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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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Places I've been
Places this traveler has marked as been there.
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Union Square Metronome
The most confusing clock in New York.
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Tammany Hall
The notorious headquarters of a corrupt political machine.
Sleepy Hollow, New York
Kykuit, the Rockefeller Estate
The home of one of America's most wealthy industrialists is now a historic site that remembers a more decadent time in the country's history.
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The Lightship Frying Pan
Rummage through this sunken ship, but leave your scuba gear at home.
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Giant Needle and Button
There must be a pun in this haystack somewhere...
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Roosevelt Island Octagon Tower
A former insane asylum despised by Nelly Bly and Charles Dickens is now fashionable apartments.
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One Times Square
This historic address is home to the beloved ball and is an almost totally empty building among the most expensive real estate in the world.
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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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Wall Street Bombing Scars
Unrepaired walls from a 1920 anarchist bomb attack.
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Brooklyn Army Terminal Building B
Empty, but not abandoned, this cavernous Brooklyn loading dock was once considered the largest individual building in the world.
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Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace Museum
The rough and tumble president's childhood home displays the shirt he was once shot in and the speech that saved him.
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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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Sakagura
More than 250 sakes are available in an izakaya hidden in the basement of a Midtown office building.
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New Yorker Hotel
The New York hotel where tragic visionary Nikola Tesla spent his final hours, destitute and alone but for the pigeons.
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Sidewalk Subway Map
Plot your trip through the city on the sidewalk.
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President Ulysses S. Grant's Tomb
Visit the monolithic tomb of America's most famous general.
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Grand Central Oyster Bar
This subterranean oyster house has been the pearl of Grand Central Station since 1913.
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The Daily News Building Globe
Spinning silently in the lobby of an Art Deco masterwork is a massive vintage model of the Earth.
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Chinatown's Bloody Angle
Avoid gangster interaction while window-shopping.
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'Life Underground' Sculptures
An artist's cute bronze subway sculptures belie his violent artistic past.
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77 Water Street
A WWI fighter plane and turn-of-the-century penny candy shop are among the unexpected features of this Financial District building.
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Titanic Memorial
Manhattan's lighthouse, erected at the insistence of the unsinkable Molly Brown.
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'The Sphere'
This sculpture by artist Fritz Keonig survived the 9/11 attacks and now stands as a monument to the victims.
