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NYC Pop Culture and History Tour

Here's a list of interesting sites I'm compiling as I come across them. You can use this map to assemble yourself a walking tour featuring whatever most interests you.

Historical sites

  1. AIDS research center that developed current drug therapy
  2. Alexander Hamilton's house (It's quiet uptown)
  3. Barnum's American Museum, 1841-1865
  4. The Battle of Central Park: the downfall of Robert Moses
  5. Block Beautiful
  6. Chester Arthur sworn in
  7. Childhood home of Jackie Onassis (built by her grandfather); also home to Vera Wang, John Rockefeller, many more
  8. Cooper Union has hosted speakers such as Abraham Lincoln, Mark Twain, Frederick Douglass, Susan B. Anthony, and lots more
  9. Corlears Hook is where the term Hooker comes from
  10. Draft Riots started, 1863
  11. Draft Riots: a key conflict, on July 13, 1863
  12. Edison's Pearl Street Station: First power plant ever built
  13. Eleanor Roosevelt's home
  14. Emma Goldman lived and published from here
  15. Federal Hall (site) where George Washington was inaugurated and site of first US Capitol building
  16. First pizza in the US was here at 53 1/2 Spring St.
  17. Hare Krishna movement was started under this tree in 1966.
  18. Hell's Angels
  19. Jane Jacobs's home at 555 Hudson
  20. Leon Trotsky worked here in 1917, also Auden lived here
  21. Lipstick bldg: Bernie Madoff's office
  22. McLaughlin's Bear Pit was here in the 1860s, where you could bet on fights between dogs and bears
  23. New Yorker Hotel - Nikola Tesla lived here the last 10 years of his life. Muhammad Ali, Joan Crawford, Fidel Castro and others have stayed here.
  24. Nikola Tesla's lab, 1895-1899
  25. Obama lived here, and so did Cecil B. DeMille 80 years earlier
  26. Obama lived here, too
  27. Original New Amsterdam windmill, 17th century
  28. Stonewall Riots
  29. Tammany Hall
  30. Teddy Roosevelt Birthplace
  31. Teddy Roosevelt watched Lincoln's funeral procession from this building when he was seven.
  32. Thomas Edison lived here
  33. Triangle shirtwaist fire, 1911
  34. World's first elevator was installed here in 1857. Also, it was an emporium where Mary Todd Lincoln shopped.

Literary

  1. Algonquin Round Table
  2. Allan Ginsberg lived here, with William S. Borroughs
  3. Allan Ginsberg lived here, too
  4. Edgar Allen Poe lived here, and there's a museum
  5. Edgar Allen Poe lived here
  6. Edgar Allen Poe lived here, too
  7. F. Scott Fitzgerald lived here when he was young and poor
  8. F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald lived here after he was famous
  9. February House - home to Auden, McCullers, Britten, and Gypsy Rose Lee
  10. Hotel Chelsea: Clarke wrote 2001 here, Kerouac wrote On the Road, etc etc
  11. James Fenimore Cooper lived here 1834, also Yoko Ono held happenings
  12. John Steinbeck lived here
  13. Louisa May Alcott lived here
  14. Mark Twain lived here, 14 W. 10th st.
  15. Melville lived on this site
  16. Melville lived here, too
  17. O'Henry wrote Gift of the Magi, Bemelmans wrote Madeline
  18. Oscar Wilde lived here
  19. Washington Irving did not live here

Comic Books

  1. Avengers Mansion aka the Frick
  2. Avengers (nee Stark) Tower in the Avengers movies
  3. Bill Finger and Bob Kane created many Batman stories on a bench in this park
  4. Daily Planet in Superman movie
  5. Final battle in the Avengers movie
  6. Fortress of Solitude building
  7. Jack Kirby birthplace
  8. Site of Dr. Strange's house: 177A Bleecker

 

 

 

