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Mmuseumm
A tiny museum housed in a New York freight elevator specializes in the "overlooked, dismissed, or ignored."
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Old City Hall Station
The very first subway station in New York City is beautiful, decked out in chandeliers, and ... abandoned?
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The Sugar House Prison Window
An odd, ancient window that may have once been part of a brutal prison is embedded in the side of New York's Police Plaza.
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New York Academy of Medicine Rare Book Library
This hidden library of physiological ephemera contains centuries worth of knowledge on the vim and viscera of the human body.
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Edward Mooney House
Built just after the American Revolution, the oldest row house in New York City still stands in Chinatown.
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Bluestockings Bookstore
New York City's only radical feminist independent bookstore.
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Shopsin's
Prove you deserve to be fed by Kenny Shopsin.
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Kenka
Make a tough dinner decision: Octopus wasabi roulette or bull penis?
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The Manhattan Well Murder
A dark, dank room in subterranean Manhattan was the site of a ghastly murder.
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The Evolution Store
A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.
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The Village Gate Sign
The former sign of this immortal music venue is just that--undying.
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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.
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Studio of Charles Ives
The studio of influential composer Charles Ives is perfectly reconstructed, hidden in the back of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
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Hispanic Society Museum and Library
This Manhattan museum houses one of the largest collections of Spanish art and manuscripts outside of Spain.
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Trinity Place Bank Vault Bar
This lower Manhattan bar is set up in an old bank vault that rests beneath a skyscraper that hides even more historic splendor.
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Matryoshka at Wall Street Bath & Spa 88
This Russian bar-restaurant lies within a three-story underground bathhouse.
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American Numismatic Society
Play heads or tails with thousands of different coins.
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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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Rose Hill Historic House
The origins of midtown Manhattan's anachronistic wooden farmhouse remain a mystery.
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Rivers Cosmogram
A memorial marks the library lobby where Langston Hughes' ashes are buried.
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Seaman-Drake Arch
Surrounded by low rise buildings and partially converted into an auto body shop, this marble archway is the only vestige of a forgotten Manhattan estate.
Permanently Closed
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Site of the Pan Am Helipad
This Manhattan skyscraper is a reminder of the brief but glorious age of urban air taxis.
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Acuario Cafe
A garment factory hides a small Dominican eatery in the hallway to its freight elevator.
