How many people moved to New York City between April 2010 and July 2014?


Approximately what percentage is New York City's population of the entire state's population?

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. city (Los Angeles), and within a smaller area. New York City gained more residents between April 2010 and July 2014 (316,000) than any other U.S. city. New York City's population amounts to about 40% of New York State's population and a similar percentage of the New York metropolitan area population.


About what percentage is New York City's population of the New York metropolitan area's population?


What is the population of NYC as of 2014?


The second largest city in the US is what?


What percentage of people that live in the state of New York live in New York City?


How many people live in a square mile of New York City?

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 dense overall, as per the 2000 Census. Geographically co-extensive with New York County, the borough of Manhattan's population density of 71,672 people per square mile (27,673/km²) makes it the highest of any county in the United States and higher than the density of any individual American city.


What is the population density of Manhattan per square kilometer?


Some cities in what county have a higher population density than New York City?


What percentage of the city's population is Caucasian?

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-Hispanic white population declined 3 percent, the smallest recorded decline in decades; and for the first time since the Civil War, the number of blacks declined over a decade.


What percentage of the city's population is African-American?


What ethnicity is growing the quickest in New York City?


What percentage of the population identifies as Hispanic?


By what percentage did the non-Hispanic white population decrease?


As of 2010, what percentage made up white people in NYC?


Since what event did the first time black people decline in living in NYC?


Which race of people made it the highest growing ethnicity between 2000-2010 in NYC?


What percentage of Africans make up NYC?


How many immigrants arrived at Ellis Island from 1892 to 1924?

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. By 1900, Germans constituted the largest immigrant group, followed by the Irish, Jews, and Italians. In 1940, whites represented 92% of the city's population.


'Melting pot' was first used to describe neighborhoods in what area of the city?


What ethnicity comprised the largest number of immigrants at the beginning of the twentieth century?


What percentage of the population was Caucasian in 1940?


What was the ethnicity of the second largest group of immigrants in 1900?


Between 1892-1924, how many immigrants came through Ellis Island?


In the year 1942, what percentage of white Americans made up New York City?


What percentage of the population was born outside the United States?

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, while the Bangladeshi immigrant population has since become one of the fastest growing in the city, counting over 74,000 by 2013.


From what country did the largest number of foreign-born immigrants originate as of 2011?


About how many immigrants from Bangladesh lived in the city in 2013?


What country was the second largest source of foreign-born New Yorkers in 2011?


What percentage of the population of NYC was born in another country?


What New York borough contains the highest population of Asian-Americans?

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 American population and the largest Andean (Colombian, Ecuadorian, Peruvian, and Bolivian) populations in the United States, and is also the most ethnically diverse urban area in the world. The Chinese population constitutes the fastest-growing nationality in New York State; multiple satellites of the original Manhattan Chinatown (紐約華埠), in Brooklyn (布鲁克林華埠), and around Flushing, Queens (法拉盛華埠), are thriving as traditionally urban enclaves, while also expanding rapidly eastward into suburban Nassau County (拿騷縣) on Long Island (長島), as the New York metropolitan region and New York State have become the top destinations for new Chinese immigrants, respectively, and large-scale Chinese immigration continues into New York City and surrounding areas. In 2012, 6.3% of New York City was of Chinese ethnicity, with nearly three-fourths living in either Queens or Brooklyn, geographically on Long Island. A community numbering 20,000 Korean-Chinese (Chaoxianzu (Chinese: 朝鲜族) or Joseonjok (Hangul: 조선족)) is centered in Flushing, Queens, while New York City is also home to the largest Tibetan population outside China, India, and Nepal, also centered in Queens. Koreans made up 1.2% of the city's population, and Japanese 0.3%. Filipinos were the largest Southeast Asian ethnic group at 0.8%, followed by Vietnamese, who made up 0.2% of New York City's population in 2010. Indians are the largest South Asian group, comprising 2.4% of the city's population, with Bangladeshis and Pakistanis at 0.7% and 0.5%, respectively. Queens is the preferred borough of settlement for Asian Indians, Koreans, and Filipinos, as well as Malaysians and other Southeast Asians; while Brooklyn is receiving large numbers of both West Indian as well as Asian Indian immigrants.


What borough housed the first Chinatown in New York?


As of 2012, what percentage of the New York City population was ethnically Chinese?


What borough is home to a large Tibetan population?


What percentage of the New York City population is Japanese?


How many non-Hispanic whites lived in New York City in 2012?

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 residing in the city is very diverse. According to 2012 Census estimates, there were roughly 560,000 Italian Americans, 385,000 Irish Americans, 253,000 German Americans, 223,000 Russian Americans, 201,000 Polish Americans, and 137,000 English Americans. Additionally, Greek and French Americans numbered 65,000 each, with those of Hungarian descent estimated at 60,000 people. Ukrainian and Scottish Americans numbered 55,000 and 35,000, respectively. People identifying ancestry from Spain numbered 30,838 total in 2010. People of Norwegian and Swedish descent both stood at about 20,000 each, while people of Czech, Lithuanian, Portuguese, Scotch-Irish, and Welsh descent all numbered between 12,000–14,000 people. Arab Americans number over 160,000 in New York City, with the highest concentration in Brooklyn. Central Asians, primarily Uzbek Americans, are a rapidly growing segment of the city's non-Hispanic white population, enumerating over 30,000, and including over half of all Central Asian immigrants to the United States, most settling in Queens or Brooklyn. Albanian Americans are most highly concentrated in the Bronx.


What is the non-Hispanic white population of Houston?


How many New Yorkers are of Polish ancestry?


How many New York City residents are of Greek heritage?


What borough has the largest population of ethnic Albanians?


NYC has the largest white population by how many people?


About how many people live in New York City's metropolitan area?

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 States, substantially exceeding the combined totals of Los Angeles and Miami, the next most popular gateway regions. It is home to the largest Jewish as well as Israeli communities outside Israel, with the Jewish population in the region numbering over 1.5 million in 2012 and including many diverse Jewish sects from around the Middle East and Eastern Europe. The metropolitan area is also home to 20% of the nation's Indian Americans and at least 20 Little India enclaves, as well as 15% of all Korean Americans and four Koreatowns; the largest Asian Indian population in the Western Hemisphere; the largest Russian American, Italian American, and African American populations; the largest Dominican American, Puerto Rican American, and South American and second-largest overall Hispanic population in the United States, numbering 4.8 million; and includes at least 6 established Chinatowns within New York City alone, with the urban agglomeration comprising a population of 779,269 overseas Chinese as of 2013 Census estimates, the largest outside of Asia.


As of 2012, how many Jewish people lived in the New York metropolitan area?


What percentage of the total Indian-American population of the United States lives in the New York metropolitan area?


How many Hispanic people live in the New York metropolitan area?


Approximately how many Chinatowns exist in New York City?


In 2013, how many people of Puerto Rican ancestry lived in New York City?

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 Central America. Amidst a resurgence of Puerto Rican migration to New York City, this population had increased to approximately 1.3 million in the metropolitan area as of 2013.


What nation provided the most legal immigrants to New York City in the Caribbean?


Out of all African nations, which provided the most legal immigrants in 2013?


Out of all nations in Central America, which provided the most legal immigrants in 2013?


Of all the countries in South America, which provided the most legal immigrants in 2013?


How many self-identified LGB people live in the New York metropolitan area?

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.


On what date did New York legalize gay marriage?


How many days after gay marriage was legalized were gay marriages allowed to take place?


How many people identify as gay or bisexual in NYC?


Same-sex marriage became legal on what date in New York?


Since Gay marriage became legal, how many days did people have to wait to marry?


What percentage of New Yorkers are Christians?

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 1,000,000 observers and including 10% of the city's public schoolchildren, followed by Hinduism, Buddhism, and a variety of other religions, as well as atheism. In 2014, 24% self-identified with no organized religious affiliation.


What percentage of New Yorkers follow the Catholic faith?


About how many Jews live in New York City?


What borough has the largest population of Jewish people?


