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Israel Miller's 'Show Folks Shoe Shop' Building
Amid the marketing blitz of modern Times Square is an elegant holdover from its showbiz glory days.
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Places I've been
Places this traveler has marked as been there.
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One Times Square
This historic address is home to the beloved ball and is an almost totally empty building among the most expensive real estate in the world.
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Bryant Park Bathroom
The fanciest public restroom in New York City boasts fresh flowers, art, and a classical music soundtrack.
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Bryant Park Escape Hatch
A commemorative plaque hides a door that leads down to the New York Public Library's underground book bunker.
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Nikola Tesla Street Corner
Commemorating the spot where the famous scientist fed his pigeons.
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Giant Needle and Button
There must be a pun in this haystack somewhere...
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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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New York Herald Monument
There are owls with glowing eyes in Herald Square.
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Gimbel's Bridge
A three-story copper skybridge connects two Manhattan buildings with Art Deco luxury.
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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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Plaque of Nikola Tesla on Radio Wave Building
The former hotel where Tesla invented the radio.
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‘The Gilded Lady’
A vibrant, 100-foot-tall mural dedicated to Evelyn Nesbit, the tragic icon of the Gilded Age.
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The General Worth Monument
This monument to a veteran of the Mexican-American War is one of only two in Manhattan that serve as an actual mausoleum.
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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 Statue of Roscoe Conkling
A 19th-century politician who died after walking home in a blizzard is honored with this Manhattan statue.
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Sidewalk Subway Map
Plot your trip through the city on the sidewalk.
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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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The Brown Building
The site of the deadly Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire.
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The Hangman's Elm
The oldest living tree in Manhattan comes shrouded in sinister legend.
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Electric Lady Studios
Jimi Hendrix's legendary recording studio in Greenwich Village.
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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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Jefferson Market Library
Named the fifth most beautiful building in America in 1885, this former courthouse boasts the best view in the Village.
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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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Second Cemetery of the Congregation Shearith Israel
New York's unstoppable progress turned this cemetery into the smallest burial ground in the city.
