegant brownstone rowhouses and townhouses and shabby tenements that were built during a period of rapid expansion from 1870 to 1930. In contrast, New York City also has neighborhoods that are less densely populated and feature free-st... | Question: What type of housing structure makes up most of the large residential districts of NYC? Question: Brownstone rowhouse construction is most often associated with the period beginning in 1870 and ending in what year? Question: In what borough is the Riverdale neighborhood located? Question: In what borough is t... |
gq: Stone and brick became the city's building materials of choice after the construction of wood-frame houses was limited in the aftermath of the Great Fire of 1835. A distinctive feature of many of the city's buildings is the wooden roof-mounted water towers. In the 1800s, the city required their installation on buil... | Question: After the Great Fire of 1835, what became the most widespread building materials? Question: What event led to the decline in wooden construction in New York City? Question: To prevent high water pressures at lower elevations what were built on many of the city's buildings? Question: In the 19th century, New Y... |
gq: According to the United States Geological Survey, an updated analysis of seismic hazard in July 2014 revealed a "slightly lower hazard for tall buildings" in New York City than previously assessed. Scientists estimated this lessened risk based upon a lower likelihood than previously thought of slow shaking near the... | Question: When did the United States Geological Survey released its seismic hazard analysis? |
gq: There are hundreds of distinct neighborhoods throughout the five boroughs of New York City, many with a definable history and character to call their own. If the boroughs were each independent cities, four of the boroughs (Brooklyn, Queens, Manhattan, and the Bronx) would be among the ten most populous cities in th... | Question: How many boroughs does New York City have? Question: How many of New York's boroughs would be counted among the United States' ten most populated cities if they were independent? Question: Which four boroughs of NYC would be among the the most populous cities in the US if they were independent cities? |
gq: Under the Köppen climate classification, using the 0 °C (32 °F) coldest month (January) isotherm, New York City itself experiences a humid subtropical climate (Cfa) and is thus the northernmost major city on the North American continent with this categorization. The suburbs to the immediate north and west lie in th... | Question: What month in New York City is the coldest? Question: What is the name of New York City's climate using the Köppen climate classification? Question: What type of climate does NYC possess? Question: The suburbs of the city lie between the humid subtropical and what other climate zone? Question: How many sunny ... |
gq: Winters are cold and damp, and prevailing wind patterns that blow offshore minimize the moderating effects of the Atlantic Ocean; yet the Atlantic and the partial shielding from colder air by the Appalachians keep the city warmer in the winter than inland North American cities at similar or lesser latitudes such as... | Question: What mountains serve as a barrier to keep New York City comparatively warmer in the winter? Question: What is New York City's daily January mean temperature in degrees celsius? Question: What is the average humidity in July as a percentage? Question: On average, how often do New York temperatures exceed 90 de... |
gq: The city receives 49.9 inches (1,270 mm) of precipitation annually, which is fairly spread throughout the year. Average winter snowfall between 1981 and 2010 has been 25.8 inches (66 cm), but this varies considerably from year to year. Hurricanes and tropical storms are rare in the New York area, but are not unhear... | Question: How many inches of precipitation does NYC get in a year? Question: In millimeters, how much precipitation does New York receive a year? Question: The mean snowfall between 1981 and 2010 in NYC has been how many inches? Question: In centimeters, what is the average winter snowfall? Question: Which natural disa... |
gq: The City of New York has a complex park system, with various lands operated by the National Park Service, the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation, and the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation. | Question: What federal service operates New York City parks? Question: What is the state office that operates New York City parks? Question: What is the name of the New York City department that operates the park system? |
gq: In its 2013 ParkScore ranking, The Trust for Public Land reported that the park system in New York City was the second best park system among the 50 most populous U.S. cities, behind the park system of Minneapolis. ParkScore ranks urban park systems by a formula that analyzes median park size, park acres as percent... | Question: What city had the second highest ParkScore rating? Question: What city was rated as having the best park system by The Trust for Public Land? Question: The 2013 ParkScore rating for NYC made NYC second in best park system to what other US city? |
gq: Gateway National Recreation Area contains over 26,000 acres (10,521.83 ha) in total, most of it surrounded by New York City, including the Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge in Brooklyn and Queens, over 9,000 acres (36 km2) of salt marsh, islands, and water, including most of Jamaica Bay. Also in Queens, the park includes... | Question: How many acres of land does Gateway Nation Recreation contain? Question: How large is the Gateway National recreation Area in hectares? Question: What body of water is Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge adjacent to? Question: About how large is the Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge in acres? Question: What park is located... |
