Secret New York Guide: A guide to the unusual and unfamiliar(Jonglez Secret Guides)

Discover Secret Gardens, decipher ancient riddles on tombstones, visit a disturbed Indian burial ground, observe the stars and planets through a university telescope, frown at a bronze statue of Lenin, harvest mastodon food in Central Park, enjoy the aroma of a roomful of dirt, find a Venetian palazzo above a former stable, spot the forbidden island that was once declared a sovereign nation by a guy in a rowboat, track down a townhouse concealing a subway tunnel, walk under the canopy of the primeval forest, read a memorial plaque to an event that happened in another dimension, fall into a trance before a piece of subway art that flickers and moves, have your bicycle blessed in church. New York offers endless opportunity to step off the program and peer into the citys fascinating past and present. Secret New York - An Unusual Guide is an indispensible resource for those who thought they already knew everything about Americas metropolis, or want to begin exploring it hidden places.

Table of Contents:
Sugar House Prison Window City Seals of the Surrogate's Court Ghost Stops on the 6 Train The Liberty Pole The Crown on St Paul's Pulpit The Obelisk of William Macneven Harbors of the World Irish Hunger Memorial Sidewalk Clock on Maiden Lane Vaults of the Federal Reserve Bank Scale Model at the American International Building Museum of American Finance A cornerstone left over from the Original Bank of New York Trinity's tombstone Riddle Blast marks on the Morgan Bank The Buttonwood Tree Foundations of Lovelace Tavern Elevated Acre George Washington's tooth The fence at Bowling Green Belgium on the Customs House Netherlands Monument Flagpole American Merchant Mariners' Memorial Graffiti columns on Ellis Island The lost water of Manhattan Broad Street The Collect Pond Minetta Brook Croton Aqueduct Manhole Covers The New York Earth Room The Floating Map on Greene Street The Haughwout Building Kehila Kenosha Janina Synagogue Hua-Mei Bird Men of Sara D. Roosevelt Park The Slave Galleries at St Augustine's 39-41 Henry Street Green Man Doyers Street Tunnel Shearith Israel Cemetery Broadway Clock Tower StoryCorps Cortlandt Alley Hollow Sidewalks Wampum Dream House Criminal Court Audrey Munson Face of St Ann's Roman Catholic Church A.T. Stewart's Broken Vault Stuyvesant Street The Reward Poster for John Wilkes Booth Museum of the American Gangster The Hare Krishna Tree Other notable trees in New York Kymaerica Plaque Lenin on Houston Roof Houses New York Marble Cemetery Merchant's House and the Ghost of Gertrude Tredwell Sylvette Time Landscape De Forest House Angel in Adoration at Judson Memorial Church Washington's motto on the Memorial Arch 18 West 11th Street The Last Gaslight Lamppost Palazzo Ghupi Westbeth Residence at the Old Bell Laboratories "Moneybags" Marie's Crisis The Old Nabisco Factory 7000 Oaks The Players Grand Lodge of the Freemasons The Eagles of Old Penn Station Herald Square Clock Appellate Court Holocaust Memorial The Roscoe Conkling Monument Metropolitan Life Tower Winnie-the-Pooh at the Library Daily News building lobby Superman's newspaper Manhattan Solstice Actors' Chapel, St Malachy's The Brill Building Big Apple Corner Austrian Cultural Forum Section of the Berlin Wall Lever House Plaza The Citigroup Center's hidden flaw The Pig of Saint Patrick's Marilyn Monroe subway gate Theosophical Society library Greenacre Park Paley Park The Cole Porter piano The Graybar Building Rats The Whispering Gallery in Grand Hotel U Thant Island Ford Foundation Atrium The Fred F. French Building The Rare Bible Collection 33 West 63rd San Juan Hill Tribute Quilt The Pythian Septuagesimo Uno Park Lord Cornbury ID Day at the Museum of Natural History Millstones of the Collegiate Reformed Protestant Dutch Church Joan of Arc Island Other fragments of the bombed Reims Cathedral The Lotus Garden Shin ran Nicholas Roerich Museum Street Deaths Glacial Erratics Phrenology in Central Park The Elm Trees of Central Park The Witch of Bethesda Terrace Kentucky Coffee Trees Equestrian Statue of King Jagiello Granite Statue of Alexander Hamilton Seneca Andrew Haswell Green Memorial Bench Paintings in the Stettheimer Dollhouse Squadron A Armoury Islamic Cultural Center The Ziegfeld Head The Murals of Bemelmans Bar Dwellings on Madison Avenue Veterans Room in the Seventh Regiment Armory Mount Vernon Hotel Museum The Portals of Paradise Blessings of the Bicycles The Peace Foundation Church of Notre Dame Harlem Fire Watchtower The Wishing Tree Bear and Faun The hidden Owl of Alma Mater Rutherfurd Observatory Splitting the First Atom Riverside Church Carillon Riverside Labyrinth Butterfield Statue Amiable Child Monument Freedom Tunnel Our Lady of Lourdes Church Hamilton Grange Audubon's Grave Marker Birds of America Portolan Chart Brush Stairway and Old Polo Grounds The Little Red Lighthouse Loews 175th Move Palace Top of the High Bridge tower Bennett Park America's first woman soldier Mother Cabrini Shrine The Lavaudieu Torso of Christ Dyckman Farmhouse Milestone No. 12 Indian Caves of Inwood Hill West 230th Street Marble Hill The Garabedian House Superman Portrait at Lehman College Stars Gravesite Poe cottage The Mystery of Marie Roget The Hall of Fame Primeval Forest Lorillard Snuff Mill Monkey House, Bronx Zoo Lorelei Fountain Hell Gate Steinway Piano Factory Secret Marks Marine Air Terminal Louis Armstrong House Quaker Meeting hOUse George Fox Stone and the Flushing remonstrance The Ganesh Temple The Grave Marker of the Matinecoc Indians Living Museum Triumph of civic virtue 5pointz Troma headquarters The Panorama The City Reliquary Prison Ship Martyrs Monument Masstransiscope Plymouth Rock at Plymouth Church Another Plymouth Rock Fragment 58 Joralemon Street The Doors of our Lady of Lebanon Warren Place Fliers' and Explorers' Globe Lost Columbus of Cadman Plaza Mosaic House Canoeing the Gowns Canal Stephen Baltz Memorial Quaker Cemetery 770 Eastern Parkway Fatih Mosque Ervin The New Utrecht Liberty Pole Topsy Memorial HARP at Floyd Bennett Field Breezy Point Chinese Scholar's Garden The Watering Place Stone The Boneyard of Arthur Kill

About the Author :
T.M. Rives was born and educated in California. During studies in Los Angeles, he was struck by a need to widen his experience through travel; after completing studies in France, he spent the next twelve years in different countries in Europe, publishing translations and fiction. Eventually landing in New York City, where he has lived for the last ten years, T.M. Rives continues to write and photograph, as well as make documentary film on travel and the arts.