Discover Secret New York: hidden places off the beaten track, historical oddities, quirky bars, sites of the unusual and the unknown.
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55 Water Street - The Elevated Acre
55 Water Street is an officious-looking financial district towerblock with a delightful secret - the elevated acre, an …
2 Broadway
2 Broadway is a thick 32-storey building in Manhattan's Financial District. It's so thick in fact that it's in breach o…
Erie Basin
As strange as its name suggests, Erie Basin is what you get when you force a furniture giant to make a public park. In …
Greenpoint Terminal Market
Over the years former Brooklyn industrial hub Greenpoint Terminal Market has witnessed worker riots, urban blight, fera…
Gottscheer Hall
A unique NYC eatery with origins in a European settlement from the early 1300s, Gottscheer Hall is a great place to hav…
Jefferson Market Library
Jefferson Market Library is a 19th Century former courthouse in Greenwich Village that has been described as a mock Neu…
Red Hook Winery
New York has been growing grapes for wine since the 17th Century, but it's not exactly a household name in the trade. B…
MoMath (Museum of Mathematics)
Robots, lasers, monkeys and a square-wheeled trike, these are just some of the mathemtical wonders that MoMath, The Mus…
Cherokee Apartments
This inconspicuous 20th Century housing complex was built with a very specific purpose in mind: to house poor families …
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