3 Local Spots in New York City Tourists Don't Know About
3 landmarks with verified facts and stories
~3 min
Chelsea Market
75 9th Ave, Manhattan, New York, 10011, United States
foodarchitecturehistory
This building used to make Oreos.
~3 min
DUMBO
Washington St & Water St, Brooklyn, NY 11201
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DUMBO stands for Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass, a name the residents invented in the nineteen seventies specifically because it sounded stupid.
~2 min
Stone Street
Stone St, Manhattan, New York, 10004, United States
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In sixteen fifty-eight, the residents of Breuers Straet in New Amsterdam were so annoyed by the dust and mud on their street that they petitioned the Dutch colonial government for permission to pave it — at their own expense.
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