What is the third most popular faith in New York City?


What was the most prominent religion in New York as of 2014?


The second most prominent religion in New York is what?


Half the population of Jews live in what borough of New York City?


What percentage of people in 2014 had no religion?


The third most popular religion in NYC is what?


What is New York City's Gini Coefficient?

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 weekly wage in New York County (Manhattan) was $2,749, representing the highest total among large counties in the United States. In 2013, New York City had the highest number of billionaires of any city in the world, higher than the next five U.S. cities combined, including former Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg. New York also had the highest density of millionaires per capita among major U.S. cities in 2014, at 4.6% of residents. Lower Manhattan has been experiencing a baby boom, with the area south of Canal Street witnessing 1,086 births in 2010, 12% greater than 2009 and over twice the number born in 2001.


What borough has a Gini Coefficient of 0.6?


What previous mayor of New York is a billionaire?


In 2014, millionaires made up what percentage of New York City's population?


What is the average weekly wage in Manhattan?


The average weekly earnings for a worker in NYC was what in 2014?


By 2013, which city had the most billionaires living in the city?


What is the common name for New York's high technology sector?

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 on similar lists as published by other entities. The city is a major center for banking and finance, retailing, world trade, transportation, tourism, real estate, new media as well as traditional media, advertising, legal services, accountancy, insurance, theater, fashion, and the arts in the United States; while Silicon Alley, metonymous for New York's broad-spectrum high technology sphere, continues to expand. The Port of New York and New Jersey is also a major economic engine, handling record cargo volume in the first half of 2014.


Who created the Global Economic Power Index that ranked New York first?


In what year did the Port of New York and New Jersey deal with unprecedented cargo volume?


In what year was New York ranked first on the Global Economic Power Index?


What fraction of New Yorkers in the private sector are employed by foreign companies?

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 attract foreign investment helped New York City top the FDi Magazine American Cities of the Future ranking for 2013.


What publication ranked New York first in the 2013 American Cities of the Future rankings?


What was the 2015 assessed value of all the property in New York?

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 nation's—and the world's—most valuable real estate. 450 Park Avenue was sold on July 2, 2007 for US$510 million, about $1,589 per square foot ($17,104/m²), breaking the barely month-old record for an American office building of $1,476 per square foot ($15,887/m²) set in the June 2007 sale of 660 Madison Avenue. According to Forbes, in 2014, Manhattan was home to six of the top ten zip codes in the United States by median housing price.


How much was Time Warner Center worth in 2006?


What was the price per square foot of 450 Park Avenue when it sold in July 2007?


What was the price per square meter of 660 Madison Avenue in June 2007?


Of the top 10 zip codes with the most expensive housing prices in the United States, how many are in Manhattan?


Which building has the highest market value in NYC?


The previous record beaten by Park Avenue was for what real estate?


What is the popular name of New York's advertising industry?

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 city's fashion industry provides approximately 180,000 employees with $11 billion in annual wages.


About how many people work in the New York fashion industry?


About how much does it cost per year to pay workers in the New York fashion industry?


With Interpublic Group, what company has a combined annual revenue of roughly US$21 billion?


NYC's fashion industry employs how many people?


The Two highest advertising agencies in the world located in NYC are called what?


How many New Yorkers work in the food processing field?

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 more than 19,000 residents.


What is the annual revenue of the food processing industry?


In what borough is the garment business prominent?


What dollar amount of chocolate does New York export annually?

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.


Where is the "Chocolate District" located?


What is the number one specialty food export of New York?


What type of food is NYC's leading food export?


Which one of the world's largest chocolate makers is stationed in Manhattan?


As of 2013, how many people worked for a securities business in New York?

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 economic engine, accounting in 2012 for 5 percent of the city's private sector jobs, 8.5 percent (US$3.8 billion) of its tax revenue, and 22 percent of the city's total wages, including an average salary of US$360,700. Many large financial companies are headquartered in New York City, and the city is also home to a burgeoning number of financial startup companies.


What percentage of New York private sector jobs are in the securities industry?


How much tax revenue does the securities industry generate?


What is the average income in the New York securities industry?


What percentage of the city's wages does the securities industry provide?


22 Percent of NYC's total wages are from what industry?


On what street is the New York Stock Exchange headquartered?

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 volume and by total market capitalization of their listed companies in 2013. Investment banking fees on Wall Street totaled approximately $40 billion in 2012, while in 2013, senior New York City bank officers who manage risk and compliance functions earned as much as $324,000 annually. In fiscal year 2013–14, Wall Street's securities industry generated 19% of New York State's tax revenue. New York City remains the largest global center for trading in public equity and debt capital markets, driven in part by the size and financial development of the U.S. economy.:31–32 In July 2013, NYSE Euronext, the operator of the New York Stock Exchange, took over the administration of the London interbank offered rate from the British Bankers Association. New York also leads in hedge fund management; private equity; and the monetary volume of mergers and acquisitions. Several investment banks and investment mangers headquartered in Manhattan are important participants in other global financial centers.:34–35 New York is also the principal commercial banking center of the United States.


In 2012, how many investment banking fees were paid out to Wall Street?


In 2013-4, what percentage of New York state tax revenues came from the securities business on Wall Street?


Who was the previous overseer of the London interbank offered rate?


The New York Stock exchange is located where in NYC?


The NASDAQ is located on what street in NYC?


How many square meters of office space does Manhattan have?

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 the largest central business district in the world.


About how many million square feet of office space is present in Midtown Manhattan?


How much office space did Manhatten possess in 2015?


In what borough is Silicon Alley located?

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"), and other fields within information technology that are supported by its entrepreneurship ecosystem and venture capital investments. In the first half of 2015, Silicon Alley generated over US$3.7 billion in venture capital investment across a broad spectrum of high technology enterprises, most based in Manhattan, with others in Brooklyn, Queens, and elsewhere in the region. High technology startup companies and employment are growing in New York City and the region, bolstered by the city's position in North America as the leading Internet hub and telecommunications center, including its vicinity to several transatlantic fiber optic trunk lines, New York's intellectual capital, and its extensive outdoor wireless connectivity. Verizon Communications, headquartered at 140 West Street in Lower Manhattan, was at the final stages in 2014 of completing a US$3 billion fiberoptic telecommunications upgrade throughout New York City. As of 2014, New York City hosted 300,000 employees in the tech sector.


What is the street address of the headquarters of Verizon Communciations?


How much did Verizon spend on fiber optic upgrades in New York City?


Approximately how many tech sector jobs are in New York City?


The technology sector of work in NYC has how many employees in its service?


Along with Cornell University, what institution is involved in the building of Cornell Tech?

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 a US$2 billion graduate school of applied sciences called Cornell Tech on Roosevelt Island with the goal of transforming New York City into the world's premier technology capital. By mid-2014, Accelerator, a biotech investment firm, had raised more than US$30 million from investors, including Eli Lilly and Company, Pfizer, and Johnson & Johnson, for initial funding to create biotechnology startups at the Alexandria Center for Life Science, which encompasses more than 700,000 square feet (65,000 m2) on East 29th Street and promotes collaboration among scientists and entrepreneurs at the center and with nearby academic, medical, and research institutions. The New York City Economic Development Corporation's Early Stage Life Sciences Funding Initiative and venture capital partners, including Celgene, General Electric Ventures, and Eli Lilly, committed a minimum of US$100 million to help launch 15 to 20 ventures in life sciences and biotechnology.


About how much capital did Accelerator raise as of the middle of 2014?


How large is the Alexandria Center for Life Science in square meters?


In 2011, what school was built on Roosevelt Island?


How many tourists visited New York in 2011?

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 impact for New York City in 2014.


How many people came to visit New York in 2013?


What is the record number of tourists that have visited New York in a year?


How much money did tourism create for New York in 2014?


How many tourists that visited NYC in 2014 broke the record?


What English phrase does I ❤ NY represent?

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 and brochures throughout the city and state, some licensed, many not. The song is the state song of New York.


When was I ❤ NY first used in advertisements?


