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Happy Halloween

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I love haunted houses. Some of them have "it," and some definitely don't. This one was just...weird.

Neighborhood: Lower East Side
Place: Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center
Storyteller: laura
Date Posted: 12/01/2008
Affiliation: Travelgoat
Tags: Oddities Slice of Life

The Black Squirrels

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My Grandma beat up a mugger once - so she's at peace with the black squirrels of Stuy Town. But that doesn't mean you should be. Beware the black squirrels. Beware.

Neighborhood: East Village
Place: Stuyvesant Town
Storyteller: trixie
Date Posted: 12/01/2008
Affiliation: Travelgoat
Tags: Oddities

The Bobst Boy

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What would you do if you were an NYU student and didn't have enough scratch to rent a room in NYC? Move into the Bobst Library of course.

Neighborhood: Greenwich Village
Place: Bobst Library
Storyteller: morley
Date Posted: 12/01/2008
Affiliation: Travelgoat
Tags: Biography Oddities

Girl in the Red Velvet Swing

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Famous architect Stanford White did not just design buildings in his famous studio building. He installed a red velvet swing on one of the ceilings. This swing became the focal point of his infatuation with a young woman, and the source for one of the many “trials of the century.”

Neighborhood: Gramercy & Flatiron
Place: 22 West 24th Street
Storyteller: lauren
Date Posted: 12/01/2008
Affiliation: Travelgoat
Tags: Crime History Oddities

Marlon Brando's Violin

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Before Marlon Brando hit the big-time and became one of the world’s greatest film stars, he survived as a struggling actor in Greenwich Village. Much hilarity ensued when Brando was paired in a small apartment with a quirky Russian violinist named Igor.

Neighborhood: Greenwich Village
Place: 43 5th Avenue
Storyteller: lauren
Date Posted: 12/01/2008
Affiliation: Travelgoat
Tags: History Oddities

Tightrope in the Sky

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French daredevil Philippe Petit achieved the impossible as he performed his famous high wire act between the twin towers of the World Trade Center. Petit immediately became a New York legend.

Neighborhood: Financial District
Place: World Trade Center Site
Storyteller: lindsay
Date Posted: 12/01/2008
Affiliation: Travelgoat
Tags: Architecture History Oddities