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The Oldest Fence in New York
Built hundreds of years ago this downtown iron barrier once protected a much despised king.
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The Webster Apartments
This New York holdover was built to provide housing for shopgirls and still does not allow men above the lobby.
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Museum of Chinese in America
This small New York museum examines Chinese history from its origins right up to its arrival in the city.
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Israel Miller's 'Show Folks Shoe Shop' Building
Amid the marketing blitz of modern Times Square is an elegant holdover from its showbiz glory days.
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Trinity Place Bank Vault Bar
This lower Manhattan bar is set up in an old bank vault that rests beneath a skyscraper that hides even more historic splendor.
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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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The Morris-Jumel Mansion
The oldest house in Manhattan is now a museum that remembers the home's sordid history of scandals, vice-presidents, and ghosts.
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El Sabroso
This semi-hidden Manhattan restaurant is based out of a loading dock.
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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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Castle Williams
In its day this historic fort held 100 cannons pointed in almost every direction to protect New York.
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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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Hare Krishna Tree
One of the few remaining American elm trees in New York’s Tompkins Square Park was the birthplace of a new religion.
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Hallett Nature Sanctuary
Long the exclusive domain of birds and vagabonds, this little-known Central Park peninsula is open to the public once more.
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Fraunces Tavern
This Wall Street bar was once a hub of revolutionary activity where Washington famously bid farewell to his troops.
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Macy's Wooden Escalators
A bit of retro transportation flair preserved in the world's largest department store.
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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.
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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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Preserved Remnants of 17th Century New York
Under a glass sidewalk lie the remains of some of Manhattan's oldest buildings.
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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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NYC Barber Museum
This nostalgic blast from the grooming past is also a working barbershop.
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Survivor Tree
The last living thing to come out of the rubble after 9/11 is now a symbol of hope and resilience.
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Gay Liberation
The first piece of public art dedicated to LGBT rights.
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Taste of Persia NYC
Some of the best Persian food in New York comes from the front window of an unassuming pizza shop.
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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.