I Love New York was established as advertising in what year?


In what neighborhood does the Halloween Parade take place?

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 Manhattan Chinatown; luxury shopping along Fifth and Madison Avenues; and events such as the Halloween Parade in Greenwich Village; the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade; the lighting of the Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree; the St. Patrick's Day parade; seasonal activities such as ice skating in Central Park in the wintertime; the Tribeca Film Festival; and free performances in Central Park at Summerstage. Major attractions in the boroughs outside Manhattan include Flushing Meadows-Corona Park and the Unisphere in Queens; the Bronx Zoo; Coney Island, Brooklyn; and the New York Botanical Garden in the Bronx. The New York Wheel, a 630-foot ferris wheel, was under construction at the northern shore of Staten Island in 2015, overlooking the Statue of Liberty, New York Harbor, and the Lower Manhattan skyline.


What company sponsors the Thanksgiving Day parade?


At what location is a Christmas tree famously lit every year?


Where in Central Park are performances offered at no cost?


In what borough is the Unisphere located?


About how many hotel rooms are there in Manhattan?

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.


What was the percentage increase of Manhattan hotel rooms between 2013 and 2014?


What was the October 2014 purchase price of the Waldorf Astoria?


The hotel that sold for the most money in 2014 was which in NYC?


How many hotel rooms are located in NYC as of the end of 2014?


Who bought the Waldorf Astoria hotel in NYC in 2014?


The Waldorf Astoria hotel sold for how many dollars?


Approximately how many feature films are made in New York City every year?

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, employing 130,000 individuals, and generating an estimated $7.1 billion in direct expenditures, and by volume, New York is the world leader in independent film production; one-third of all American independent films are produced in New York City. The Association of Independent Commercial Producers is also based in New York. In the first five months of 2014 alone, location filming for television pilots in New York City exceeded the record production levels for all of 2013, with New York surpassing Los Angeles as the top North American city for the same distinction during the 2013/2014 cycle.


How many New Yorkers work in the television and film industry?


How much money does the New York film and television industry create every year?


What United States city is the second most popular for pilot episode location filming?


Along with Warner Music Group, what top three record label is based in New York City?

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 L.P., the News Corporation, The New York Times Company, NBCUniversal, the Hearst Corporation, AOL, and Viacom. Seven of the world's top eight global advertising agency networks have their headquarters in New York. Two of the top three record labels' headquarters are in New York: Sony Music Entertainment and Warner Music Group. Universal Music Group also has offices in New York. New media enterprises are contributing an increasingly important component to the city's central role in the media sphere.


What city is North America's biggest media market?


Out of the top eight advertising agency networks in the world, how many are based in New York?


How many people work in the New York publishing industry?

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 journalism. Major tabloid newspapers in the city include: The New York Daily News, which was founded in 1919 by Joseph Medill Patterson and The New York Post, founded in 1801 by Alexander Hamilton. The city also has a comprehensive ethnic press, with 270 newspapers and magazines published in more than 40 languages. El Diario La Prensa is New York's largest Spanish-language daily and the oldest in the nation. The New York Amsterdam News, published in Harlem, is a prominent African American newspaper. The Village Voice is the largest alternative newspaper.


Which New York-based newspaper has won the Pulitzer Prize for journalism?


Along with the New York Times, what national daily newspaper is based in New York?


What was the founding year of the New York Daily News?


Who was the founder of the New York Post?


How many newspaper offices are located in New York?


How many national newspapers out of the three are from New York?


Which two national newspapers are located in New York?


When was the New York Daily News founded?


Along with ABC and NBC, what other major broadcaster is based in New York?

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, and Comedy Central. The City of New York operates a public broadcast service, NYCTV, that has produced several original Emmy Award-winning shows covering music and culture in city neighborhoods and city government.


What is the name of the city's public television service?


What comedy channel on cable television is headquartered in New York?


What cable news channel is based in New York?


What is the name of the first public-access TV channel in the country?

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) television programming. WNYC, a public radio station owned by the city until 1997, has the largest public radio audience in the United States.


In what year did the Manhattan Neighborhood Network begin?


What is the primary public television station in New York?


What is the largest public radio station in the US by audience size?


In what year did the city cease to own WNYC?


The public-assess TV channel that has been around the longest in the US in what?


When was the Manhattan Neighborhood Network created?


The largest public radio station by listeners is what in New York?


What city department runs the public school system?

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 schools to serve academically and artistically gifted students.


How many students are in New York City public schools?


About how many public schools are there in New York City?


How many high schools for gifted students does New York City have?


How many students regularly attend schools in NYC?


How many highschools are specialized in NYC?


What institution aids in the creation of charter schools in New York?

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.


About how many private schools does New York have?


About how many students attend schools in the City University of New York system?

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 one out of four had a postgraduate degree, forming one of the highest concentrations of highly educated people in any American city. New York City is home to such notable private universities as Barnard College, Columbia University, Cooper Union, Fordham University, New York University, New York Institute of Technology, Pace University, and Yeshiva University. The public CUNY system is one of the largest universities in the nation, comprising 24 institutions across all five boroughs: senior colleges, community colleges, and other graduate/professional schools. The public State University of New York (SUNY) system also serves New York City, as well as the rest of the state. The city also has other smaller private colleges and universities, including many religious and special-purpose institutions, such as St. John's University, The Juilliard School, Manhattan College, The College of Mount Saint Vincent, The New School, Pratt Institute, The School of Visual Arts, The King's College, and Wagner College.


What fraction of Manhattan residents graduated from college?


What fraction of Manhattan residents have graduate degrees?


The City University of New York system consists of how many institutions?


How many students in New York partcipate in higher education?


What is the largest library in the United States?

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.


What is the second largest library in the US?


What is the name of the library system in Queens?


What is Brooklyn's public library system called?


Along with Staten Island and the Bronx, what borough is served by the New York Public Library?


The largest municipal healthcare in the US is what?

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 uninsured city residents. HHC was created in 1969 by the New York State Legislature as a public benefit corporation (Chapter 1016 of the Laws 1969). It is similar to a municipal agency but has a Board of Directors. HHC operates 11 acute care hospitals, five nursing homes, six diagnostic and treatment centers, and more than 70 community-based primary care sites, serving primarily the poor and working class. HHC's MetroPlus Health Plan is one of the New York area's largest providers of government-sponsored health insurance and is the plan of choice for nearly half million New Yorkers.


What is the yearly revenue of the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation?


How many patients are served annually by HHC?


How many uninsured New Yorkers take advantage of HHC?


In what year was the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation founded?


How many nursing homes does HHC operate?


The public hospital that has been around the longest in the US is what?

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 Ramanathan Raju, MD, a surgeon and former CEO of the Cook County health system in Illinois.


What was the first public hospital founded in the United States?


If the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom becomes sick in New York City, what hospital does he go to?


In what state did the president of HHC previously work?


What was the president of HHC's previous job title?


The largest police presence in the US is NYPD with how many people?

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.


NYPD officers have a nickname that is known as what?


About how many police work for the NYPD?


What is the nickname given to New York City Police Department officers?


What was the low record for homicides in 2014 in NYC?

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 periods when the nation as a whole saw increases. By 2002, New York City's crime rate was similar to that of Provo, Utah, and was ranked 197th in crime among the 216 U.S. cities with populations greater than 100,000. In 2005 the homicide rate was at its lowest level since 1966, and in 2007 the city recorded fewer than 500 homicides for the first time ever since crime statistics were first published in 1963. In the first six months of 2010, 95.1% of all murder victims and 95.9% of all shooting victims in New York City were black or Hispanic; additionally, 90.2 percent of those arrested for murder and 96.7 percent of those arrested for shooting someone were black or Hispanic. New York experienced a record low of 328 homicides in 2014 and has a far lower murder rate than other major American cities.


What percentage decrease in violent crime did the city see between 1993 and 2005?


As of 2002, to what city did New York have a comparable crime rate?


In what year did the city have less than 500 homicides?


How many homicides were there in New York City in 2014?


