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Tompkins Square Temperance Fountain
A reminder to choose water over wine since 1888.
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Places I want to go
Places on this traveler's wishlist.
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Al Hirschfeld's Desk and Chair
From this desk Al Hirschfeld drew his influential caricatures of the 20th century's Broadway stars.
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Cherokee Apartments
This Upper East Side apartment co-op was designed as a tuberculosis sanitarium.
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Spring Street Salt Shed
This simple Manhattan salt house is artfully shaped... well, like a giant granule of salt.
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New York Produce Exchange Property Marker
A well-worn marker in a forgotten alleyway is all that remains of what had been one of Manhattan's most beautiful buildings.
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WPA Murals of the Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House
Magnificent New Deal Murals evoke a time when New York City harbor was one of the world's greatest and busiest ports.
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Durian NYC
The best place in New York to pick up the controversial, notoriously foul-smelling Asian "king of fruits."
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Day & Meyer, Murray & Young
Storage warehouse of the rich and famous.
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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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Broadway Flea Market
An annual extravaganza of Broadway theater memorabilia.
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Stickball Hall of Fame
Depression-era fun lives on in this Harlem museum dedicated to the sport of the street.
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The Fillmore East
A Yiddish theater turned movie house turned rock and roll landmark turned gay disco turned bank.
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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 Home of New York's Playboy Club
A simple midtown bar was once the home of a secretive and exclusive club staffed by "bunnies" under Hefner's strict rules.
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Slocum Memorial Fountain
Monument to a forgotten NYC disaster that claimed the lives of 1,000.
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Seaman-Drake Arch
Surrounded by low rise buildings and partially converted into an auto body shop, this marble archway is the only vestige of a forgotten Manhattan estate.
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The Marriage of Money and Real Estate
A sculptural commentary on capitalism pokes up from the East River.
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Bristol Basin
A small part of lower Manhattan is actually made from a bit of England.
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REI's Wall of Litho Stones
A trove of century-old litho stones from the Puck Building's printing days were discovered behind a cellar wall, and are now hanging in the store.
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Death Avenue Plaque
Manhattan's deadly West Side railroad, which killed hundreds of New Yorkers, is remembered by this simple plaque.
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Cherry Street Gang Warfare
Gang fights don't just happen on the streets, they happen under them too.
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No. 44 Stuyvesant
This 220-year-old house is a reminder of New York City's Dutch past.
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Relics of the IRT 14th Street-Union Square Subway Local Platform
Red frames showcase remnants of one of New York's original subway stations.
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Museum at Eldridge Street
America's oldest Eastern European synagogue provided the immigrants of crowded Lower East Side tenements a space of sanctuary.
