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190 Bowery
The greatest real estate coup of all time.
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Places I've been
Places this traveler has marked as been there.
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41 Cooper Square
This exemplar of modernist architecture is meant to captivate and inspire students of the Cooper Union.
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Lenin Statue at Red Square
Salute the leader of the proletariat.
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Wall Street Bombing Scars
Unrepaired walls from a 1920 anarchist bomb attack.
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'Life Underground' Sculptures
An artist's cute bronze subway sculptures belie his violent artistic past.
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President Ulysses S. Grant's Tomb
Visit the monolithic tomb of America's most famous general.
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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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Governors Island
Lie in a hammock where George Washington stood.
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Strawberry Fields Memorial
This mosaic dedicated to John Lennon was tended for years by a Beatles super-fan.
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Chinatown's Bloody Angle
Avoid gangster interaction while window-shopping.
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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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6 1/2 Avenue: Manhattan’s Secret Street
Tucked away amidst some of the most famous addresses in the world is New York’s only fraction of a street.
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The Peace Fountain at Cathedral of St. John the Divine
A curious fountain that has no water and includes Satan, a crab, and 9 giraffes.
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Campbell Apartment
A very classy 1920s-era bar right in Grand Central Station.
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Crabs of Cleopatra’s Needle
Curious crustaceans support an obelisk from ancient Egypt that now stands in modern-day Central Park.
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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.
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Shopsin's
Prove you deserve to be fed by Kenny Shopsin.
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The White Horse Tavern
Great place to have a drink and a bite to eat in an atmosphere laden with New York's Bohemian past.
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Pneumatic System of the New York Public Library
One of the last few places in Manhattan that employed a pneumatic systemic keeps it on display.
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Irish Hunger Memorial
Blighted Irish field and the ruins of a 19th-century cottage on the edge of urban Manhattan.
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Roosevelt Island Tramway
One of only two commuter aerial tramways in the United States.
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Unicorn Tapestries at the Cloisters
Mysterious 500-year-old tapestries depict a unicorn hunt.
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Trinity Churchyard
This cemetery has graves dating back to the 17th century, including the city's oldest carved tombstone and an ominous cryptogram.
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New York Federal Gold Vault
More gold than anywhere else, ever.
