A quiz for our resident NY DLer's

Bastards?

Former gay bars.

Tsk, Tsk, Tsk.

DL New Yorkers don't know the history and architecture of their city.

SMH.

[quote] What does the following names have in common

What's wire hangers doing in this closet when I told you no wire hangers ever!?

"Franz von Thurn and Thaxis"

SMH

Do you mean Sir Roland Hill or Sir Rowland Hill?

[quote] What does the following names have in common

Are you asking about those words used as names?

Or are you asking about the people with those names?

They all have local NY statues honouring them.

Close about the statues, but nope.

OP, can we have a clue?

They all have a bust, a painting, a library or a building honouring them.

Nope to bust, painting, library. Close to the building, but not exactly.

Shame, shame, shame.

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[quote] Shame, shame, shame.

Dear OP, I will start googling if you don't give us a clue today.

[quote] And on the West 33rd Street facade, there are Thomas Witherings, Andrew Hamilton, Sir Rowland Hill and Heinrich von Stephan, postal legends ...

That's all I could get from Google from an old NY Times story. But the story is paywalled. So take it as a clue.

Ah ha, I guessed about the postman back at R6.

So you say they are 'close to the building' but not a bust or painting.

Are they inscriptions such as the names of these great painters on the wall of an art gallery?

[quote] I guessed about the postman back at R6.

Huh? Where in your past do you guess that? You just asked about a name.

Farley Post Office

They were all members of the Velvet Underground.

The names of Queen Elizabeth's corgis?

Aren't they all characters conjured up by mistake by Aunt Clara and Esmeralda?

A physical relic of all that motel crew of people is currently housed in NY.

"Farley Post Office"

Ding, ding, ding.

We have a winner!!!!

But where exactly?

On the parapet!

Yes!!!! Finally!!!!

Shame to ther rest!!!!

Have to admit, that was a pretty good quiz, OP.

I enjoyed it, OP.

Some enterprising Dataloungers should make more quizzes to stretch our brains.

I can hardly read the parapet.

It was easy, OP. I pass through the new train hall twice a week. And everybody knows that the Thurn and Taxis ran the postal service in Old Germany. That's why Gloria is so rich.

Quiz #2:

This building in Manhattan is named after a town in France, in the Loire Atlantique department to be exact.

Clue #1 It has a stunning architectural feature high up.

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R30 Is it 'Arleston' which refers to the town of Arles?

#32. Nope

Tomorrow another clue.

Re Quiz #1, I know Moynihan Train Hall isn't a masterpiece, but I do like the way they connected it with what's left of the public part of the post office.

Clue #2: The stunning architectural element ismade from the same material, thus the same color, of the Statue of Liberty,

Anybody?

OP, don't you mean Alexander Hamilton?

Clue #3: It's located south of the Empire State Building.

Is it down in that section when Manhattan was colony for Dutch creating a 'New Amsterdam'?

Yes North section.

Oh, are you saying it's the North section but south of the Empire State Building?

South of the Empire State but North of Washington Square.

This sounds very obscure.

From the NYT

Special Deliverers

Q. On the far right side of the Eighth Avenue facade of the main post office building, up near the parapet, the name of Cardinal de Richelieu is carved into the stone, along with other names and dates. Why?

Sign up for the New York Today Newsletter Each morning, get the latest on New York businesses, arts, sports, dining, style and more. Get it sent to your inbox. A. The chief designer of the James A. Farley Post Office, William Mitchell Kendall of McKim, Mead & White, inscribed the names of pivotal figures in Western postal history at the corners of each of the three principal facades. Taken together, the names provide a terse tutorial in mail delivery through the ages, ranging from emperors, kings, and cardinals to otherwise obscure bureaucrats.

The first, starting at the western corner of the 31st Street facade, is that of the Persian Emperor Cyrus, who established a system of mounted relay messengers in Egypt in the sixth century B.C., followed by the Roman Emperor Augustus, who developed a series of post roads with relay stations between Rome and its provinces. These names are followed by Nerva, the emperor who canceled the postal tax in the first century A.D., and Charlemagne, who centuries later extended the postal network of the Romans into Italy, Germany and France.

This list continues on the Eighth Avenue facade: Louis XI of France, who created what was arguably Europe's first national postal system, in 1477; Franz von Taxis, who in 1490 organized a permanent postal link between nations; Cardinal de Richelieu, whose policies made the French postal service more available to the public in the early 17th century, and Pierre d'Almeras, who established fixed delivery fees in 1627.

And on the West 33rd Street facade, there are Thomas Witherings, Andrew Hamilton, Sir Rowland Hill and Heinrich von Stephan, postal legends all.

Clue #4. South of Empire State Building, North of Washington Square, West of Madison Square, East of Penn Station.

Is it something on the Flatiron Building?

Is it Bella Abzug Park. She sounds European.

All men who've been hit on by Kevin Spacey

A more detailed explanation:

Nope to the Flatiron Building, but close!!!!

So Quiz#2 the clues so far: Building named after a French town, located specifically in Brittany; has a stunning architectural feature high up, the same material (thus the same rich colour) of the Statue of Liberty; located below or south of the Empire State Building; and in the area west of Madison Square, north of Washington Squard and east of Penn Station.

Clue #5: the french town it's named after is a Breton town located on the coast and it's location is specifically on 5th avenue.

I am stumped.