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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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Places I've been
Places this traveler has marked as been there.
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Jacques Derrida's Favorite Banana Bread
The French deconstructionist had a weakness for baked goods.
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Yonah Schimmel's Knish Bakery
Love, knishes, and best wishes from this legendary Lower East Side bakery.
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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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Bonnie Slotnick Cookbooks
Spiral-bound community recipes and antiquarian gems mingle at this small East Village shop.
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Lenin Statue at Red Square
Salute the leader of the proletariat.
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The Village Gate Sign
The former sign of this immortal music venue is just that--undying.
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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.
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IFC Center Peephole
The best way to get a sneak peek at the movies.
Permanently Closed
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The Evolution Store
A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.
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The Former New Brighton Athletic Club
These historic buildings once housed the headquarters of one of the most infamous gangs of New York.
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Jean-Michel Basquiat Commemorative Plaque
The artist and New York City icon lived, worked and died in this converted carriage house owned by another iconic artist, Andy Warhol.
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Septuagesimo Uno
The name of this tiny pocket park tucked between two buildings on Manhattan's Upper West Side is Latin for its location: "seventy-one."
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Gay Street
An aptly-named street near the birthplace of the modern LGBT rights movement.
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Physical Graffiti Building
The East Village tenement from the cover of Led Zeppelin’s 1975 album has a tea shop on the ground floor.
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Electric Lady Studios
Jimi Hendrix's legendary recording studio in Greenwich 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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Hess Triangle
New York City's smallest piece of private property.
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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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The 'Goodnight Moon' House (Cobble Court)
Hidden behind a gate in Greenwich Village is a little farmhouse that once served as the writing studio of a bestselling author.
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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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Camilo Egas Mural at the New School
After surviving abandonment, this powerful Latin American mural is alive again.
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The Jane Hotel
This historic building housed the surviving crew members of the Titanic, who were left destitute after the wreck.
