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The Brown Building
The site of the deadly Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire.
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Places I've been
Places this traveler has marked as been there.
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Cherokee Apartments
This Upper East Side apartment co-op was designed as a tuberculosis sanitarium.
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Chester A. Arthur Inauguration and Death House
The only remaining building in New York to see the inauguration of a president is being slowly overtaken by a grocery store.
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Russian and Turkish Baths Cafe
Have a steam and some blini at this cafe in a century-old bathhouse.
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No. 44 Stuyvesant
This 220-year-old house is a reminder of New York City's Dutch past.
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Zaragoza Mexican Deli and Grocery
Behind a grungy bodega facade, a Poblano family serves rich, home-cooked meals.
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La Plaza Cultural
This former crime corner has been turned into an eclectic community center.
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Tompkins Square Temperance Fountain
A reminder to choose water over wine since 1888.
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Slocum Memorial Fountain
Monument to a forgotten NYC disaster that claimed the lives of 1,000.
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Streecha
A Ukrainian church canteen doles out hearty fare in an East Village basement.
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The Fillmore East
A Yiddish theater turned movie house turned rock and roll landmark turned gay disco turned bank.
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Modern Love Club
This narrow shop in the East Village hosts a matchmaking service for the new millennium.
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The Relic Chapel at the Church of the Most Holy Redeemer
Relics given to a Manhattan church to avoid seizure by the Italian government.
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Angel Orensanz Foundation
The oldest surviving synagogue in New York City is now a soaring art space.
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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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Sidewalk Subway Map
Plot your trip through the city on the sidewalk.
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REI's Wall of Litho Stones
A trove of century-old litho stones from the Puck Building's printing days were discovered behind a cellar wall, and are now hanging in the store.
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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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Durian NYC
The best place in New York to pick up the controversial, notoriously foul-smelling Asian "king of fruits."
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Baby Grand
The tiniest little stage in New York.
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Goldbar
A hip bar decorated with walls of golden skulls.
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Onieals Grand Street Bar
A prohibition era watering hole for the police.
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284 Broome Street
The competition: breathe deeply as long as you can.
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The Mulberry Bend
During the 19th century, you could pay for violence off a prix fixe menu on this Manhattan street.
