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Second Avenue Subway Art
Beautiful mosaics cover the first stations opened on New York City's newest subway line.
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Places I've been
Places this traveler has marked as been there.
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The Wendel House
The former home of the reclusive "Weird Wendels" who dominated New York real estate a century before Donald Trump.
Permanently Closed
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James Farley Post Office Museum
A grand New York post office that is home to mailman Santas, scraps of postal history, and a pneumatic mail system.
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New York Herald Monument
There are owls with glowing eyes in Herald Square.
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The Little Church Around the Corner
This Fifth Avenue church has long been the favored worshiping place of Broadway actors and vaudeville performers.
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Giant Needle and Button
There must be a pun in this haystack somewhere...
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Union Square Metronome
The most confusing clock in New York.
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Paley Park
A small peaceful park and waterfall tucked amid the urban grind of Midtown Manhattan.
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190 Bowery
The greatest real estate coup of all time.
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Macy's Wooden Escalators
A bit of retro transportation flair preserved in the world's largest department store.
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Nikola Tesla Street Corner
Commemorating the spot where the famous scientist fed his pigeons.
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Plaque of Nikola Tesla on Radio Wave Building
The former hotel where Tesla invented the radio.
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Alice in Wonderland Statue
This whimsical group of statues is a favorite of children who love to climb all over Lewis Carroll's beloved characters.
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The Hidden Holocaust Memorial of Madison Park
A Manhattan courthouse hides a small but scathing memorial to Holocaust injustice.
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Chinatown's Bloody Angle
Avoid gangster interaction while window-shopping.
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Keen's Steakhouse
Everyone from Mark Twain to Teddy Roosevelt has a pipe hanging from the walls of this historic chophouse.
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Strawberry Fields Memorial
This mosaic dedicated to John Lennon was tended for years by a Beatles super-fan.
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Toynbee Tiles
Cryptic messages embedded in the New York City sidewalk.
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Lexington Candy Shop
The oldest family-run luncheonette in New York, last renovated in 1948, still serves food and drinks the old-fashioned way.
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Campbell Apartment
A very classy 1920s-era bar right in Grand Central Station.
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Burger Joint
Slyly buy a shake in the Parker Meridien lobby.
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C. O. Bigelow Apothecary
The oldest operating apothecary in the US has treated everyone from Thomas Edison to Mark Twain.
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REACH: New York
Hidden in plain sight on a pair of Manhattan subway tunnels are a pair of public instruments that sing to each other.
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Roosevelt Island Tramway
One of only two commuter aerial tramways in the United States.
