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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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Places I've been
Places this traveler has marked as been there.
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Plaque of Nikola Tesla on Radio Wave Building
The former hotel where Tesla invented the radio.
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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 Hidden Holocaust Memorial of Madison Park
A Manhattan courthouse hides a small but scathing memorial to Holocaust injustice.
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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 Former Offices of McKim, Mead and White
The one-time office of the architectural firm that ushered in the Gilded Age is now a Club Monaco.
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The Players
A posh members-only club with a literally dramatic history.
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The "Irving House"
Nope, not Washington Irving's house.
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Tammany Hall
The notorious headquarters of a corrupt political machine.
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Union Square Metronome
The most confusing clock in New York.
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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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Camilo Egas Mural at the New School
After surviving abandonment, this powerful Latin American mural is alive again.
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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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C. O. Bigelow Apothecary
The oldest operating apothecary in the US has treated everyone from Thomas Edison to Mark Twain.
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Marie's Crisis
Those belting out show tunes in this West Village piano bar might not realize it marks the site where Thomas Paine died in 1809.
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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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Gay Street
An aptly-named street near the birthplace of the modern LGBT rights movement.
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Electric Lady Studios
Jimi Hendrix's legendary recording studio in Greenwich Village.
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The Hangman's Elm
The oldest living tree in Manhattan comes shrouded in sinister legend.
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IFC Center Peephole
The best way to get a sneak peek at the movies.
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Greenwich Locksmith
Phil Mortillaro uses keys to bring art back to the Village.
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The Narrowest Building in New York
This slender three-story building has also had several famous residents.
