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Tom’s Restaurant is a diner near Columbia University. It has been owned and operated by a Greek-American family since the 1940s. Tom’s Restaurant was the locale that inspired Suzanne Vega’s 1982 song “Tom’s Diner.” Later, its exterior was used as a stand-in for the fictional Monk’s Café in the television sitcom Seinfeld, where comedian Jerry Seinfeld’s eponymous character and his friends regularly gathered to eat. The interior shown on the television show, however, looked very little like the real “Tom’s”, as indoor scenes were filmed on a set in Los Angeles.
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Cathedral of St. John the Divine
The Cathedral of St. John the Divine is the cathedral of the Episcopal Diocese of New York. Designed in 1888 and begun in 1892, the cathedral has undergone radical stylistic changes and the interruption of the two World Wars. Originally designed in the Byzantine Revival-Romanesque Revival styles, the plan was changed after 1909 to a Gothic Revival design. After a large fire on December 18, 2001, it was closed for repairs and reopened in November 2008. It remains unfinished, with construction and restoration a continuing process. It is the fourth largest Christian church in the world.
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Morningside Castle
Riverside Church
Riverside Church opened its doors on October 5, 1930. It is famous for its large size and elaborate Neo-Gothic architecture as well as its history of social justice. The church was conceived by industrialist, financier, and philanthropist John D. Rockefeller Jr. and minister Harry Emerson Fosdick, as a large, interdenominational church in a neighborhood important to the city, open to all who profess faith in Christ.
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General Grant Memorial
Grant’s Tomb, now formally known as General Grant National Memorial, is the final resting place of Ulysses S. Grant, the 18th President of the United States, and his wife, Julia Dent Grant. Completed in 1897, the tomb is located in Riverside Park.
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Hamilton Grange
Hamilton Grange National Memorial, also known as The Grange or the Hamilton Grange Mansion, is a National Park Service site in St. Nicholas Park that preserves the relocated home of U.S. Founding Father Alexander Hamilton. The mansion holds a restoration of the interior rooms and an interactive exhibit on the newly constructed ground floor for visitors.
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Fort Tryon
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The Cloisters
The Cloisters is a museum in Upper Manhattan specializing in European medieval architecture, sculpture and decorative arts. Its early collection was built by the American sculptor, art dealer and collector George Grey Barnard, and acquired by John D. Rockefeller, Jr. in 1925. Rockefeller extended the collection and in 1931 purchased land at Washington Heights and contracted the design for a new building that was to become the Cloisters. Its architectural and artistic works are largely from the Romanesque and Gothic stylistic periods. Its four cloisters; the Cuxa, Bonnefont, Trie and Saint-Guilhem cloisters, were sourced from French monasteries and abbeys. Between 1934 and 1939 they were excavated and reconstructed in Washington Heights, in a large project overseen by the architect Charles Collens. They are surrounded by a series of indoor chapels and rooms grouped by period which include the Romanesque, Fuentidueña, Unicorn, Spanish and Gothic rooms. The design, layout and ambiance of the building is intended to evoke in visitors a sense of the Medieval European monastic life through its distinctive architecture. The area around the buildings contains a number of reconstructed early medieval gardens.
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