Sean's visit

by jennysgreatapt

22 Places

New York, New York

Dream House

La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela's "Dream House" will immerse you in an ever changing world of sound and light.

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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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Tannen's Magic Shop

New York's oldest magic store.

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The High Line

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

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Mysterious Bookshop

The world’s oldest and biggest bookstore stocking only mystery, crime fiction, espionage, and thrillers.

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Trinity Place Bank Vault Bar

This lower Manhattan bar is set up in an old bank vault that rests beneath a skyscraper that hides even more historic splendor.

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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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C. O. Bigelow Apothecary

The oldest operating apothecary in the US has treated everyone from Thomas Edison to Mark Twain.

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Campbell Apartment

A very classy 1920s-era bar right in Grand Central Station.

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Albertine

Though its celestial ceiling is impressive, the true star is the vast collection of French books.

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Merchant's House Museum

New York City's only preserved family home from the 19th century.

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The Wishbones of McSorley's Old Ale House

Touching mementoes from those who didn't make it back from World War I still hang in one of New York's oldest bars.

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Daredevil Tattoo Museum

This iconic tattoo shop has its own onsite museum with artifacts from the early history of modern body art.

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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 Jane Hotel

This historic building housed the surviving crew members of the Titanic, who were left destitute after the wreck.

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Venetian Room

This lavish room at NYC's French Embassy is a rare relic from the end of the Gilded Age.

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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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Death Avenue Plaque

Manhattan's deadly West Side railroad, which killed hundreds of New Yorkers, is remembered by this simple plaque.

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Joanne Hendricks Cookbooks

Unusual books about food and drink abound in this 19th-century New York townhouse.

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Poster House Museum

The first museum in the United States dedicated entirely to posters.

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Ear Inn

One of the city’s oldest watering holes was originally the home of a famous James Brown (not that one).

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Bonnie Slotnick Cookbooks

Spiral-bound community recipes and antiquarian gems mingle at this small East Village shop.

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