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Museum at Eldridge Street
America's oldest Eastern European synagogue provided the immigrants of crowded Lower East Side tenements a space of sanctuary.
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Places I've been
Places this traveler has marked as been there.
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Bluestockings Bookstore
New York City's only radical feminist independent bookstore.
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Lenin Statue at Red Square
Salute the leader of the proletariat.
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REI's Wall of Litho Stones
A trove of century-old litho stones from the Puck Building's printing days were discovered behind a cellar wall, and are now hanging in the store.
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Sidewalk Subway Map
Plot your trip through the city on the sidewalk.
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Ear Inn
One of the city’s oldest watering holes was originally the home of a famous James Brown (not that one).
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Spring Street Salt Shed
This simple Manhattan salt house is artfully shaped... well, like a giant granule of salt.
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New York Marble Cemetery
A hidden "place of interment for gentlemen."
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The Wishbones of McSorley's Old Ale House
Touching mementoes from those who didn't make it back from World War I still hang in one of New York's oldest bars.
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41 Cooper Square
This exemplar of modernist architecture is meant to captivate and inspire students of the Cooper Union.
Permanently Closed
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The Evolution Store
A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.
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The Brown Building
The site of the deadly Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire.
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The Weathermen Townhouse Explosion
A strangely angled West Village home is the only monument to an explosion that took the lives of three American revolutionaries.
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Second Cemetery of the Congregation Shearith Israel
New York's unstoppable progress turned this cemetery into the smallest burial ground in the city.
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Jefferson Market Library
Named the fifth most beautiful building in America in 1885, this former courthouse boasts the best view in the Village.
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Greenwich Locksmith
Phil Mortillaro uses keys to bring art back to the Village.
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Hess Triangle
New York City's smallest piece of private property.
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Gay Liberation
The first piece of public art dedicated to LGBT rights.
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The Gardens at St. Luke in the Fields
A quiet and contemplative oasis in the middle of New York's bustle and riot.
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The White Horse Tavern
Great place to have a drink and a bite to eat in an atmosphere laden with New York's Bohemian past.
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The High Line
Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.
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The Lightship Frying Pan
Rummage through this sunken ship, but leave your scuba gear at home.
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The Remnants of Tin Pan Alley
The one-time epicenter of American songwriting is now a little remembered Manhattan commercial block.
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The Hidden Holocaust Memorial of Madison Park
A Manhattan courthouse hides a small but scathing memorial to Holocaust injustice.
