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Total questions: 1739
How did New York get its name?Popularity: 391
Who founded New York?
Popularity: 359
Where was New York's Five Points?
Popularity: 295
Where were NY's Prohibition-era speakeasies?
Popularity: 238
What is the history of Grand Central Station?
Popularity: 234
What was the Ullman Mfg Co?
Popularity: 227
When did New York become a state?
Popularity: 212
What is the history behind the charging bull statue near Wall Street?
Popularity: 198
How did the Empire State Building survive the Great Depression?
Popularity: 194
Was there another Duane Reade apart from the drugstore?
Popularity: 186
When was the Empire State Building built?
Popularity: 185
Where can you find a listing of historic shops and restaurants in NY online?
Popularity: 162
What are the different boroughs of New York?
Popularity: 162
Why is New York called The Big Apple?
Popularity: 161
When was the Statue of Liberty built?
Popularity: 160
What were New York's chief imports and exports?
Popularity: 159
What are the names of the mountain ranges in New York State?
Popularity: 158
Who colonized New York City?
Popularity: 157
How and why was New Amsterdam founded?
Popularity: 156
History of PS 106 in Brooklyn?
Popularity: 154
What was the climate in the New York colony during the 1600-1700?
Popularity: 153
What was it like to live in New York City in the 1950s?
Popularity: 151
What year did New York make Thanksgiving an official holiday?
Popularity: 147
How did NYC get the nickname Gotham?
Popularity: 147
What was the original name of New York City?
Popularity: 146
How did Time Square get its name?
Popularity: 146
Was Central Park always closed to traffic?
Popularity: 146
When was the NYPD founded?
Popularity: 146
Where did the name for The Bowery come from?
Popularity: 145
How do you find information on the Orange-Green riots in NYC on July 12th 1871?
Popularity: 144
What was the main export of New York in the 1600s?
Popularity: 141
Why is New York called the Empire State?
Popularity: 141
Did men help connect the Hudson with the East River?
Popularity: 141
What sort of government did New York have in the early 1700's?
Popularity: 139
Why is downtown Manhattan called Wall Street?
Popularity: 138
Was New York a New England colony?
Popularity: 137
What was the name of the first settlement in New York?
Popularity: 137
What were some of the settlements in New York?
Popularity: 137
What is the history of the CONED Company?
Popularity: 136
Why was Times Square called Lansdowne Square?
Popularity: 134
What is the history of the New York subway musicians?
Popularity: 134
Was the geography of New York different when the Dutch settled it?
Popularity: 133
Who did Mayor Lindsey defeat when he ran for Mayor of New York City in 1965 1969 and 1971?
Popularity: 131
When was the first settlement in New York?
Popularity: 131
Diseases in New York and South Carolina?
Popularity: 129
Why was Madison Square Garden called a 'garden'?
Popularity: 129
When was New York originally settled?
Popularity: 127
Who was in charge of the New York colony when it was founded?
Popularity: 126
What was New York City like in the 1920's?
Popularity: 126
What was the incident in a New York factory that burned to death hundreds of women?
Popularity: 125
Was New York City the capital of United States and if so when?
Popularity: 124
Did New York approve of a strong central government in 1828?
Popularity: 124
Are there old maps and pictures of Spyuten Dyuvil?
Popularity: 122
What is the climate like in New York?
Popularity: 121
Why is Park Avenue at 42nd street constructed in this present day manner?
Popularity: 118
How did New York's Wall Street get its name?
Popularity: 117
Where did Battery Park get its name?
Popularity: 116
How do you find a list of previous owners of real estate?
Popularity: 114
On what New York square was S Klein on the Square?
Popularity: 108
Who were past owners of Madison Square Garden?
Popularity: 108
What was the geography and climate like in 1600s colonial New York?
Popularity: 107
What was New York City like during World War 2?
Popularity: 106
What hotel had a big letter M at the top during the 1960's?
Popularity: 102
When was the FDNY founded?
Popularity: 98
What was education like in Colonial New York?
Popularity: 96
Where can you find a list of all of New York City's mayors?
Popularity: 95
When was the first taxi in New York City?
Popularity: 94
Why do the manholes steam in New York?
Popularity: 93
What school or orphanage was at 110 Manhattan Ave?
Popularity: 92
Why do queens be called queens..x?
Popularity: 92
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