gq: The Statue of Liberty National Monument and Ellis Island Immigration Museum are managed by the National Park Service and are in both the states of New York and New Jersey. They are joined in the harbor by Governors Island National Monument, in New York. Historic sites under federal management on Manhattan Island in... | Question: What body administers the Ellis Island Immigration Museum? Question: The Statue of Liberty is taken care of by what organization? Question: The Statue of Liberty is also in what other US state? Question: Ellis Island is considered in New York state and which other? Question: What is the common name for the Ge... |
gq: There are seven state parks within the confines of New York City, including Clay Pit Ponds State Park Preserve, a natural area which includes extensive riding trails, and Riverbank State Park, a 28-acre (110,000 m2) facility that rises 69 feet (21 m) over the Hudson River. | Question: How many state parks exist in New York City? Question: How many New York state parks are within New York City? Question: How large is Riverbank State Park in acres? Question: Riverbank State park's highest point is how high above the Hudson River? Question: How many meters is Riverbank State Park elevated abo... |
gq: New York City has over 28,000 acres (110 km2) of municipal parkland and 14 miles (23 km) of public beaches. Parks in New York City include Central Park, Prospect Park, Flushing Meadows–Corona Park, Forest Park, and Washington Square Park. The largest municipal park in the city is Pelham Bay Park with 2,700 acres (1... | Question: New York City has how many acres of land dedicated to parks? Question: New York has approximately how many acres of parks? Question: How many miles of public beach are located in New York City? Question: How long are all the public beaches together in miles? Question: What is the biggest public park in the ci... |
gq: New York City is home to Fort Hamilton, the U.S. military's only active duty installation within the city. Established in 1825 in Brooklyn on the site of a small battery utilized during the American Revolution, it is one of America's longest serving military forts. Today Fort Hamilton serves as the headquarters of ... | Question: What is the name of the military base in New York City? Question: The U.S. military has only one active location in NYC named what? Question: In what year was Fort Hamilton founded? Question: When was Fort Hamilton built? Question: In what borough is Fort Hamilton located? Question: Which borough can Fort Ham... |
gq: New York City is the most-populous city in the United States, with an estimated record high of 8,491,079 residents as of 2014, incorporating more immigration into the city than outmigration since the 2010 United States Census. More than twice as many people live in New York City as in the second-most populous U.S. ... | Question: What was the population of New York City in 2014? Question: What is the population of NYC as of 2014? Question: What is the US city with the second largest population? Question: The second largest city in the US is what? Question: How many people moved to New York City between April 2010 and July 2014? Questi... |
gq: In 2014, the city had an estimated population density of 27,858 people per square mile (10,756/km²), rendering it the most densely populated of all municipalities housing over 100,000 residents in the United States; however, several small cities (of fewer than 100,000) in adjacent Hudson County, New Jersey are more... | Question: How many people live in a square mile of New York City? Question: Some cities in what county have a higher population density than New York City? Question: What is the population density of Manhattan per square kilometer? |
gq: The city's population in 2010 was 44% white (33.3% non-Hispanic white), 25.5% black (23% non-Hispanic black), 0.7% Native American, and 12.7% Asian. Hispanics of any race represented 28.6% of the population, while Asians constituted the fastest-growing segment of the city's population between 2000 and 2010; the non... | Question: What percentage of the city's population is Caucasian? Question: As of 2010, what percentage made up white people in NYC? Question: By what percentage did the non-Hispanic white population decrease? Question: What percentage of the city's population is African-American? Question: What percentage of Africans m... |
gq: Throughout its history, the city has been a major port of entry for immigrants into the United States; more than 12 million European immigrants were received at Ellis Island between 1892 and 1924. The term "melting pot" was first coined to describe densely populated immigrant neighborhoods on the Lower East Side. B... | Question: Between 1892-1924, how many immigrants came through Ellis Island? Question: How many immigrants arrived at Ellis Island from 1892 to 1924? Question: In the year 1942, what percentage of white Americans made up New York City? Question: 'Melting pot' was first used to describe neighborhoods in what area of the ... |
gq: Approximately 37% of the city's population is foreign born. In New York, no single country or region of origin dominates. The ten largest sources of foreign-born individuals in the city as of 2011 were the Dominican Republic, China, Mexico, Guyana, Jamaica, Ecuador, Haiti, India, Russia, and Trinidad and Tobago, wh... | Question: What percentage of the population was born outside the United States? Question: What percentage of the population of NYC was born in another country? Question: From what country did the largest number of foreign-born immigrants originate as of 2011? Question: What country was the second largest source of fore... |
