 Whether you live in the Big Apple or in one of the other towns in the nation or on the planet, The Ultimate New York City Trivia will both delight and enlighten you. Written in a question-and-answer format, its 1,300 fascinating facts cover sports and entertainment, history and geography, science and nature. Here are a few samples: What was the original use of Broadway, the world’s most famous street? What are the names of the concrete lions that guard the forty million items in the New York Public Library on Fifth Avenue at Forty-second Street? How were New Yorkers finally convinced that the Brooklyn Bridge, formally opened on May 24, 1883, was safe for pedestrians? The answers are: 1. An Indian warpath. 2. Patience and Fortitude. 3. Circus impresario P.T. Barnum led twenty-one of his elephants across it. In addition to maps, photographs and brief articles about landmarks, the book includes a unique guide to Manhattan’s most closely guarded secret--its free restrooms. January 1998 marks the centennial of the unification of the city's five boroughs into the City of Greater New York. If you are one of the millions who plan to visit the city during its full year of celebration, don’t leave your hometown without The Ultimate New York City Trivia.  Q: What, appropriately, was the first play at the Bowery Theater in 1826? A: The Road to Ruin. A: Avenues A through D on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. A: Gene Simmons of Kiss A: Boxer Bill Richmond of Staten Island, who was born August 5, 1763. A: The New York Post. A: Fifty-six. |
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HOW TO SURVIVE THE NEW MILLENNIUM
Recycled Wisdom for an Age of Diminished Expectations Compiled by Hy Brett  At
the dawning of the 21st century, we are looking into a future that appears
to hold more problems than promise. Are we ready for this Lean-and-Mean
Millennium, with its downsizing, layoffs, and guaranteed lifetime memberships
in the new Anxious Class? Absolutely! For Hy Brett has compiled the indispensable
handbook for the age of diminished expectations. How to Survive the
New Millennium is a manual of wit and wisdom from the past that provides
inspiration and amusement for coping with the challenges of the future.
Don't leave the 20th century without it!
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Author Hy Brett was born and grew up on New York’s Lower East Side. He
preferred to play stickball and handball after school, but when the weather
was too hot or too cold, he would visit the Seward Park Public Library and
read books that he hoped would explain the way the world works. Though he now
lives in Brooklyn, he is still reading and trying to learn.
experience as a window of opportunity for himself and others who must work
for a living, and he wrote 
