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History is alive at every corner in Boston, Philadelphia, and Washington D.C., but “Old New York” barely exists anymore. There is one standout exception, one of the last existing buildings from New York’s golden age of commerce still stands and is open to visitors: Merchant’s House Museum.
The Merchant’s House Museum is a restored 19th-century […]
Sniffen Court, one of New York’s only “gated communities,” is located at 150-158 East 36th Street (between Third Ave and Lexington Ave) (map), The buildings were built between 1863-64 and were used as stables by the residents of Murray Hill. Since then, the buildings have undergone renovations and are now 10 individual houses. The […]
New York can be a very daunting city to get to know. There are numerous tour companies that take visitors from tourist attraction-to-tourist attraction. Visitors often spend days in the city and leave without ever seeing anything beyond Times Square and the Statue of Liberty. If you really want to get to […]
Marking the opening of the first tavern in Boston in 1634, today is officially known as Tavern Day. In New York City there is no better place to kick back a few ales than at the East Village establishment that has been the source of inspiration for over a century, McSorley’s Old Ale House.
McSorley’s […]
This President’s Day escape the bustle of the city and pay homage to American Civil War General and United States President Ulysses S. Grant. Grant is interred, along with his wife Julia, at the General Grant National Memorial, better known as Grant’s Tomb.
Designed by architect John Duncan, the granite and marble structure was completed […]
Take a walk through Brooklyn into such neighborhoods as Bedford Stuyvesant, Park Slope, and Fort Greene, and you’ll notice the incredible number of brownstones. These days, it seems that any townhouse or rowhouse is called a brownstone, but originally the term brownstone was used to describe a house that was made of the chocolatey […]
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