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La Plaza Cultural
This former crime corner has been turned into an eclectic community center.
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Places I've been
Places this traveler has marked as been there.
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Lenin Statue at Red Square
Salute the leader of the proletariat.
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Bluestockings Bookstore
New York City's only radical feminist independent bookstore.
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Lower East Side Toy Company (The Back Room)
Become a prohibition rebel.
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Shopsin's
Prove you deserve to be fed by Kenny Shopsin.
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The Location of Paul's Boutique
The iconic Manhattan corner that was once the site of the Beastie Boys' fake clothing store.
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284 Broome Street
The competition: breathe deeply as long as you can.
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190 Bowery
The greatest real estate coup of all time.
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Onieals Grand Street Bar
A prohibition era watering hole for the police.
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The Mulberry Bend
During the 19th century, you could pay for violence off a prix fixe menu on this Manhattan street.
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Chinatown Ice Cream Factory
Order scoops of pandan, lychee, and black sesame at this family-run institution.
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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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Chinatown's Bloody Angle
Avoid gangster interaction while window-shopping.
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Harry Jenning's Rat Pit of the Five Points
This humble historic facade hides a history of boozing and the gentlemanly sport of rat-fighting.
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First Shearith Israel Graveyard
Revolutionary War casualties fill the only 17th century structure remaining in Manhattan.
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Brooklyn Bridge Love Locks
A popular European tradition makes its way to the states on one of America's most famous bridges.
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Brooklyn Bridge Fallout Shelter
There’s a secret bunker inside the Brooklyn Bridge, but the city won’t say where.
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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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African Burial Ground National Monument
This memorial honors thousands of enslaved Africans and their descendants who died in colonial New York.
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Clock Tower Building
A historic 1890s architectural masterpiece with an iconic clock tower that, once open to the public, now faces an uncertain future.
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Long Lines Building
An uber-secure, windowless tower of doom in the center of Manhattan is an NSA spyscraper.
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Aretha Franklin Subway Tributes
A touching tribute to the "Queen of Soul."
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The 'Ghostbusters' Firehouse
Try not to get slimed in Tribeca.
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Staple Street Skybridge
Imagine having a street run right through your home, or better yet, a historic bridge three stories high.
