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Cherokee Apartments

This Upper East Side apartment co-op was designed as a tuberculosis sanitarium.
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Number One, Broadway

Currently housing a corporate bank branch this building at the southern tip of Manhattan was once the gateway to luxury vacationing.
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Rucker Park

The legendary court where emerging basketball players gain their street cred.
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Cherry Street Gang Warfare

Gang fights don't just happen on the streets, they happen under them too.
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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.
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St. George's Syrian Catholic Church

This vacant church in the Financial District was once the heart of New York's first Syrian immigrant community.
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Harry Jenning's Rat Pit of the Five Points

This humble historic facade hides a history of boozing and the gentlemanly sport of rat-fighting.
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Saint Vartan Armenian Cathedral

A replica of a 7th-century church hides in plain sight in the middle of the concrete jungle.
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The Former New Brighton Athletic Club

These historic buildings once housed the headquarters of one of the most infamous gangs of New York.
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Amiable Child Monument

One of the only single-person private gravesites in New York City.
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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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190 Bowery

The greatest real estate coup of all time.
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Edward Mooney House

Built just after the American Revolution, the oldest row house in New York City still stands in Chinatown.
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Electric Lady Studios

Jimi Hendrix's legendary recording studio in Greenwich Village.
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Henry Bliss Plaque

A memorial to the first person killed by a motor vehicle in the Western Hemisphere.
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The 'Goodnight Moon' House (Cobble Court)

Hidden behind a gate in Greenwich Village is a little farmhouse that once served as the writing studio of a bestselling author.
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Water Tower

This translucent sculpture represents a quintessential component of New York City's skyline.
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New York Cancer Hospital

This castle-like building in Manhattan helped destigmatize cancer in the 19th century.
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Tompkins Square Temperance Fountain

A reminder to choose water over wine since 1888.
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The Wendel House

The former home of the reclusive "Weird Wendels" who dominated New York real estate a century before Donald Trump.
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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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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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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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Audubon Mural Project

Walking around West Harlem reveals a scavenger hunt of beautiful bird murals.