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Onieals Grand Street Bar
A prohibition era watering hole for the police.
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Places on this traveler's wishlist.
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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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Carnegie Hall Archives
More than 300,000 historical artifacts from the famous music venue, from Duke Ellington's handwritten score to The Beatles' booking slip.
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Broadway Flea Market
An annual extravaganza of Broadway theater memorabilia.
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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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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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Lenin Statue at Red Square
Salute the leader of the proletariat.
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C-Squat
A notorious punk house turned co-op.
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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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Castle Williams
In its day this historic fort held 100 cannons pointed in almost every direction to protect New York.
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Hall of Fame for Great Americans
The first "Hall of Fame" in America was designed by legendary Gilded Age architect Stanford White for what was then the NYU uptown campus.
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Hidden Wall of 1976 Graffiti
A partially hidden wall graffitied by spectators of the 1976 Bicentennial, recently rediscovered.
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Statue of Liberty's Original Torch
Lady Liberty's first beacon of enlightenment is now displayed in a museum near the statue.
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The Lightship Frying Pan
Rummage through this sunken ship, but leave your scuba gear at home.
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The Wizard of Park Avenue
A whimsical, but often overlooked clock in Park Avenue.
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Chancellor Robert R Livingston Masonic Library
A good place to research the Freemasons, esoterica, occultism, and hermeticism.
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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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New York Academy of Medicine Rare Book Library
This hidden library of physiological ephemera contains centuries worth of knowledge on the vim and viscera of the human body.
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New Yorker Hotel
The New York hotel where tragic visionary Nikola Tesla spent his final hours, destitute and alone but for the pigeons.
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Chinatown's Bloody Angle
Avoid gangster interaction while window-shopping.
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'Life Underground' Sculptures
An artist's cute bronze subway sculptures belie his violent artistic past.
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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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The Museum of Interesting Things
A hands-on traveling collection of the innovative devices of yesteryear.
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Gimbel's Bridge
A three-story copper skybridge connects two Manhattan buildings with Art Deco luxury.
