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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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Modern Love Club
This narrow shop in the East Village hosts a matchmaking service for the new millennium.
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Russian and Turkish Baths Cafe
Have a steam and some blini at this cafe in a century-old bathhouse.
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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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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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La Plaza Cultural
This former crime corner has been turned into an eclectic community center.
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Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space
A living archive of urban activism and space reclaimed.
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C-Squat
A notorious punk house turned co-op.
Permanently Closed
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Obscura Antiques and Oddities
Tucked in the back of this amazing antique store is an important piece of medical history.
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Zaragoza Mexican Deli and Grocery
Behind a grungy bodega facade, a Poblano family serves rich, home-cooked meals.
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Antonín Dvořák's Home
The place where Dvořák composed some of his most famous works.
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Bristol Basin
A small part of lower Manhattan is actually made from a bit of England.
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Bellevue Hospital
The name of this famed hospital was once a byword for the horrors of medical and psychiatric care.
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The Players
A posh members-only club with a literally dramatic history.
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Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace Museum
The rough and tumble president's childhood home displays the shirt he was once shot in and the speech that saved him.
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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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Poster House Museum
The first museum in the United States dedicated entirely to posters.
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Stationary Figures Mosaics
Stunningly detailed mosaics in a New York subway station bring life to the Weimaraners of artist William Wegman's work—and to thousands of commutes.
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Toynbee Tiles
Cryptic messages embedded in the New York City sidewalk.
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MoMath - The Museum of Mathematics
A Pythagorean funhouse that tries, successfully, to prove that math is the coolest thing ever.
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The Hidden Holocaust Memorial of Madison Park
A Manhattan courthouse hides a small but scathing memorial to Holocaust injustice.
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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 Gilded Lady’
A vibrant, 100-foot-tall mural dedicated to Evelyn Nesbit, the tragic icon of the Gilded Age.