gq: Asian Americans in New York City, according to the 2010 Census, number more than one million, greater than the combined totals of San Francisco and Los Angeles. New York contains the highest total Asian population of any U.S. city proper. The New York City borough of Queens is home to the state's largest Asian Amer... | Question: What New York borough contains the highest population of Asian-Americans? Question: What borough is home to a large Tibetan population? Question: What borough housed the first Chinatown in New York? Question: As of 2012, what percentage of the New York City population was ethnically Chinese? Question: What pe... |
gq: New York City has the largest European and non-Hispanic white population of any American city. At 2.7 million in 2012, New York's non-Hispanic white population is larger than the non-Hispanic white populations of Los Angeles (1.1 million), Chicago (865,000), and Houston (550,000) combined. The European diaspora res... | Question: How many non-Hispanic whites lived in New York City in 2012? Question: NYC has the largest white population by how many people? Question: How many New York City residents are of Greek heritage? Question: What is the non-Hispanic white population of Houston? Question: How many New Yorkers are of Polish ancestr... |
gq: The wider New York City metropolitan area, with over 20 million people, about 50% greater than the second-place Los Angeles metropolitan area in the United States, is also ethnically diverse. The New York region continues to be by far the leading metropolitan gateway for legal immigrants admitted into the United St... | Question: About how many people live in New York City's metropolitan area? Question: As of 2012, how many Jewish people lived in the New York metropolitan area? Question: What percentage of the total Indian-American population of the United States lives in the New York metropolitan area? Question: How many Hispanic peo... |
gq: Ecuador, Colombia, Guyana, Peru, and Brazil were the top source countries from South America for legal immigrants to the New York City region in 2013; the Dominican Republic, Jamaica, Haiti, and Trinidad and Tobago in the Caribbean; Egypt, Ghana, and Nigeria from Africa; and El Salvador, Honduras, and Guatemala in ... | Question: Of all the countries in South America, which provided the most legal immigrants in 2013? Question: What nation provided the most legal immigrants to New York City in the Caribbean? Question: Out of all African nations, which provided the most legal immigrants in 2013? Question: Out of all nations in Central A... |
gq: The New York metropolitan area is home to a self-identifying gay and bisexual community estimated at 568,903 individuals, the largest in the United States and one of the world's largest. Same-sex marriages in New York were legalized on June 24, 2011 and were authorized to take place beginning 30 days thereafter. | Question: How many self-identified LGB people live in the New York metropolitan area? Question: How many people identify as gay or bisexual in NYC? Question: On what date did New York legalize gay marriage? Question: Same-sex marriage became legal on what date in New York? Question: How many days after gay marriage was... |
gq: Christianity (59%), particularly Catholicism (33%), was the most prevalently practiced religion in New York as of 2014, followed by Judaism, with approximately 1.1 million Jews in New York City, over half living in Brooklyn. Islam ranks third in New York City, with official estimates ranging between 600,000 and 1,0... | Question: What was the most prominent religion in New York as of 2014? Question: What percentage of New Yorkers are Christians? Question: What percentage of New Yorkers follow the Catholic faith? Question: The second most prominent religion in New York is what? Question: About how many Jews live in New York City? Quest... |
gq: New York City has a high degree of income disparity as indicated by its Gini Coefficient of 0.5 for the city overall and 0.6 for Manhattan. The disparity is driven by wage growth in high-income brackets, while wages have stagnated for middle and lower-income brackets. In the first quarter of 2014, the average weekl... | Question: By 2013, which city had the most billionaires living in the city? Question: What is New York City's Gini Coefficient? Question: What borough has a Gini Coefficient of 0.6? Question: What is the average weekly wage in Manhattan? Question: The average weekly earnings for a worker in NYC was what in 2014? Questi... |
gq: New York is a global hub of international business and commerce. In 2012, New York City topped the first Global Economic Power Index, published by The Atlantic (to be differentiated from a namesake list published by the Martin Prosperity Institute), with cities ranked according to criteria reflecting their presence... | Question: In what year was New York ranked first on the Global Economic Power Index? Question: Who created the Global Economic Power Index that ranked New York first? Question: What is the common name for New York's high technology sector? Question: In what year did the Port of New York and New Jersey deal with unprece... |
gq: Many Fortune 500 corporations are headquartered in New York City, as are a large number of foreign corporations. One out of ten private sector jobs in the city is with a foreign company. New York City has been ranked first among cities across the globe in attracting capital, business, and tourists. This ability to ... | Question: What fraction of New Yorkers in the private sector are employed by foreign companies? Question: What publication ranked New York first in the 2013 American Cities of the Future rankings? |
gq: Real estate is a major force in the city's economy, as the total value of all New York City property was assessed at US$914.8 billion for the 2015 fiscal year. The Time Warner Center is the property with the highest-listed market value in the city, at US$1.1 billion in 2006. New York City is home to some of the nat... | Question: What was the 2015 assessed value of all the property in New York? Question: Which building has the highest market value in NYC? Question: How much was Time Warner Center worth in 2006? Question: What was the price per square foot of 450 Park Avenue when it sold in July 2007? Question: What was the price per s... |
