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    "description": "While it’s not smallest piece of park property in New York, Septuagesimo Uno is still a charmingly diminutive plot of land, occupying a mere 0.04 acres between two townhouses on West 71st Street. The creation of the park may date to Mayor John Lindsay’s era, but its roots lie in the Commissioners Plan of 1811, which laid out the Manhattan grid system of roads with 12 avenues and 155 cross-streets. Parks were included in the plan at 53rd, 66th, 77th and 120th Streets. But, while the plan was effective at predicting and handling the explosive growth the city would experience over the next 150 years, it ultimately failed to provide enough parkland for recreation. To help alleviate demand, Mayor Lindsay started up the Vest Pocket Park campaign, which squeezed public space in wherever it could. The lot on 71st Street was condemned in 1969, landscaped by the city and eventually handed over to the stewardship of the NYC Parks Department in 1981. As for its name? It’s Latin for “seventy-one,” and was appended by parks commissioner Henry J. Stern in 2000 after a $14,325 renovation. Its original name was the much blander “71st Street Plot.”Septuagesimo Uno is located on the south side of 71st street between West End and Amsterdam Avenues; the closest subway is the 1/2/3 a block away on Broadway. The park closes at dusk.Sign up for our newsletter and get the best of Atlas Obscura in your inbox.",
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    "description": "“Everything had a lounging, listless, madhouse air, which was very painful. The moping idiot, cowering down with long disheveled hair; the gibbering maniac, with his hideous laugh and pointed finger; the vacant eye, the fierce wild face, the gloomy picking of the hands and lips, and munching of the nails: there they were all, without disguise, in naked ugliness and horror.” -Charles Dickens, 1842Built in 1834, the new insane asylum on Blackwell’s Island, today known as Roosevelt Island, was designed to be a new model for mental health, located on the island countryside outside of the bustle of the big city. But almost from the beginning the asylum became known for its underfunding and overcrowding, for the staff’s neglect and the inmates’ desperately abysmal living conditions. Patients dropped dead from outbreaks of typhus and cholera, and even the easily preventable scourge of scurvy took its toll on the malnourished inmates. Long after Dickens’ visit conditions continued to decline.In September of 1887, a young reporter for the New York World concocted an elaborate ruse to get herself committed to the asylum in order to report on the conditions from within. “Ten Days in a Mad House” went on to be Nellie Bly’s breakthrough piece of journalism, not only proving her mettle as a truly extraordinary young journalist but also bringing much-needed attention to the dismal conditions within the city’s metal health system.In part, she wrote, “What, excepting torture, would produce insanity quicker than this treatment? Here is a class of women sent to be cured. I would like the expert physicians who are condemning me for my action, which has proven their ability, to take a perfectly sane and healthy woman, shut her up and make her sit from 6 a.m. until 8 p.m. on straight-back benches, do not allow her to talk or move during these hours, give her no reading and let her know nothing of the world or its doings, give her bad food and harsh treatment, and see how long it will take to make her insane. Two months would make her a mental and physical wreck.”At least in part as a result of her exposé, the institute was given nearly a million dollars in additional funding to improve the facilities and care on Blackwell’s.The architecture, on the other hand, was gorgeous. Dickens, despite his above comments, was actually charmed by the building itself, calling it “spacious and elegant.” The building was designed by noted New York architect Alexander Jackson Davis, and its distinctive blue-grey stone was quarried on the island. The building’s beautiful spiral stairway and domed cap were added in 1878.After the asylum’s tenants were relocated at the end of the century to nearby Ward’s Island, the building was renamed Metropolitan Hospital and remained in use as a general-purpose health care center until the 1950s. Since then, various plans for the historic building were proposed but never enacted, and it slowly began to crumble. By the early 2000s, after nearly a century of neglect, the building was a ruin: an empty shell, a victim of neglect and fire, with a collapsed ceiling and nearing the point of no return.In 2006, the property was purchased and the building converted into a residential complex. The trademark octagon tower is the only part of the original building remaining, preserved on the exterior, but completely re-designed inside including a new, modern metal spiral staircase.Although a plaque at the entrance attempts to detail the site’s history, the web site for the current residential building makes no mention of the asylum, or of Nellie Bly’s famous stay, and only notes that Dickens found the physical building to be “remarkable,” conveniently leaving out the bits about gibbering maniacs and naked ugliness.Sign up for our newsletter and get the best of Atlas Obscura in your inbox.",
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    "description": "Collyer Brothers Park is a small pocket park in Harlem, providing a temporary reprieve from the surrounding urban sprawl. But visitors taking a break on one of the park’s benches may be surprised to know that the park only exists because of the bizarre behavior of two brothers that would eventually result in their grisly death.Homer Lusk Collyer was born in New York City in 1881, with his brother Langley born three years later. Their father, Herman, was a successful Manhattan gynecologist and their mother, Susie, was a former opera singer. Both brothers attended Columbia University and Homer eventually became a lawyer and Langley a concert-level pianist.Although the brothers had shown signs of eccentricity in their youth, their problems began to intensify in 1919 when, for unknown reasons, their father abandoned the family. When their mother died six years later, the brothers took all their possessions and moved them into the brownstone mansion for which they would achieve their infamy. Around that time, the neighborhood was becoming popular with African Americans and two wealthy white brothers in their forties began to look out of place in the minority neighborhood. Perhaps because of this, there were several attempts to break in and local children often threw rocks at the windows. The brothers became paranoid and boarded up their windows, with Langley rigging up the house with various booby traps. From then on, they became recluses, although Langley was occasionally seen outside, scavenging through garbage cans for food to bring back for his brother, who was slowly being ravaged by rheumatism and blindness.Apart from a few isolated incidents, they were rarely seen or heard until March 21, 1947, when the police were tipped off about a possible dead body in the house. They broke down the door and were confronted with piles of junk so large that it took them two hours to find Homer’s corpse dressed in an old bathrobe with his filthy gray hair reaching down to his shoulders. On March 30, false rumors circulated that Langley had boarded a bus for Atlantic City, but on April 8, nearly three weeks after the alarm was first raised, his decomposing body was found just ten feet from where his brother had perished. He had been crawling through a tunnel of newspapers when he had activated one of his own booby traps, which crushed him. His paralyzed brother starved to death several days later.In total, 130 tons of junk was removed from the house, including baby carriages, rusted bicycles, a collection of guns, glass chandeliers, bowling balls, camera equipment, three dressmaking dummies, painted portraits, plaster busts, rusty bed springs, 25,000 books, eight live cats, hundreds of yards of unused silks and fabric, clocks, 14 pianos, and a selection of pickled human organs in jars. The brothers were buried in Brooklyn and the same year, the house was torn down. By the 1960s, it was being used as a park, leaving future generations to dwell on the brothers’ strange and tragic lives.On the corner of Fifth Ave. and 128th St. The nearest subway is 125th St. (Martin Luther King Junior Blvd.).Sign up for our newsletter and get the best of Atlas Obscura in your inbox.",
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    "description": "The Waldorf-Astoria is rightly regarded as one of the world’s great luxury hotels. A byword for New York glamour and opulence since it opened its gleaming art-deco doors in 1931, it has been home to such glittering names as Marilyn Monroe and Grace Kelly. It is the only hotel in America to have been the residence of three 5-star generals (Eisenhower, Bradley, and MacArthur), and every US president since Herbert Hoover has stayed there. No wonder owner Conrad Hilton called it “the Greatest of Them All.”Hidden away around the corner on the Mezzanine floor of the Park Avenue entrance, out of sight to all the well-heeled passersby, sits an elderly and well used grand piano. It has a small brass plaque on it, which says “Some of the loveliest songs in American musical history were composed on this Steinway.” It once belonged to one of the hotel’s most famous residents, but now forgotten and unused, here lies the final resting place of Cole Porter’s piano. The original Waldorf-Astoria started in the 1890s as two adjacent hotels run by feuding relatives of the Astor family; William Waldorf Astor and John Jacob Astor. Occupying the corner of Fifth Avenue on what is now the site of the Empire State Building, the quarreling cousins eventually put aside their differences, and built a corridor connecting their hotels. Giving rise to the hyphenated Waldorf-Astoria, the hyphen represented the illustrious “Peacock Alley,” the gilded corridor which was the place for the cities wealthiest and prettiest women to see and be seen. The need to modernize saw the hotel move to its Park Avenue location in 1931, and was at the time, the world’s largest and grandest hotel. Three years later Cole Porter moved into his luxurious rooms on the 33rd floor. With six bedrooms, a marble entryway, and panoramic views of Park Avenue, Porter kept his apartment until his death in 1964. Already one of America’s pre-eminent songwriters and composers, Porter kept a 1907 Steinway grand piano in his apartment. Decorated with suitably elegant flowers, gilt edges, and inlaid carvings of partying Regency-era courtesans, it was on this piano that Cole Porter wrote some of his most loved and famous songs including Anything Goes, I Get a Kick Out of You, You’re the Top, and I’ve Got You Under My Skin.An in-famous bon vivant, giver of lavish parties and writer of elegantly witty songs filled with sexual innuendo, one wonders at what exquisite cocktail evenings took place up on the 33rd floor around the piano which he named “High Society.” After Porter’s death in 1964, the piano remained in the hotel, and for 14 years it was lovingly played in the hotel lobby by Daryl Sherman, herself an elegant throwback to Manhattan’s once elegant nightlife. But a change of ownership in 2007 saw Sherman shown the door and the piano put aside. Today Cole Porter’s apartment, 33A, currently rents for $150,000 a month and was, until eclipsed by the Astor suite at the Plaza Hotel, New York’s most expensive apartment. But the piano where he wrote, “You’re the top....you’re a Waldorf salad,” has been shuffled off to the side of the Mezzanine, where it sits unplayed and unnoticed. A forgotten relic of New York sophistication and a golden era, described in the words of its elegant owner, “In olden days a glimpse of stocking was looked on as something shocking, but now, God knows, Anything Goes.” Including shuffling off an important American artifact.  Sign up for our newsletter and get the best of Atlas Obscura in your inbox.",
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    "description": "Behind impressive heavy doors and ornate turn-of-the-century stained glass windows lies the Explorers Club headquarters on East 70th Street.Founded in 1904 by seven leading polar explorers of the era, the Explorers Club fosters the scientific exploration of land, sea, air and space. The 1910 Jacobean revival mansion was originally built for Stephen Clark, grandson of the co-founder of the Singer Sewing Machine Company. The Explorers Club purchased the building from the Clark family in 1960 after Stephen’s death. It became the international headquarters in 1965. Prior to this, they had several locations in New York City.It is known as the Lowell Thomas building, named after the famed writer, broadcaster and Explorers Club member best known for making Lawrence of Arabia famous.A century’s worth of exploration treasures fill the floors. The ground floor member lounge houses a few of their polar artifacts. On your way up to the second floor, you won’t be able to miss the giant globe used by Thor Heyerdahl to plan his famous Kon-Tiki expedition.Percy, the polar bear, greets you on the second floor. As you head into the library, you will see The Rescue of Greeley, painted within hours of their rescue in 1884. The library holds a tiny fraction of the 13,000 books that make up the research and archives collection. All lectures and events are held in the Clark room. The walls proudly display a few of the retired expedition flags from historic explorations. A sled from the 1909 North Pole expedition and an extremely rare set of double elephant tusks from the Congo can also be found here.The uppermost floor is home to the research archives, holding the club’s impressive collection of 13,000 books, 1,000 museum objects, 5,000 maps and 500 films.The Gallery on the top floor is the room everyone wants to see. In the early days of the Explorers Club when travel was difficult and field photography was relatively new, hunting and taxidermy were thought to be the best way to preserve animals for education and research. Here you will see taxidermied animals from many decades past. Objects from the far corners of the world, including a narwhal tusk, wooly mammoth tusk (ask about the famous 1951 Explorers Club dinner) and the famous yeti scalp.Scaffolding was recently removed, revealing the results of a five-year long refurbishment of the building’s facade, but work continues to preserve the building. Visitors are welcome during opening hours. Group tours can be scheduled by contacting reservations. Regular talks with exploration greats are held in the Clark Room from September - June. Sign up for our newsletter and get the best of Atlas Obscura in your inbox.",
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    "description": "The tramway from Manhattan to Roosevelt Island is one of the most spectacular ways to travel in New York City. The gondola zips over the East River, leaving the city’s iconic skyline in its wake. But traveling to Roosevelt Island wasn’t always an aerial affair. A lone kiosk under the Queensboro Bridge is a forgotten reminder of the area’s shuttered street trolley system.Starting in 1909, beautiful Beaux-Arts kiosks serviced a trolley line which ran from Second Avenue in Manhattan and from Queens on the other side of the East River. The trolleys would stop on the bridge, where riders could descend by elevator to Roosevelt Island, which back then was known as Welfare Island because of the many hospitals located there.There were once five kiosks, ornately decorated with copper roofs and colored, glazed tiles. When the street trolleys stopped running in 1957, three of the structures were sadly demolished. One was moved in the 1970s to the Brooklyn Children’s Museum, where it also faced being destroyed. Saved by the Roosevelt Island Historical Society, it was restored and transported back to the island, where it currently serves today as a visitor center.Only one of the old kiosks can still be found in its original location, on Second Avenue between 59th and 60th streets, just underneath the bridge and tramway. The green and white structure is fenced in on a traffic island, where it sits empty, forlorn, and largely unnoticed amid the constant traffic crossing the bridge. The stairs no longer lead to the old trolley line, which was replaced by roads, and the doors marked “Entrance” and “Exit” remain unused, no longer witnesses to a steady stream of pedestrians.The unused kiosk is on a no-man's land traffic island with no pedestrian paths that allow easy access to it. Be very careful if you attempt to cross the street to see it as there is fast-moving traffic getting on and off the bridge here. The second kiosk is on Roosevelt Island and is used as a visitor center.Sign up for our newsletter and get the best of Atlas Obscura in your inbox.",
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    "description": "Mysteries have always been around and always been popular, but they haven’t always been respected. Otto Penzler has had a significant hand in that transformation. He’s probably the most important figure in the history of mystery fiction who’s never written a mystery story. You get into Otto Penzler’s New York office through a door in the Mysterious Bookshop, the world’s oldest and biggest bookstore focusing on mystery, crime fiction, espionage, and thrillers. The door is roped off with a big X made of yellow police tape reading CRIME SCENE DO NOT CROSS. Down a flight of stairs, his office is a low-ceilinged basement cube with floor-to-ceiling bookshelves on all four sides, stocked with anthologies and first editions as well as a random sampling of mass-market hardcovers and paperbacks. If the office was a store by itself, it would be the second-best mystery bookstore in the world. Penzler is the owner of the Mysterious Bookshop (founded 1979) as well as The Mysterious Press, a publishing imprint he founded in 1975, and mysteriouspress.com, his ebook publisher. He has published most of the greats of mystery and crime fiction: Raymond Chandler, James M. Cain, James Ellroy, Ross Thomas, Patricia Highsmith, Ross Macdonald, Ed McBain. Any of the major authors he hasn’t published are probably at least good friends of his.The Mysterious Bookshop itself. Today the store is down in Tribeca, on a block that doesn’t suggest anything important in the literary world. It’s next to a Le Pain Quotidien and a few doors down from a 7-Eleven. (It was first located on 56th Street in Manhattan, in a building Penzler owned because it was cheaper to buy—New York was different back then.) Inside, every square inch of walls leading up to what must be 20-foot ceilings are packed with any book in which someone violently dies. There is an entire section for Sherlock Holmes books, including the many spinoffs written by dozens of authors. There are copies of long-defunct detective magazines like Black Mask. There is an entire section for what Penzler calls bibliomysteries—mystery books involving mysterious books. Murdered librarians, valuable manuscripts, that kind of thing.The bookstore is not twee. There are no props, aside from the caution tape; no pranks, no cute designs or artworks. This is a temple to the noble mystery, a place where people who can name all of Donald E. Westlake’s pseudonyms talk about one of the most enduring genres in the history of literature.Sign up for our newsletter and get the best of Atlas Obscura in your inbox.",
