Manhattan
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The Creepiest Hospital Grounds in Manhattan (Arkham Asylum in NYC?)
From the 20’s-30’s, First Avenue is better known as Hospital Row. Lined with numerous medical facilities, including Bellevue and NYU Hospital, there are a lot of fascinating buildings to be found… …but my favorite is the old Bellevue Psychiatric Hospital at 30th & 1st: Bellevue Psych is one of those buildings that looks absolutely beautiful…
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The Mysterious 10-Foot Wide Brownstone on East 37th Street
I swear, I’ve taken the East 37th Street exit from the Midtown Tunnel a zillion times over the years and I’ve never noticed it before… Which, frankly makes sense: look down the rest of 37th Street from 3rd Ave and you’d never know anything is out of the ordinary. But yesterday, stuck in traffic and…
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The Sideways Library
When is a bookcase not a bookcase? When it’s the floor… ..and ceiling and walls to D’Espresso cafe at 317 Madison Ave, famous for having been designed as a library turned sideways! I was a little disappointed when I first went saw it in person that the designer had used images of books instead of…
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1970’s Porno Reveals Long Gone West Village Gas Station! (100% work safe)
For the longest time, I’ve wondered about that odd little building at the corner of Commerce Street and Seventh Avenue South. Shaped like a triangle, it occupies one of the weirdest plots of land in New York… …and even has one of the few white picket fences in the city! 46 Seventh Ave South was…