gq: As of 2013, the global advertising agencies of Omnicom Group and Interpublic Group, both based in Manhattan, had combined annual revenues of approximately US$21 billion, reflecting New York City's role as the top global center for the advertising industry, which is metonymously referred to as "Madison Avenue". The ... | Question: With Interpublic Group, what company has a combined annual revenue of roughly US$21 billion? Question: The Two highest advertising agencies in the world located in NYC are called what? Question: What is the popular name of New York's advertising industry? Question: About how many people work in the New York f... |
gq: Other important sectors include medical research and technology, non-profit institutions, and universities. Manufacturing accounts for a significant but declining share of employment, although the city's garment industry is showing a resurgence in Brooklyn. Food processing is a US$5 billion industry that employs mo... | Question: In what borough is the garment business prominent? Question: What is the annual revenue of the food processing industry? Question: How many New Yorkers work in the food processing field? |
gq: Chocolate is New York City's leading specialty-food export, with up to US$234 million worth of exports each year. Entrepreneurs were forming a "Chocolate District" in Brooklyn as of 2014, while Godiva, one of the world's largest chocolatiers, continues to be headquartered in Manhattan. | Question: What is the number one specialty food export of New York? Question: What type of food is NYC's leading food export? Question: What dollar amount of chocolate does New York export annually? Question: Where is the "Chocolate District" located? Question: Which one of the world's largest chocolate makers is stati... |
gq: New York City's most important economic sector lies in its role as the headquarters for the U.S.financial industry, metonymously known as Wall Street. The city's securities industry, enumerating 163,400 jobs in August 2013, continues to form the largest segment of the city's financial sector and an important econom... | Question: 22 Percent of NYC's total wages are from what industry? Question: As of 2013, how many people worked for a securities business in New York? Question: What percentage of New York private sector jobs are in the securities industry? Question: How much tax revenue does the securities industry generate? Question: ... |
gq: Lower Manhattan is the third-largest central business district in the United States and is home to the New York Stock Exchange, on Wall Street, and the NASDAQ, at 165 Broadway, representing the world's largest and second largest stock exchanges, respectively, when measured both by overall average daily trading volu... | Question: On what street is the New York Stock Exchange headquartered? Question: The New York Stock exchange is located where in NYC? Question: What is the street address of NASDAQ? Question: The NASDAQ is located on what street in NYC? Question: In 2012, how many investment banking fees were paid out to Wall Street? Q... |
gq: Many of the world's largest media conglomerates are also based in the city. Manhattan contained over 500 million square feet (46.5 million m2) of office space in 2015, making it the largest office market in the United States, while Midtown Manhattan, with nearly 400 million square feet (37.2 million m2) in 2015, is... | Question: How much office space did Manhatten possess in 2015? Question: How many square meters of office space does Manhattan have? Question: About how many million square feet of office space is present in Midtown Manhattan? |
gq: Silicon Alley, centered in Manhattan, has evolved into a metonym for the sphere encompassing the New York City metropolitan region's high technology industries involving the Internet, new media, telecommunications, digital media, software development, biotechnology, game design, financial technology ("fintech"), an... | Question: In what borough is Silicon Alley located? Question: What is the street address of the headquarters of Verizon Communciations? Question: How much did Verizon spend on fiber optic upgrades in New York City? Question: Approximately how many tech sector jobs are in New York City? Question: The technology sector o... |
gq: The biotechnology sector is also growing in New York City, based upon the city's strength in academic scientific research and public and commercial financial support. On December 19, 2011, then Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg announced his choice of Cornell University and Technion-Israel Institute of Technology to build... | Question: Along with Cornell University, what institution is involved in the building of Cornell Tech? Question: What is the cost to build Cornell Tech? Question: In 2011, what school was built on Roosevelt Island? Question: On what island is Cornell Tech located? Question: About how much capital did Accelerator raise ... |
gq: Tourism is a vital industry for New York City, which has witnessed a growing combined volume of international and domestic tourists – receiving approximately 51 million tourists in 2011, 54 million in 2013, and a record 56.4 million in 2014. Tourism generated an all-time high US$61.3 billion in overall economic imp... | Question: How many tourists visited New York in 2011? Question: How many people came to visit New York in 2013? Question: How many tourists visited NYC in 2013? Question: What is the record number of tourists that have visited New York in a year? Question: How many tourists that visited NYC in 2014 broke the record? Qu... |