In the first half of 2010, what percentage of shooting victims were African-American or Hispanic?


The first major crime groups in NYC were in the 1820s known as what?

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 in the 21st century.


What group controlled the Mafia in New York in the 20th century?


The Forth Thieves and Roach Guards were two gangs that operated in what area of New York in the 1820s?


What was a notable 20th century gang in New York?


What is the largest fire department force in the world?

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 States and the second largest in the world after the Tokyo Fire Department. The FDNY employs approximately 11,080 uniformed firefighters and over 3,300 uniformed EMTs and paramedics. The FDNY's motto is New York's Bravest.


What is the second largest fire department force in the world?


What is the The New York City Fire Department's motto?


What city is home to the largest municipal fire department in the world?


How many firefighters work for the New York City Fire Department?


The FDNY employs about how many paramedics and EMTs?


What is the motto of the New York City Fire Department?


New York is home to what largest transportation system in the world?

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 areas that can give rise to brush fires. New York is also home to one of the largest subway systems in the world, consisting of hundreds of miles of tunnel with electrified track.


What types of fires can start in parks and woodlands?


What is the address for The New York City Fire Department headquarters?

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/Citywide, Brooklyn, and Staten Island Fire Communications. The Bronx and Queens offices are in separate buildings.


Which island is home to the Fire academy in NYC?


Which borough of NYC is home to the The New York City Fire Department headquarters?


What is the street address of the New York Fire Department headquarters?


In what borough is the FDNY headquartered?


Where is the fire department's training academy located?


What is the street address of the Bureau of Fire Communications alarm office in Brooklyn?


Jazz became popular during which decade in NYC?

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 hardcore scenes were influential in the 1970s and 1980s. New York has long had a flourishing scene for Jewish American literature.


Which decade did hip hop start to surface in NYC?


What was the name of the cultural development that defined the black American literary canon?


What musical style was prominent in New York in the 1940s?


What artistic style was prominent in New York in the 1950s?


What was the name of the new musical style that emerged from New York in the 1970s?


The fashion capital of the world is what city in the US?

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 capital of the world. The city is also widely celebrated in popular lore, frequently the setting for books, movies (see List of films set in New York City), and television programs. New York Fashion Week is one of the world's preeminent fashion events and is afforded extensive coverage by the media. New York has also frequently been ranked the top fashion capital of the world on the annual list compiled by the Global Language Monitor.


One of the biggest fashion shows in the world is named what in New York?


By what other name is abstract expressionism known?


What is the name of the prominent fashion event that occurs in New York?


Who ranked New York as the fashion capital of the world?


The Broadway Musical began in what decade?

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 as the famed Carnegie Hall and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, that would become internationally established. The advent of electric lighting led to elaborate theater productions, and in the 1880s, New York City theaters on Broadway and along 42nd Street began featuring a new stage form that became known as the Broadway musical. Strongly influenced by the city's immigrants, productions such as those of Harrigan and Hart, George M. Cohan, and others used song in narratives that often reflected themes of hope and ambition.


Approximately how many galleries of art are in New York City?


Along with Broadway, what New York thoroughfare is associated with Broadway musicals?


About how many cultural and artistic organizations are in New York City?


What technological development led resulted in elaborate stage productions?


How many people attended Broadway shows during the 2013-2014 season?

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 tickets in the 2013–2014 season, an 11.4% increase from US$1.139 billion in the 2012–2013 season. Attendance in 2013–2014 stood at 12.21 million, representing a 5.5% increase from the 2012–2013 season's 11.57 million.


What is the nickname of the Times Square Theater District?


What was the dollar amount of the tickets sold on Broadway in 2013-14?


What was the percentage increase in the Broadway ticket revenue from 2012-3 to 2013-4?


How many people attended a Broadway show in the 2013-4 season?


In 2012-3, what number of people saw a show on Broadway?


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, diners, and coffeehouses have become ubiquitous. Some 4,000 mobile food vendors licensed by the city, many immigrant-owned, have made Middle Eastern foods such as falafel and kebabs popular examples of modern New York street food. The city is also home to nearly one thousand of the finest and most diverse haute cuisine restaurants in the world, according to Michelin. The New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene assigns letter grades to the city's 24,000 restaurants based upon their inspection results.


How many mobile food vendors operate in New York City?


How many restaurants is New York home to?


What public department inspects the restaurants of New York?


According to Michelin, about how many fine dining restaurants exist in New York?


The Brooklyn Dodgers were created in what year?

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 sports in the city predates all professional leagues, and the city has been continuously hosting professional sports since the birth of the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1882. The city has played host to over forty major professional teams in the five sports and their respective competing leagues, both current and historic. Four of the ten most expensive stadiums ever built worldwide (MetLife Stadium, the new Yankee Stadium, Madison Square Garden, and Citi Field) are located in the New York metropolitan area. Madison Square Garden, its predecessor, as well as the original Yankee Stadium and Ebbets Field, are some of the most famous sporting venues in the world, the latter two having been commemorated on U.S. postage stamps.


Which four of the world's most expensive stadiums are located in NYC?


Which two sports stadiums of New York City were featured on US stamps?


In what year were the Brooklyn Dodgers founded?


What professional soccer organization is headquartered in New York?


How many professional sports leagues have their headquarters in New York?


About how many major professional sports teams have been based at one time or another in New York?


NYC is known as the Capital of which sport?

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. Additionally, there have been 14 World Series in which two New York City teams played each other, known as a Subway Series and occurring most recently in 2000. No other metropolitan area has had this happen more than once (Chicago in 1906, St. Louis in 1944, and the San Francisco Bay Area in 1989). The city's two current Major League Baseball teams are the New York Mets, who play at Citi Field in Queens, and the New York Yankees, who play at Yankee Stadium in the Bronx. who compete in six games of interleague play every regular season that has also come to be called the Subway Series. The Yankees have won a record 27 championships, while the Mets have won the World Series twice. The city also was once home to the Brooklyn Dodgers (now the Los Angeles Dodgers), who won the World Series once, and the New York Giants (now the San Francisco Giants), who won the World Series five times. Both teams moved to California in 1958. There are also two Minor League Baseball teams in the city, the Brooklyn Cyclones and Staten Island Yankees.


How many Major League Baseball World Series has NYC teams won?


It is one of only five areas to contain two teams of what sport?


How many minor league baseball teams are there in NYC?


How many World Series have New York teams won?


How many Major League baseball league pennants have New York teams won?


How many professional baseball teams are located in New York?


How many times have two teams from New York played against each other in the World Series?


What is the nickname for a World Series where two New York teams play against each other?


The New York Giants and the New York Jets place at which stadium in NYC?

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.


When was the most recent superbowl held in NYC for football?


Along what the New York Jets, what NFL team is based in New York?


What stadium do the New York Jets call home?


What city is MetLife Stadium located in?


What Super Bowl took place at MetLife Stadium?


In what year did a Super Bowl occur at MetLife Stadium?


There are two hockey teams located in NYC. What are they?

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.


Which town do the New Jersey Devils hockey team play?


In what city are the New Jersey Devils located?


What sport do the New York Rangers play?


Along with the New York Rangers, what NHL franchise is based in New York?


Which two national basketball teams play in NYC?

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 the city. The city is well known for its links to basketball, which is played in nearly every park in the city by local youth, many of whom have gone on to play for major college programs and in the NBA.


New York City's women's basketball team is called what?


The first college basketball championship took place in NYC in what year?


What Women's National Basketball Association team is based in New York?


What is the name of the collegiate basketball championship that takes place in New York?


In what year was the inaugural National Invitation Tournament?


Along with the Brooklyn Nets, what NBA team is based in New York?


Which borough of New York hosts the US Open Tennis championships?

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 the largest number of finishers, including 37,866 finishers in 2006. The Millrose Games is an annual track and field meet whose featured event is the Wanamaker Mile. Boxing is also a prominent part of the city's sporting scene, with events like the Amateur Boxing Golden Gloves being held at Madison Square Garden each year. The city is also considered the host of the Belmont Stakes, the last, longest and oldest of horse racing's Triple Crown races, held just over the city's border at Belmont Park on the first or second Sunday of June. The city also hosted the 1932 U.S. Open golf tournament and the 1930 and 1939 PGA Championships, and has been host city for both events several times, most notably for nearby Winged Foot Golf Club.


