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Tom's Restaurant
The "Seinfeld" diner.
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Places I've been
Places this traveler has marked as been there.
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Governors Island
Lie in a hammock where George Washington stood.
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Union Square Metronome
The most confusing clock in New York.
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The High Line
Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.
Brooklyn, New York
Brooklyn's Converted Pencil Factory
Constructed in the 1920s, this former pencil factory is now an office building.
New York, New York
The Remnants of Manhattan's Thirteenth Avenue
Manhattan's Thirteenth Avenue was made on landfill then deliberately destroyed — apart from one small, obscure block.
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Spotlight on Broadway Map
The 28-foot granite map plots the locations of 40 theaters in New York City.
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Bennett Park
The highest point on the island known for buildings that touch the sky.
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Jeffrey's Hook Light
Little Red Lighthouse under the George Washington Bridge.
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High Bridge
The oldest surviving bridge in New York City, which reopened to pedestrians in 2015.
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Sylvan Terrace
A discreet little stairway on St. Nicholas Avenue leads to a quaint and unexpected cobblestone street of 19th century wooden rowhouses.
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The Morris-Jumel Mansion
The oldest house in Manhattan is now a museum that remembers the home's sordid history of scandals, vice-presidents, and ghosts.
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The Last Remnants of the Polo Grounds
A crumbling staircase in upper Manhattan is all that remains of one of the most important sites in sports history.
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Rucker Park
The legendary court where emerging basketball players gain their street cred.
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Church of the Intercession
A Manhattan Episcopal church with an eerie underground crypt.
New York, New York
Irish Hunger Memorial
Blighted Irish field and the ruins of a 19th-century cottage on the edge of urban Manhattan.
Newberry, Michigan
Oswald's Bear Ranch
Two dozen rescued bears roam (mostly) free at the largest bear ranch in the U.S.
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41 Cooper Square
This exemplar of modernist architecture is meant to captivate and inspire students of the Cooper Union.
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The Marriage of Money and Real Estate
A sculptural commentary on capitalism pokes up from the East River.
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Strecker Memorial Laboratory
Site of the first pathological and bacteriological research facility in the United States.
New York, New York
Roosevelt Island Cat Sanctuary
The feral felines of Roosevelt Island have a small army of allies and an abandoned hospital all to themselves.
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Roosevelt Island Tramway
One of only two commuter aerial tramways in the United States.
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Roosevelt Island Octagon Tower
A former insane asylum despised by Nelly Bly and Charles Dickens is now fashionable apartments.
New York, New York
The Statue of Roscoe Conkling
A 19th-century politician who died after walking home in a blizzard is honored with this Manhattan statue.
