Bronx, New York
Bartow-Pell Mansion
This old estate is a remnant of when the Bronx was a popular summer destination for wealthy New Yorkers.
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Bronx, New York
This old estate is a remnant of when the Bronx was a popular summer destination for wealthy New Yorkers.
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This impressive mansion in Vinegar Hill has some mysterious details in its architecture.
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One of the only single-person private gravesites in New York City.
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The humble fort that saved Washington.
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Michael Jackson got Bad and Crocodile Dundee walked on heads in this iconic Brooklyn subway station.
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Magnificent New Deal Murals evoke a time when New York City harbor was one of the world's greatest and busiest ports.
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Final resting place of Typhoid Mary.
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This slender three-story building has also had several famous residents.
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This vacant church in the Financial District was once the heart of New York's first Syrian immigrant community.
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Currently housing a corporate bank branch this building at the southern tip of Manhattan was once the gateway to luxury vacationing.
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A hidden bar inside an ad agency has a deliberately misleading name, so employees can stay late under pretext of paperwork.
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A Collegiate Gothic quadrangle that surrounds an 18th century secondary school whose financing came from the likes of Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr, among others.
Brooklyn, New York
This neo-Gothic former auto showroom is one of the few remaining reminders of Brooklyn's "Automobile Row."
Bronx, New York
Despite not growing anywhere near New York City, bananas are ripened in a pressurized room in the Bronx using precise banana science.
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A mass grave for victims of one of the city’s worst fires.
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The only surviving sidewalk clock in Brooklyn.
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Built just after the American Revolution, the oldest row house in New York City still stands in Chinatown.
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New York's unstoppable progress turned this cemetery into the smallest burial ground in the city.
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A world of whimsy and wonder aboard a one of a kind historic landmark vessel.
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This Queens beer hall preserves a German culture and language that is all but lost.
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Where infamous mobster and leader of Murder Inc. Albert Anastasia made his home.
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Gang fights don't just happen on the streets, they happen under them too.
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These ornate manhole covers were used for a now-forgotten purpose.
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A replica of a 7th-century church hides in plain sight in the middle of the concrete jungle.