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Pomander Walk, the little city-within-a-city, stretches from 94th to 95th street, between Broadway and West End Avenue. This pedestrian-only path is named after a play entitled “Pomander Walk”, a romantic comedy written by Thomas J. Healy. The play is set on a small street in Georgian London,... more

This exceptional Greenwich Village mews is probably the city's first example of artist-driven gentrification. Built as a row of stable-houses for the fashionable townhomes that lined Washington Square North or Eighth Street, the alley was a no-frills staging ground for the New York society set... more

A lively, and exuberantly seedy, boardwalk-style strip, St, Marks connects the Bowery to Tompkins Square Park, with three blocks that were once the Bohemian Broadway of the sixties' Village love-and-drug culture, and are now a bustling, open-air mall for young punks, students, and anyone else... more

They're not the city's most glamorous jewelry stores (those, like Tiffany and Harry Winston, run along Fifth Avenue in midtown), but the warehouse-style diamond vendors that pack the West Forties are a literal goldmine for bargain hunters and their fellow-travelers. Reportedly, more than 90% of the... more

In his prime probably the least likely New Yorker to ever be enshrined by any kind of establishment ritual, Joey Ramone was nevertheless honored November 30, 2003 (which the city called “Joey Ramone Day”), when the short stretch of second street between the Bowery and Second Avenue was renamed... more

The effect of coming accidentally upon the Washington Mews, a small cobblestone alley of stable houses, some renovated and some preserved, that once served the wealthy homes of Washington Square North, is of strolling suddenly into a secret urban garden. If a single block set in a bustling city can... more