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    "description": "The corner of 10th and A in Manhattan’s East Village is hardly the place one would expect to find a beautiful piece of medical history, but tucked in the back corner of Obscura Antiques and Oddities is a piece of history and part of an anatomical revolution.The early 1800’s were a frustrating time to be a medical student. Corpses were difficult to obtain, illegal to dissect, and without refrigeration one had to work fast before the corpse began to decompose. Wax anatomical models were available for study but they were expensive, fragile, and by no means meant to be handled by mere medical students. What the medical world needed was cheap, durable anatomy models.Louis Thomas Jérôme Auzoux, a young French medical student, was strolling down the streets of Paris when he saw the answer. The toys sold to children on the street were durable, lightweight, and could be modeled into any shape. The answer was papier-mâché. The young student began working on an anatomical model immediately. By creating a secret papier-mâché mixture containing calcium carbonate and powdered cork, he made the models exceptionally strong.In 1822, the year of his graduation, Auzoux presented his first anatomical model to the Paris Academy of Medicine and five years later he opened his own papier-mâché anatomical model factory. He produced beautiful anatomical models, and later zoological, veterinary, and even botanical models. Unlike the wax models, they were durable, and even better, they could be taken apart into all their individual organs and then reassembled. The models, and Auzoux, became a huge success.Tucked away in the back of Obscura Antiques and Oddities stands a full Auzoux medical model. Apparently, it is a later Auzoux model made from resin rather then papier-mâché, weighs a ton, and has a distinct, but not unpleasant, sweet smell in the heat of summer.Obscura is a fantastic and charming store containing an astonishing variety of medical antiques, turn-of-the-century taxidermy, “memorial photographs, medical art prints, taxidermied pets, shadow boxes, fraternal organization memorabilia, prosthetic limbs, Victorian mourning jewelry, magic lantern slides, collections of pinned insects, funereal ephemera, stereoscopic cards, carnival castoffs, two-headed fetal pigs, a jar of worms, corsets, top hats, glass-fronted cabinets, Victorian vitrines,” and many other delightful odds and ends. The owners are friendly, knowledgeable, and enthusiastic about the curiosities they sell.Sign up for our newsletter and get the best of Atlas Obscura in your inbox.",
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    "description": "No one knows exactly how it happened or how it could have been helped, but one thing we all know for sure is that the way Nikola Tesla’s life ended was tragic.This brilliant innovator, outstanding intellectual, and visionary fondly known now as the “man who invented the twentieth century,” died alone and destitute, never to enjoy the fruits of his labor or wide recognition for his genius. Tesla, Father of (insert countless groundbreaking inventions here), ended his life alone and broke at the New Yorker Hotel, in Suite 3327.These days, Suite 3327 has a plaque bearing Tesla’s name, and a second plaque honoring him graces the exterior of the hotel. Engineers, scientists, geeks, UFO enthusiasts, and other admirers all make the pilgrimage here to pay homage to the “mad” scientist who changed the world before the world was ready. Tesla spent ten years in this room, slowly losing his mind, falling in love with pigeons, and occasionally meeting with dignitaries.Besides being the place Nikola laid his head to rest for the last time on this earthly plane, the dour room on the 33rd floor is also the site of a conspiracy. Tesla kept a safe in this suite, and it’s where he stored his most controversial and important scientific papers. One of the more intriguing inventions was “Tesla’s Death Ray,” the culmination of his work on particle beams. While he had shopped the weapon unsuccessfully to several governments both as the “Death Ray” and the “Peace Ray,” he swore it could not be stolen as the blueprints were only in his head. In his words: “[The nozzle would] send concentrated beams of particles through the free air, of such tremendous energy that they will bring down a fleet of 10,000 enemy airplanes at a distance of 200 miles from a defending nation’s border and will cause armies to drop dead in their tracks.”On the day after Tesla died, his nephew hurried to the New Yorker and upon arrival found that his uncle’s notebooks and several papers had been removed from Suite 3327, along with the inventor’s body. A short time later, all of his work was impounded and passed through a handful of government agencies until the War Department deemed them worthy of “Top Secret” status.Some believe he was murdered by the FBI, despite his age and health being consistent with a natural death; some think he was an alien, and he simply returned to the mothership. The rest who mourn the loss of the quirky Serbian genius feel a palpable sadness knowing that the “man who invented the 20th century” left this life mad and misunderstood, sharing his bread and honey with the pigeons, fading in a lonely New York hotel room.This 1929 Art Deco icon currently operates as The New Yorker, A Wyndham Hotel. Located in Midtown West, it offers upscale rooms and suites (including infamous suite 3327), 24-hour dining at Tick Tock Diner, event space, and birdseye views of central New York City from the Sky Lounge.Sign up for our newsletter and get the best of Atlas Obscura in your inbox.",
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    "description": "Frank Winfield Woolworth five-and-dimed his way to the top of the world, and he did it in style.When the Woolworth Building opened in 1913, President Woodrow Wilson pressed a button in the White House, and 80,000 light bulbs flashed to life on Broadway as Thomas Edison supervised. Then Edison joined a banquet for 900 other prominent guests that the New-York Tribune called “the highest dinner ever held in New York.” During the ceremonies, famed radio pastor Samuel Parkes Cadman made “cathedral of commerce” the skyscraper’s nickname for the ages.Over 100 years later, much of the original glory remains, though the general public wouldn’t know it. Master architect Cass Gilbert’s Gothic gem still gleams in lower Manhattan, but few tourists have been inside in recent years. The building’s owners for the past couple of decades closed it to casual visitors. Post-9/11 security restrictions didn’t help, either. But that’s starting to change.Thanks to the efforts of Gilbert’s great-granddaughter, Helen Post-Curry, the owners allowed private tours in 2013 for the building’s centennial celebration. A great response led to regular paid tours. The tours focus almost entirely on the lobby—in addition to the aforementioned unfortunate closures, the 57th-floor observation deck was shut down during World War II out of fear that enemy spies could exploit its harbor views—but the lobby contains plenty to illuminate the Woolworth’s soaring story.One need only look up at the grand Heinigke & Bowen stained-glass ceiling over the main stairs to grasp F.W. Woolworth’s animating vision. Border panels devoted to great empire-builders like Spain and Russia lie alongside others featuring the Woolworth “W” as well as 1913 for the building opening and 1879 for the opening of the first successful “Woolworth’s Great Five Cent Store” in Lancaster, Pennsylvania (a store in Utica, New York, failed in 1878, and Woolworth reused its sign in Lancaster).By 1910, the operation was humming along well enough for Woolworth to lay plans for a company headquarters that would be the tallest building in the world, surpassing the 700-foot Metropolitan Life Insurance skyscraper completed in 1909. Woolworth scrapped a more modest $5 million estimate, and the final bill of $13.5 million produced the 792-foot (and one inch) finished structure of 58 stories (or 80 conventional stories, since ceilings range from 11 to 20 feet). The retail baron paid for it all in cash—perhaps in nickels and dimes only, as some say, and perhaps not.It’s also said that Woolworth spared no expense on the construction. Yet despite the gaudy price tag, he couldn’t resist a bit of skimping (amusingly enough, Woolworth is counting coins in the lobby gargoyle that portrays him). The Tiffany elevator ornamentation is cast iron done up like brass, terra cotta masquerades as marble on the exterior, and interior marble touted as “Greek” was actually mined in Vermont. Woolworth hired Cass Gilbert to create a world-class, historic company monument, but he always had business in mind.“My idea was purely commercial,” he said in 1910. “I saw possibilities of making this the greatest income producing property in which I could invest my money.”The building’s construction was a media phenomenon, and Woolworth was surely pleased with its critical reception and popularity. Woolworth opened his crown jewel up just like his stores, with counters and eateries alongside plentiful retail outlets. Missteps were minimal, such as the German beer hall shunned by some patriots during World War I, though the war’s drain on construction did benefit the building overall—it remained the world’s tallest until 1930, when the Chrysler Building and then the Empire State Building were completed.The Woolworth Building finally left Woolworth hands in 1998 with a $155 million sale to the Witkoff Group, which launched a plan to turn the top 25 floors of the building tower into 34 luxury apartments. Most were offered for $7 to $10 million, though two listed at $20 million, and one seven-level “Castle in the Sky” penthouse had a city residential record $110 million price tag. The tower residences have a separate lobby and elevators as well as a restored lounge and an underground swimming pool.One wonders what the building’s namesake would think of these investment returns, not to mention the stratification of a tower rooted in mass consumption. Woolworth pursued power and status relentlessly, though, and he enjoyed his lofty position from opulent personal spaces on various floors. These included a Renaissance-style apartment on the 40th floor, private suites on the 25th floor, and a 24th-floor “Empire Room” office inspired by Woolworth’s deep Napoleon obsession. Designers there used Napoleonic palace decor, filled it with memorabilia, and made a replica throne chair to await a man who saw his stores as an empire and his staff as a military hierarchy.Unfortunately enough, Woolworth only reigned from what he called his “imperial capital” for about five years, dying at age 66 in 1919. If he were invited to the “Castle in the Sky,” he might marvel that his building is still breaking records and attracting the elite of a new gilded age. But perhaps he’d also insist on more foot traffic in the lobby.The Woolworth Building is closed to the public, but tours of the building's lobby can be reserved online. Currently, prices range from $20 for a 30-minute tour, $30 for a 60-minute tour, and $45 for a 90-minute tour.Sign up for our newsletter and get the best of Atlas Obscura in your inbox.",
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    "description": "High up on a hill overlooking the Harlem River lies not only Manhattan’s oldest home, but one of its supposedly most haunted, the stately Morris-Jumel mansion.The mansion was originally built in 1765 as the home of former British Army officer Roger Morris. When Morris fled America for England at the outbreak of the Revolutionary War, the house was confiscated along with other Loyalist properties by the Commissioners of Forfeiture. Following his defeat at the battle of Long Island in 1776, George Washington took refuge and set up his headquarters here, at the highest point in Manhattan.The house itself is a glorious example of preserved Palladian architecture. Its immaculate white framework is prominently on display atop Coogan’s Bluff, but it rests fairly anonymously way up in the Washington Heights neighborhood of Upper Manhattan, far from where most New York City tourists and visitors wander.After serving time as a popular tavern on the old Albany Post Road, the mansion was purchased by wealthy French merchant Stephen Jumel in 1810. It’s at this point in the venerable house’s history that tales of the macabre begin. Jumel brought with him his mistress, and then wife, Eliza Bowen Jumel. He remodeled the house in the popular Federal style of the time, adding a columned porch, and redecorating the interiors. At one point Stephen and Eliza were among the wealthiest families in Manhattan. They planted vineyards of Bordeaux grapes that still run wild today in neighboring Highridge Park.When they traveled to Paris, the Jumels were acquaintances of Napoleon and Josephine Bonaparte. But in New York, they were shunned by high society. Eliza came from a working-class Catholic family in Rhode Island, and cruel rumors circulated that she had worked as a child prostitute in her mother’s brothel. When Stephen Jumel died in 1832, the exact cause was unknown. Some reports had him dying from pneumonia, or from injuries sustained in a carriage accident. Others had him passing away after falling on a pitchfork. The gossip of the ladies’ parlors in Manhattan was that Eliza had opened up his dressings after the pitchfork incident and watched him bleed to death. A local medium claimed that Eliza had buried her husband alive.Regardless of how the unfortunate Stephen actually passed away, what is certain is that only months later Eliza took a new suitor: Aaron Burr, the highly controversial former Vice President of the United States who had notoriously killed Founding Father Alexander Hamilton in a duel in 1804. Despite Burr’s age (he was 77), they soon married in the front parlor of the mansion. The marriage was short-lived, however, and Burr died three years later on the exact day the divorce was granted. Eliza took to calling herself the “widow of the ex-Vice President of the United States.” Now fabulously wealthy, Eliza lived on in the giant house as a recluse, gradually falling into dementia. She was said to have walked the hallways and chambers of her mansion, her hair unkempt and her clothes soiled, haunted by the tortured souls of her past lovers. She died alone in the house in 1865 at the age of 90. The city of New York eventually purchased the mansion in 1904, and it was added to the National Register of Historic Places. Today, it’s operated as a museum with period-decorated rooms open to the public, an unusual old stately home tucked away in the hills of Washington Heights. Believers in the paranormal claim to have seen at least five ghosts inside: a serving girl, a British soldier from the Revolutionary War, the doomed Stephen Jumel, the figure of Aaron Burr, and most prominently, the figure of an elderly woman in a violet dress, the troubled old mistress of the house, Eliza Bowen Jumel.Sign up for our newsletter and get the best of Atlas Obscura in your inbox.",
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    "description": "Greenwich Locksmith is the smallest numbered building in Manhattan, and at only 125 square feet could be easily missed from a distance. Dwarfed on 7th Avenue by expensive condos and fancy restaurants, the homegrown locksmith has been a unique Greenwich Village establishment for more than 30 years.A few years ago, an artist and the owner of the shop, Phil Mortillaro, began attaching keys in a pattern on the building’s door. The metal accents made a splash in the neighborhood and the locksmith started getting more attention. Building on this rising tide of local celebrity, Montillaro then built a chair completely out of keys in front of his store, and people went crazy.While the Village was known for its art scene years ago, the area’s dynamic has markedly changed. Unhindered by the new look of his old neighborhood and armed with a sky’s-the-limit attitude, Mortillaro set out to bring back art to Greenwich. Working painstakingly for two years, he bought keys by the pound from local scrapyards, and began to work on a larger project. Mortillaro wanted to cover the entire façade of his store with a patterned key design.Slowly, he welded the keys, of all shapes, sizes, and uses onto panels, and in 2011 finished a metallic interpretation of Van Gogh’s Starry Night and a Jackson Pollock influenced-pattern, which he mounted to the building. Since then, the locksmith has turned heads on 7th Avenue and reclaimed a bit of the artsy past of the area.Harkening back to a lost era in the Village, Mortillaro has left an impressive mark on the City, and has truly made his shop an exceptional establishment. Even more unique, and worth a look for visitors in the area is his studio, just a few feet away. Featuring more of his work with keys and other metals, Mortillaro’s studio is one of the last storefront art spaces in the city. Sadly, given real-estate value in the area it might not last for long.Christopher Street Station (1, 2 Trains). Located between Commerce Street and Morton Street.Sign up for our newsletter and get the best of Atlas Obscura in your inbox.",
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    "description": "The Wonder Theatres were five giant, lavish movie palaces that opened around New York City in 1929 and 1930. While cinemas were plentiful at the time, the Wonder Theatres were a cut above the rest. Built as Loew’s flagship theatres, the opulent venues were designed with all the fabulousness of the Jazz Age, and went on to provide an escape into the fantasy of Hollywood and luxury throughout the Great Depression and Second World War. The last of the Wonder Theatres to open was the Loew’s 175th Street Theatre, today known as the United Palace Theater. It debuted on February 22, 1930, with showings of the films Their Own Desire and Pearls and vaudeville performances starring Al Shaw and Sam Lee. The theater is a sight to behold. The lavish interior, much of which is filigreed, features authentic Louis XV and XVI furnishings and ornate chandeliers, while the blocky exterior is reminiscent of Mayan architecture. Its eclectic architectural style, designed by Thomas W. Lamb, was described by The New York Times as “Byzantine-Romanesque-Indo-Hindu-Sino-Moorish-Persian-Eclectic-Rococo-Deco” and a “kitchen sink masterpiece.” With more than 3,000 seats, it is still the fourth largest venue of its kind in Manhattan. Movie palaces eventually fell out of vogue, however, and the grand Wonder Theatres fell into decline and abandon in the late 60s and through the 70s. Today, two of the theaters (the Jersey Theatre in Jersey City and Kings Theatre in Brooklyn) still serve as cinemas and performance venues. Another two (the Paradise Theatre in the Bronx and Valencia Theatre in Queens) became churches. The United Palace Theater, located in upper Manhattan’s Washington Heights, found a second life as a unique mix of both. Soon after Loew’s closed the venue in 1969 (the last film shown was 2001: A Space Odyssey) it was purchased by televangelist preacher Reverend Frederick J. Eikerenkoetter II, aka “Reverend Ike.” He renamed it the Palace Cathedral, though it became known as “Reverend Ike’s Prayer Tower.”The restorations included fixing the “Wonder Morton” pipe organ, a feature of all of the Wonder Theatres, which had gone unused for 25 years. (It has since fallen out of use again due to water damage.) Reverend Ike made only one significant change to the structure, adding a cupola to the northeast corner of the building, topped with a “Miracle Star of Faith” that is visible from New Jersey.The former Wonder Theatre still functions as a church, as well as a movie house with a 50-foot screen, and a performance venue that has brought in acts as diverse as Adele, Bob Dylan, Iggy Pop, and the Berlin Philharmonic. It also serves as a cultural and community arts center, opened by Reverend Ike’s son Xavier Eikerenkoetter, who now oversees operations of the historic venue.Sign up for our newsletter and get the best of Atlas Obscura in your inbox.",