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Movies & TV

  1. 7B: iconic bar seen in The Godfather part II, Jessica Jones, Five Corners, The Verdict, Serpico, What Happens In Vegas, The Brave One, Sex and the City, The Post It, Law & Order: The Last Street in Manhattan, Crocodile Dundee, Life on Mars, Rent, Angel Heart, Urbania, Cocktail, and The Paper
  2. Bench from Woody Allen's Manhattan
  3. Breakfast at Tiffany's
  4. Building taken over by Gremlins 2
  5. Cosby Show house
  6. Coyote Ugly (basis for movie)
  7. Friends' apartments
  8. George Carlin grew up on this street
  9. Ghostbusters building
  10. Ghostbusters Firehouse
  11. Gregory Peck lived here
  12. "Hey, I'm walkin' here!" (Midnight Cowboy)
  13. Holland Brothers' Kinetoscope Parlor, the world's first movie theater
  14. House in I Am Legend
  15. Jerry Seinfeld and Larry David lived together here
  16. John Barrymore lived here
  17. Jon Stewart lived here
  18. Lenny Bruce lived here
  19. Marilyn Monroe's subway vent in The Seven-Year Itch
  20. McGee's Pub: How I Met Your Mother
  21. Philip Seymour Hoffman lived and died here
  22. Ray's Occult Books from Ghostbusters II
  23. Scenes from Taxi Driver filmed here
  24. Street where Patrick Swayze was killed in Ghost
  25. Theater for the New City, where Vin Diesel started his acting career at 7 years old
  26. Tower Records building has been home to Cher, Rob Lowe, Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman, Keith Richards, Britney Spears and more.
  27. Tom's Restaurant from Seinfeld (before that, Obama would eat breakfast here)
  28. Wesley Snipes, Judd Nelson and David Lee Roth have all lived here

Art

  1. Andy Warhol's factory site (1st) and where he was shot
  2. Andy Warhol's factory site (2nd)
  3. Andy Warhol lived here with 25 cats named Sam
  4. Art store supplied artists like de Koonig, Warhol, and Lichtenstein
  5. Barney's stables: studios used by many artists including Sargent
  6. Edward Hopper studio
  7. George Bellows lived here
  8. Georgia O'Keeffe & Alfred Stieglietz lived here
  9. Jackson Pollock lived here
  10. Jean-Michel Basquiat's home and studio
  11. Keith Haring's studio upstairs
  12. MacDougal Mews artists: Jackson Pollock, Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, Isamu Noguchi, and others
  13. Piet Mondrian lived here
  14. Robert Henri lived here

Music

  1. 3/4 of the Talking Heads lived here
  2. Charlie Parker lived here
  3. Duke Ellington's house
  4. Dylan wrote Blowin' in the Wind
  5. Dylan first performed Blowin' in the Wind
  6. Ed Sullivan Theater where the Beatles performed (now The Late Show)
  7. Harry Belafonte (and Alan Greenspan) went to school here
  8. Jay-Z's stashbox in Empire State of Mind
  9. Joey Ramone lived here
  10. John & Yoko lived at 105 Bank Street, 1971-'73
  11. Lady Gaga dormed here
  12. Led Zeppelin Physical Graffiti
  13. Louis Armstrong House
  14. Nirvana was discovered here - Pyramid Club, July 18, 1989
  15. Paul's Boutique - Beastie Boys
  16. Pete Seeger lived here, 1940
  17. Sid Vicious died of a drug overdose at 63 Bank Street, 1979
  18. Taylor Swift's loft - 155 Franklin (formerly Peter Jackson's)
  19. Tin Pan Alley: music publishing hub in the early 20th Century (the block of 28th Street west of Broadway to 6th Avenue.)
  20. Was RCA Victor Studios, where Elvis recorded Hound Dog and Don't Be Cruel
  21. Woodie Guthrie lived here on Mermaid Avenue (later a Billy Bragg & Wilco album)
  22. Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger, and the Almanacs lived here, 1941
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