The Wanamaker Mile is an event by which annual track and field meeting?


The oldest, longest horse races in the US are located in NYC called what?


Which years did NYC host the PGA golf championships?


The Amateur Boxing Golden Gloves are held at which location in NYC?


In what borough is the National Tennis Center located?


What tennis Grand Slam event is held at the National Tennis Center?


How many people completed the New York Marathon in 2006?


What annual sporting competition features the Wanamaker Mile?


At what venue does the Amateur Boxing Golden Gloves take place?


A version of baseball played in city streets was nicknamed was in the 1930s?

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.


What street was renamed in the late 2000s to commemorate the street version of baseball?


In what borough is Stickball Boulevard located?


Which subway system is considered the largest in the world?

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 cities, including Hong Kong, London, Paris, Seoul, and Tokyo. The New York City Subway is also the busiest metropolitan rail transit system in the Western Hemisphere, with 1.75 billion passengers rides in 2014, while Grand Central Terminal, also popularly referred to as "Grand Central Station", is the world's largest railway station by number of train platforms.


How many stations does the New York City Subway system contain?


Which station is known as the world's biggest railroad station?


How many people rode the New York City Subway in 2014?


What is the nickname given to Grand Central Terminal?


How many minutes does it take the average New Yorker to get to work?

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 38.4 minutes a day getting to work, the longest commute time in the nation among large cities. New York is the only US city in which a majority (52%) of households do not have a car; only 22% of Manhattanites own a car. Due to their high usage of mass transit, New Yorkers spend less of their household income on transportation than the national average, saving $19 billion annually on transportation compared to other urban Americans.


What percentage of New Yorkers use public transportation to get to work?


What percentage of people living in Manhattan own a car?


In 2005, what percentage of New York residents used mass transit to get to work?


What percentage of Americans drive cars to work?


In minutes, how long does it take for the average New Yorker to get to work?


What percentage of New York households don't own an automobile?


What percentage of Manhattan residents own an automobile?


The busiest bus station in the world in the world is called what?

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.


How many buses visit the Port Authority Bus Terminal each day?


How many New Yorkers ride the bus on a daily basis?


What is New York's primary bus terminal?


The three airports that have the most people come through them in NYC are which?

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 these three airports in 2012, and the city's airspace is the busiest in the nation. JFK and Newark Liberty were the busiest and fourth busiest U.S. gateways for international air passengers, respectively, in 2012; as of 2011, JFK was the busiest airport for international passengers in North America. Plans have advanced to expand passenger volume at a fourth airport, Stewart International Airport near Newburgh, New York, by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. Plans were announced in July 2015 to entirely rebuild LaGuardia Airport in a multibillion-dollar project to replace its aging facilities.


What is the second busiest airport in the New York metro area?


In 2011, what airport did the most international travelers in North America visit?


What city is Stewart International Airport located close to?


How many travelers visited JFK, LaGuardia and Newark Liberty in 2012?


The world's most popular ferry route is which in NYC?

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 area.


How many hours a day does the The Staten Island Ferry run?


In kilometers, how long is the Staten Island Ferry route?


Staring in State Island, in what borough does the Staten Island Ferry's route terminate?


How many passengers ride the Staten Island Ferry annually?


Which bridge in NYC is the busiest in the world?

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 Bridge are built of limestone, granite, and Rosendale cement, and their architectural style is neo-Gothic, with characteristic pointed arches above the passageways through the stone towers. This bridge was also the longest suspension bridge in the world from its opening until 1903, and is the first steel-wire suspension bridge.


The biggest suspension bridge in the US is what?


The bridge made with steel-wire is which in NYC?


The Brooklyn Bridge was the worlds largest until what date?


What is the busiest bridge for cars in the world?


Starting in Manhattan, the George Washington Bridge terminates in what New Jersey county?


What is the longest suspension bridge in the United States?


What style of architecture was used to design the Brooklyn Bridge?


In what year did the Brooklyn Bridge cease to be the world's longest suspension bridge?


Which tunnel do 120,000 vehicles travel through a day in NYC?

Manhattan Island is linked to New York City's outer boroughs and New Jersey by several tunnels as well. The Lincoln Tunnel, which carries 120,000 vehicles a day under the Hudson River between New Jersey and Midtown Manhattan, is the busiest vehicular tunnel in the world. The tunnel was built instead of a bridge to allow unfettered passage of large passenger and cargo ships that sailed through New York Harbor and up the Hudson River to Manhattan's piers. The Holland Tunnel, connecting Lower Manhattan to Jersey City, New Jersey, was the world's first mechanically ventilated vehicular tunnel when it opened in 1927. The Queens-Midtown Tunnel, built to relieve congestion on the bridges connecting Manhattan with Queens and Brooklyn, was the largest non-federal project in its time when it was completed in 1940. President Franklin D. Roosevelt was the first person to drive through it. The Hugh L. Carey Tunnel runs underneath Battery Park and connects the Financial District at the southern tip of Manhattan to Red Hook in Brooklyn.


The Queens-Midtown Tunnel was finished in what year?


Who was the first person to drive through The Queens-Midtown Tunnel?


How many vehicles utilize the Lincoln Tunnel daily?


What body of water is above the Lincoln Tunnel?


What borough is connected to New Jersey via the Lincoln Tunnel?


In what New Jersey city does the Holland Tunnel terminate?


Who drove through the Queens-Midtown Tunnel before anyone else?


How many daily bicycle riders are there in NYC?

New York's high rate of public transit use, over 200,000 daily cyclists as of 2014, and many pedestrian commuters make it the most energy-efficient major city in the United States. Walk and bicycle modes of travel account for 21% of all modes for trips in the city; nationally the rate for metro regions is about 8%. In both its 2011 and 2015 rankings, Walk Score named New York City the most walkable large city in the United States. Citibank sponsored the introduction of 10,000 public bicycles for the city's bike-share project in the summer of 2013. Research conducted by Quinnipiac University showed that a majority of New Yorkers support the initiative. New York City's numerical "in-season cycling indicator" of bicycling in the city hit an all-time high in 2013.


Each day, about how many New Yorkers bike?


About what percentage of New York City travel is done by bike or on foot?


What company paid for 10,000 bikes for the city's bicycle sharing program?


Research by what institution of higher learning showed that most New Yorkers support bicycle sharing?


Who ranked New York as the most walkable large US city in 2015?


New York City is supplied with drinking water by the protected Catskill Mountains watershed. As a result of the watershed's integrity and undisturbed natural water filtration system, New York is one of only four major cities in the United States the majority of whose drinking water is pure enough not to require purification by water treatment plants. The Croton Watershed north of the city is undergoing construction of a US$3.2 billion water purification plant to augment New York City's water supply by an estimated 290 million gallons daily, representing a greater than 20% addition to the city's current availability of water. The ongoing expansion of New York City Water Tunnel No. 3, an integral part of the New York City water supply system, is the largest capital construction project in the city's history.


From what mountain range does New York's drinking water come from?


How much is being spent on a water purification plant at the Croton Watershed?


After the water purification plant at the Croton Watershed is built, how much more water will be added to the city's supply each day?


What percent increase in water supply will the city see after the Croton Watershed plant is finished?


In what geographical direction would a New Yorker travel to reach the Croton Watershed?


How many members are on the NYC city council?

The Mayor and council members are elected to four-year terms. The City Council is a unicameral body consisting of 51 council members whose districts are defined by geographic population boundaries. Each term for the mayor and council members lasts four years and has a three consecutive-term limit, but can resume after a four-year break. The New York City Administrative Code, the New York City Rules, and the City Record are the code of local laws, compilation of regulations, and official journal, respectively.


How many terms can the mayjor of NYC serve in total?


