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LANDMARKS & PARKS
401. Ground Zero (R3)
Between Vesey, Church, Liberty and West streets
402. Times Square (D9)
Broadway, 7th Ave at 44th St
403. City Hall (R5)
131 Duane St
212 227-7777 www.nyc.gov/html/dcas/html/building/man_cityhall.html
WiFi Access
404. Union Square (K8)
Between 14th and 17th Streets, Broadway and Park
405. United Nations (G13)
1 and 2 United Nations Plaza (between 40th and 41st), also 405 E 42nd St
212-832-1075, 646-840-0236, 212-355-4165
406. Tompkins Square Park (N10)
Between Aves A and B, 7th and 10th St
407. Washington Square
Park (L6)
Between Waverly and W 4th, MacDougal and University
408. Columbus Circle (A10)
Broadway and W 59th St
USS Maine Monument and Sculpture Fountain
409. Battery Park-Castle Clinton (U2)
In Battery Park, near Battery Place, between Washington and West St
212-344-7220 www.nps.gov/cacl
Buy tickets here for the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island
410. Bowling Green Park (U2)
Broadway and Whitehall streets
www.nycgovparks.org/sub_your_park/lmr/html/bowling_green.html
WiFi access
411. Carmine Street Recreation Center (M4)
1 Clarkson St (and 7th Ave)
212-242-5228 www.nycgovparks.org/sub_things_to_do/recreation_centers/rc_carmine.html
M-F 7a-10p, Sa-Su 9a-5p, free pool
412. Hamilton Fish Recreation Center (P10)
128 Pitt Street
212-387-7687 www.nycgovparks.org/sub_things_to_do/recreation_centers/rc_hamilton_fish.html
M-F pool 7a,9a-9p, Sa 10:30a-5p, free pool
413. Asser Levy Recreation Center (K11)
Asser Levy Place and E 23rd St
212-447-2020 www.nycgovparks.org/sub_things_to_do/recreation_centers/rc_asser_levy.html
M-F 6:30a-9:30p, Sa-Su 8a-4p, free pool
414. New School University (K6)
66 W 12th St
212-229-5600 www.newschool.edu
415. New York University Information Center (M7)
50 W 4th St, Rm 123
212-998-INFO www.nyu.edu
416. National Museum of the American Indian (U3)
1 Bowling Green
212-514-3700
www.nmai.si.edu/subpage.cfm?subpage=visitor&second=ny&third=hours
417. Lower East Side Tenement Museum (P8)
90 Orchard St
212-431-0233 www.tenement.org/
418. New Museum of Contemporary Art (N6)
583 Broadway
212-274-8984
www.newmuseum.org
W, Su 12-6p; Th(cheap after 6!); F,Sa 12-8p
419. Stonewall (L5)
53 Christopher St
212-463-0950 www.stonewall-place.com
Site of the June 1969 gay uprising against police repression.
420. African Burial Ground (Q5)
290 Broadway and 26 Federal Plaza
www.gsa.gov/africanburialground
421. Astor Cube (M8)
Astor Square, between Astor Place, Lafayette, 4th Ave, and St. Mark's Pl
422. The Mural of Jewish Life at the Bialystoker Home for the Aged (Q9)
228, 230 East Broadway
212-475-7755
423. Chumley's (L5)
86 Bedford St
212-675-4449
Lee Chumley published the local IWW newspaper from here in the 1920s.
424. Eldridge Street Synagogue (Q7)
12 Eldridge St
212-219-0888 www.eldridgestreet.org
Built in 1887.
425. Emma Goldman's House (L9)
208 East 13th St
She lived here from 1903-1913.
426. Emma Goldman's House (L5)
36 Grove St
She lived here in 1919, before being deported.
427. Federal Hall (T3)
26 Wall St
212-509-1595 www.nps.gov/feha
Statue of George Washington, site of his first inauguration.
428. Former site of Royal African Company (U4)
Wall St and the East River
The center of the city's slave trade in the 1700s.
429. Fraunces Tavern (U3)
54 Pearl St
Site of a FALN bombing in January 1975.
430. Maiden Lane (S4)
William and Nassau St
Site of the first organized slave revolt in New York, in April 1712.
431. Margaret Sanger's Birth Control Clinic (J7)
104 5th Ave
Opened in the 1910s, the first doctor-directed birth control clinic in the US.
432. Marie's Crisis Café (L5)
59 Grove St
212-243-9323
Where Thomas Paine died in 1809.
433. New York Stock Exchange visitors center (T3)
20 and 30 Broad St
212-656-5165, 212-509-4116, 212-925-7593 www.nyse.com
Main office at 61 N. Moore St.
434. Sam Dolgoff Residence (Q9)
208 East Broadway
Anarchist and IWW organizer.
435. Tamiment Library (M6)
70 Washington Square South
Radical library on the 10th floor of NYU's Bobst Library
436. Hotel Chelsea (H6)
222 W 23rd St
212-243-3700
437. Flatiron Building (I8)
175 5th Ave, at 23rd St and Broadway
Said to have housed the Socialist Labor Party in the 1910s.
438. Triangle Shirtwaist Factory (M7)
29 Washington Pl
Fire of 1911 killed 146 workers, mostly young immigrant girls and women.
439. Weather Underground-Exploded Townhouse (K7)
18 W 11th St
On March 6, 1970, WU members accidentally blew themselves up, killing 3.
440. Woody Guthrie's House (K5)
74 Charles St
He lived on the 4th floor in the 1940s.
441. Green Acre Park (E 13)
E 51 St, between Second Ave & Third Ave
442. greenspace (C10)
W 50th St to 49th St, between Sixth Ave & Seventh Ave
212-732-0026 www.firstgov.gov
443. greenspace (E10)
W 46th St, between Fifth Ave & Sixth Ave
444. Tudor City Park (G12)
E 42nd St, between Second Ave & First Ave
445. greenspace (C11)
E 53rd St, between Fifth Ave & Madison
446. Charlie Parker House (N10)
151 Ave B
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