10 Hidden Gems in New York City Most People Walk Right Past
10 landmarks with verified facts and stories
African Burial Ground
290 Broadway, New York, NY 10007
Beneath Broadway, near City Hall, lie the remains of an estimated fifteen thousand free and enslaved Africans.
City Hall Subway Station
Manhattan, New York, United States
Beneath City Hall is the most beautiful subway station in New York, and it has been closed since nineteen forty-five.
Federal Hall
26 Wall St, New York, NY 10005
Everyone walks past this building to photograph the Stock Exchange across the street.
Green-Wood Cemetery
500 25th St, Brooklyn, New York, 11232, United States
By the eighteen sixties, more people visited Green-Wood Cemetery each year than any attraction in America except Niagara Falls.
Smallpox Hospital Ruins
New York, United States
On the southern tip of Roosevelt Island — a narrow strip of land in the East River between Manhattan and Queens — stand the Gothic Revival ruins of a hospital built to quarantine smallpox patients from the rest of New York City.
St. Patrick's Old Cathedral
263 Mulberry St, New York, NY 10012
This is not the famous St.
Stone Street
Stone St, Manhattan, New York, 10004, United States
In sixteen fifty-eight, the residents of Breuers Straet in New Amsterdam were so annoyed by the dust and mud on their street that they petitioned the Dutch colonial government for permission to pave it — at their own expense.
Tenement Museum
103 Orchard St, New York, NY 10002
An estimated fifteen thousand people from over twenty nations lived in this building between eighteen sixty-three and two thousand.
The Cloisters
99 Margaret Corbin Dr, New York, NY 10040
Somebody dismantled five medieval European monasteries, shipped them across the Atlantic stone by stone, and rebuilt them on a hilltop in northern Manhattan overlooking the Hudson River.
The Hess Triangle
New York, United States
Look down at the sidewalk on the corner of Seventh Avenue and Christopher Street.
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