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Chelsea Hotel
The prime sight on noisy 23rd St is a redbrick hotel with ornate iron balconies and no fewer than seven plaques declaring its literary landmark status. Even before the Sex Pistols' Sid Vicious murdered girlfriend Nancy Spungeon here, the hotel was famous as a hangout for the likes of Mark Twain, Thomas Wolfe, Dylan Thomas and Arthur Miller. Jack Kerouac allegedly crafted On the Road during one marathon session here.
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New York Marble Cemetery
Manhattan's first nonsectarian burial spot, dating from the 1800s, has a wonderful air of history and decay. It's where many prominent New Yorkers are getting their permanent rest.
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New York Stock Exchange
Although Wall Street is the widely recognised symbol for US capitalism, the world's best-known stock exchange (NYSE) is actually right here on Broad Street. Before it closed to the public due to stepped-up security measures, more than 700,000 visitors a year passed behind the portentous Romanesque facade to see where about a billion shares change hands daily.
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New York University
In 1831 Albert Gallatin (buried in Trinity Church cemetery), Secretary of Treasury under President Thomas Jefferson, founded an intimate center of higher learning open to all students, regardless of race or class. Now it's a mammoth urban campus filled with 50,000 students. Check out the main buildings around Washington Sq Park.
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The Dakota
A turreted, gabled building described in 1884 as so far uptown it was in 'the Dakotas,' this sand-colored gem quickly became the epitome of cool, housing Boris Karloff, Rudolph Nureyev, Lauren Bacall, and most famously, John Lennon, who was fatally shot at its gated entrance.
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Washington Mews
Private stables converted into homes line one side of the picturesque Washington Mews. Gaslights and horses have disappeared, but the tiny alley still embodies the essence of old New York. Famous residents include writers Sherwood Anderson and Walter Lippman, and artist Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, founder of the Whitney Museum. It's surrounded now by New York University, which owns some of the properties.
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