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The Ziegfeld Head
The front yard of an Upper East Side town house hides the last fragment of one of New York's most famous theatres.
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Places this traveler has marked as been there.
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Gay Liberation
The first piece of public art dedicated to LGBT rights.
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The General Worth Monument
This monument to a veteran of the Mexican-American War is one of only two in Manhattan that serve as an actual mausoleum.
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The Statue of Roscoe Conkling
A 19th-century politician who died after walking home in a blizzard is honored with this Manhattan statue.
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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.
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Chester A. Arthur Inauguration and Death House
The only remaining building in New York to see the inauguration of a president is being slowly overtaken by a grocery store.
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Rose Hill Historic House
The origins of midtown Manhattan's anachronistic wooden farmhouse remain a mystery.
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Saint Vartan Armenian Cathedral
A replica of a 7th-century church hides in plain sight in the middle of the concrete jungle.
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The New York New Church
Join in a Seance at the Swedenborgian Church.
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The Wizard of Park Avenue
A whimsical, but often overlooked clock in Park Avenue.
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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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The Hidden Holocaust Memorial of Madison Park
A Manhattan courthouse hides a small but scathing memorial to Holocaust injustice.
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Bellevue Hospital
The name of this famed hospital was once a byword for the horrors of medical and psychiatric care.
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Grand Central Ceiling Dark Patch
A dark patch of the ceiling at Grand Central Terminal which was not restored is still stained brown by tobacco.
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Mercury Theatre Plaque
Where the legendary Orson Welles got his theatrical start before "Citizen Kane."
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Nikola Tesla Street Corner
Commemorating the spot where the famous scientist fed his pigeons.
Brooklyn, New York
The New York and New Jersey Telephone Company Building
As telephones become more essential and less stylish one historic Brooklyn building remembers the days when they were a grand celebration of communication.
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Brooklyn Savings Bank Subway Branch
Before online banking and smartphone apps, there was "commuter banking" in the subway in Downtown Brooklyn.
Brooklyn, New York
Brooklyn Townhouse Secret Subway Exit
This innocent-looking townhome is actually a subway exit.
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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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The Former New Brighton Athletic Club
These historic buildings once housed the headquarters of one of the most infamous gangs of New York.
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Jean-Michel Basquiat Commemorative Plaque
The artist and New York City icon lived, worked and died in this converted carriage house owned by another iconic artist, Andy Warhol.
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Bonnie Slotnick Cookbooks
Spiral-bound community recipes and antiquarian gems mingle at this small East Village shop.
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Dream House
La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela's "Dream House" will immerse you in an ever changing world of sound and light.