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    "description": "Even in this internet age, finding much about Please Don’t Tell, a speakeasy on St. Mark’s Place, can be a bit difficult. Its website is one page with only a phone number to make reservations. Despite sharing space with Crif Dogs, a late night fried hot dog joint, its menu is unknown until entering (although there are still fried hot dogs). More importantly, just to get in, one must know the number to dial in the non-descript telephone booth.Of course, Yelp can provide all the answers, but that goes against the whole idea of the place. Find a friend (or a friend of a friend) who has been there and knows what to expect. That’s part of the experience.It can be easy to feel markedly out of place among the hot dog eating patrons of Crif Dogs. If you can get over your self-consciousness, and the line isn’t unbearable, PDT is a pretty cool experience. Enter the phone booth at the side of the restaurant, and wait, assuming you get through, because the coolest part of the experience is just seconds away.Accessible from 4, 6 Trains at Astor Place Station. Reservations are recommended as the bar is busy on most nights. Reservations are open by phone only at 3 p.m. daily. Without a reservation, expect waiting time for a seat to exceed an hour.Sign up for our newsletter and get the best of Atlas Obscura in your inbox.",
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    "description": "When walking down Church Street in Tribeca, keep an eye out for a black door with a cryptic white sign that reads THE DREAM HOUSE. Although this is not your typical dream house with a 4-door garage, it guarantees to be a one-of-a-kind experience, with its completely absorbing, constantly fluctuating sound waves accompanied by neon pink reflections of light.Created in 1993 by modern composer La Monte Young and visual artist Marian Zazeela (who are married to one another), this is the culmination of 40 years of their work. Zazeela explains that “together, the sound and light can be experienced as a new form or new media: the sound and light environment. The experience of the two mediums together as one requires a new, or at least different, mode of attention.” For example, unless you are completely still, be prepared to encounter a new collection of pitches with every move you make, as you encounter the various resonating sound fields created by Young.Young and Zazeela invite you to dive into their dream world, Wednesday through Saturday from 2PM-Midnight. Admission is $10.00– walk right in.Update August 2018: There is a restaurant at this address now.Sign up for our newsletter and get the best of Atlas Obscura in your inbox.",
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    "name": "Bemelmans Bar",
    "description": "In a bar in Manhattan that is covered in art, lives the last public place Ludwig Bemelmans’ whimsy plays a big part.The story of the feisty literary heroine Madeline begins in Paris, but the girl with the red hair and big yellow hat travels all around the world in the books written and illustrated by Ludwig Bemelmans. Much like his most famous character, Bemelmans’ life began in Europe, in the Austrian Tirol, but he emigrated to the United States when he was nearly 20 years old. After working in the hotel industry and serving in the army, he began writing and illustrating books for children. He found huge success with his Madeline series, the first book of which came out in 1939.He went on to write five books about the spunky seven-year-old and her adventures, and also produced popular artwork for publications like The New Yorker and Vogue. In the 1940s, Bemelmans took on a commission that combined two of his passions: hotels and painting. He was contracted to decorate the new bar that was built in The Carlyle, a luxury hotel in Manhattan’s Upper East Side.For this, he was paid not in cash, but received free board for himself and his family for a year and a half, the duration it took for the wall murals to be completed.The dull yellow of the walls is enlivened by elephants, rabbits, and other animals frolicking around Central Park, all painted in Bemelmans’ trademark style. Madeline and her friends can also be spotted, alongside other typical park scenes like dogs sprinting with their owners and nurses taking babies for a stroll. The simplicity of the wall art is contrasted by the more luxurious Art Deco interiors of the bar. The ceilings are coated in gold leaf and leather banquettes line the walls, placed near glass-top tables. The whimsical artwork adds to the New York City piano bar’s quiet appeal and it is the only remaining place where Bemelmans’ work that is open to the public. It’s all there is, and there isn’t anymore.It is located in the Carlyle Hotel. Sign up for our newsletter and get the best of Atlas Obscura in your inbox.",
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    "description": "Walking westward along 24th Street in Manhattan, halfway down between 5th and 6th Avenues, there is a small gap between the buildings.Currently a parking lot, the address Number “22” once belonged to a building that no longer exists, collapsed in 2007 after years of neglect. On Number 24 next door, imprints of Number 22 can still be seen etched into the brick walls; marks where a flight of stairs would have been, the remnants of the floors, and the slant of the roof. This ghostly impression is all that remains of New York’s greatest architect and spoiler of women, the seducing chambers of Stanford White.By the turn of the 20th century, Stanford White was a leading light in New York society. As the pre-eminent member of legendary Manhattan architecture firm McKim, Mead & White, he transformed New York from grimy brownstones and the slums of the Bowery into the glittering Beaux Arts city we know today. His masterpieces include the Washington Memorial Arch in the Village, the original Pennsylvania Station, the Players Club and the 5th Avenue mansions for the Astor and the Vanderbilt families. Stanford lived principally in the original Madison Square Garden, on what is now Madison Square Park, his home a tower topped with a gold naked statue of Diana—but across the park in the dingy side streets of West 24th St, the Pharaoh of Fifth Avenue kept his concealed love lair. By the time she was 16, Evelyn Nesbit was the most photographed and famous woman of her era. The original Gibson girl, she was spotted on stage by White, who showered her with lavish gifts until she consented to come to lunch on West 24th St. With nothing much to look at from the outside except for a shop window for the original FAO Schwarz on street level, the inside was a different world.Regarding her first visit to White’s abode, Evelyn described “the sudden plunge from the dingy street entrance into this room was breathtaking. The predominating color was a wonderful red…heavy red velvet curtains shut out all the daylight.” Decorated in luxurious red Oriental silks and up-lit works of art, this room was where White dined his girls with feasts brought in from Delmonico’s. After lunch, Evelyn was invited to follow White upstairs, walking up a murky staircase to where she was ushered into a room of deep forest green. Hanging from the ceiling was a “gorgeous swing with red velvet ropes around which trailed green similax, set high in the ceiling.”In his favorite hideaway, White introduced Evelyn to the pleasures of the red velvet swing, eventually taking her to his bedroom covered in mirrors, where he drugged and raped her. But Evelyn was so taken by the dashing and debaucherous White, they continued to rendezvous at the four-story building at 22 West 24th St. consensually for years. The legendarily dastardly hedonist would pay for his crimes in 1906, when Evelyn’s then husband Harry K. Thaw gunned White down during a performance in the rooftop theatre of the old Madison Square Garden. The case became known as the “crime of the century” and the media was filled with salacious details of the murder, yet the small, innocuous looking building on West 24th Street was forgotten. It became a low rent hotel, and eventually collapsed in 2007. What happened to the red velvet swing no one knows, or at least no one who’s telling.Sign up for our newsletter and get the best of Atlas Obscura in your inbox.",
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    "description": "The main branch of the New York public library is home to many secrets, from it’s pneumatic delivery tubes to the 40 miles of shelves of underground storage hiding underneath neighboring Bryant Park. But the Manhattan icon, built in 1911 on the site of a former potter’s field and reservoir, holds a thrilling secret in one of its second floor study rooms. In July 1987, Earl Edwin Pitts walked up the grand steps of the public library, past the noble lion statues (Patience and Fortitude, respectively). Strolling past the security guard at the revolving doors, and across the imposing marble hallway, he climbed the steps past the Astor memorial to room 228, The Wertheim Study. It was in this room, named after Maurice Wertheim, publisher of “The Nation,” that Pitts had a fateful meeting that would begin a decade long career of espionage. What whispered words passed between the two men in that study we will never know, but then again, secrets were their stock in trade; for Pitts was an FBI agent, and the man he met, surrounded by law books, was Aleksandr Vasilyevich Karpov, an agent for the Komitet gosudarstvennoy bezopasnosti, better known as the KGB. For the next five years, Pitts regularly met Karpov and handed over sensitive and highly classified secrets to his Soviet handler in exchange for nearly a quarter of a million dollars. Pitts had joined the FBI in 1983, and by 1987 was working in its New York bureau when he began his secret career as a Soviet spy. Amongst the high level intelligence Pitts handed over to Karpov over the next five years were reports on “recruitment operations involving Russian intelligence officers, double agent operations, operations targeting Russian intelligence officers, true identities of human assets, operations against Russian illegals, true identities of defector sources, surveillance schedules of known meet sites, internal policies, documents, and procedure concerning surveillance of Russian intelligence officers, and the identification, targeting and reporting on known and suspected KGB intelligence officers in the New York area.”Pitts’ treason was eventually discovered in 1996 when Karpov defected to the United States, and named Pitts as a KGB operative. The FBI launched a 16-month long false flag operation during which Pitts was approached by undercover federal agents posing as fellow Russian spies. Once he was apprehended, Earl Edwin Pitts was convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage, and was sentenced to 27 years imprisonment at the Federal Correctional Institution in Ashland, Kentucky, where he remains to this day. In exchange for his cooperation, Karpov was given a new identity after he defected, and his current location is unknown.Quite how much damage Pitts did is lost in the murky underworld of the Cold War. But affidavits of United States vs Earl Edwin Pitts are in the public record, and make fascinating reading. During his trial, the only explanation Pitts gave was to “pay the FBI back.” So the next time you are on the corner of 5th Avenue and 42nd street, pay a visit to one of Manhattan’s most venerable institutions and take a moment to remember that you are walking in the footsteps of Cold War agents, stolen secrets, and treacherous espionage. Sign up for our newsletter and get the best of Atlas Obscura in your inbox.",
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    "description": "This is, without a doubt, the world’s worst bar to get sloppy drunk with a coworker.Along the East River sits an impeccably designed, football-field-sized room that, depending on the date and time of day, positively teems with the world’s post influential people. To the initiated, they think very little of it; merrily drinking and carousing, they’re simply shaking off a work week. To the rest of us, this is the most jaw-dropping social hour on the planet, for the scene described is taking place within United Nation’s Delegates Lounge, during one of their infamous monthly jazz concerts.By day, the Lounge is used as a mellow spot in which coffee and negotiations take place. Redecorated by Rem Koolhaas (at the behest of Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands) over the course of five years, the Lounge itself is every bit as slick as one would imagine for a $1.9 million dollar price tag. An 11th-century Surya Sun God (a gift from Indira Gandhi in 1982) is among the room’s heritage decorations predating the 2013 renovation, as was once the Nobel Peace Prize awarded jointly to Kofi Annan and the United Nations as a whole. At night, however, things loosen up a bit as the bars are rolled out from behind closed doors. The spot is, understandably, a favorite among the staffers and delegates. It’s loyalists have even gone so far as to refer to it as the “Seventh Committee,” in tribute to the U.N.’s six official working committees. According to one officer with the Department of Peacekeeping Operations, “Some days, when it’s your job to help achieve the mandate of peace on earth, it’s a requirement to come down, look at the art and relax.”Best yet, if you play your cards right, a spot on the guest list to the world’s most peaceful international jazz night could yet land in your lap. Though stricter than recent years (due repeated breaking of guest rules, poorly behaved interns, and everyone getting too busy on the dance floor) the process of gaining admission to the Delegates Lounge now stands at two guests per staffer, no interns without a Secretariat ID, and no DJs on Friday nights unless someone is hosting an official party.Sign up for our newsletter and get the best of Atlas Obscura in your inbox.",
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    "description": "Dwarfed by the surrounding skyscrapers of the Financial District lies a small church, a still functioning chapel that has been faithfully ministering to its parishioners for nearly 250 years. It is so old, that it dates from a time when its founders were instructed to establish the chapel by John Wesley himself. Organized in 1766 the church on Manhattan’s John Street is America’s oldest and first Methodist chapel. Rightly known as the Mother Church of American Methodism, the church held its first meeting on October 12th, 1766.Barbara Heck was a German Lutheran living as a refugee in Ireland where she was converted to Methodism by Wesley himself. Emigrating to New York with her cousin Philip Embury, she was horrified one day to walk into her kitchen and find her cousins playing cards. She beseeched Embury, “Philip, you must preach to us or we will all go to hell together.” The cousins rented out the loft space of a ship’s rigging outfitters at 120 William Street as their first meeting house. Soon outgrowing the cramped quarters they built the first Methodist chapel in America in 1768 around the corner on John Street, where it still stands today. During the Revolutionary War, British soldiers would harass the peace keeping Methodists, slashing the women’s dresses with their swords, and digging ditches outside the main entrance during services to trip the exiting Methodists. Once soldiers dressed as devils interrupted a service, storming the pulpit.Hidden away down one of the Financial District’s smallest streets, today the Methodist chapel carries about its work as it has down the past two and a half centuries. The chapel is small, but beautifully maintained and well appointed. Underneath the chapel are recreation rooms used for smaller meetings and Sunday schools. It also houses a quite remarkable museum. The collection includes a still working clock given to Embury and Heck by John Wesley himself in 1768. There is also the original lecturn handmade by Embury and used to preach from in the old rigging loft. Central to Methodism was the idea that close personal fellowship could only be attained by meeting in small groups. Called Class Meetings, the church-goers would sit in a close knit circle; one of their original distinctive circular set of chairs dating from the 18th century is here as well.A quite remarkable find, and one hardly known about or visited, the John Street church still prides itself not just on its long and illustrious history, but on preaching Methodism to its surrounding community today just as it did nearly 250 years ago. The museum is open Monday, Wednesday, and Friday (except holidays) from noon to 5 p.m. Sign up for our newsletter and get the best of Atlas Obscura in your inbox.",
