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Museum of the American Gangster
This little museum is built on a theater that was once a wildly elaborate speakeasy.
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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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Unicorn Tapestries at the Cloisters
Mysterious 500-year-old tapestries depict a unicorn hunt.
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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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Chinatown's Bloody Angle
Avoid gangster interaction while window-shopping.
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Chinatown Ice Cream Factory
Order scoops of pandan, lychee, and black sesame at this family-run institution.
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Site of New York Slave Market
Where now stands a 42-story condominium tower of marble, glass and steel was once the central market of New York’s slave trade.
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Streecha
A Ukrainian church canteen doles out hearty fare in an East Village basement.
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Fraunces Tavern
This Wall Street bar was once a hub of revolutionary activity where Washington famously bid farewell to his troops.
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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 SeaGlass Carousel
Manhattan’s Battery Park has a whimsical carousel full of spinning, glowing fish.
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Old City Hall Station
The very first subway station in New York City is beautiful, decked out in chandeliers, and ... abandoned?
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Fearless Girl Statue
Wall Street has a new heroine, a bronze statue of a small but fierce girl.
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5 Beekman Street
This beautiful building in the heart of Manhattan's Financial District was empty for decades.
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Track 61
This abandoned subway station beneath the Waldorf-Astoria hotel is allegedly used to secretly transport presidents.
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Hamilton Grange
The only home that Alexander Hamilton ever owned has a history almost as troubled as his own.
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The Woolworth Building
Once the tallest building in the world and the site of “the highest dinner ever held in New York” this building now holds the most expensive penthouse in the city.
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Campbell Apartment
A very classy 1920s-era bar right in Grand Central Station.
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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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Trinity Churchyard
This cemetery has graves dating back to the 17th century, including the city's oldest carved tombstone and an ominous cryptogram.
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Frick Bowling Alley
Bowl in splendor, if you're lucky.
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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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The Manhattan Well Murder
A dark, dank room in subterranean Manhattan was the site of a ghastly murder.
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Nikola Tesla Street Corner
Commemorating the spot where the famous scientist fed his pigeons.
