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The Noguchi Museum was opened by Isamu Noguchi in 1985 to display the artist’s works in stone, metal, wood, and clay and models for public projects, gardens, and dance sets. The museum inhabits a converted factory and contains thirteen galleries and a garden with major granite and basalt... more

This is the oldest still-operating pharmacy in the United States (the store’s logo includes the quaint self-description ‘apothecaries’) and yet it’s not run as a museum piece or even all that conscious of its own history. First opened in 1838, when surrounding Greenwich Village still... more

This architecturally idiosyncratic curiosity was built between 1874 and 1877 as local courthouse by a team including Central Park architect Calvert Vaux, and stayed in-use through the end of the Second World War. Previously, the block had been the site of a local market, and the soaring northern... more

Like his “Earth Room,” Walter De Maria’s “Broken Kilometer” -- an installation of 500 polished brass rods, each two meters in length, laid out in five columns of one hundred rods each across the floor of a West Broadway loft – performs less as a work of art than a reflective conceptual... more

Most cities don’t have one central, expansive, tranquil and exquisitely maintained park to their name. New York, thankfully, has two, and though Brooklynites who claim this is a suitable replacement for Manhattan’s Central Park may be overstating the case, by nearly any other standard Prospect... more

One of a very few recognizable NoLita landmarks -- and one that does its part to distinguish the neighborhood from busy, bustling nearby SoHo, the East Village, and the Lower East Side -- the Elizabeth Street Gallery and sculpture garden is more well-known as a kind of private park space, like... more