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No. 44 Stuyvesant
This 220-year-old house is a reminder of New York City's Dutch past.
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Places I've been
Places this traveler has marked as been there.
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Cherry Street Gang Warfare
Gang fights don't just happen on the streets, they happen under them too.
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The American Merchant Mariner's Memorial
Twice a day one of these tragic bronze mariners drowns with the tide to remember all those the sea has taken.
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Roosevelt Island AVAC System
On this island, you suck away your garbage via an elaborate pneumatic tube system.
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The Marriage of Money and Real Estate
A sculptural commentary on capitalism pokes up from the East River.
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Roosevelt Island Octagon Tower
A former insane asylum despised by Nelly Bly and Charles Dickens is now fashionable apartments.
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Strecker Memorial Laboratory
Site of the first pathological and bacteriological research facility in the United States.
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Roosevelt Island Cat Sanctuary
The feral felines of Roosevelt Island have a small army of allies and an abandoned hospital all to themselves.
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Roosevelt Island Smallpox Hospital Ruins
A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.
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Site of the Pan Am Helipad
This Manhattan skyscraper is a reminder of the brief but glorious age of urban air taxis.
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'The Sale of Manhattan'
Down a stairway in the East Village, you could once read a plaque describing an alternate history of a fictional version of Manhattan.
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Durian NYC
The best place in New York to pick up the controversial, notoriously foul-smelling Asian "king of fruits."
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190 Bowery
The greatest real estate coup of all time.
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284 Broome Street
The competition: breathe deeply as long as you can.
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Bluestockings Bookstore
New York City's only radical feminist independent bookstore.
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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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Angel Orensanz Foundation
The oldest surviving synagogue in New York City is now a soaring art space.
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Lenin Statue at Red Square
Salute the leader of the proletariat.
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The Brown Building
The site of the deadly Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire.
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Rose Hill Historic House
The origins of midtown Manhattan's anachronistic wooden farmhouse remain a mystery.
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Daredevil Tattoo Museum
This iconic tattoo shop has its own onsite museum with artifacts from the early history of modern body art.
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The Hangman's Elm
The oldest living tree in Manhattan comes shrouded in sinister legend.
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Saint Vartan Armenian Cathedral
A replica of a 7th-century church hides in plain sight in the middle of the concrete jungle.
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Tammany Hall
The notorious headquarters of a corrupt political machine.