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    "description": "On East 59th Street between 5th Avenue and Madison is a nondescript, grey and slightly dour looking building. Nine stories high and alleviated only with a relaxed and charming Italian wine bar occupying half of the ground floor, the building is as anonymous as it is unassuming. But once, Number 5, East 59th street was so exclusive in its glamorous secrecy that entry was only permitted to those holding a particular key. This key was plain except for a silver and black enameled rabbit head on one side, and an individual number on the reverse, next to the initials NY. Long since forgotten, this was once the home to Hugh Heffner’s famed Playboy Club.The first Playboy nightclub opened in Chicago in 1960, with New York following in December 1962. At one point, Heffner operated over 40 clubs all over the world, from Michigan to Manilla, where entrance could only gained by ownership of a key which cost $25 a year. The owner of the key would approach the doors of Number 5 and hand his key to a bunny girl guarding the entrance. Once inside, the aspiring playboys would find plush, dimly lit Playmate bars, dining rooms, cabarets, and club rooms all patrolled and serviced by the Playboy bunny waitresses.The Bunny Instruction Manual of 1968, given to all newly hired bunnies revealed, “Playboy Clubs are world famous for their distinctive decor....man-sized drinks and particularly their beautiful bunnies.” Amongst those serving the man-sized drinks in Manhattan were Debbie Harry, Lauren Hutton, and Gloria Steinem.Working life for a Playboy bunny was governed by strict rules that if broken would lead to instant dismissal. Dates with keyholders were absolutely forbidden, as was chewing gum on duty. Other offenses included “bunny ears not worn in centre of head, bent incorrectly” or worse of all “unkempt tail.” For some reason the rules were much stricter in New York. The manual specified that “at all clubs, except New York club, bunnies may dance with patrons....provided there is no close physical contact.” Whilst at Playboy clubs all over America, “the twist, watusi, bugaloo, etc. are examples of acceptable dances,” all were forbidden for the hard drinking ad men of Madison Avenue. Playboys may have expected the bunnies “to be a beautiful, well-groomed young lady who projects warmth and graciousness at all times” but the nightclubs eventually fell out of favor and began closing in quick succession throughout the 1980s, with the last closing in 1991. Several attempts to open modern version of the nightclubs in Las Vegas, London, and India have met with mixed success. The New York Playboy club closed its doors in 1986, bringing to an end the swinging era when most men wore cufflinks and tie clips, and were served man-sized Old Fashioned’s by Heffner’s glamorous bunny girls. Provided of course that their iconic rabbit ears were not bent incorrectly.Update March 2018: The restaurant is gone and the building is up for lease.Sign up for our newsletter and get the best of Atlas Obscura in your inbox.",
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    "description": "The area around the Port Authority Bus Terminal in New York City is, depending on your point of view, either best avoided, or an endearing holdout of the gritty old midtown of peepshows and flop hotels. But in the midst of all the grime and noise of the bus terminal is a building of such beautiful art deco design that it was the only New York building shown at the influential International Style Expo of 1932. Completed in 1932, the same year as the Empire State Building, the skyscraper at 330 West 42nd Street was built specifically for publishing giants James McGraw and James Hill. McGraw chose for his architect Raymond Hood. A product of the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Hood was responsible for some of America’s most outstanding buildings: the Tribune Tower in Chicago, the New York Daily News Building, and Rockefeller Center. As ostentatious as he was provocative, Hood is supposed to have been the inspiration for Peter Keating, Howard Roark’s foil in Ayn Rand’s The Fountainhead. And the McGraw-Hill Building immediately divided opinion. Manhattan’s most colorful skyscraper, Hood covered the exterior with green terra-cotta tiling that slowly turned blue higher up the building; his intent was to have it dissolve into the color of the sky. The green metal windows trimmed with vermillion turned the McGraw-Hill Building into an emerald gem, even down to the green and silver uniforms worn by the doormen. While not to everyone’s tastes (architectural critic Arthur North said it showed “disregard for every accepted principle of architectural designing in the most flagrant manner”), the 10th floor of the building became the home of Timely Publications, a pulp fiction company run by publisher Martin Goodman. On Columbus Day of 1941, Timely Publications posted a want-ad in the New York Times. The ad ran: “Comic Magazine Inkers Wanted: brush, no pen: must be familiar with technique of adventure comic magazines; suggest see Captain America Magazine for style before answering; salary or freelance basis. Bring sample to Room 1010, 330 West 42nd Street.”For Timely Publications was no ordinary pulp magazine company. Aspiring artists bringing their samples to room 1010 would have found hard at work some of the most influential creators of the golden age of American comic books. Timely’s first editor Joe Simon, along with artist Jack Kirby, created Captain America there. In Captain America Comics #1 (the cover of which has Cap cold-cocking Hitler), the building’s address was even given for fans who wanted to write to the good Captain. Building on the success of million-selling titles like the Human Torch (the robot one) and the Sub-Mariner, Timely would eventually become Marvel Comics. When Simon and Kirby left for National Comics (later DC), the 19-year-old general office assistant Stanley Lieber was made editor. He would later become much more famous under his assumed name: Stan Lee. Today the McGraw-Hill Building’s best days are behind it. Scaffolding covers the art deco font McGraw-Hill sign that decorated the entrance and top of the once-gleaming building. Timely Comics moved into the Empire State Building and Room 1010, once home to some of the most creative legends in the history of comic books,  is now the office of a pension advocate program for seniors. The McGraw-Hill Company vacated the building for 6th Avenue years ago, but Raymond Hood’s emerald green masterpiece is still there, a little worse for wear, but still, as Ayn Rand described in 1943, “the most beautiful building in New York City.” Sign up for our newsletter and get the best of Atlas Obscura in your inbox.",
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    "description": "Tin Pan Alley is synonymous with the golden age of American song writing, when New York was the world’s epicenter of composing, lyric writing, and sheet music publishing. But less known is that Tin Pan Alley was an actual place, a small section of West 28th Street between Broadway and Sixth Avenue.Here in a line of small row houses, some of the most loved tunes in the American songbook were written, by names such as Irving Berlin, George Gershwin, Hoagy Carmichael, and Sammy Cahn. Today, Tin Pan Alley still exists, but the street of old brownstones are in a sadly dilapidated state, unprotected by the city or by any landmark status, and at constant risk of being demolished. This small street is today largely filled with wholesalers and cell phone accessory stores, whilst the historic buildings themselves are steadily falling apart through neglect.The heyday of Tin Pan Alley ran approximately from the 1880s to about the time of the Great Depression. Following the Civil War, sales of parlour pianos boomed throughout the country, with some estimates putting sales at around 25,000 new pianos a year. In an era before radios and records, parlour pianos made by companies such as Baldwin, Wissner, and Sterling provided the most popular forms of home entertainment. And all these pianos led to a soon prospering business in composing and sheet music publishing.The origins of “Tin Pan Alley” itself are unrecorded, although the most commonly told story is of a reporter from the now defunct New York Herald, called Monroe Rosenfeld, who, whilst walking down this small block on 28th Street, heard the dissonant sound of dozens of pianos in the publishing houses lining the street, competing with each other through the open windows. “It sounds like a bunch of tin pans clanging,” he is reported to have said. The Tin Pan Alley of turn of the century New York was a vibrant, frenetic block; starting with the owners of the publishing companies themselves, such as Irving Berlin, Isadore Witmark, Thomas Harms, and the Remick Music Company. Each house kept a staff of composers and song writers, who would write in such varied styles as vaudeville, operettas, rags, comic songs, and ballads. Often the songs were sold as separate sheets with luxuriously designed covers. Houses would also hire “song pluggers,” musicians and singers who would then perform the new songs in the music shops to expose them to both the public and the entertainers who would visit Tin Pan Alley in search of new songs for their acts.Today, the theatre district is most commonly connected with Times Square, but during this era, the theatres lined Broadway a little further down, centred around Herald Square, just on Tin Pan Alley’s doorstep. Countless theaters, vaudeville houses, and musical saloons thronged the neighborhood, with all of them searching for new songs. Roy McCardell, a reporter for the New York World, wrote about visiting Tin Pan Alley in 1903, “Every day you’ll see noted people in the musical comedy world hunting in the “Alley” for songs that will add to their fame - Paula Edwardes, Marie Cahill, Blanche Ring, Dan Daly, Marie Dressler, and Lew Dockstader active in the hunt.” Names that have all but faded from history. Walking down Tin Pan Alley today is a different experience. Many of the old brownstones which have survived demolition are in advanced stages of neglect, and are slowly falling apart, despite their importance to American culture. Across the street from No. 45, (which published music by George Gershwin, as well as the Wizard of Oz), is a slender, ornately decorated building, No. 40, looking today much as it did in 1908 when Jack Norworth and Albert Von Tilzer wrote “Take Me Out To The Ballgame.” One of the great songwriters of Tin Pan Alley, George M. Cohan, wrote over 300 songs at Tin Pan Alley, most notably the World War I hit “Over There,” and “Give My Regards To Broadway.” Other notable songs written here include “Alexander’s Ragtime Band,” “Sweet Georgia Brown” and “God Bless America.” The advent of phonographs and the radio saw the popularity of home piano playing rapidly dwindle, and by the 1920s, the once great publishing houses of Tin Pan Alley were virtually all gone. Today the history of this small street, that gave birth to the modern music industry, and where some of America’s most beloved songs were written, remains largely forgotten. Unprotected by the city or any landmark status, it is real danger of disappearing for good, like the countless songwriters, vaudeville actors, and Broadway singers who once thrived on this street.Sign up for our newsletter and get the best of Atlas Obscura in your inbox.",
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    "description": "As the 19th century became the 20th century, the plight of tuberculosis patients started influencing housing in all sorts of ways. In New York City, it took the shape of a sanitary tenement.The idea, from Dr. Henry Shively of Presbyterian Hospital, was to create comfortable, healthy housing for poorer families with members who suffered from tuberculosis. Anne Harriman Vanderbilt (wife of William K. Vanderbilt Sr.) provided the funds, and Henry Atterbury Smith designed the four interconnected six-story buildings. Construction began in 1909 and the East River Homes opened in 1912.Now called Cherokee Apartments, the complex occupies the space from 77th Street to 78th Street between John Jay Park and PS 158. Most of the windows are floor to ceiling and have three sashes, allowing for a lot of light and air to come in, both having been deemed crucial for TB sufferers. This also allows them to open wide out onto iron balconies, on which sleeping was encouraged. The pent eave roof was designed to hang over the balconies, protecting patients from the elements.The floors are concrete and curve up onto the wall, eliminating corners that could trap germs and dust, and ensuring that any carpeting would be removable. The stairways in the corners of the buildings are open to the air, have two banisters (one for adults, one for kids), and were built with chairs on each landing, so that tuberculosis patients climbing to the sixth floor had convenient and comfortable places to rest if they started to have trouble breathing. Every apartment opened directly out to the stairs, giving a sense of the independence of a private house.The rooftops and courtyards were designed to be pleasing, safe, and healthy places to aid in recovery. The stairwells were topped by story-high glazed skylights that allowed air to circulate up and down the stairs.The originally family sized apartments have been rearranged in recent years to have fewer, larger rooms, and the facilities that made the roofs such nice places to spend time and recover have been removed, as have the skylights. The buildings never accomplished what Shively had hoped, because while 48 of the rooms were, at first, leased as a Home Hospital, most of the tenants turned out to be on the wealthier side. Poor families, for the most part, could not afford to live in the apartments.Today, Cherokee Apartments is a housing cooperative and the building is a historic landmark. As such, the outside must be preserved, and many of the unique features from its origins as a tuberculosis sanitarium can still be seen.Sign up for our newsletter and get the best of Atlas Obscura in your inbox.",
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    "description": "The Fulton Street Station on New York’s subway system recently benefitted from a 10-year, $1.4 billion overhaul. The centre piece of the MTA’s “Grand Central of Downtown,” which re-opened in November of 2014, was an elaborate “oculus” dome of glass and aluminium, spanning 53-feet in diameter, representing what the MTA grandly called “a metaphor for the celestial heaven.” As impressive as the giant skylight is, there was quite a remarkable spectacle already in place at Fulton Street Station, hidden away and largely unnoticed at the William Street entrance; the beautiful tile murals that once adorned the walls of the Marine Grill, a grand restaurant located in what was once the world’s largest hotel, the McAlpin.The Hotel McAlpin was situated in Herald Square, occupying the corner block of 34th Street and Broadway. Opening in 1912 and soaring 25-stories high, the McAlpin had room enough for 2,500 guests. As well as being, at the time, the world’s largest hotel, it was also one of the most luxurious. The amenities on offer to guests were as breathtaking as they were opulent, including a massive giant Turkish bath and plunge pool that occupied the entire 24th floor. The hotel also had its own in-house orchestra, as well as its own fully equipped hospital. Located on the floor below the Turkish bath, patients benefitted from “every modern appliance known to surgery.” The hotel even had gender specific floors, with newspaper adverts promising that “for unaccompanied women, the entire sixth floor is reserved.” There was even a separate check-in desk staffed by women, so that single female travelers could avoid the approaches of scoundrels in the main lobby. Such was the attention given to customer service that the entire 16th floor was reserved for night workers so they could sleep during the day; the New York Times christened the floor the “Sleepy Sixteenth.”These heights of luxury extended to the Marine Grill restaurant located in the basement. Dominated by a forest of archways and columns, the grill room was covered in exquisite tile murals designed by Frederick Dana Marsh. The tiles told the story of the maritime history of New York, and featured elaborate murals of steamships, paddle steamers, and ocean liners from the golden age of Trans-Atlantic voyages.The 20 murals, fabricated by the Atlantic Terra Cotta Company of Staten Island, spoke to the era when New York was one of the world’s most vibrant, and busiest ports. Covering the entire wall space, they would have looked down on a packed room of patrons dining on lobster and oysters, washed down with Gibson cocktails. In the 1970s, the grand McAlpin was sold and converted into 700 apartments, which still exist today, under the name Herald Towers. During renovations, the glorious tile murals were simply thrown away. Susan Tunick, president of the non-profit Friends of Terra Cotta, alerted the New York Landmarks Preservation Committee and the tiles were rescued from the dumpsters outside the old hotel. The tiles were then given to the MTA’s Arts for Transit Program, and they were reassembled piece by piece like a giant jigsaw puzzle over one summer by a group of college interns. In 2000 the restored murals were installed in the Fulton Street Station, along with the ornate iron gate that had adorned the entrance to the Marine Grill. New York may have lost one of its grand old hotels, but subway passengers entering Fulton Street Station by the Williams Street entrance can see a little known remnant of its once luxurious opulence.Sign up for our newsletter and get the best of Atlas Obscura in your inbox.",
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    "description": "Tucked away in the heart of Midtown—only a few blocks from its sister park, Greenacre—lies the beautifully minuscule refuge that is Paley Park. Dubbed a “vest-pocket” park, it’s just 4,200 sq ft., and serves as a retreat from the daily grind of the urban world that exists just outside of its borders.Paley Park’s most significant feature is the 20-foot waterfall that reaches across the entire back of the small space, creating a soothing buffer of sound that helps to drown out the bustle of the surrounding city. The white noise combined with the encompassing ivy-covered walls and the shelter of honey locusts provides a convincing illusion of privacy and seclusion, fostering an atmosphere of tranquility in the city that never sleeps.Commissioned and financed by the William S. Paley Foundation, and finished in 1967, Paley Park is a privately owned public space. William Paley, a former chairman of CBS, was very involved in the conception and design process of the place. He named Paley Park in honor of his father, and commemorated his efforts with a plaque that reads, “This park is set aside in memory of Samuel Paley, 1875–1963, for the enjoyment of the public,” near the entrance.In William H. Whyte’s 1980 text and subsequent film, The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces, Paley Park’s social environment and relationships were analyzed. Whyte wished to understand what made places like Paley Park successful, and what drew people to spontaneously enter. He concluded that despite creating an atmosphere of solitude, Paley Park is still very much an urban space: Midtown is still very visible from the entrance, and the sidewalk just below Paley’s stoop is heavily traveled. This dichotomy works in the park’s favor. People are drawn into the park off the busy sidewalk, coaxed away from their routines, if only for a few moments, to go sit in Paley with the din of the waterfall all around them.Sign up for our newsletter and get the best of Atlas Obscura in your inbox.",
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    "name": "Blue Hill",
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    "description": "More than a mere crusader for sustainability, Dan Barber is also one of the most talented cooks in town. He builds his oft-changing menu around whatever’s at its peak on his Westchester farm (home to a sibling restaurant). During fresh pea season, bright green infuses every inch of the menu. Start to finish, there’s a garden on every plate. Once among the most sedate little restaurants in the Village, this cramped subterranean jewel box has become one of the most raucous.",
    "why_go": "Why go? You want to go to the upstate iteration but you also don't want to leave Manhattan",
    "location": "75 Washington Pl                                                                  New York                                          10011",
