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Guide to the NYBG Holiday Train Show, An Annual Love Letter to NYC
Discover which NYC buildings—both lost and extant—have been recreated out of plants!
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Watch Trailer for In The Heights, New Movie from Lin Manuel-Miranda about Washington Heights
The trailer for the highly anticipated film, In the Heights from Lin Manuel-Miranda of Hamilton fame and Jon M. Chu,
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Secret “FDR Train Car” No Longer Beneath Grand Central (And Was Never His!)
Like all of the most beloved places around the world, Grand Central Terminal is full of myths. After all, the
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Tin Pan Alley on 28th Street Designated NYC Landmark
Within the former Tenderloin district, Tin Pan Alley was the tiny sliver of a block of 28th Street between Broadway
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Inside Abandoned Fairfield Hills State Psychiatric Hospital in Newtown, Connecticut
In Newtown, Connecticut stands the ruins of a stately psychiatric hospital. The Fairfield Hills State Hospital opened in 1931, with
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Subtle Mosaic Art in Subway Pays Tribute to Lost Penn Station
The redesigned entrance into the 34th Street-Penn Station subway station (on the 1/2/3 lines) opened to little fanfare
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A Gravestone Modeled After the 1939 World’s Fair at Kensico Cemetery
Kensico Cemetery in Valhalla, New York is one of those sprawling, rural cemeteries with winding roads, bucolic hills, lakes, and
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Live Jazz at The Campbell, Grand Central’s Secret Speakeasy
The Campbell, formerly the Campbell Apartment, is the jazz-age speakeasy located inside a spectacular space in Grand Central Terminal. And
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Fun Maps: NYC is Most Linguistically Diverse Urban Area in the World
Did you know that New York City residents collectively speak at least 637 languages and dialects? A recent impressive map
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NYC Filming Locations for The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel on Amazon
Photo courtesy Amazon Studios The Amazon Prime original series The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel is back for its third season! The
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A Blockbuster Video Pop Up Shop Opens in NYC Friday
Header photo courtesy Dumbgood The last of the Blockbuster Video stores closed in 2014 (apart from a last private franchise
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Brooklyn Heights Transformed into 1920s for the Filming of Passing with Alexander Skarsgard
All photos, including header image, by Caroline McCarthy If you walked through Brooklyn Heights recently, you may have suddenly been
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Photos: The 2019 Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree is Lit!
This year’s Rockefeller Christmas tree hails from Florida (in the state of New York) and was first purchased as