gq: I Love New York (stylized I ❤ NY) is both a logo and a song that are the basis of an advertising campaign and have been used since 1977 to promote tourism in New York City, and later to promote New York State as well. The trademarked logo, owned by New York State Empire State Development, appears in souvenir shops ... | Question: What English phrase does I ❤ NY represent? Question: What is the state song of New York? Question: What is the state song of New York? Question: When was I ❤ NY first used in advertisements? Question: I Love New York was established as advertising in what year? Question: Who owns the trademark to I ❤ NY? |
gq: Major tourist destinations include Times Square; Broadway theater productions; the Empire State Building; the Statue of Liberty; Ellis Island; the United Nations Headquarters; museums such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art; greenspaces such as Central Park and Washington Square Park; Rockefeller Center; the Manhatt... | Question: At what location is a Christmas tree famously lit every year? Question: In what neighborhood does the Halloween Parade take place? Question: What company sponsors the Thanksgiving Day parade? Question: Where in Central Park are performances offered at no cost? Question: In what borough is the Unisphere locate... |
gq: Manhattan was on track to have an estimated 90,000 hotel rooms at the end of 2014, a 10% increase from 2013. In October 2014, the Anbang Insurance Group, based in China, purchased the Waldorf Astoria New York for US$1.95 billion, making it the world's most expensive hotel ever sold. | Question: About how many hotel rooms are there in Manhattan? Question: How many hotel rooms are located in NYC as of the end of 2014? Question: What was the percentage increase of Manhattan hotel rooms between 2013 and 2014? Question: Who owns the Waldorf Astoria? Question: Who bought the Waldorf Astoria hotel in NYC i... |
gq: New York is a prominent location for the American entertainment industry, with many films, television series, books, and other media being set there. As of 2012, New York City was the second largest center for filmmaking and television production in the United States, producing about 200 feature films annually, emp... | Question: Approximately how many feature films are made in New York City every year? Question: How many New Yorkers work in the television and film industry? Question: How much money does the New York film and television industry create every year? Question: What United States city is the second most popular for pilot ... |
gq: New York City is additionally a center for the advertising, music, newspaper, digital media, and publishing industries and is also the largest media market in North America. Some of the city's media conglomerates and institutions include Time Warner, the Thomson Reuters Corporation, the Associated Press, Bloomberg ... | Question: What city is North America's biggest media market? Question: Out of the top eight advertising agency networks in the world, how many are based in New York? Question: Along with Warner Music Group, what top three record label is based in New York City? |
gq: More than 200 newspapers and 350 consumer magazines have an office in the city, and the publishing industry employs about 25,000 people. Two of the three national daily newspapers in the United States are New York papers: The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times, which has won the most Pulitzer Prizes for jou... | Question: How many newspaper offices are located in New York? Question: How many national newspapers out of the three are from New York? Question: How many magazines can call NYC home? Question: How many people work in the New York publishing industry? Question: Along with the New York Times, what national daily newspa... |
gq: The television industry developed in New York and is a significant employer in the city's economy. The three major American broadcast networks are all headquartered in New York: ABC, CBS, and NBC. Many cable networks are based in the city as well, including MTV, Fox News, HBO, Showtime, Bravo, Food Network, AMC, an... | Question: Along with ABC and NBC, what other major broadcaster is based in New York? Question: What cable news channel is based in New York? Question: What comedy channel on cable television is headquartered in New York? Question: What is the name of the city's public television service? |
gq: New York is also a major center for non-commercial educational media. The oldest public-access television channel in the United States is the Manhattan Neighborhood Network, founded in 1971. WNET is the city's major public television station and a primary source of national Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) televis... | Question: What is the name of the first public-access TV channel in the country? Question: The public-assess TV channel that has been around the longest in the US in what? Question: In what year did the Manhattan Neighborhood Network begin? Question: When was the Manhattan Neighborhood Network created? Question: What i... |
gq: The New York City Public Schools system, managed by the New York City Department of Education, is the largest public school system in the United States, serving about 1.1 million students in more than 1,700 separate primary and secondary schools. The city's public school system includes nine specialized high school... | Question: What city department runs the public school system? Question: How many students are in New York City public schools? Question: How many students regularly attend schools in NYC? Question: About how many public schools are there in New York City? Question: How many high schools for gifted students does New Yor... |
gq: The New York City Charter School Center assists the setup of new charter schools. There are approximately 900 additional privately run secular and religious schools in the city. | Question: What institution aids in the creation of charter schools in New York? Question: About how many private schools does New York have? |
