Q 01/05

The building at 75½ Bedford Street in Greenwich Village, built in 1873, is famous as New York's what?

A) Oldest brick house

B) Narrowest house

C) Smallest hotel

D) Tallest townhouse

Answer · why

B) Narrowest house

Narrowest house is the title it usually gets: the front is just 9 feet 6 inches across. Poet Edna St. Vincent Millay and anthropologist Margaret Mead ...

Q 02/05

Which NBC sitcom, on air from 1994 to 2004, is set in Greenwich Village but was filmed in California?

A) Seinfeld

B) Will & Grace

C) Friends

D) Frasier

Answer · why

C) Friends

Friends puts Monica's apartment and the Central Perk coffee house in the Village, yet the series was shot on Warner Bros. soundstages in Burbank.

Q 03/05

Which Marvel hero lives in the Sanctum Sanctorum, a mansion at 177A Bleecker Street in Greenwich Village?

A) Captain America

B) Daredevil

C) Iron Man

D) Doctor Strange

Answer · why

D) Doctor Strange

Doctor Strange moved in after his training as a sorcerer, sharing the townhouse with his assistant Wong and a library of magical books.

Q 04/05

At Greenwich Village's Gaslight Cafe, what did audiences do instead of clapping, to spare the neighbors upstairs?

A) Rattled their coffee cups

B) Waved their hands

C) Snapped their fingers

D) Stamped their feet

Answer · why

C) Snapped their fingers

Snapped their fingers, the story goes, because applause carried up the air shafts to the apartments above and brought the police. The basement club op...

Q 05/05

What is the Hess triangle, a small mosaic set into a Greenwich Village sidewalk on Seventh Avenue South?

A) A subway survey marker

B) A plot of private land

C) A war memorial

D) A boundary stone

Answer · why

B) A plot of private land

A plot of private land of about 500 square inches, it was left over when the city seized a landlord's building. His heirs refused to donate the scrap ...