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    "name": "Sushi Yasuda",
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    "description": "Seeing the sushi master practice in this bamboo-embellished space is the culinary equivalent of observing Buddhist monks at prayer. Counter seating, where you can witness—and chat up—the chefs, is the only way to go. Prime your palate with a miso soup and segue into the raw stuff. Still craving a California roll? Move along.",
    "why_go": "Why go? For high-quality sushi without the stuffy atmosphere",
    "location": "204 E 43rd St                                                                  New York                                          10017",
    "source": "https://www.timeout.com/newyork/restaurants/Sushi Yasuda",
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    "cuisine": "Vegetarian",
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    "description": "It looks like the inside of Gwyneth Paltrow’s brain: The crisp, spacious room is a Goop-y stretch of all-white furniture, with pops of color courtesy artisanal ceramic plateware, millennial-pink wall panels and boho banquettes. Each menu arrives with a supplementary insert chart detailing the health benefits of various vegetables.",
    "why_go": "Why go? ABCV is Jean-Georges Vongerichten's first meat-free spot",
    "location": "38 E 19th St                                                                  New York                                          10003",
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    "description": "This heralded Israeli pita shop in Chelsea Market is a key player in the renaissance of Middle Eastern cuisine in NYC. The menu is split up between in-a-pita and out-of-the-pita, though you're going to want to get a sampling of both (especially the whole roasted baby cauliflower).",
    "why_go": "Why go? Their folded cheeseburger pita will make you question everything you thought you knew about a great burger",
    "location": "Chelsea Market                                          435 W 15th St                                                                  New York City                                          10011",
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    "name": "Charlie Bird",
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    "cuisine": "Italian",
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    "description": "Sipping wine out of a pricey Zalto stem is an activity typical of more formal surroundings, but at Charlie Bird, you swirl a smoky Rodano chianti riserva while nodding your head to the Notorious B.I.G. Devoted in equal measure to seasonal cooking and serious wine, this West Village spot roughs up its own polish with subtle hints of the street, like large graphic prints of boom boxes and the now-ubiquitous restaurant soundtrack of early-’90s hip-hop. ",
    "why_go": "Why go? For wine bravado in addition to delicious eats ",
    "location": "5 King St                                                                  New York                                          10012",
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    "name": "Eleven Madison Park",
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    "cuisine": "American creative",
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    "description": "Swiss chef Daniel Humm still mans the kitchen post-revamp at this Gramercy jewel, which began life as a brasserie before evolving into one of the city’s most rarefied and progressive eateries. The service is famously mannered, and the room among the city’s most grand. But the heady, epic tasting menus are the true heart of Eleven Madison Park, a format that spotlights Humm’s auteur instincts. ",
    "why_go": "Why go? A tasting menu like no other blends with five-star service for the best restaurant in NYC (and possibly the world)",
    "location": "11 Madison Ave                                                                  New York                                          10010",
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    "cuisine": "Contemporary American",
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    "description": "Manhatta sits 60 floors up in a FiDi skyscraper with a name borrowed from Walt Whitman’s love poem to the city, which guests will be immediately understand thanks to the sweeping views from the 360-degree floor-to-ceiling windows. Diners of the 90-seat restaurant will enjoy the best views in town while chowing down on chef Jason Pfeifer's (Maialino, Per Se) New American dishes, like peekytoe crab with poached leeks and crispy artichokes or wagyu bavette with pommes anna and Harbison cheese.",
    "why_go": "Why Go? The views plus a price tag of $78 for three courses essentially makes it a steal",
    "location": "28 Liberty St                                              Flr 60                                                                  New York                                          10005",
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    "description": "Enrique Olvera is the megawatt Mexico City talent behind Pujol, the restaurant regularly ranked one of the 20 best in the world. His stateside debut Cosme, a bare-concrete Flatiron dining room, wasn’t met with the disregard that crippled his carpetbagging comrades. The response was the opposite: a bellow of buzz that hit before doors were even hinged, let alone opened. ",
    "why_go": "Why go? Cosme brought a much needed Latino flavor to upper-echelon NYC restaurants ",
    "location": "35 E 21st St                                                                  New York                                          10010",
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    "description": "The Italian-American supper clubs immortalized in mob movies and sepia-toned photos were never as dreamy as they seemed. The young guns behind Carbone, though, have moved beyond sentimentality in their homage to these restaurants by flipping the whole genre onto its head. The spot, from tag-team chefs Rich Torrisi and Mario Carbone, is a Godfather hangout on steroids, more fantastical set piece than history-bound throwback. Like Torrisi and Parm, their earlier projects together, it’s a hyped-up spin on a vanishing form, a restaurant where, bread sticks to bowties, everything looks, tastes and feels like much more of itself. ",
    "why_go": "Why go? For a 21st-century restaurant sporting 20th-century charm",
    "location": "331 W 38th St                                                                  New York                                          10018",
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    "description": "Designed by the film-set decorator and Wes Anderson collaborator Kris Moran, the space is a circus for the senses. Naan is the gateway drug—puffed, buttery and pocked with char—but the kulchas, pillowy griddled flatbreads stuffed with chicken and split chickpeas or bacon and cheese, are the truly dangerous addiction. However, Cardoz, a native of Bombay, has built more than just a kingdom of carbs. Bombay Bread Bar is the kind of colorful, rollicking spot that will reintroduce New Yorkers to Indian food through an eccentric lens.",
    "why_go": "Why go? Chef Cardoz is a master of naan.",
    "location": "195 Spring St                                                                  New York                                          10012",
    "source": "https://www.timeout.com/newyork/restaurants/The Bombay Bread Bar",
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    "description": "After decades of New Yorkers’ sushi shrugs, this one-stop Little Tokyo flips that script, and its revenge is a nigiri best served cold—and aged (Ginza hews to edomaezushi). Ginza’s seasonal omakase is not just freshly flown in from Tokyo’s prestigious Tsukiji market, nor is it dependent on exotic varieties. Ginza delivers fish the way a diamond delivers carbon: with spectacular flawlessness lush with luxury. This is fish that traps us. ",
    "why_go": "Why go? It’s the only Michelin two-star Japanese restaurant in the city",
    "location": "461 5th Ave                                                                  New York                                          10017",
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    "description": "From the moment it opened, Andrew Carmellini’s rollicking Soho eatery seemed destined to join the ranks of neighborhood classics like Balthazar and Blue Ribbon. The virtuoso chef offers diners an exuberant gastro-tour of the American melting pot, making stops in the barrio, New England and even the Mexican border. ",
    "why_go": "Why go? For a reliable date night option in Soho",
    "location": "131 Sullivan St                                                                  New York                                          10012",
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    "description": "In the überindulgent world of three-figure omakase thrills, sushi reigns, with finance whales and deep-pocketed diners kneeling at the throne of trumped-up toro. But tempura, Japan’s battered-and-fried preparation of seafood and vegetables, was never a part of that fine-dining fawning. Enter Masao Matsui. ",
    "why_go": "Why go? The tempura batter includes Dash, a Japanese soup stock made from fish and kelp  ",
    "location": "222 E 39th St                                                                  New York                                          10016",
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    "description": "Last we saw Daisuke Nakazawa, he was toiling over egg custard as the modest apprentice in the film Jiro Dreams of Sushi, humbled by the rigors of an 11-year stint under the world’s most distinguished sushi chef, Jiro Ono. The pupil has emerged as the teacher at this sleek West Village sushi bar. Nakazawa swiftly sets each of the 20 or so pieces on your plate in succession. And the fewer the embellishments, the better.",
    "why_go": "Why go? Nakazawa is a jokester who places a live squirming shrimp on your plate just for a laugh",
    "location": "23 Commerce St                                                                  NY                                          10004",
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    "location": "The NoMad Hotel                                          1170 Broadway                                                                  New York                                          10001",
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    "location": ":​ 245 E, 44th Street                                                                  New York                                          10017",
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    "cuisine": "Pizza",
    "cost": 2,
    "description": "Pizza, categorized by sauce color, is the star of the show. On the menu, there's a red column and a white column. The namesake White pizza, the Emily, surrounds you like a hug—topped with mozzarella, pistachios, truffle sottocenere and honey, it’s a performance in restraint. The drizzled sweet honey dances with the sumptuous mozzarella, all mingling with a slight crunch from the pistachios and that craveable truffle.",
    "why_go": "Why go? For some of the city's buzziest new pizza in the last couple of years",
    "location": "919 Fulton St                                                                  Brooklyn                                          11238",
    "source": "https://www.timeout.com/newyork/restaurants/Emily",
    "website": "http://pizzalovesemily.com",
    "type": [
      "restaurant"
    ]
  },
  {
    "id": "cjkwpylqt002i0955o0d897ao",
    "name": "Balthazar",
    "image": "https://media.timeout.com/images/100341135/630/472/image.jpg",
    "cuisine": "French",
    "cost": 3,
    "description": "Not only is the iconic Balthazar still trendy, but the kitchen rarely makes a false step. At dinner, the place is perennially packed with rail-thin lookers dressed to the nines. But the bread is great, the food is good, and the service is surprisingly friendly. Don’t hate the patrons because they’re beautiful; just join them.",
    "why_go": "Why go? For two things that usually don’t mix: bread and buzz",
    "location": "80 Spring St                                                                  New York                                          10012",
    "source": "https://www.timeout.com/newyork/restaurants/Balthazar",
    "website": "http://balthazarny.com",
    "type": [
      "restaurant"
    ]
  },
  {
    "id": "cjkwpym2z002q0955t46t3t8r",
    "name": "Upland",
    "image": "https://media.timeout.com/images/101856763/630/472/image.jpg",
    "cuisine": "Contemporary American",
    "cost": 2,
    "description": "A Golden State glow radiates throughout Upland, a glossy tribute to chef Justin Smillie’s hometown nestled at the foot of the San Gabriel Mountains. The big, buzzing room is damn near sunny on a drab stretch of Park Avenue South. That good-looking gleam extends to the copper shelves stocked with uplit wine bottles and jars of preserved Moroccan lemons, the lacquered ceilings and the illustrious diners sitting beneath them, suit jackets tossed behind their chairs as they tuck into pear-and-arugula pizza and crispy, yuzukosho-smacked duck wings.",
    "why_go": "Why go? For a Cali imitation in every way, celebs included",
    "location": "345 Park Avenue South                                                                  New York                                          10010",
    "source": "https://www.timeout.com/newyork/restaurants/Upland",
    "website": "http://www.uplandnyc.com",
    "type": [
      "restaurant"
    ]
  },
  {
    "id": "cjkwpym36002t095542nnfov4",
    "name": "Nur",
    "image": "https://media.timeout.com/images/103930617/630/472/image.jpg",
    "cuisine": "Israeli",
    "cost": 3,
    "description": "Nur is the forward-thinking, pan–Middle Eastern restaurant in Gramercy from Israeli-Moroccan celebutoque Meir Adoni (of Tel Aviv’s acclaimed Blue Sky and Lumina) and Breads Bakery founder Gadi Peleg. Instead, Adoni—the latest in a growing line of chefs who are retooling Israeli eating in New York, stretches beyond Israeli comfort cooking to pull influences from all over the Levant, from Jewish and Arab traditions as well as his own North African roots.",
    "why_go": "Why go? Their array of breads makes for the perfect evening of carboloading",
    "location": "34 E 20th St                                                                  New York                                          10003",
    "source": "https://www.timeout.com/newyork/restaurants/Nur",
    "website": "http://nurnyc.com",
    "type": [
      "restaurant"
    ]
  },
  {
    "id": "cjkwpym3f002w0955lle225jj",
    "name": "Wildair",
    "image": "https://media.timeout.com/images/102845251/630/472/image.jpg",
    "cuisine": "Contemporary American",
    "cost": 2,
    "description": "They call it second-child syndrome: a loosening of the reins, a slight dimming of the overeagerness that comes with adding a sibling to that precious firstborn. Such is the case of Wildair, the 45-seat sister restaurant to chef Jeremiah Stone and pastry chef Fabian von Hauske’s avant-garde tasting-menu den, Contra, two doors down. Wildair is more low-pressure, set with sardine-packed bar tables, a fuzzy midaughts soundtrack and neighborhood affability. And though Wildair’s snacky, à la carte menu has less sharp-edged experimentation than Contra’s, there are low-key innovations at play here.",
    "why_go": "Why go? For one of the best wine lists curated at a restaurant",
    "location": "142 Orchard St                                                                  NY                                          10002",
    "source": "https://www.timeout.com/newyork/restaurants/Wildair",
    "website": "http://wildair.nyc",
    "type": [
      "restaurant"
    ]
  },
  {
    "id": "cjkwpym3i002z0955hp53noca",
    "name": "Union Square Cafe",
    "image": "https://media.timeout.com/images/103785817/630/472/image.jpg",
    "cuisine": "American",
    "cost": 3,
    "description": "The force is strong with the new incarnation of Union Square Cafe, the beloved flagship of the formidable Danny Meyer empire that stood on East 16th Street since 1985. For all of his updates, Rockwell also seasoned the space with nostalgia, little Easter eggs for the devoted set: the cherrywood service stations, the dark-green wainscotting, the quirky and colorful paintings that line the walls. But the most crucial holdover is in the kitchen, where executive chef Carmen Quagliata—who headed the original USC for a decade—can still be found overseeing scrumptious staples.",
    "why_go": "Why go? It’s a downtown classic that just gets better with age ",
    "location": "101 E 19th St                                                                  New York                                          10003",
    "source": "https://www.timeout.com/newyork/restaurants/Union Square Cafe",
    "website": "http://unionsquarecafe.com",
    "type": [
      "restaurant"
    ]
  },
  {
    "id": "cjkwpym3p00320955duyinbt4",
    "name": "Loring Place",
    "image": "https://media.timeout.com/images/103785934/630/472/image.jpg",
    "cuisine": "American creative",
    "cost": 2,
    "description": "In his first solo spot, chef Dan Kluger (ABC Kitchen, ABC Cocina) maintains the same voice in everything, helming the kitchen that we've grown to love. Their lunch brunch and dinner services attract crowds of West Villagers and the occasional celebrity. On the menu, you'll find bright and fresh dishes featuring local market vegetables and nostagic takes on classics.",
    "why_go": "Why go? Vegetable have never tasted so good",
    "location": "21 W 8th St                                                                  New York                                          10011",
    "source": "https://www.timeout.com/newyork/restaurants/Loring Place",
    "website": "http://www.loringplacenyc.com",
    "type": [
      "restaurant"
    ]
  },
  {
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    "name": "Sunday in Brooklyn",
    "image": "https://media.timeout.com/images/103745049/630/472/image.jpg",
    "cuisine": "American",
    "cost": 3,
    "description": "Contrary to what the name might suggest, Sunday in Brooklyn is open for brunch and dinner every day of the week. The rustic three-story space boasts an outdoor patio, marketplace, private dining room and rooftop garden. The brunch menu includes their viral hazelnut-maple praline pancakes while dinner includes elevated, comfort-food dishes.",
    "why_go": "Why go? Don't sleep on the cocktails, they're as thoughtful as they are Instagrammable",
    "location": "348 Wythe Avenue and South 2nd Street                                                                  Brooklyn                                          11249",
    "source": "https://www.timeout.com/newyork/restaurants/Sunday in Brooklyn",
    "website": "http://www.sundayinbrooklyn.com",
    "type": [
      "restaurant"
    ]
  },
  {
    "id": "cjkwpymyw003f0955nwx1al90",
    "name": "RedFarm",
    "image": "https://media.timeout.com/images/100717933/630/472/image.jpg",
