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Delmonico's Pompeii Columns
Possible relics of the ancient Roman city are hidden in this restaurant's façade.
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Places I've been
Places this traveler has marked as been there.
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Museum at Eldridge Street
America's oldest Eastern European synagogue provided the immigrants of crowded Lower East Side tenements a space of sanctuary.
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The Little Church Around the Corner
This Fifth Avenue church has long been the favored worshiping place of Broadway actors and vaudeville performers.
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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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The Last Remnants of the Polo Grounds
A crumbling staircase in upper Manhattan is all that remains of one of the most important sites in sports history.
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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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Houston Bowery Art Wall
This wall on a street corner in Lower Manhattan has been a blank canvas for a rotation of renowned artists since the 1980s.
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Grand Central Ceiling Dark Patch
A dark patch of the ceiling at Grand Central Terminal which was not restored is still stained brown by tobacco.
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The Standard Oil Building
This curved Manhattan building was built to house the opulence of John D. Rockefeller's oil empire.
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Giant Needle and Button
There must be a pun in this haystack somewhere...
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Union Square Metronome
The most confusing clock in New York.
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767 Third Avenue
A Manhattan office building is home to the world’s largest chess board.
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Tammany Hall
The notorious headquarters of a corrupt political machine.
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Church of the Intercession
A Manhattan Episcopal church with an eerie underground crypt.
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Greenwich Locksmith
Phil Mortillaro uses keys to bring art back to the Village.
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41 Cooper Square
This exemplar of modernist architecture is meant to captivate and inspire students of the Cooper Union.
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The Real Winnie the Pooh & Pals
The original toys that inspired the beloved children's stories are on display at the New York Public Library.
Bronx, New York
Hall of Fame for Great Americans
The first "Hall of Fame" in America was designed by legendary Gilded Age architect Stanford White for what was then the NYU uptown campus.
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The New York New Church
Join in a Seance at the Swedenborgian Church.
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Paley Park
A small peaceful park and waterfall tucked amid the urban grind of Midtown Manhattan.
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The Brown Building
The site of the deadly Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire.
Permanently Closed
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Site of the Beach Pneumatic Subway
Visit the site of a subway powered by nothing more than air--and lots of it.
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Brooklyn Bridge Fallout Shelter
There’s a secret bunker inside the Brooklyn Bridge, but the city won’t say where.
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The Hangman's Elm
The oldest living tree in Manhattan comes shrouded in sinister legend.