What is the duration of a New York City councilperson's term?


How many councilors sit on the City Council?


How many terms in a row can a person serve as mayor?


What is the official journal of New York City?


If someone serves three consecutive terms as mayor and wants to run again, how many years must they wait?


Which political party holds the majority of most office terms in NYC?

The Democratic Party holds the majority of public offices. As of November 2008, 67% of registered voters in the city are Democrats. New York City has not been carried by a Republican in a statewide or presidential election since President Calvin Coolidge won the five boroughs in 1924. In 2012, Democrat Barack Obama became the first presidential candidate of any party to receive more than 80% of the overall vote in New York City, sweeping all five boroughs. Party platforms center on affordable housing, education, and economic development, and labor politics are of importance in the city.


In 2008, what percentage of voters were democrats?


Which US president became the first to receive over 80 percent of NYC votes?


What was the last year that a republican candidate won all four boroughs of NYC?


What party are most public officials of New York members of?


In November 2008, how many New Yorkers were registered as Democrats?


In what year was the last presidential election when a Republican won New York City?


How many boroughs did Barack Obama win in the 2012 presidential election?


What political party was Calvin Coolidge a member of?


As of 2012, how many physicians were working in New York City?

Much of the scientific research in the city is done in medicine and the life sciences. New York City has the most post-graduate life sciences degrees awarded annually in the United States, with 127 Nobel laureates having roots in local institutions as of 2004; while in 2012, 43,523 licensed physicians were practicing in New York City. Major biomedical research institutions include Memorial Sloan–Kettering Cancer Center, Rockefeller University, SUNY Downstate Medical Center, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, and Weill Cornell Medical College, being joined by the Cornell University/Technion-Israel Institute of Technology venture on Roosevelt Island.


Where is the Cornell University/Technion-Israel Institute of Technology located?


As of 2004, how many Nobel Prize winners had roots in New York institutions?


How many people are admitted to HHC institutions annually?

Each year HHC's facilities provide about 225,000 admissions, one million emergency room visits and five million clinic visits to New Yorkers. HHC facilities treat nearly one-fifth of all general hospital discharges and more than one third of emergency room and hospital-based clinic visits in New York City.


How many people visit HHC emergency rooms every year?


How many people visit HHC clinics annually?


What fraction of general hospital discharges receive treatment at HHC?


What fraction of emergency room visits receive treatment at HHC?


Being exposed to what type of pollution has been theorized to increase aggression?

Sociologists and criminologists have not reached consensus on the explanation for the dramatic decrease in the city's crime rate. Some attribute the phenomenon to new tactics used by the NYPD, including its use of CompStat and the broken windows theory. Others cite the end of the crack epidemic and demographic changes, including from immigration. Another theory is that widespread exposure to lead pollution from automobile exhaust, which can lower intelligence and increase aggression levels, incited the initial crime wave in the mid-20th century, most acutely affecting heavily trafficked cities like New York. A strong correlation was found demonstrating that violent crime rates in New York and other big cities began to fall after lead was removed from American gasoline in the 1970s. Another theory cited to explain New York City's falling homicide rate is the inverse correlation between the number of murders and the increasingly wetter climate in the city.


The decrease in crime in New York is sometimes attributed to the decline of what street drug?


Who commented on New York that "culture just seems to be in the air, like part of the weather"?

New York City has been described as the cultural capital of the world by the diplomatic consulates of Iceland and Latvia and by New York's Baruch College. A book containing a series of essays titled New York, culture capital of the world, 1940–1965 has also been published as showcased by the National Library of Australia. In describing New York, author Tom Wolfe said, "Culture just seems to be in the air, like part of the weather."


In what library can the book New York, culture capital of the world, 1940–1965 be found?


What institution of higher education has described New York as the cultural capital of the world?


Along with Latvia, the consulate of what country has called New York the cultural capital of the world?


In what borough is the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts located?

Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, anchoring Lincoln Square on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, is home to numerous influential arts organizations, including the Metropolitan Opera, New York City Opera, New York Philharmonic, and New York City Ballet, as well as the Vivian Beaumont Theater, the Juilliard School, Jazz at Lincoln Center, and Alice Tully Hall. The Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute is in Union Square, and Tisch School of the Arts is based at New York University, while Central Park SummerStage presents performances of free plays and music in Central Park.


In what part of Manhattan can you find Lincoln Square?


In what square is the theater named after Lee Strasberg located?


At what institution of higher education is the Tisch School of the Arts located?


In what New York park can one find performances at no cost?


What New York thoroughfare is Museum Mile located on?

New York City is home to hundreds of cultural institutions and historic sites, many of which are internationally known. Museum Mile is the name for a section of Fifth Avenue running from 82nd to 105th streets on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, in an area sometimes called Upper Carnegie Hill. The Mile, which contains one of the densest displays of culture in the world, is actually three blocks longer than one mile (1.6 km). Ten museums occupy the length of this section of Fifth Avenue. The tenth museum, the Museum for African Art, joined the ensemble in 2009, however its Museum at 110th Street, the first new museum constructed on the Mile since the Guggenheim in 1959, opened in late 2012. In addition to other programming, the museums collaborate for the annual Museum Mile Festival, held each year in June, to promote the museums and increase visitation. Many of the world's most lucrative art auctions are held in New York City.


In what year was the grand opening of the Museum for African Art on 110th Street?


In what part of Manhattan is the Museum Mile located?


Along with New Yorkese, what is another name for the New York dialect?

The New York area is home to a distinctive regional speech pattern called the New York dialect, alternatively known as Brooklynese or New Yorkese. It has generally been considered one of the most recognizable accents within American English. The classic version of this dialect is centered on middle and working-class people of European descent. However, the influx of non-European immigrants in recent decades has led to changes in this distinctive dialect, and the traditional form of this speech pattern is no longer as prevalent among general New Yorkers as in the past.


What sitcom did the Archie Bunker character feature in?

The traditional New York area accent is characterized as non-rhotic, so that the sound [ɹ] does not appear at the end of a syllable or immediately before a consonant; hence the pronunciation of the city name as "New Yawk." There is no [ɹ] in words like park [pɑək] or [pɒək] (with vowel backed and diphthongized due to the low-back chain shift), butter [bʌɾə], or here [hiə]. In another feature called the low back chain shift, the [ɔ] vowel sound of words like talk, law, cross, chocolate, and coffee and the often homophonous [ɔr] in core and more are tensed and usually raised more than in General American. In the most old-fashioned and extreme versions of the New York dialect, the vowel sounds of words like "girl" and of words like "oil" became a diphthong [ɜɪ]. This would often be misperceived by speakers of other accents as a reversal of the er and oy sounds, so that girl is pronounced "goil" and oil is pronounced "erl"; this leads to the caricature of New Yorkers saying things like "Joizey" (Jersey), "Toidy-Toid Street" (33rd St.) and "terlet" (toilet). The character Archie Bunker from the 1970s sitcom All in the Family (played by Carroll O'Connor) was a notable example of having used this pattern of speech, which continues to fade in its overall presence.


What actor performed the role of Archie Bunker?


What is the transliteration of the way in which New Yorkers are perceived to pronounce the name of their city?


What Major League Soccer franchise is based in New York?

In soccer, New York City is represented by New York City FC of Major League Soccer, who play their home games at Yankee Stadium. The New York Red Bulls play their home games at Red Bull Arena in nearby Harrison, New Jersey. Historically, the city is known for the New York Cosmos, the highly successful former professional soccer team which was the American home of Pelé, one of the world's most famous soccer players. A new version of the New York Cosmos was formed in 2010, and began play in the second division North American Soccer League in 2013. The Cosmos play their home games at James M. Shuart Stadium on the campus of Hofstra University, just outside the New York City limits in Hempstead, New York.


What stadium does the New York City FC call home?


In what city are the New York Red Bulls based?


What famous soccer player played for the New York Cosmos?


At what institution of higher education is James M. Shuart Stadium located?


What fraction of United States rail riders call the New York City Metropolitan Area home?

