We noticed a few things this week.
A few theaters, some roasteries, that cute florist you didn’t know existed, and more cozy spots from the cities we live in.
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The Cronut at 189 Spring Street — Thirteen Years Later, Still a Sixty-Day Single-Flavor Run, Still a Line on Saturday
The Cronut turned thirteen in May. Two hundred made a day. One flavor per month. A line outside 189 Spring Street that has not stopped since 2013. A small ritual that has survived the internet that made it.
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Economy Candy on Rivington — Three Generations of the Cohen Family, Two Thousand Items, One Lower East Side Storefront Since 1937
108 Rivington Street, eighty-nine years old, ceiling-high stacks of every confection that has ever been made in America, run by the third generation of the Cohen family from behind the same wooden counter. The candy your grandfather ate is on the third shelf to your left.
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God's Own Junkyard, the Walthamstow Warehouse Where Soho's Old Neon Signs Go to Glow
A converted industrial warehouse in East London holds the late Chris Bracey's life work — hundreds of vintage neon signs from Soho strip clubs, Hollywood...
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Obscura Antiques on East 10th Street, the Curiosity Cabinet That Birthed a Discovery Channel Show
The East Village storefront that turned mourning jewelry, medical tools, and Victorian taxidermy into prime-time television. Obscura ran for three seasons...
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Inside Evolution Store, the SoHo Shop That Sells Real Skeletons, Fossils, and Insects in Glass
Lower Broadway has a storefront, opened in 1993, where you can buy a real human skeleton, a 200-million-year-old fossil, or a butterfly mounted under museum...
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The Mossman Lock Collection — A 370-Lock Museum Hidden Inside a Manhattan Tradesmen's Library
West 44th Street has a 1820 reading room called the General Society of Mechanics & Tradesmen, and on its second floor sits one of the world's largest...
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The Hunterian Museum — A Surgeon's Anatomy Cabinet, Open to the Public, Free, in Holborn
John Hunter's eighteenth-century anatomical collection, the founding cabinet of modern surgery, reopened in 2023 inside the Royal College of Surgeons after…
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The Elevated Acre — A Free One-Acre Park Floating Thirty Feet Above the Financial District
Privately owned, open to the public, almost nobody uses it. An acre of lawn, harbor views, and an escalator entrance squeezed between two office buildings…
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Mmuseumm — The One-Window Museum in a Tribeca Elevator Shaft
A six-by-six-foot museum inside a converted freight elevator on Cortlandt Alley. Free, visible through three small windows, and quietly one of the most…
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The City Reliquary — A Museum of Williamsburg's Strangest Objects, By Donation
A volunteer-run museum on Metropolitan Avenue that collects what no other museum will — Statue of Liberty replicas, old subway tokens, a tooth said to be…
