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The Eldridge Street Synagogue was built in 1887 by the architecture firm Herter Brothers. The building is an interesting example pf Gothic, Romanesque, and Moorish styles built with a combination of brick, terra cotta, and stone.1At the time of its construction, the Lower East Side had a significant Eastern European Jewish immigrant population.2

• 1. "National Historic Landmark Nomination - Eldridge Street Synagogue." Accessed 18 August 2009.<http://www.nps.gov/nhl/designations/samples/ny/eldridge.pdf>.
• 2. Gray, Christopher.

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The Hunterfly Road Houses were originally discovered by Pratt Institute professor James Hurley and pilot Joseph Haynes while doing an aerial survey over Bedford Stuyvesant for a neighborhood workshop in 19681. These wood frame, vernacular style houses dating from 1840-1880 are among the few vestiges of a once thriving independent African American community.

• 1. Weeksville Heritage Center. Web. <http://www.weeksvillesociety.org>

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Sometimes listed as Sailors Snug, Sailors’ Snug, Snug Harbor Cultural Center.

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The National Register designation summary calls the buildings at Sailors’ Snug Harbor “complex remains of a rare surviving example of mid-19th-century urban planning, architecture, and landscaping, scarcely equaled in the nation."1

• 1. Carolyn Pitts. Sailor's Snug Harbor National Register Form. Prepared for the National Park Service - Historic Sites Survey. August 3, 1976.

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Sometimes listed as Merchant’s House Museum; Seabury Tredwell House.

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Carnegie Hall was constructed between 1889 and 1891. Andrew Carnegie, the important American industrialist with a love for music, was the brainchild and major benefactor of the project1.

• 1. New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission. “Carnegie Hall Landmark Designation Report.” June 20, 1967.

Sometimes listed as Fraunces's Tavern, DeLancey House, The Queen's Head Tavern.

Sometimes listed as Grand Central Station, Grand Central.

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Edgar Allan Poe lived at 85 West Third Street in Greenwich Village from 1844 to the early months of 18461 before moving to a cottage in Fordham with his wife and mother-in-law when his wife's health began to deteriorate.Poe wrote "The Cask of Amontillado2

• 1. Nadine Brozan. “Furman Hall, Nine Stories on Sullivan Street; New Law Building Opens at N.Y.U.,” New York Times, Jan. 18, 2004.
• 2. Denny Lee. “The Poe House, and its Mask of Red Bricks,” New York Times, October 19, 2003.