    "cuisine": "Chinese",
    "cost": 2,
    "description": "Restaurateur Ed Schoenfeld and head chef Joe Ng (Chinatown Brasserie) offer a playful homage to the golden age of Chinese fine dining at this groundbreaking eatery. The farm-to-table decor makes an unconventional backdrop for a Chinese joint, and the eclectic menu is just as hard to pin down with old-school Chinese-American bites and newfangled family-style dishes. ",
    "why_go": "Why go? In a neighborhood with a dearth of Sino options, RedFarm isn’t just filling a void—it’s reinventing a genre",
    "location": "529 Hudson St                                                                  New York                                          10014",
    "source": "https://www.timeout.com/newyork/restaurants/RedFarm",
    "website": "http://redfarmnyc.com",
    "type": [
      "restaurant"
    ]
  },
  {
    "id": "cjkwpymz0003g0955c126fg2g",
    "name": "Kajitsu",
    "image": "https://media.timeout.com/images/100711811/630/472/image.jpg",
    "cuisine": "Japanese",
    "cost": 3,
    "description": "Diners often compare eating great food to a religious experience, but at Kajitsu there's something literal in the restaurant's connection to the divine. The sparse, hushed interior suggests a reverence for nature that is also expressed in the food. For those accustomed to bold flavors, the preparations can at first seem understated to a fault. But with each jewel-like course, the meal emerges as an artful meditation on simplicity and seasonality. ",
    "why_go": "Why go? To try possibly New York's only kaiseki restaurant serving centuries-old Zen Buddhist vegetarian cuisine known as shojin",
    "location": "125 E 39th St                                                                  New York                                          10016",
    "source": "https://www.timeout.com/newyork/restaurants/Kajitsu",
    "website": "http://kajitsunyc.com",
    "type": [
      "restaurant"
    ]
  },
  {
    "id": "cjkwpymz2003j0955rqs96t7f",
    "name": "ABC Kitchen",
    "image": "https://media.timeout.com/images/101804537/630/472/image.jpg",
    "cuisine": "Contemporary American",
    "cost": 2,
    "description": "The haute green cooking at Jean-Georges Vongerichten’s artfully decorated restaurant is based on gorgeous ingredients from up and down the East Coast. The local, seasonal bounty finds its way into approachable dishes. ABC delivers one message overall: Food that’s good for the planet needn’t be any less opulent, flavorful or stunning to look at.",
    "why_go": "Why go? Go shopping for upscale home goods right in the same building ",
    "location": "ABC Carpet & Home, 35 E 18th St                                                                  New York                                          10003",
    "source": "https://www.timeout.com/newyork/restaurants/ABC Kitchen",
    "website": "http://abckitchennyc.com",
    "type": [
      "restaurant"
    ]
  },
  {
    "id": "cjkwpymz5003m0955b4xerrov",
    "name": "Cote",
    "image": "https://media.timeout.com/images/103939099/630/472/image.jpg",
    "cuisine": "Korean",
    "cost": 3,
    "description": "Korean food as a whole has expanded in breadth and ambition in recent years, but nothing has seen a boost quite like Korean barbecue. Cote—a sleek Flatiron District effort from Simon Kim of the Michelin-starred Piora—is the latest in the upswing. Set 10 blocks south of K-Town proper, the restaurant is deliberately billed as a “Korean steakhouse,” a distinction felt in its swank decor and starters you’d more likely find at an all-American meat temple than at a bulgogi grill.",
    "why_go": "Why go? Cote earned a Michelin star within its first year of opening",
    "location": "16 W 22nd St                                                                  New York                                          10010",
    "source": "https://www.timeout.com/newyork/restaurants/Cote",
    "website": "https://www.cotenyc.com",
    "type": [
      "restaurant"
    ]
  },
  {
    "id": "cjkwpyn6n003z09555z6cb41a",
    "name": "Gabriel Kreuther",
    "image": "https://media.timeout.com/images/102864402/630/472/image.jpg",
    "cuisine": "French",
    "cost": 3,
    "description": "The big-box room, situated on the ground floor of the Grace Building, is too comfortably cream-toned for cool, fixed with timber barn beams and folky stork wallprints evocative of the Alsatian farm country where Gabriel Kreuther—the man, not the restaurant—hails. But Kreuther isn’t concerned with cool, nor should he be. After an acclaimed decade at Danny Meyer’s MoMA restaurant, the Modern, the veteran chef joins the grand pantheon of name-bearing flagships—the Daniels, the Jean-Georges—with cooking that’s as personal as it is precise.",
    "why_go": "Why go? Dine in a space as beautiful as the food",
    "location": "41 W 42nd St                                                                  New York                                          10036",
    "source": "https://www.timeout.com/newyork/restaurants/Gabriel Kreuther",
    "website": "http://gknyc.com",
    "type": [
      "restaurant"
    ]
  },
  {
    "id": "cjkwpyn6s00440955x5kndo88",
    "name": "Soogil",
    "image": "https://media.timeout.com/images/105237299/630/472/image.jpg",
    "cuisine": "Korean",
    "cost": 2,
    "description": "Tucked away in the East Village, this petite gem is packed with downtown dwellers sipping soju cocktails at a long, wooden communal table while awaiting the culinary creations of NYC’s latest in a trending class of contemporary Korean restaurants. Lim’s refined French technique infuses with his Korean heritage for exceptional dishes that stay true to both. The best thing on the menu? The price tag: Few plates exceed $20.",
    "why_go": "Why go? Affordable Korean food gets a touch of French flair",
    "location": "108 E 4th St                                                                  New York                                          10003",
    "source": "https://www.timeout.com/newyork/restaurants/Soogil",
    "website": "http://www.soogil.com",
    "type": [
      "restaurant"
    ]
  },
  {
    "id": "cjkwpyn6t00450955mct8a2wh",
    "name": "Gramercy Tavern",
    "image": "https://media.timeout.com/images/101484329/630/472/image.jpg",
    "cuisine": "American creative",
    "cost": 4,
    "description": "Gramercy is the restaurant that transformed Danny Meyer from a one-shop restaurateur to a full-blown impresario and launched a citywide proliferation of casual yet upscale American eateries. Under the lead of chef Michael Anthony, the kitchen's delicate constructions of farmer's market produce, meats and fish are worth a visit. In the front, a no-fuss tavern offers a casual balance to the more formal dining room in the back. Either way you go, you're in for a delicious evening.",
    "why_go": "Why go? Thoughtful American fare with the best cookie plate in town",
    "location": "42 E 20th St                                                                  New York                                          10003-13",
    "source": "https://www.timeout.com/newyork/restaurants/Gramercy Tavern",
    "website": "http://gramercytavern.com",
    "type": [
      "restaurant"
    ]
  },
  {
    "id": "cjkwpyn6z004a0955gsfu54kz",
    "name": "Per Se",
    "image": "https://media.timeout.com/images/103000203/630/472/image.jpg",
    "cuisine": "Contemporary American",
    "cost": 4,
    "description": "Expectations are high at Per Se—and that goes both ways. You are expected to come when they’ll have you—you might be put on standby for four nights, only to win a 10pm Tuesday spot—and fork over a pretty penny if you cancel. You’re expected to wear the right clothes, pay a non-negotiable deposit and pretend you aren’t eating in a shopping mall. The restaurant, in turn, is expected to deliver one hell of a tasting menu even more pretty pennies. And it does. Dish after dish is flawless and delicious.",
    "why_go": "Why go? The 30-for-30 deal for the millennial crowd is not to be missed",
    "location": "Time Warner Center, 10 Columbus Circle                                                                  New York                                          10019-11",
    "source": "https://www.timeout.com/newyork/restaurants/Per Se",
    "website": "http://perseny.com",
    "type": [
      "restaurant"
    ]
  },
  {
    "id": "cjkwpyn7c004f0955oa4d529p",
    "name": "Le Bernardin",
    "image": "https://media.timeout.com/images/103006554/630/472/image.jpg",
    "cuisine": "French",
    "cost": 4,
    "description": "New York dining mores have experienced a seismic paradigm shift in the past decade, toppling Old World restaurant titans and making conquering heroes of chefs that champion accessible food served in casual environments. But Le Bernardin—the city’s original temple of haute French seafood—survived the shake-up unscathed. Siblings Gilbert and Maguy Le Coze brought their Parisian eatery to Gotham in 1986, and the restaurant has maintained its reputation in the decades since. Le Bernardin is still a formal place, with white tablecloths, decorous service and a jackets-required policy in the main dining room. ",
    "why_go": "Why go? For delectable French seafood",
    "location": "155 W 51st St                                                                  New York                                          10019",
    "source": "https://www.timeout.com/newyork/restaurants/Le Bernardin",
    "website": "http://le-bernardin.com",
    "type": [
      "restaurant"
    ]
  },
  {
    "id": "cjkwpyn7f004g0955ycz9iygq",
    "name": "Atomix",
    "image": "https://media.timeout.com/images/105268527/630/472/image.jpg",
    "cuisine": "Korean",
    "cost": 4,
    "description": "The husband-and-wife team behind Atoboy opens a finer-dining Korean establishment in Nomad, tucked away in a walk-up apartment building. With an intimate cocktail lounge on the first floor and an upscale restaurant below, Atomix offers a $175 multicourse tasting menu with seasonal rice and banchan pairings. In lieu of a menu, a series of cards comes with your meal, telling a culinary narrative with little tidbits of information on each dish.",
    "why_go": "Why go? It's Korean food unlike anything you've had in town",
    "location": "104 East 30th St                                                                  New York                                          10016",
    "source": "https://www.timeout.com/newyork/restaurants/Atomix",
    "website": "http://www.atomixnyc.com",
    "type": [
      "restaurant"
    ]
  },
  {
    "id": "cjkwpyn7l004m0955lw0ka6eh",
    "name": "Keens Steakhouse",
    "image": "https://media.timeout.com/images/100416141/630/472/image.jpg",
    "cuisine": "Steakhouse",
    "cost": 4,
    "description": "The ceiling and walls are hung with pipes, some from such long-ago Keens regulars as Babe Ruth, J.P. Morgan and Teddy Roosevelt. Even in these nonsmoking days, you can catch a whiff of the restaurant’s 120-plus years of history. Beveled-glass doors, two working fireplaces and a forest’s worth of dark wood suggest a time when “Diamond Jim” Brady piled his table with bushels of oysters, slabs of seared beef and troughs of ale. The menu still lists a three-inch-thick mutton chop (imagine a saddle of lamb but with more punch) and desserts such as key lime pie. ",
    "why_go": "Why go? Sirloin and porterhouse (for two or three) hold their own against any steak in the city",
    "location": "72 W 36th St                                                                  New York                                          10018",
    "source": "https://www.timeout.com/newyork/restaurants/Keens Steakhouse",
    "website": "http://keenssteakhouse.com",
    "type": [
      "restaurant"
    ]
  },
  {
    "id": "cjkwpyn7n004n0955cmkn15wg",
    "name": "Le Coucou",
    "image": "https://media.timeout.com/images/103536241/630/472/image.jpg",
    "cuisine": "French",
    "cost": 3,
    "description": "It’s a scene out of Ratatouille: the open kitchen lined with copper pots and hand-glazed tiles, churning with chefs whose two-foot-high toques blanche skim the range hoods as they plate hazelnut-freckled leek vinaigrettes and foie-marbled veal terrines with an almost cartoonish hustle. It’s no movie—rather, it’s the animated stir of Soho’s Le Coucou, the graceful French spot from the prolific restaurateur Stephen Starr (Buddakan, Morimoto). ",
    "why_go": "Why go? For the revival of fine-dining French",
    "location": "138 Lafayette St                                                                  New York                                          10013",
    "source": "https://www.timeout.com/newyork/restaurants/Le Coucou",
    "website": "http://lecoucou.com",
    "type": [
      "restaurant"
    ]
  },
  {
    "id": "cjkwpyn7q004r0955sl3e6w06",
    "name": "Locanda Verde",
    "image": "https://media.timeout.com/images/100750515/630/472/image.jpg",
    "cuisine": "Italian",
    "cost": 3,
    "description": "Owner Robert De Niro swapped his train-wreck trattoria, Ago, for this blockbuster replacement. The bold family-style fare is best enjoyed as a bacchanalian banquet at the stylish, downtown locale. ",
    "why_go": "Why go? You want a flashy dinner in the quieter Tribeca nabe",
    "location": "Greenwich Hotel                                          377 Greenwich St                                                                  New York                                          10013",
    "source": "https://www.timeout.com/newyork/restaurants/Locanda Verde",
    "website": "http://locandaverdenyc.com",
    "type": [
      "restaurant"
    ]
  },
  {
    "id": "cjkwpyn7x004v0955pvjv95vs",
    "name": "Osteria Morini",
    "image": "https://media.timeout.com/images/100457477/630/472/image.jpg",
    "cuisine": "Italian",
    "cost": 3,
    "description": "Michael White (Alto, Marea) is one of New York’s most prolific and successful Italian-American chefs, and this terrific downtown homage to a classic Bolognese tavern is the most accessible restaurant in his stable. ",
    "why_go": "Why go? The toque spent seven years cooking in Italy's Emilia-Romagna region, and his connection to the area surfaces in the rustic food",
    "location": "218 Lafayette St                                                                  New York                                          10012",
    "source": "https://www.timeout.com/newyork/restaurants/Osteria Morini",
    "website": "http://www.osteriamorini.com",
    "type": [
      "restaurant"
    ]
  },
  {
    "id": "cjkwpyn7y004w0955a6832zc6",
    "name": "Sofreh",
    "image": "https://media.timeout.com/images/105253290/630/472/image.jpg",
    "cuisine": "Persian",
    "cost": 2,
    "description": "In one of New York's few (and certainly only trendy) Persian restaurants, the incredibly fragrant cuisine of Iran is finally getting the spotlight it deserves. Dine on roasted eggplant dip, beef-and-potato kebab and rosewater sorbet at this traditional Persian spot in Prospect Heights led by the chef-owner who moved to the city from Iran in the 1980s. ",
    "why_go": "Why Go? One of the best and only representations of Persian cuisine in town.",
    "location": "75 St Marks Ave                                                                  New York                                          11217",
    "source": "https://www.timeout.com/newyork/restaurants/Sofreh",
    "website": "http://www.sofrehnyc.com",
    "type": [
      "restaurant"
    ]
  },
  {
    "id": "cjkwpyn8n00580955fdgtyee6",
    "name": "Gotham Bar and Grill",
    "image": "https://media.timeout.com/images/105170155/630/472/image.jpg",
    "cuisine": "American",
    "cost": 4,
    "description": "Chef-owner Alfred Portale made his name with towering New American constructions, and though the menu doesn’t push any flavor boundaries, the execution is impressive—as is the restaurant’s soaring masculine space. It’s pricey, but Gotham delivers.",
    "why_go": "Why go? For upscale food that’s not too esoteric",
    "location": "12 E 12th St                                                                  New York                                          10003",
    "source": "https://www.timeout.com/newyork/restaurants/Gotham Bar and Grill",
    "website": "http://www.gothambarandgrill.com",
    "type": [
      "restaurant"
    ]
  },
  {
    "id": "cjkwpyn8q005b0955w0jeq7kr",
    "name": "Via Carota",
    "image": "https://media.timeout.com/images/102029947/630/472/image.jpg",
    "cuisine": "Italian",
    "cost": 2,
    "description": "In the #trending millennial slang lexicon, basic is not a compliment—it’s a dig to the banal, extra-regular-ness of everything from fur-lined Ugg boots to pumpkin-spice lattes. Basic cooking is no exception, redolent with whiffs of home kitchens and hands-on Sauté 101 classes. But the soulful Italian plates served at Via Carota, the first joint effort from chef power couple Jody Williams and Rita Sodi—at once rustic, sophisticated and heart-swelling—proves simple food can be anything but basic. ",
    "why_go": "Why go? Because the love behind the kitchen shows in the dishes ",
    "location": "51 Grove St                                                                  NY                                          10014",
    "source": "https://www.timeout.com/newyork/restaurants/Via Carota",
    "website": "http://viacarota.com",
    "type": [
      "restaurant"
    ]
  },
  {
    "id": "cjkwpyn8u005g0955a5kreh9r",
    "name": "Peter Luger",
    "image": "https://media.timeout.com/images/100326641/630/472/image.jpg",
    "cuisine": "Steakhouse",
    "cost": 4,
    "description": "Although a slew of Luger copycats have prospered in the last several years, none have captured the elusive charm of this stucco walled, beer-hall–style eatery, with well-worn wooden floors and tables, and waiters in waistcoats and bow ties. Excess is the thing, be it the reasonably health-conscious tomato salad, the famous porterhouse for two or the decadent apple strudel, which comes with a bowl full of schlag. Go for it all—it’s a singular New York experience that’s worth having.",
    "why_go": "Why go? For 44 perfect ounces of sliced prime beef",
    "location": "178 Broadway                                                                  Brooklyn                                          11211",
    "source": "https://www.timeout.com/newyork/restaurants/Peter Luger",
    "website": "http://peterluger.com",
    "type": [
      "restaurant"
    ]
  },
  {
    "id": "cjkwpyn8y005j0955x56fnuwf",
    "name": "Marea",
    "image": "https://media.timeout.com/images/103006556/630/472/image.jpg",
    "cuisine": "Italian",
    "cost": 4,
    "description": "Michael White's extravagant, spectacular shrine to the Italian coastline is a worthy indulgence. Spend you shall, and with great rewards of elevated crostini and seafood-focused pastas.",
    "why_go": "Why go? If you had to pick one Michael White restaurant, it would be this one ",
    "location": "240 Central Park South                                                                  New York                                          10019",
    "source": "https://www.timeout.com/newyork/restaurants/Marea",
    "website": "http://www.marea-nyc.com",
    "type": [
      "restaurant"
