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The New York New Church
Join in a Seance at the Swedenborgian Church.
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Places I've been
Places this traveler has marked as been there.
Permanently Closed
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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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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 Cartoon Wall at Overlook
In the back of a nondescript sports bar is a museum-worthy mural by legendary cartoonists.
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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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767 Third Avenue
A Manhattan office building is home to the world’s largest chess board.
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William Lescaze Townhouse
New York City's first Modernist house.
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Paley Park
A small peaceful park and waterfall tucked amid the urban grind of Midtown Manhattan.
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Greenacre Park
Read a book next to a Midtown waterfall.
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Norwegian Seamen's Church
Come for the waffles, stay for more waffles.
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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.
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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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Bill's Place
This speakeasy continues the Prohibition-era legacy of Harlem's jazzy Swing Street.
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Collyer Brothers Park
Harlem park dedicated to compulsive hoarders killed by their own junk.
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Audubon Mural Project
Walking around West Harlem reveals a scavenger hunt of beautiful bird murals.
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Sylvan Terrace
A discreet little stairway on St. Nicholas Avenue leads to a quaint and unexpected cobblestone street of 19th century wooden rowhouses.
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The Morris-Jumel Mansion
The oldest house in Manhattan is now a museum that remembers the home's sordid history of scandals, vice-presidents, and ghosts.
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Trinity Church Cemetery & Mausoleum
You must take the A train... to the last active cemetery in Manhattan.
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Church of the Intercession
A Manhattan Episcopal church with an eerie underground crypt.
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Bennett Park
The highest point on the island known for buildings that touch the sky.
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West Terrace at the Cloisters
This hidden oasis features a stunning view of the Hudson River and the Palisades from a castle-like museum.
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Dyckman Farmhouse
This Dutch Colonial home is the oldest remaining farmhouse in Manhattan.
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Seaman-Drake Arch
Surrounded by low rise buildings and partially converted into an auto body shop, this marble archway is the only vestige of a forgotten Manhattan estate.
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Marble Hill
Manhattan and the Bronx have been playing tug-of-war over this former island neighborhood for more than a century.