Mass transit in New York City, most of which runs 24 hours a day, accounts for one in every three users of mass transit in the United States, and two-thirds of the nation's rail riders live in the New York City Metropolitan Area.


How many rail lines are there on New York City's commuter rail network?

New York City's commuter rail network is the largest in North America. The rail network, connecting New York City to its suburbs, consists of the Long Island Rail Road, Metro-North Railroad, and New Jersey Transit. The combined systems converge at Grand Central Terminal and Pennsylvania Station and contain more than 250 stations and 20 rail lines. In Queens, the elevated AirTrain people mover system connects JFK International Airport to the New York City Subway and the Long Island Rail Road; a separate AirTrain system is planned alongside the Grand Central Parkway to connect LaGuardia Airport to these transit systems. For intercity rail, New York City is served by Amtrak, whose busiest station by a significant margin is Pennsylvania Station on the West Side of Manhattan, from which Amtrak provides connections to Boston, Philadelphia, and Washington, D.C. along the Northeast Corridor, as well as long-distance train service to other North American cities.


About how many stations does New York City's commuter rail network have?


The AirTrain has a station at what airport?


What Amtrak station in New York sees the most use?


In what borough is Pennsylvania Station located?


How many 24-hour rapid transit systems are located in New York?

The Staten Island Railway rapid transit system solely serves Staten Island, operating 24 hours a day. The Port Authority Trans-Hudson (PATH train) links Midtown and Lower Manhattan to northeastern New Jersey, primarily Hoboken, Jersey City, and Newark. Like the New York City Subway, the PATH operates 24 hours a day; meaning three of the six rapid transit systems in the world which operate on 24-hour schedules are wholly or partly in New York (the others are a portion of the Chicago 'L', the PATCO Speedline serving Philadelphia, and the Copenhagen Metro).


What 24-hour rapid transit system is in Philadelphia?


What 24-hour rapid transit system is outside the United States?


Along with the East Side Access project and 7 Subway Extension, what heavy-rail project is being built in New York City?

Multibillion US$ heavy-rail transit projects under construction in New York City include the Second Avenue Subway, the East Side Access project, and the 7 Subway Extension.


About how many yellow cabs operate in New York?

Other features of the city's transportation infrastructure encompass more than 12,000 yellow taxicabs; various competing startup transportation network companies; and an aerial tramway that transports commuters between Roosevelt Island and Manhattan Island.


Where does the aerial tramway that starts on Roosevelt Island terminate?


What industry is Broadway associated with?

Despite New York's heavy reliance on its vast public transit system, streets are a defining feature of the city. Manhattan's street grid plan greatly influenced the city's physical development. Several of the city's streets and avenues, like Broadway, Wall Street, Madison Avenue, and Seventh Avenue are also used as metonyms for national industries there: the theater, finance, advertising, and fashion organizations, respectively.


What industry is Wall Street associated with?


What industry is Madison Avenue associated with?


What New York street is associated with fashion?


At what time are drivers in New York most likely to experience traffic jams?

New York City also has an extensive web of expressways and parkways, which link the city's boroughs to each other as well as to northern New Jersey, Westchester County, Long Island, and southwestern Connecticut through various bridges and tunnels. Because these highways serve millions of outer borough and suburban residents who commute into Manhattan, it is quite common for motorists to be stranded for hours in traffic jams that are a daily occurrence, particularly during rush hour.


What geographical portion of Connecticut is linked to New York via highway?


What part of New Jersey can be reached from New York by taking the expressway?


What island is the borough of Brooklyn located on?

New York City is located on one of the world's largest natural harbors, and the boroughs of Manhattan and Staten Island are (primarily) coterminous with islands of the same names, while Queens and Brooklyn are located at the west end of the larger Long Island, and The Bronx is located at the southern tip of New York State's mainland. This situation of boroughs separated by water led to the development of an extensive infrastructure of bridges and tunnels. Nearly all of the city's major bridges and tunnels are notable, and several have broken or set records.


Queens is located on what part of Long Island?


The borough of Staten Island is primarily located on what island?


What architectural style does the Throgs Neck Bridge reflect?

The Queensboro Bridge is an important piece of cantilever architecture. The Manhattan Bridge, Throgs Neck Bridge, Triborough Bridge, and Verrazano-Narrows Bridge are all examples of Structural Expressionism.


The Queensboro Bridge utilized what type of construction?


How many clean diesel and hybrid taxicabs did New York City have in 2010?

New York City has focused on reducing its environmental impact and carbon footprint. Mass transit use in New York City is the highest in the United States. Also, by 2010, the city had 3,715 hybrid taxis and other clean diesel vehicles, representing around 28% of New York's taxi fleet in service, the most of any city in North America.


What percentage of the New York City cab fleet was clean diesel or hybrid in 2010?


What percent reduction of greenhouse gases does Mayor de Blasio want to see by 2050?

The city government was a petitioner in the landmark Massachusetts v. Environmental Protection Agency Supreme Court case forcing the EPA to regulate greenhouse gases as pollutants. The city is also a leader in the construction of energy-efficient green office buildings, including the Hearst Tower among others. Mayor Bill de Blasio has committed to an 80% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions between 2014 and 2050 to reduce the city's contributions to climate change, beginning with a comprehensive "Green Buildings" plan.


What is the name of a notable green office building in New York?


What legal case sought to compel the Environmental Protection Agency to regular greenhouse gases?


How long is Newtown Creek in kilometers?

Newtown Creek, a 3.5-mile (6-kilometer) a long estuary that forms part of the border between the boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens, has been designated a Superfund site for environmental clean-up and remediation of the waterway's recreational and economic resources for many communities. One of the most heavily used bodies of water in the Port of New York and New Jersey, it had been one of the most contaminated industrial sites in the country, containing years of discarded toxins, an estimated 30 million US gallons (110,000 m3) of spilled oil, including the Greenpoint oil spill, raw sewage from New York City's sewer system, and other accumulation.


How many cubic meters of oil is supposed to be in Newtown Creek?


What notable accidental fossil fuel discharge occurred at Newtown Creek?


What type of government does New York City have?

New York City has been a metropolitan municipality with a mayor-council form of government since its consolidation in 1898. The government of New York is more centralized than that of most other U.S. cities. In New York City, the city government is responsible for public education, correctional institutions, public safety, recreational facilities, sanitation, water supply, and welfare services.


In what year did New York City adopt the mayor-council form of government?


What numbered department of the Supreme Court is located in Brooklyn?

Each borough is coextensive with a judicial district of the state Unified Court System, of which the Criminal Court and the Civil Court are the local courts, while the New York Supreme Court conducts major trials and appeals. Manhattan hosts the First Department of the Supreme Court, Appellate Division while Brooklyn hosts the Second Department. There are also several extrajudicial administrative courts, which are executive agencies and not part of the state Unified Court System.


In what borough is the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court located?


What branch of government are the administrative courts a part of?


In what borough is the main courthouse of the District Court for the Southern District of New York located?

Uniquely among major American cities, New York is divided between, and is host to the main branches of, two different US district courts: the District Court for the Southern District of New York, whose main courthouse is on Foley Square near City Hall in Manhattan and whose jurisdiction includes Manhattan and the Bronx, and the District Court for the Eastern District of New York, whose main courthouse is in Brooklyn and whose jurisdiction includes Brooklyn, Queens, and Staten Island. The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and US Court of International Trade are also based in New York, also on Foley Square in Manhattan.


What federal district court has its main courthouse in Brooklyn?


What square is home to the US Court of International Trade?


What federal district court has jurisdiction over Staten Island?


In what borough is the New York City Hall found?


Four-fifths of the ZIP codes that provide the highest amount of political contributions in the United States are located in what borough?

New York is the most important source of political fundraising in the United States, as four of the top five ZIP codes in the nation for political contributions are in Manhattan. The top ZIP code, 10021 on the Upper East Side, generated the most money for the 2004 presidential campaigns of George W. Bush and John Kerry. The city has a strong imbalance of payments with the national and state governments. It receives 83 cents in services for every $1 it sends to the federal government in taxes (or annually sends $11.4 billion more than it receives back). The city also sends an additional $11 billion more each year to the state of New York than it receives back.


