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Nathan Hale Hanging Site
A plaque immortalizes the spot where the early American spy said his famous last words: "I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country."
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Places I've been
Places this traveler has marked as been there.
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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 Weathermen Townhouse Explosion
A strangely angled West Village home is the only monument to an explosion that took the lives of three American revolutionaries.
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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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C. O. Bigelow Apothecary
The oldest operating apothecary in the US has treated everyone from Thomas Edison to Mark Twain.
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Electric Lady Studios
Jimi Hendrix's legendary recording studio in Greenwich Village.
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Plaque of Nikola Tesla on Radio Wave Building
The former hotel where Tesla invented the radio.
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Modern Love Club
This narrow shop in the East Village hosts a matchmaking service for the new millennium.
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Tannen's Magic Shop
New York's oldest magic store.
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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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Marilyn Monroe’s Subway Grate
This unmarked and unloved Manhattan subway grate created one of the most iconic images in American cinema.
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The Grolier Club
The oldest bibliophilia club in America, with exhibitions on historic books and graphic arts.
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The Wizard of Park Avenue
A whimsical, but often overlooked clock in Park Avenue.
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Gimbel's Bridge
A three-story copper skybridge connects two Manhattan buildings with Art Deco luxury.
Permanently Closed
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New York's Oldest Phone Number
Need to book a room at the Hotel Pennsylvania? Just dial up 6-5000.
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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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The "Irving House"
Nope, not Washington Irving's house.
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The Players
A posh members-only club with a literally dramatic history.
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300 West 38th Street
Cheap pizza and all of your naughty bedroom needs housed in a stunning example of Art Nouveau architecture.
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Tompkins Square Temperance Fountain
A reminder to choose water over wine since 1888.
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Slocum Memorial Fountain
Monument to a forgotten NYC disaster that claimed the lives of 1,000.
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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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C-Squat
A notorious punk house turned co-op.
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La Plaza Cultural
This former crime corner has been turned into an eclectic community center.
