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Macy's Wooden Escalators
A bit of retro transportation flair preserved in the world's largest department store.
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Places I've been
Places this traveler has marked as been there.
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Union Square Metronome
The most confusing clock in New York.
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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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Lenin Statue at Red Square
Salute the leader of the proletariat.
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Jeffrey's Hook Light
Little Red Lighthouse under the George Washington Bridge.
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Yonah Schimmel's Knish Bakery
Love, knishes, and best wishes from this legendary Lower East Side bakery.
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'Life Underground' Sculptures
An artist's cute bronze subway sculptures belie his violent artistic past.
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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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President Ulysses S. Grant's Tomb
Visit the monolithic tomb of America's most famous general.
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Abandoned 18th Street Subway Station
This abandoned subway station can still be seen on regular commuter trips.
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Governors Island
Lie in a hammock where George Washington stood.
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Strawberry Fields Memorial
This mosaic dedicated to John Lennon was tended for years by a Beatles super-fan.
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New York Marble Cemetery
A hidden "place of interment for gentlemen."
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Long Lines Building
An uber-secure, windowless tower of doom in the center of Manhattan is an NSA spyscraper.
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Sidewalk Subway Map
Plot your trip through the city on the sidewalk.
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Irish Hunger Memorial
Blighted Irish field and the ruins of a 19th-century cottage on the edge of urban Manhattan.
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Unicorn Tapestries at the Cloisters
Mysterious 500-year-old tapestries depict a unicorn hunt.
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Roosevelt Island Tramway
One of only two commuter aerial tramways in the United States.
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High Bridge
The oldest surviving bridge in New York City, which reopened to pedestrians in 2015.
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Grand Central Terminal Whispering Gallery
Whisper secrets in a busy station only to be heard on the other side of this acoustic arch.
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The High Line
Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.
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Roosevelt Island Smallpox Hospital Ruins
A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.
