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Cherokee Apartments
This Upper East Side apartment co-op was designed as a tuberculosis sanitarium.
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Places I've been
Places this traveler has marked as been there.
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George Glazer Gallery
Unique antiquarian shop specializing in globes, maps, and prints.
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The Treasures in the Trash Collection
A New York garbage depot holds a secret collection of weird and wonderful refuse.
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Collyer Brothers Park
Harlem park dedicated to compulsive hoarders killed by their own junk.
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Rivers Cosmogram
A memorial marks the library lobby where Langston Hughes' ashes are buried.
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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 New York New Church
Join in a Seance at the Swedenborgian Church.
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The Old McGraw-Hill Building
Captain America, Sub-Mariner, and the Human Torch were all born in this art deco Manhattan masterpiece.
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Water Tower
This translucent sculpture represents a quintessential component of New York City's skyline.
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Graybar Rats
Rat sculptures try to infiltrate the Graybar Building in an architectural tribute to New York City's nautical history.
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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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William Lescaze Townhouse
New York City's first Modernist house.
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Citigroup Center Stilts
If it hadn't been caught in time, a flaw in the design of this Manhattan skyscraper could have led to its collapse.
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The Ziegfeld Head
The front yard of an Upper East Side town house hides the last fragment of one of New York's most famous theatres.
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'Dwellings' at the Breuer Building
This miniature village stays behind in the Breuer Building, even as the museums around it come and go.
Permanently Closed
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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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New York Society Library
New York's oldest and possibly grandest keeper of books.
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Bryant Park Escape Hatch
A commemorative plaque hides a door that leads down to the New York Public Library's underground book bunker.
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Mercury Theatre Plaque
Where the legendary Orson Welles got his theatrical start before "Citizen Kane."
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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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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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Henry Bliss Plaque
A memorial to the first person killed by a motor vehicle in the Western Hemisphere.
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William J. Syms Operating Theatre
Once considered the height of medical modernity, this structure is now the oldest remaining component of Roosevelt Hospital.
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Private Passage
Wine bottle sculpture with a ship's stateroom inside.
