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1. The demolition of this structure on 7th Avenue and 34th Street (to make way for the latest Madison Square Garden) created such an uproar that it sparked the founding of The New York Landmarks Preservation Commission in 1965. What beloved structure was this?
2. One of the most notorious neighborhoods on the Lower East Side was the Five Points. Mayhem and vice were its most popular activities. One particular street was so deplorable, the city had to bulldoze it off the face of the Earth. What street was this?
3. The destruction of the World Trade Center shocked and saddened the city and the world. However, when the towers had gone up over 30 years ago, an entire small neighborhood was leveled to make room for them. What was the name of that neighborhood?
4. Unless you haven't seen it in person, you know that the Empire State Building is one of the most romantic and regal buildings in New York. (By romantic, think of such movies as "An Affair to Remember", "Sleepless in Seattle" and the weirdest love story, "King Kong".) But what had to be demolished in order for the Empire State Building to go up?
5. A big uproar recently occurred in Staten Island when the home of this 19th century entrepreneur/millionarie's home was destroyed to make room for apartment buildings. To whom did this property belong?
6. Brooklyn also had a protest over the demolition of a house, in the neighborhood of Bensonhurst. Whose house was it?
7. In 2008 and 2009 New York lost two of its major sports arenas. Which ones were they?
8. The National Museum of the American Indian, previously the U.S. Customs House, sits on the site of a structure that dates back to when New York was under Dutch rule and called New Amsterdam. What structure was there from 1625 to 1790?
9. In the film, "West Side Story", the Jets and the Sharks do battle in the neighborhood simply known as "The West Side". Much of that working-class neighborhood, including where some scenes were filmed, was leveled to make way for what very posh, cultural arena?
10. This 183 year-old facilty was demolished and relocated to The Bronx, to increase real estate values in the neighborhood beneath the Brooklyn Bridge. What facility am I referring to?
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