gq: Over 600,000 students are enrolled in New York City's over 120 higher education institutions, the highest number of any city in the United States, including over half million in the City University of New York (CUNY) system alone in 2014. In 2005, three out of five Manhattan residents were college graduates, and on... | Question: How many students in New York partcipate in higher education? Question: About how many students attend schools in the City University of New York system? Question: What fraction of Manhattan residents graduated from college? Question: What fraction of Manhattan residents have graduate degrees? Question: The C... |
gq: The New York Public Library, which has the largest collection of any public library system in the United States, serves Manhattan, the Bronx, and Staten Island. Queens is served by the Queens Borough Public Library, the nation's second largest public library system, while the Brooklyn Public Library serves Brooklyn... | Question: What is the largest library in the United States? Question: Along with Staten Island and the Bronx, what borough is served by the New York Public Library? Question: What is the second largest library in the US? Question: What is the name of the library system in Queens? Question: What is Brooklyn's public lib... |
gq: The New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation (HHC) operates the public hospitals and clinics in New York City. A public benefit corporation with $6.7 billion in annual revenues, HHC is the largest municipal healthcare system in the United States serving 1.4 million patients, including more than 475,000 uninsu... | Question: The largest municipal healthcare in the US is what? Question: What is the yearly revenue of the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation? Question: How many patients are served annually by HHC? Question: How many uninsured New Yorkers take advantage of HHC? Question: In what year was the New York City H... |
gq: The most well-known hospital in the HHC system is Bellevue Hospital, the oldest public hospital in the United States. Bellevue is the designated hospital for treatment of the President of the United States and other world leaders if they become sick or injured while in New York City. The president of HHC is Ramanat... | Question: The public hospital that has been around the longest in the US is what? Question: What was the first public hospital founded in the United States? Question: If the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom becomes sick in New York City, what hospital does he go to? Question: Who is the president of HHC? Question: ... |
gq: The New York City Police Department (NYPD) has been the largest police force in the United States by a significant margin, with over 35,000 sworn officers. Members of the NYPD are frequently referred to by politicians, the media, and their own police cars by the nickname, New York's Finest. | Question: What does the acronym NYPD stand for? Question: The largest police presence in the US is NYPD with how many people? Question: About how many police work for the NYPD? Question: NYPD officers have a nickname that is known as what? Question: What is the nickname given to New York City Police Department officers... |
gq: In 2012, New York City had the lowest overall crime rate and the second lowest murder rate among the largest U.S. cities, having become significantly safer after a spike in crime in the 1970s through 1990s. Violent crime in New York City decreased more than 75% from 1993 to 2005, and continued decreasing during per... | Question: What percentage decrease in violent crime did the city see between 1993 and 2005? Question: As of 2002, to what city did New York have a comparable crime rate? Question: In what year did the city have less than 500 homicides? Question: In the first half of 2010, what percentage of shooting victims were Africa... |
gq: Organized crime has long been associated with New York City, beginning with the Forty Thieves and the Roach Guards in the Five Points in the 1820s. The 20th century saw a rise in the Mafia, dominated by the Five Families, as well as in gangs, including the Black Spades. The Mafia presence has declined in the city i... | Question: The first major crime groups in NYC were in the 1820s known as what? Question: The Forth Thieves and Roach Guards were two gangs that operated in what area of New York in the 1820s? Question: What group controlled the Mafia in New York in the 20th century? Question: What was a notable 20th century gang in New... |
gq: The New York City Fire Department (FDNY), provides fire protection, technical rescue, primary response to biological, chemical, and radioactive hazards, and emergency medical services for the five boroughs of New York City. The New York City Fire Department is the largest municipal fire department in the United Sta... | Question: What is the second largest fire department force in the world? Question: What does FDNY stand for? Question: What is the largest fire department force in the world? Question: What city is home to the largest municipal fire department in the world? Question: How many firefighters work for the New York City Fir... |
gq: The New York City Fire Department faces highly multifaceted firefighting challenges in many ways unique to New York. In addition to responding to building types that range from wood-frame single family homes to high-rise structures, there are many secluded bridges and tunnels, as well as large parks and wooded area... | Question: What types of fires can start in parks and woodlands? Question: New York is home to what largest transportation system in the world? |
