Are you there?
Indirect questions, that is, statements that a question has been asked, do not require the interrogation.
He asked me if I was there.
He asked the question, Are you there? and received no answer.
2. At the end of each of a series of questions thrown into a single sentence.
Did he speak in an ordinary tone? or shout? or whisper?
3. The interrogation, like a certain inflection in the voice, may indicate that a sentence, though declarative in form, is really a question and requires an answer.
You are, of course, familiar with New York?