What ZIP code was responsible for the greatest amount of contributions in the 2004 presidential election for both candidates?


How much money in cents does New York City receive for every dollar paid in federal taxes?


How much more money does the city give to the state of New York annually than it receives?


Each year, how much more money does New York City give to the federal government than it gets back?


What is the new name of the Sister City Program of the City of New York, Inc.?

In 2006, the Sister City Program of the City of New York, Inc. was restructured and renamed New York City Global Partners. New York City has expanded its international outreach via this program to a network of cities worldwide, promoting the exchange of ideas and innovation between their citizenry and policymakers, according to the city's website. New York's historic sister cities are denoted below by the year they joined New York City's partnership network.


In what year did the Sister City Program of the City of New York, Inc. have its name changed?


When did To Kill a Mockingbird first get circulated?

To Kill a Mockingbird is a novel by Harper Lee published in 1960. It was immediately successful, winning the Pulitzer Prize, and has become a classic of modern American literature. The plot and characters are loosely based on the author's observations of her family and neighbors, as well as on an event that occurred near her hometown in 1936, when she was 10 years old.


What prize did To Kill a Mockingbird win?


Who wrote the novel To Kill a Mockingbird?


What year was To Kill a Mockingbird first published?


Whom did Lee base the characters in To Kill a Mockingbird on?


To Kill a Mockingbird is widely read in which countries schools?

As a Southern Gothic novel and a Bildungsroman, the primary themes of To Kill a Mockingbird involve racial injustice and the destruction of innocence. Scholars have noted that Lee also addresses issues of class, courage, compassion, and gender roles in the American Deep South. The book is widely taught in schools in the United States with lessons that emphasize tolerance and decry prejudice. Despite its themes, To Kill a Mockingbird has been subject to campaigns for removal from public classrooms, often challenged for its use of racial epithets.


What genre of book is To Kill a Mockingbird?


Some of the central themes of the book are what exactly?


Which region of America was the novel set in?


What has caused the use of the novel in classrooms to be challenged?


Who gathered impressions of To Kill a Mockingbird from other authors and famous people?

Reaction to the novel varied widely upon publication. Literary analysis of it is sparse, considering the number of copies sold and its widespread use in education. Author Mary McDonough Murphy, who collected individual impressions of To Kill a Mockingbird by several authors and public figures, calls the book, "an astonishing phenomenon". In 2006, British librarians ranked the book ahead of the Bible as one "every adult should read before they die". It was adapted into an Oscar-winning film in 1962 by director Robert Mulligan, with a screenplay by Horton Foote. Since 1990, a play based on the novel has been performed annually in Harper Lee's hometown of Monroeville, Alabama.


In which year did British librarians rank To Kill a Mockingbird ahead of the Bible?


When was To Kill a Mockingbird made into a movie?


When did a play for the book begin to perform every year in Monroeville, Alabama?


Who was the director of the adaptation of the movie?


British librarians in 2006 ranked the book ahead of what famous volume?


Who wrote the screenplay for the 1962 film?


To Kill a Mockingbird was Lee's only published book until Go Set a Watchman, an earlier draft of To Kill a Mockingbird, was published on July 14, 2015. Lee continued to respond to her work's impact until her death in February 2016, although she had refused any personal publicity for herself or the novel since 1964.


What is the only other work Harper Lee published?


What is the name of Lee's second published work?


Who did Harper Lee become childhood friends with?

Born in 1926, Harper Lee grew up in the Southern town of Monroeville, Alabama, where she became close friends with soon-to-be famous writer Truman Capote. She attended Huntingdon College in Montgomery (1944–45), and then studied law at the University of Alabama (1945–49). While attending college, she wrote for campus literary magazines: Huntress at Huntingdon and the humor magazine Rammer Jammer at the University of Alabama. At both colleges, she wrote short stories and other works about racial injustice, a rarely mentioned topic on such campuses at the time. In 1950, Lee moved to New York City, where she worked as a reservation clerk for British Overseas Airways Corporation; there, she began writing a collection of essays and short stories about people in Monroeville. Hoping to be published, Lee presented her writing in 1957 to a literary agent recommended by Capote. An editor at J. B. Lippincott , who bought the manuscript, advised her to quit the airline and concentrate on writing. Donations from friends allowed her to write uninterrupted for a year.


What year did Harper Lee pack up to go live in New York City?


What job did Harper Lee start in New York City?


Which state did Harper Lee spend her childhood?


Who was the famous writer Lee became close friends with?


What publishing company bought To Kill a Mockingbird?


The first draft of To Kill a Mockingbird was named what?

After finishing the first draft and returning it to Lippincott, the manuscript, at that point titled "Go Set a Watchman", fell into the hands of Therese von Hohoff Torrey — known professionally as Tay Hohoff — a small, wiry veteran editor in her late 50s. Hohoff was impressed. “[T]he spark of the true writer flashed in every line,” she would later recount in a corporate history of Lippincott. But as Hohoff saw it, the manuscript was by no means fit for publication. It was, as she described it, “more a series of anecdotes than a fully conceived novel.” During the next couple of years, she led Lee from one draft to the next until the book finally achieved its finished form and was retitled To Kill a Mockingbird.


Who was the editor who got their hands on the first draft of To Kill a Mockingbird?


What was the name of the editor who helped Lee finish her book?


What ailment did Harper Lee's mother suffer from?

Lee had lost her mother, who suffered from mental illness, six years before she met Hohoff at Lippincott’s offices. Her father, a lawyer on whom Atticus was modeled, would die two years after the publication of To Kill a Mockingbird.


What profession did Harper Lee's father hold?


Lee modeled the character Atticus after what laywer?


What date did To Kill a Mockingbird begin to circulate?

Ultimately, Lee spent over two and a half years writing To Kill a Mockingbird. The book was published on July 11, 1960. After rejecting the "Watchman" title, it was initially re-titled Atticus, but Lee renamed it "To Kill a Mockingbird" to reflect that the story went beyond just a character portrait. The editorial team at Lippincott warned Lee that she would probably sell only several thousand copies. In 1964, Lee recalled her hopes for the book when she said, "I never expected any sort of success with 'Mockingbird.' ... I was hoping for a quick and merciful death at the hands of the reviewers but, at the same time, I sort of hoped someone would like it enough to give me encouragement. Public encouragement. I hoped for a little, as I said, but I got rather a whole lot, and in some ways this was just about as frightening as the quick, merciful death I'd expected." Instead of a "quick and merciful death", Reader's Digest Condensed Books chose the book for reprinting in part, which gave it a wide readership immediately. Since the original publication, the book has never been out of print.


How long did Lee spend writing the book?


What publication's partial reprinting gave the book wide public exposure?


Where is the setting for To Kill a Mockingbird?

The story takes place during three years (1933–35) of the Great Depression in the fictional "tired old town" of Maycomb, Alabama, the seat of Maycomb County. It focuses on six-year-old Jean Louise Finch (Scout), who lives with her older brother, Jem, and their widowed father, Atticus, a middle-aged lawyer. Jem and Scout befriend a boy named Dill, who visits Maycomb to stay with his aunt each summer. The three children are terrified of, and fascinated by, their neighbor, the reclusive Arthur "Boo" Radley. The adults of Maycomb are hesitant to talk about Boo, and, for many years few have seen him. The children feed one another's imagination with rumors about his appearance and reasons for remaining hidden, and they fantasize about how to get him out of his house. After two summers of friendship with Dill, Scout and Jem find that someone leaves them small gifts in a tree outside the Radley place. Several times the mysterious Boo makes gestures of affection to the children, but, to their disappointment, he never appears in person.


How many years does the story of To Kill a Mockingbird take place?


How many children does the protagonist, Atticus Finch, have?


Atticus Finch's children make friends with whom during the story?


What is the name of the town the story takes place in?


In what historical era does the book take place?