gq: The FDNY headquarters is located at 9 MetroTech Center in Downtown Brooklyn, and the FDNY Fire Academy is located on Randalls Island. There are three Bureau of Fire Communications alarm offices which receive and dispatch alarms to appropriate units. One office, at 11 Metrotech Center in Brooklyn, houses Manhattan/C... | Question: What is the address for The New York City Fire Department headquarters? Question: What is the street address of the New York Fire Department headquarters? Question: Which borough of NYC is home to the The New York City Fire Department headquarters? Question: In what borough is the FDNY headquartered? Question... |
gq: Numerous major American cultural movements began in the city, such as the Harlem Renaissance, which established the African-American literary canon in the United States. The city was a center of jazz in the 1940s, abstract expressionism in the 1950s, and the birthplace of hip hop in the 1970s. The city's punk and h... | Question: What was the name of the cultural development that defined the black American literary canon? Question: What musical style was prominent in New York in the 1940s? Question: Jazz became popular during which decade in NYC? Question: What artistic style was prominent in New York in the 1950s? Question: What was ... |
gq: The city is the birthplace of many cultural movements, including the Harlem Renaissance in literature and visual art; abstract expressionism (also known as the New York School) in painting; and hip hop, punk, salsa, disco, freestyle, Tin Pan Alley, and Jazz in music. New York City has been considered the dance capi... | Question: By what other name is abstract expressionism known? Question: The fashion capital of the world is what city in the US? Question: One of the biggest fashion shows in the world is named what in New York? Question: What is the name of the prominent fashion event that occurs in New York? Question: Who ranked New ... |
gq: New York City has more than 2,000 arts and cultural organizations and more than 500 art galleries of all sizes. The city government funds the arts with a larger annual budget than the National Endowment for the Arts. Wealthy business magnates in the 19th century built a network of major cultural institutions, such ... | Question: About how many cultural and artistic organizations are in New York City? Question: Approximately how many galleries of art are in New York City? Question: What technological development led resulted in elaborate stage productions? Question: The Broadway Musical began in what decade? Question: Along with Broad... |
gq: Forty of the city's theaters, with more than 500 seats each, are collectively known as Broadway, after the major thoroughfare that crosses the Times Square Theater District, sometimes referred to as "The Great White Way". According to The Broadway League, Broadway shows sold approximately US$1.27 billion worth of t... | Question: What is the nickname of the Times Square Theater District? Question: What was the dollar amount of the tickets sold on Broadway in 2013-14? Question: What was the percentage increase in the Broadway ticket revenue from 2012-3 to 2013-4? Question: How many people attended Broadway shows during the 2013-2014 se... |
gq: New York City's food culture includes a variety of international cuisines influenced by the city's immigrant history. Central European and Italian immigrants originally made the city famous for bagels, cheesecake, and New York-style pizza, while Chinese and other Asian restaurants, sandwich joints, trattorias, dine... | Question: How many mobile food vendors operate in New York City? Question: According to Michelin, about how many fine dining restaurants exist in New York? Question: What public department inspects the restaurants of New York? Question: How many restaurants are there in NYC? Question: How many restaurants is New York h... |
gq: New York City is home to the headquarters of the National Football League, Major League Baseball, the National Basketball Association, the National Hockey League, and Major League Soccer. The New York metropolitan area hosts the most sports teams in these five professional leagues. Participation in professional spo... | Question: What professional soccer organization is headquartered in New York? Question: How many professional sports leagues have their headquarters in New York? Question: The Brooklyn Dodgers were created in what year? Question: In what year were the Brooklyn Dodgers founded? Question: About how many major professiona... |
gq: New York has been described as the "Capital of Baseball". There have been 35 Major League Baseball World Series and 73 pennants won by New York teams. It is one of only five metro areas (Los Angeles, Chicago, Baltimore–Washington, and the San Francisco Bay Area being the others) to have two baseball teams. Addition... | Question: NYC is known as the Capital of which sport? Question: It is one of only five areas to contain two teams of what sport? Question: How many Major League Baseball World Series has NYC teams won? Question: How many World Series have New York teams won? Question: How many Major League baseball league pennants have... |
gq: The city is represented in the National Football League by the New York Giants and the New York Jets, although both teams play their home games at MetLife Stadium in nearby East Rutherford, New Jersey, which hosted Super Bowl XLVIII in 2014. | Question: Along what the New York Jets, what NFL team is based in New York? Question: The New York Giants and the New York Jets place at which stadium in NYC? Question: What stadium do the New York Jets call home? Question: What city is MetLife Stadium located in? Question: What Super Bowl took place at MetLife Stadium... |