    ]
  },
  {
    "id": "cjkwpyn94005m0955loo88c6v",
    "name": "Mission Chinese Food",
    "image": "https://media.timeout.com/images/102063911/630/472/image.jpg",
    "cuisine": "Contemporary Asian",
    "cost": 2,
    "description": "James Beard Award–winning Danny Bowien's relative conservatism is at play at the relaunched Mission Chinese, trading in beer kegs, paper dragons and a cramped, dive-punk Orchard Street basement for smart cocktails, banquet-hall booths and an ample dining room in the far reaches of Chinatown, a lively hodgepodge of bespectacled food disciples and beanie-clad millennials spinning lazy Susans loaded with pork cheeks and turnip cakes while golden-age hip-hop pumps through the room. ",
    "why_go": "Why go? You want inventive Chinese in a lively dining room",
    "location": "154 Orchard St                                                                  New York                                          10002",
    "source": "https://www.timeout.com/newyork/restaurants/Mission Chinese Food",
    "website": "http://missionchinesefood.com",
    "type": [
      "restaurant"
    ]
  },
  {
    "id": "cjkwpyn9k005r095528fipgui",
    "name": "Buvette",
    "image": "https://media.timeout.com/images/100416747/630/472/image.jpg",
    "cuisine": "French",
    "cost": 2,
    "description": "Jody Williams may have designed her intimate Gallic-themed eatery with friends and neighbors in mind, but the food here is too accomplished to keep gastro groupies at bay. Those who wait for an evening table are treated to excellent small plates, which arrive all at once like an indoor picnic. Every detail of the place is thoughtfully curated, leaving you to revel in the chef’s very good taste as you linger over perfectly prepared dessert.",
    "why_go": "Why go? For a little bit of Paris in NYC",
    "location": "42 Grove St                                                                  New York                                          10014",
    "source": "https://www.timeout.com/newyork/restaurants/Buvette",
    "website": "http://ilovebuvette.com",
    "type": [
      "restaurant"
    ]
  },
  {
    "id": "cjkwpyn9p005w0955zfmgahqq",
    "name": "Olmsted",
    "image": "https://media.timeout.com/images/103512574/630/472/image.jpg",
    "cuisine": "Contemporary American",
    "cost": 2,
    "description": "Sure, with the carrot crepe's ribboned strands and sunflower petals, it initially smacks of veg-forward fussiness, but plumb its expertly balanced depths and—surprise! You’ll find one of the best dishes of recent years. That’s the case with much of Olmsted, the Prospect Heights blow-in from Greg Baxtrom (Per Se, Blue Hill at Stone Barns). On paper, Olmsted’s partiality for hyperfresh produce isn’t exactly a distinctive quality, but its sheer dedication to freshness sets it apart.",
    "why_go": "Why go? The eclectic menu tastes even better when eating in the outdoor garden",
    "location": "659 Vanderbilt Ave                                                                  Brooklyn                                          11238",
    "source": "https://www.timeout.com/newyork/restaurants/Olmsted",
    "website": "http://www.olmstednyc.com",
    "type": [
      "restaurant"
    ]
  },
  {
    "id": "cjkwpyn9v006009554vcjs2nk",
    "name": "The Grill",
    "image": "https://media.timeout.com/images/103920780/630/472/image.jpg",
    "cuisine": "American",
    "cost": 0,
    "description": "The real surprise is how deftly Major Food has silenced such critics of a Four Seasons revamp with this dazzling remake of the famed Grill Room. And it’s not just the deference for the landmark interior. It’s also that Major Food has finally returned to form. Inspired by midcentury menus from Delmonico’s and 21 Club, chef Carbone reconstructs continental classics like filet Peconic, lobster Newburg and three iterations of Dover sole.",
    "why_go": "Why go? The prime rib",
    "location": "240 MGM Grand Drive                                                                  Mashantucket                                          06338",
    "source": "https://www.timeout.com/newyork/restaurants/The Grill",
    "website": "http://thegrillattwotrees.com",
    "type": [
      "restaurant"
    ]
  },
  {
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    "name": "Del Posto",
    "image": "https://media.timeout.com/images/100416805/630/472/image.jpg",
    "cuisine": "Italian",
    "cost": 3,
    "description": "With four-star ambitions and prices to match, Del Posto set the bar awfully high when it opened in 2005, but the cavernous restaurant has become nothing less than one of the city’s top destinations for refined, upscale Italian cuisine. The clubby dining room, serenaded nightly by a twinkling grand piano, feels like the lobby of an opulent grand hotel. The kitchen challenges its French competition in butter consumption. ",
    "why_go": "Why go? For casual celeb spotting (hi, Bey and Jay)",
    "location": "85 Tenth Ave                                                                  New York                                          10011",
    "source": "https://www.timeout.com/newyork/restaurants/Del Posto",
    "website": "http://www.delposto.com",
    "type": [
      "restaurant"
    ]
  },
  {
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    "name": "15 East",
    "image": "https://media.timeout.com/images/100667341/630/472/image.jpg",
    "cuisine": "Japanese",
    "cost": 3,
    "description": "Toqueville co-owner Marco Moreira returned to his aquatic roots—he was trained as a sushi chef—when he opened this solemn temple of Japanese cuisine in 2006. The room, designed by architect Richard Bloch (Masa), feels like a sanctuary, and, fittingly, the food has a near-religious following among raw-fish fanatics. Sushi is punitively expensive, but consistently luscious.",
    "why_go": "Why go? For tuna aficionados, there's a sampler with five different cuts",
    "location": "15 E 15th St                                                                  New York                                          10003",
    "source": "https://www.timeout.com/newyork/restaurants/15 East",
    "website": "http://15eastrestaurant.com",
    "type": [
      "restaurant"
    ]
  },
  {
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    "name": "La Grenouille",
    "image": "https://media.timeout.com/images/103006552/630/472/image.jpg",
    "cuisine": "French",
    "cost": 4,
    "description": "La Grenouille, which opened in 1962, is a window to when stuffy waiters and chateaubriand were considered the highest form of dining. It doesn’t get much snootier: jackets are required, cell phones and kids forbidden, and the electric red décor, full of mirrors and flowers and deco details, has the feel of a Mad Men power lunch. That said, La Grenouille endures for a reason: the culinary execution remains near flawless.",
    "why_go": "Why go? For old-world, over-the-top romance",
    "location": "3 E 52nd St                                                                  New York                                          10022",
    "source": "https://www.timeout.com/newyork/restaurants/La Grenouille",
    "website": "http://la-grenouille.com",
    "type": [
      "restaurant"
    ]
  },
  {
    "id": "cjkwpynae006j095525xk161x",
    "name": "Casa Enrique",
    "image": "https://media.timeout.com/images/100498981/630/472/image.jpg",
    "cuisine": "Mexican",
    "cost": 2,
    "description": "The owners of Bar Henry branched out to Queens with this 40-seat Mexican eatery, specializing in the regional cuisine of Cintalapa, Chiapas. Brothers Cosme and Luis Aguilar, the chef and GM respectively, pay homage to their late mother with traditional plates, including some based on her recipes, such as chicken mole and cochinito chiapaneco (guajillo-marinated baby pork ribs). ",
    "why_go": "Why go? The high-quality cooking garnered Casa Enrique a Michelin star, making it the first Mexican restaurant in New York to ever do so",
    "location": "5-48 49th Ave                                                                  New York                                          11101",
    "source": "https://www.timeout.com/newyork/restaurants/Casa Enrique",
    "website": "http://casaenriquequeens.com",
    "type": [
      "restaurant"
    ]
  },
  {
    "id": "cjkwpynag006m0955euxlmz1o",
    "name": "Barney Greengrass",
    "image": "https://media.timeout.com/images/100328455/630/472/image.jpg",
    "cuisine": "Delis",
    "cost": 2,
    "description": "Despite decor that Jewish mothers might call “schmutzy,” this legendary deli is a madhouse at breakfast and brunch. Enormous egg platters come with the usual choice of smoked fish (such as sturgeon or Nova Scotia salmon). Prices are high but portions are large—and that goes for the sandwiches, too. Or try the less costly dishes: matzo-ball soup, creamy egg salad or cold pink borscht served in a glass jar.",
    "why_go": "Why go? If you can’t travel to get bubby’s homestyle cooking on the weekends",
    "location": "541 Amsterdam Ave                                                                  New York                                          10024",
    "source": "https://www.timeout.com/newyork/restaurants/Barney Greengrass",
    "website": "http://barneygreengrass.com",
    "type": [
      "restaurant"
    ]
  },
  {
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    "name": "Pearl Oyster Bar",
    "image": "https://media.timeout.com/images/100481317/630/472/image.jpg",
    "cuisine": "Seafood",
    "cost": 2,
    "description": "This convivial New England–style joint was a forerunner of the city’s fish-shack trend. The outstanding lobster roll—sweet, lemony meat laced with mayonnaise on a butter-enriched bun—is Pearl’s raison d’être, but more sophisticated dishes fare equally well. Finally, a restaurant worthy of its hype.",
    "why_go": "Why go? For the eternal summer meal",
    "location": "18 Cornelia St                                                                  New York                                          10014",
    "source": "https://www.timeout.com/newyork/restaurants/Pearl Oyster Bar",
    "website": "http://pearloysterbar.com",
    "type": [
      "restaurant"
    ]
  },
  {
    "id": "cjkwpynb5006y0955sik8v0su",
    "name": "Brushstroke",
    "image": "https://media.timeout.com/images/100664959/630/472/image.jpg",
    "cuisine": "Japanese",
    "cost": 4,
    "description": "David Bouley’s name may be behind this venture, but the star chef is not in the kitchen. Instead he has handed the reins to talented import Isao Yamada, who turns out some of the most accomplished Japanese food in the city. The ever-changing seasonal menu, which rotates through 5,000 dishes that Yamada spent years testing, is best experienced as an intricate multicourse feast known as kaiseki. ",
    "why_go": "Why go? To experience food from not one, but two, of the world’s leading chefs",
    "location": "30 Hudson St                                                                  New York                                          10013",
    "source": "https://www.timeout.com/newyork/restaurants/Brushstroke",
    "website": "http://davidbouley.com/brushstroke-restaurant",
    "type": [
      "restaurant"
    ]
  },
  {
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    "name": "Momofuku Ko",
    "image": "https://media.timeout.com/images/103138860/630/472/image.jpg",
    "cuisine": "Contemporary American",
    "cost": 4,
    "description": "Make it through the reservations ringer to gain access to chef David Chang’s petit tasting-menu spot. The ever-evolving menu of 12 to 15 courses can feature dishes like raw fluke, in a coating of tangy, mellow buttermilk, poppy seeds and sriracha chili sauce, or a frozen foie gras torchon, brilliantly shaved over lychee puree and pine-nut brittle. ",
    "why_go": "Why go? David Chang is the contrarian pioneer that the city needs",
    "location": "163 First Ave                                                                  New York",
    "source": "https://www.timeout.com/newyork/restaurants/Momofuku Ko",
    "website": "http://momofuku.com",
    "type": [
      "restaurant"
    ]
  },
  {
    "id": "cjkwpynbm00780955o1em0kr4",
    "name": "Tamarind Tribeca",
    "image": "https://media.timeout.com/images/100053515/630/472/image.jpg",
    "cuisine": "Indian",
    "cost": 2,
    "description": "A stunning spin-off of the original Tamarind in the Flatiron District, the Tribeca location convincingly draws from all corners of the subcontinent with its sprawling menu. Beyond the requisite chicken tikka masala (one of the best we’ve had), the dishes delight at every turn. But the most consistent pleasures come out of the twin tandoor ovens, visible from the main dining room.",
    "why_go": "Why go? For some of the best Indian food in the city",
    "location": "99 Hudson St                                                                  New York                                          10013",
    "source": "https://www.timeout.com/newyork/restaurants/Tamarind Tribeca",
    "website": "tel:212-775-9000",
    "type": [
      "restaurant"
    ]
  },
  {
    "id": "cjkwpynbo007b0955phjaufl6",
    "name": "Tanoreen",
    "image": "https://media.timeout.com/images/100380011/630/472/image.jpg",
    "cuisine": "Central Asian",
    "cost": 2,
    "description": "Since 1998, this cult destination in Bay Ridge has been alone at the top of local Middle Eastern establishments, a standard-bearer in a category that has few highlights. The Palestinian-born chef and owner takes extra steps in reviving the flavors of her Nazareth childhood—charring eggplants in charcoal, rolling out pita, hand-making savory yogurt. Her efforts pay dividends in an endless variety of silky spreads—lemony labna, smoky baba ghanoush—and almost-narcotic mains. ",
    "why_go": "Why go? How many excuses do you get to go to Bay Ridge?",
    "location": "7523 Third Ave                                                                  Brooklyn                                          11209-30",
    "source": "https://www.timeout.com/newyork/restaurants/Tanoreen",
    "website": "http://tanoreen.com",
    "type": [
      "restaurant"
    ]
  },
  {
    "id": "cjkwpynbq007e0955l3b9ffg4",
    "name": "Uncle Boons",
    "image": "https://media.timeout.com/images/100727801/630/472/image.jpg",
    "cuisine": "Thai",
    "cost": 2,
    "description": "Thai restaurant Uncle Boons is part of a riptide of upstarts repackaging homey Asian food—once relegated to holes-in-the-wall or fusty midtown warhorses—in buzzy, forward-thinking joints. So at this dark-wood-paneled rathskeller, you’ll find tap wine and beer slushes, vintage Thai flatware carved from teak and brass, and perhaps major foodies plowing through noodles in the back dining room.",
    "why_go": "Why go? For some of the hippest Thai in the city",
    "location": "7 Spring St                                                                  NY                                          10012",
    "source": "https://www.timeout.com/newyork/restaurants/Uncle Boons",
    "website": "http://uncleboons.com",
    "type": [
      "restaurant"
    ]
  },
  {
    "id": "cjkwpync0007i0955etwdxq5v",
    "name": "Ippudo NY",
    "image": "https://media.timeout.com/images/100380275/630/472/image.jpg",
    "cuisine": "Japanese",
    "cost": 2,
    "description": "This sleek outpost of a Japanese ramen chain is always packed with New Yorkers and Nippon natives who queue up (often for two hours or more) for the simple pleasure of a bowl of soup. The chain’s self-styled “Ramen King,” specializes in tonkotsu, a pork-based ramen from southern Japan. ",
    "why_go": "Why go? Sometimes chicken noodle soup just won’t do it ",
    "location": "65 Fourth Ave                                                                  New York                                          10003",
    "source": "https://www.timeout.com/newyork/restaurants/Ippudo NY",
    "website": "http://ippudo.com/ny",
    "type": [
      "restaurant"
    ]
  },
  {
    "id": "cjkwpync3007l09555lnq4xvn",
    "name": "Di Fara Pizza",
    "image": "https://media.timeout.com/images/100537935/630/472/image.jpg",
    "cuisine": "Pizza",
    "cost": 2,
    "description": "The painstakingly crafted Neapolitan pies—cracker-thin crust with a pleasing char and a subtle Parmesan zing—are widely considered among the city's best; dough is made fresh several times a day. To keep occupied during what feels like an interminable wait, check out the window boxes full of herbs used to flavor the sauce.",
    "why_go": "Why go? It’s NYC—we take our pizza very seriously ",
    "location": "1424 Ave J                                                                  Brooklyn                                          11230-37",
    "source": "https://www.timeout.com/newyork/restaurants/Di Fara Pizza",
    "website": "http://www.difarany.com",
    "type": [
      "restaurant"
    ]
  },
  {
    "id": "cjkwpync3007m0955v39mcz3h",
    "name": "Minetta Tavern",
    "image": "https://media.timeout.com/images/100746431/630/472/image.jpg",
    "cuisine": "French",
    "cost": 3,
    "description": "Keith McNally’s lovingly restored Minetta Tavern may be the first iconic restaurant of postmillennial New York. The place is as buzzy now as it must have been in its 1950s heyday, yet the food is as much of a draw as the scene. ",
    "why_go": "Why go? The pricey Black Label burger is worth every penny",
    "location": "113 Macdougal St                                                                  New York                                          10012",
    "source": "https://www.timeout.com/newyork/restaurants/Minetta Tavern",
    "website": "http://minettatavernny.com",
    "type": [
      "restaurant"
    ]
  },
  {
    "id": "cjkwpync6007p09557g79ok2m",
    "name": "Prune",
    "image": "https://media.timeout.com/images/100417581/630/472/image.jpg",
    "cuisine": "Contemporary American",
    "cost": 2,
    "description": "Tiny, well-lit Prune is still as popular as it was the day it opened. Gabrielle Hamilton’s French mother developed this fearless chef’s palate early on: Expect creative dishes like Manila clams with hominy and smoked paprika butter, and roasted suckling pig with pickled tomatoes, black-eyed-pea salad and chipotle mayo. ",
    "why_go": "Why go? For the pitch-perfect dinner or brunch downtown",
    "location": "54 E 1st St                                                                  New York                                          10003",
    "source": "https://www.timeout.com/newyork/restaurants/Prune",
    "website": "http://www.prunerestaurant.com",
    "type": [
      "restaurant"
    ]
  },
  {
    "id": "cjkwpync7007s0955cibtsw6r",
    "name": "Miss Ada",
    "image": "https://media.timeout.com/images/103855779/630/472/image.jpg",
    "cuisine": "Mediterranean",
    "cost": 3,
    "description": "No, Miss Ada isn’t the name of some chef’s grade-school teacher. Rather, it’s a playful twist on the phonetic pronunciation of misada, the Hebrew word for “restaurant.” At this Fort Greene spot, Israeli-born chef Tomer Blechman (Bar Bolonat) combines his Latvian heritage with Mediterranean cooking for smart mezzes and larger, Middle Eastern plates. ",
    "why_go": "Why go? You can eat your weight in fluffy pita on their outdoor terrace",
