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Book SynopsisLet Secret New York guide you around the unusual and unfamiliar. Step off the beaten track with this fascinating and unusual New York guide book and let our local experts show you the well-hidden treasures of this amazing city. Ideal for local inhabitants, curious visitors and armchair travellers alike. The places included in our guides are unusual and unfamiliar, allowing one to step off the beaten track. Now in it's third edition, Secret New York - An Unusual Guide features 200 secret and unusual locations. Inside Secret New York - An Unusual Guide : Admire an apocalyptic pillar in a church, relax in secret gardens, discover the New York version of the Sagrada Familia, visit a secret metro tunnel, contemplate an elephant electrocuted, find bullet impacts outside the Bank JP Morgan, observe the stars with a university telescope, find a statue of Lenin, fly your skirt in the same place as Marilyn Monroe, explore a room filled with earth, discover a gigantic Venetian palace above an old stable, visit an island whose independence was proclaimed from a canoe in 2004, discover the 'pig' of St. Patrick's Cathedral, play scrabble with the signs of Queens, find out where is the last tooth of Washington, find the house who hides a metro mouth, locate a plaque in memory of an event of another dimension, have your bike or elephant blessed , go get inspected any natural quirk at an annual professional identification session ... Away from the crowds and cliches, New York always has surprises for those who know how to think outside the box. An indispensable guide for those who know how to wander off the beaten track. Don't miss - Each chapter of this Secret New York An Unusual Guide travel guide book corresponds to a different neighbourhood of the city so that one can always find a hidden or secret place to discover. Perfectly planned walks - Make sure that you do not miss any Secret location, by discovering each one featured in this guide by planning a walking tour of each neighbourhood.
Table of ContentsSugar House Prison Window City Seals of the Surrogate's Court Ghost Stops on the 6 Train The Liberty Pole The Crown on St Paul's Pulpit The Obelisk of William Macneven Harbors of the World Irish Hunger Memorial Sidewalk Clock on Maiden Lane Vaults of the Federal Reserve Bank Scale Model at the American International Building Museum of American Finance A cornerstone left over from the Original Bank of New York Trinity's tombstone Riddle Blast marks on the Morgan Bank The Buttonwood Tree Foundations of Lovelace Tavern Elevated Acre George Washington's tooth The fence at Bowling Green Belgium on the Customs House Netherlands Monument Flagpole American Merchant Mariners' Memorial Graffiti columns on Ellis Island The lost water of Manhattan Broad Street The Collect Pond Minetta Brook Croton Aqueduct Manhole Covers The New York Earth Room The Floating Map on Greene Street The Haughwout Building Kehila Kenosha Janina Synagogue Hua-Mei Bird Men of Sara D. Roosevelt Park The Slave Galleries at St Augustine's 39-41 Henry Street Green Man Doyers Street Tunnel Shearith Israel Cemetery Broadway Clock Tower StoryCorps Cortlandt Alley Hollow Sidewalks Wampum Dream House Criminal Court Audrey Munson Face of St Ann's Roman Catholic Church A.T. Stewart's Broken Vault Stuyvesant Street The Reward Poster for John Wilkes Booth Museum of the American Gangster The Hare Krishna Tree Other notable trees in New York Kymaerica Plaque Lenin on Houston Roof Houses New York Marble Cemetery Merchant's House and the Ghost of Gertrude Tredwell Sylvette Time Landscape De Forest House Angel in Adoration at Judson Memorial Church Washington's motto on the Memorial Arch 18 West 11th Street The Last Gaslight Lamppost Palazzo Ghupi Westbeth Residence at the Old Bell Laboratories "Moneybags" Marie's Crisis The Old Nabisco Factory 7000 Oaks The Players Grand Lodge of the Freemasons The Eagles of Old Penn Station Herald Square Clock Appellate Court Holocaust Memorial The Roscoe Conkling Monument Metropolitan Life Tower Winnie-the-Pooh at the Library Daily News building lobby Superman's newspaper Manhattan Solstice Actors' Chapel, St Malachy's The Brill Building Big Apple Corner Austrian Cultural Forum Section of the Berlin Wall Lever House Plaza The Citigroup Center's hidden flaw The Pig of Saint Patrick's Marilyn Monroe subway gate Theosophical Society library Greenacre Park Paley Park The Cole Porter piano The Graybar Building Rats The Whispering Gallery in Grand Hotel U Thant Island Ford Foundation Atrium The Fred F. French Building The Rare Bible Collection 33 West 63rd San Juan Hill Tribute Quilt The Pythian Septuagesimo Uno Park Lord Cornbury ID Day at the Museum of Natural History Millstones of the Collegiate Reformed Protestant Dutch Church Joan of Arc Island Other fragments of the bombed Reims Cathedral The Lotus Garden Shin ran Nicholas Roerich Museum Street Deaths Glacial Erratics Phrenology in Central Park The Elm Trees of Central Park The Witch of Bethesda Terrace Kentucky Coffee Trees Equestrian Statue of King Jagiello Granite Statue of Alexander Hamilton Seneca Andrew Haswell Green Memorial Bench Paintings in the Stettheimer Dollhouse Squadron A Armoury Islamic Cultural Center The Ziegfeld Head The Murals of Bemelmans Bar Dwellings on Madison Avenue Veterans Room in the Seventh Regiment Armory Mount Vernon Hotel Museum The Portals of Paradise Blessings of the Bicycles The Peace Foundation Church of Notre Dame Harlem Fire Watchtower The Wishing Tree Bear and Faun The hidden Owl of Alma Mater Rutherfurd Observatory Splitting the First Atom Riverside Church Carillon Riverside Labyrinth Butterfield Statue Amiable Child Monument Freedom Tunnel Our Lady of Lourdes Church Hamilton Grange Audubon's Grave Marker Birds of America Portolan Chart Brush Stairway and Old Polo Grounds The Little Red Lighthouse Loews 175th Move Palace Top of the High Bridge tower Bennett Park America's first woman soldier Mother Cabrini Shrine The Lavaudieu Torso of Christ Dyckman Farmhouse Milestone No. 12 Indian Caves of Inwood Hill West 230th Street Marble Hill The Garabedian House Superman Portrait at Lehman College Stars Gravesite Poe cottage The Mystery of Marie Roget The Hall of Fame Primeval Forest Lorillard Snuff Mill Monkey House, Bronx Zoo Lorelei Fountain Hell Gate Steinway Piano Factory Secret Marks Marine Air Terminal Louis Armstrong House Quaker Meeting hOUse George Fox Stone and the Flushing remonstrance The Ganesh Temple The Grave Marker of the Matinecoc Indians Living Museum Triumph of civic virtue 5pointz Troma headquarters The Panorama The City Reliquary Prison Ship Martyrs Monument Masstransiscope Plymouth Rock at Plymouth Church Another Plymouth Rock Fragment 58 Joralemon Street The Doors of our Lady of Lebanon Warren Place Fliers' and Explorers' Globe Lost Columbus of Cadman Plaza Mosaic House Canoeing the Gowns Canal Stephen Baltz Memorial Quaker Cemetery 770 Eastern Parkway Fatih Mosque Ervin The New Utrecht Liberty Pole Topsy Memorial HARP at Floyd Bennett Field Breezy Point Chinese Scholar's Garden The Watering Place Stone The Boneyard of Arthur Kill