gq: The New York Islanders and the New York Rangers represent the city in the National Hockey League. Also within the metropolitan area are the New Jersey Devils, who play in nearby Newark, New Jersey. | Question: There are two hockey teams located in NYC. What are they? Question: Along with the New York Rangers, what NHL franchise is based in New York? Question: What sport do the New York Rangers play? Question: Which town do the New Jersey Devils hockey team play? Question: In what city are the New Jersey Devils loca... |
gq: The city's National Basketball Association teams are the Brooklyn Nets and the New York Knicks, while the New York Liberty is the city's Women's National Basketball Association. The first national college-level basketball championship, the National Invitation Tournament, was held in New York in 1938 and remains in ... | Question: Which two national basketball teams play in NYC? Question: Along with the Brooklyn Nets, what NBA team is based in New York? Question: New York City's women's basketball team is called what? Question: What Women's National Basketball Association team is based in New York? Question: What is the name of the col... |
gq: The annual United States Open Tennis Championships is one of the world's four Grand Slam tennis tournaments and is held at the National Tennis Center in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, Queens. The New York Marathon is one of the world's largest, and the 2004–2006 events hold the top three places in the marathons with... | Question: What tennis Grand Slam event is held at the National Tennis Center? Question: Which borough of New York hosts the US Open Tennis championships? Question: In what borough is the National Tennis Center located? Question: How many people completed the New York Marathon in 2006? Question: The Wanamaker Mile is an... |
gq: Many sports are associated with New York's immigrant communities. Stickball, a street version of baseball, was popularized by youths in the 1930s, and a street in the Bronx was renamed Stickball Boulevard in the late 2000s to memorialize this. | Question: A version of baseball played in city streets was nicknamed was in the 1930s? Question: In what borough is Stickball Boulevard located? Question: What street was renamed in the late 2000s to commemorate the street version of baseball? |
gq: The iconic New York City Subway system is the largest rapid transit system in the world when measured by stations in operation, with 469, and by length of routes. New York's subway is notable for nearly the entire system remaining open 24 hours a day, in contrast to the overnight shutdown common to systems in most ... | Question: Which subway system is considered the largest in the world? Question: How many stations does the New York City Subway system contain? Question: How many people rode the New York City Subway in 2014? Question: Which station is known as the world's biggest railroad station? Question: What is the nickname given... |
gq: Public transport is essential in New York City. 54.6% of New Yorkers commuted to work in 2005 using mass transit. This is in contrast to the rest of the United States, where about 90% of commuters drive automobiles to their workplace. According to the US Census Bureau, New York City residents spend an average of 38... | Question: What percentage of New Yorkers use public transportation to get to work? Question: In 2005, what percentage of New York residents used mass transit to get to work? Question: What percentage of Americans drive cars to work? Question: How many minutes does it take the average New Yorker to get to work? Question... |
gq: New York City's public bus fleet is the largest in North America, and the Port Authority Bus Terminal, the main intercity bus terminal of the city, serves 7,000 buses and 200,000 commuters daily, making it the busiest bus station in the world. | Question: The busiest bus station in the world in the world is called what? Question: What is New York's primary bus terminal? Question: How many buses visit the Port Authority Bus Terminal each day? Question: How many New Yorkers ride the bus on a daily basis? |
gq: New York's airspace is the busiest in the United States and one of the world's busiest air transportation corridors. The three busiest airports in the New York metropolitan area include John F. Kennedy International Airport, Newark Liberty International Airport, and LaGuardia Airport; 109 million travelers used the... | Question: The three airports that have the most people come through them in NYC are which? Question: In 2011, what airport did the most international travelers in North America visit? Question: What is the second busiest airport in the New York metro area? Question: How many travelers visited JFK, LaGuardia and Newark ... |
gq: The Staten Island Ferry is the world's busiest ferry route, carrying approximately 20 million passengers on the 5.2-mile (8.4 km) route between Staten Island and Lower Manhattan and running 24 hours a day. Other ferry systems shuttle commuters between Manhattan and other locales within the city and the metropolitan... | Question: The world's most popular ferry route is which in NYC? Question: How many passengers ride the Staten Island Ferry annually? Question: In kilometers, how long is the Staten Island Ferry route? Question: Staring in State Island, in what borough does the Staten Island Ferry's route terminate? Question: How many h... |
gq: The George Washington Bridge is the world's busiest motor vehicle bridge, connecting Manhattan to Bergen County, New Jersey. The Verrazano-Narrows Bridge is the longest suspension bridge in the Americas and one of the world's longest. The Brooklyn Bridge is an icon of the city itself. The towers of the Brooklyn Bri... | Question: Which bridge in NYC is the busiest in the world? Question: What is the busiest bridge for cars in the world? Question: Starting in Manhattan, the George Washington Bridge terminates in what New Jersey county? Question: The biggest suspension bridge in the US is what? Question: What is the longest suspension b... |
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