    "location": "184 DeKalb Ave                                                                  Brooklyn                                          11205",
    "source": "https://www.timeout.com/newyork/restaurants/Miss Ada",
    "website": "http://www.missadanyc.com",
    "type": [
      "restaurant"
    ]
  },
  {
    "id": "cjkwpync9007v0955bosgut65",
    "name": "Made Nice",
    "image": "https://media.timeout.com/images/103828258/630/472/image.jpg",
    "cuisine": "American",
    "cost": 2,
    "description": "Fine dining is going fast-casual: Michelin-starred chef Daniel Humm and restaurateur Will Guidara—the team behind Eleven Madison Park and the NoMad—run this counter-service concept in Nomad. From an open kitchen, Humm & Co. serves deconstructed versions of dishes from their more upscale restaurants. Single-digit–priced glasses of wine are available, as well as an on-tap beer collaboration with Evil Twin Brewing and house-made sodas.",
    "why_go": "Why Go? On the weekends, their chicken frites platter gives you all the feels of the famed NoMad roast chicken. ",
    "location": "8 W 28th St                                                                  New York                                          10001",
    "source": "https://www.timeout.com/newyork/restaurants/Made Nice",
    "website": "http://www.madenicenyc.com",
    "type": [
      "restaurant"
    ]
  },
  {
    "id": "cjkwpyncc007y09551ixnafki",
    "name": "Pok Pok Ny",
    "image": "https://media.timeout.com/images/100788367/630/472/image.jpg",
    "cuisine": "Thai",
    "cost": 2,
    "description": "What separates Pok Pok from other cultish Thai restaurants, like SriPraPhai in Queens, is the curatorial role of Andy Ricker, its minutiae-mad chef. Ricker, who flavors the water here with pandanus leaf and presses his own coconuts for cream, focuses mostly on the funky fare of northern Thailand. ",
    "why_go": "Why go? For finger-licking family-style Thai dishes",
    "location": "117 Columbia St                                                                  New York                                          11231",
    "source": "https://www.timeout.com/newyork/restaurants/Pok Pok Ny",
    "website": "http://pokpokny.com",
    "type": [
      "restaurant"
    ]
  },
  {
    "id": "cjkwpyncg00830955sgsmnijs",
    "name": "Hometown Bar-b-que",
    "image": "https://media.timeout.com/images/100770859/630/472/image.jpg",
    "cuisine": "Barbecue",
    "cost": 3,
    "description": "Grab your Wet-Naps—Brooklyn’s BBQ renaissance shows no signs of cooling off. This wood-paneled 120-seat smokehouse is a collaboration between self-taught pit master Billy Durney and restaurateur Christopher Miller (Smith & Mills, Warren 77). Inspired by his Brooklyn upbringing and travels through the South, Durney turns out 'cue with global influences. ",
    "why_go": "Why go? Dig into smoked meats both American and international",
    "location": "454 Van Brunt St                                                                  NY                                          11231",
    "source": "https://www.timeout.com/newyork/restaurants/Hometown Bar-b-que",
    "website": "http://hometownbarbque.com",
    "type": [
      "restaurant"
    ]
  },
  {
    "id": "cjkwpyncj00860955djuxzerg",
    "name": "Estela",
    "image": "https://media.timeout.com/images/100769151/630/472/image.jpg",
    "cuisine": "Contemporary American",
    "cost": 2,
    "description": "The spot sports a fashionably cookie-cutter decor—exposed brick, globe lights, hulking marble bar, you know the drill—but the true draw to the space is the talented Ignacio Mattos, the imaginative Uruguayan-born chef cooking in this Mediterranean-tinged spot. ",
    "why_go": "Why Go? Simple, yet thoughtful fare perfect for a stunning meal any night of the week",
    "location": "47 E Houston St                                                                  New York                                          10012",
    "source": "https://www.timeout.com/newyork/restaurants/Estela",
    "website": "http://estelanyc.com",
    "type": [
      "restaurant"
    ]
  },
  {
    "id": "cjkwpynck00890955whvtdmeh",
    "name": "Frenchette",
    "image": "https://media.timeout.com/images/105224268/630/472/image.jpg",
    "cuisine": "French",
    "cost": 3,
    "description": "The modern Parisian brasserie below Canal Street is not trying to reinvent the French wheel but drive home classics in a more refined (and pricier) manner than your average bistro. The atmosphere is cool, decor is tasteful and the dishes are masterfully executed. ",
    "why_go": "Why go? The trendy Tribeca spot has duck frites that shouldn't be missed",
    "location": "241 W Broadway                                                                  New York                                          10013",
    "source": "https://www.timeout.com/newyork/restaurants/Frenchette",
    "website": "http://www.frenchettenyc.com",
    "type": [
      "restaurant"
    ]
  },
  {
    "id": "cjkwpyncl008c0955in6oja2x",
    "name": "Hearth",
    "image": "https://media.timeout.com/images/100192957/630/472/image.jpg",
    "cuisine": "American",
    "cost": 2,
    "description": "The East Village needed a Hearth—an upscale yet relaxed place that wasn’t just another surprisingly good ethnic hole-in-the-wall. Skirting the small-plate trend, the hearty fare is big, rich and flavorful. There is a small hearth in the restaurant, but the real warmth comes from the staff, which takes pains in helping you pick the right dish, and is equally interested in finding out afterward what you thought of it.",
    "why_go": "Why go? If you’re into the whole seasonal, locally-sourced healthy-ish dinner",
    "location": "403 E 12th St                                                                  New York                                          10009-40",
    "source": "https://www.timeout.com/newyork/restaurants/Hearth",
    "website": "http://restauranthearth.com",
    "type": [
      "restaurant"
    ]
  },
  {
    "id": "cjkwpyncn008f0955pdxfy3mu",
    "name": "Momofuku Noodle Bar",
    "image": "https://media.timeout.com/images/100423597/630/472/image.jpg",
    "cuisine": "Japanese",
    "cost": 2,
    "description": "David Chang’s Momofuku juggernaut began at Noodle Bar, the chef’s first solo venture and the project that propelled him from East Village renegade to awards-circuit veteran. The place is as electric and outstanding as ever. Noodle Bar made its bones taking the economic savior of college students everywhere—ramen noodles—and making them hot, duding up most of the bowls with sexy ingredients like poached eggs and pickled pear. Non-noodle dishes can also thrill.",
    "why_go": "Why go? To see where the Momofuku craze all began  ",
    "location": "171 First Ave                                                                  New York                                          10003",
    "source": "https://www.timeout.com/newyork/restaurants/Momofuku Noodle Bar",
    "website": "http://momofuku.com",
    "type": [
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  },
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    "name": "Kang Ho Dong Baekjeong",
    "image": "https://media.timeout.com/images/102315557/630/472/image.jpg",
    "cuisine": "Korean",
    "cost": 2,
    "description": "For the yet-to-be converted, Korean barbecue can seem like utter chaos—a frenzy of pounding K-pop hits and smoke-spewing tableside grills always an inch or two away from firing up a lawsuit. Despite the noise and crowd, the cooking speaks of a quiet refinement courtesy of young-gun chef Deuki Hong, who previously put in kitchen time at Jean Georges and Momofuku. ",
    "why_go": "Why go? Hong wet-ages his Omaha beef for three weeks before the servers showcase the carne in escalating degrees of flavor and heft",
    "location": "1 E 32nd St                                                                  New York                                          10016",
    "source": "https://www.timeout.com/newyork/restaurants/Kang Ho Dong Baekjeong",
    "website": "http://baekjeongnyc.com",
    "type": [
      "restaurant"
    ]
  },
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    "name": "Nom Wah Tea Parlor",
    "image": "https://media.timeout.com/images/100720165/630/472/image.jpg",
    "cuisine": "Chinese",
    "cost": 1,
    "description": "In 2010, Wally Tang passed Nom Wah on to his nephew Wilson Tang, a banker at ING Direct. The 90-year-old stalwart had fallen into disrepair, so Tang remodeled; the most important tweaks, though, were behind the scenes: Tang updated the kitchen and did away with the procedure of cooking dim sum en masse. Now each plate is cooked to order. Tang's nips and tucks transformed a health department nightmare into a charming old-school institution, completely unlike the chaotic banquet halls that dominate Chinatown's dim sum scene. ",
    "why_go": "Why go? For the city’s ultimate dim sum",
    "location": "13 Doyers St                                                                  New York                                          10013",
    "source": "https://www.timeout.com/newyork/restaurants/Nom Wah Tea Parlor",
    "website": "http://nomwah.com",
    "type": [
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    ]
  },
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    "name": "Daniel",
    "image": "https://media.timeout.com/images/100418555/630/472/image.jpg",
    "cuisine": "French",
    "cost": 3,
    "description": "A vibrant redesign by Adam Tihany has brought Daniel Boulud’s classically opulent restaurant into the 21st century. The food is as fresh as the decor with unusually generous entrees consisting of seafood stunners. Sure, Daniel is still a big-ticket commitment, but Boulud and his team make a powerful case for keeping the high-end genre alive.",
    "why_go": "Why go? No place does better nouveau French fare",
    "location": "60 E 65th St                                                                  New York                                          10021",
    "source": "https://www.timeout.com/newyork/restaurants/Daniel",
    "website": "http://www.danielnyc.com",
    "type": [
      "restaurant"
    ]
  },
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    "name": "Lafayette",
    "image": "https://media.timeout.com/images/100723787/630/472/image.jpg",
    "cuisine": "French",
    "cost": 2,
    "description": "Everything in Lafayette glows: the blue-flamed rotisserie and wood oven, the soft lamps and candles, and the gently backlit bar. The large room enjoys a proper bustle, not a din. Lithe young things tilt their heads over glasses of Sancerre in that golden light at tables, and over at the bar, clutches of suits strain their necks to get the bartender’s attention. The menu is suffused with all sorts of food you’ll want to eat, starting with hunks of pain de campagne that have a beautiful rye sourness and chew. ",
    "why_go": "Why go? For a sceney alternative to Balthazar",
    "location": "380 Lafayette St                                                                  New York                                          10012",
    "source": "https://www.timeout.com/newyork/restaurants/Lafayette",
    "website": "http://lafayetteny.com",
    "type": [
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    ]
  },
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    "name": "Frankies 457 Spuntino",
    "image": "https://media.timeout.com/images/100418643/630/472/image.jpg",
    "cuisine": "Italian",
    "cost": 1,
    "description": "This casual Spuntino was an instant classic when it debuted in Carroll Gardens in 2004.  But their flagship remains as alluring as ever, turning out an impressive selection of cheeses, antipasti and cured meats, distinctive salads and exceptional pastas to a mostly local crowd. ",
    "why_go": "Why go? The mavericks behind the place—collectively referred to as “the Franks” went on to become neighborhood pillars",
    "location": "457 Court St                                                                  Brooklyn                                          11231",
    "source": "https://www.timeout.com/newyork/restaurants/Frankies 457 Spuntino",
    "website": "tel:718-403-0033",
    "type": [
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  },
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    "name": "Rubirosa",
    "image": "https://media.timeout.com/images/100537931/630/472/image.jpg",
    "cuisine": "Pizza",
    "cost": 2,
    "description": "Owner Giuseppe Pappalardo of Staten Island pizzeria Joe & Pat's enlisted his son Angelo (Esca) as chef and pizzaiolo at this Italian restaurant, offering simple, thin-crust pizzas and classic red-sauce fare. Rubirosa's crisp yet pliable pies have a delicate char and a small ring of crackerlike crust around the edges. ",
    "why_go": "Why go? We've yet to go wrong with the no-frills vodka rendition, which boasts a layer of creamy, booze-spiked tomato sauce and a gooey patchwork of fresh mozzarella",
    "location": "235 Mulberry St                                                                  New York                                          10012",
    "source": "https://www.timeout.com/newyork/restaurants/Rubirosa",
    "website": "https://www.rubirosanyc.com",
    "type": [
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  },
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    "name": "Lilia",
    "image": "https://media.timeout.com/images/103663520/630/472/image.jpg",
    "cuisine": "Italian",
    "cost": 2,
    "description": "If a new restaurant is lucky, it’ll have one destination dish that piques food-geek interest and draws New York’s increasingly discerning eaters across bridges and through tunnels for a mere taste. Lilia—the airy Williamsburg pasta parlor that simultaneously serves as the kitchen comeback and solo debut from acclaimed A Voce vet Missy Robbins—has an entire menu of destination dishes; the biggest problem you’ll have here, other than scoring a free table, is picking a favorite. ",
    "why_go": "Why go? It's easily the best bowl of pasta you'll have this year",
    "location": "567 Union Ave                                                                  Brooklyn                                          11211",
    "source": "https://www.timeout.com/newyork/restaurants/Lilia",
    "website": "http://lilianewyork.com",
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    ]
  },
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    "name": "Superiority Burger",
    "image": "https://media.timeout.com/images/102777928/630/472/image.jpg",
    "cuisine": "Hamburgers",
    "cost": 1,
    "description": "In a white-tiled slip of an East Village eatery, former James Beard Award-winning Del Posto pastry great and erstwhile punk-rock drummer Brooks Headley gives his uberpopular veggie burger pop-up the brick-and-mortar treatment, offering the namesake patty, tofu-cabbage wraps, vegetarian sloppy joes and vanilla-labna gelato.",
    "why_go": "Why go? The best veggie burger you'll ever have",
    "location": "430 E 9th St                                                                  New York                                          10009",
    "source": "https://www.timeout.com/newyork/restaurants/Superiority Burger",
    "website": "http://superiorityburger.com",
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  },
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    "name": "The Modern",
    "image": "https://media.timeout.com/images/100420657/630/472/image.jpg",
    "cuisine": "Contemporary American",
    "cost": 4,
    "description": "Good looks aren’t everything, but they’re serious business here, where tables overlook the MoMA’s sculpture garden and diners carve their meat with Porsche steak knives. The pre-fixe menus are as carefully curated as any museum show, from vibrant opening bites to hearty mains. ",
    "why_go": "Why go? If you get an early reservation, you can look out at the garden while the sun’s still out",
    "location": "9 W 53rd St                                                                  New York",
    "source": "https://www.timeout.com/newyork/restaurants/The Modern",
    "website": "http://themodernnyc.com",
    "type": [
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    ]
  },
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    "name": "The best grilled cheese in NYC",
    "image": "https://media.timeout.com/images/103349457/630/472/image.jpg",
    "cuisine": "American",
    "cost": 0,
    "description": "From classic cheddar to spicy kimchi, these not-so-average sammies and combos are the best grilled cheese in NYC",
    "why_go": "From classic cheddar to spicy kimchi, these not-so-average sammies and combos are the best grilled cheese in NYC",
    "location": "",
    "source": "https://www.timeout.com/newyork/restaurants/The best grilled cheese in NYC",
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    "name": "Masa",
    "image": "https://media.timeout.com/images/100438723/630/472/image.jpg",
    "cuisine": "Japanese",
    "cost": 4,
    "description": "When world-renowned sushi chef Masa Takayama arrived in New York, he came offering the most expensive dining experience in the city’s history. To be clear, Takayama doesn’t overcharge for his meals: He overspends, and the mystique of it all—his exquisite materials, his rare ingredients and his labor-intensive techniques—can be lost on a diner who doesn’t know the ins-and-outs. Takayama prepares each perfect bite-size gift, then places it in front of you on a spare slate; you almost eat out of his hands, and the sushi seems to melt in your mouth. This process is, to some serious food lovers, a priceless experience.",
    "why_go": "Why go? Takayama doesn’t distract diners from the meal: the space feels like a temple for seafood worship",
    "location": "Time Warner Center, 10 Columbus Circle                                              fourth floor                                                                  New York                                          10019",
    "source": "https://www.timeout.com/newyork/restaurants/Masa",
    "website": "http://www.masanyc.com",
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    "name": "Lucali",
    "image": "https://media.timeout.com/images/102426701/630/472/image.jpg",
    "cuisine": "Pizza",
    "cost": 2,
    "description": "Brooklyn’s pizza legacies are legion—from Grimaldi’s in Dumbo to Ditmas Park’s fabled Di Fara. To this noble lineup add Lucali. The artisanal intent at the candlelit pizzeria is visible in the flour-dashed marble counter where the dough is punched and stretched, and in the brick oven from which it later emerges crisp and blistered. There are just two items on Lucali’s menu: pies and calzones, adorned with milky, elastic mozzarella and simple toppings like chewy rounds of pepperoni or slivers of artichoke. ",
    "why_go": "Why go? BYOB, baby",
    "location": "575 Henry St                                                                  Brooklyn                                          11231",
    "source": "https://www.timeout.com/newyork/restaurants/Lucali",
    "website": "tel:718-858-4086",
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