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Here he wrote \"Annabel Lee\" and \"Ulalume,\" and the bells of nearby St. John's College gave him \"The Bells.\"", "lot": "3155-1 X", "photo": "nynyma_rec0040_2_03155_0001" }, { "bin": "5043850", "name": "Garibaldi-Meucci Museum", "addr": "420 Tompkins Avenue", "year": 1851, "title": "Garibaldi moves in with Antonio Meucci", "text": "The exiled Italian revolutionary worked in Meucci's candle business and lived in this small cottage for about eighteen months.", "lot": "2966-32 R", "photo": "nynyma_rec0040_5_02966_0032" }, { "bin": "1007227", "name": "Haughwout Building", "addr": "490 Broadway", "year": 1857, "title": "The world's first passenger elevator", "text": "Elisha Otis's steam-powered lift cost $300 and climbed about two-thirds of a foot per second.", "lot": "483-1 M", "photo": "nynyma_rec0040_1_00483_0001" }, { "bin": "1088400", "name": "Washington Square Arch", "addr": "3 Washington Square North", "year": 1917, "title": "Six friends declare the arch a republic", "text": "Marcel Duchamp, John Sloan, Gertrude Drick and three actors slipped inside, climbed to the roof and proclaimed the Free and Independent Republic of Washington Square.", "lot": "549-1 M", "pic": { "src": "https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/20/Washington_Square_Arch_%2840430304445%29.jpg/960px-Washington_Square_Arch_%2840430304445%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail", "page": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Washington_Square_Arch_(40430304445).jpg", "credit": "Nan Palmero from San Antonio, TX, USA", "license": "CC BY 2.0" } }, { "bin": "1016880", "name": "New York Life Building", "addr": "378 Park Avenue South", "year": 1928, "title": "President Coolidge opens the tower from the White House", "text": "He pressed a button in Washington on December 12, 1928. Moving in took 75 million documents, with 100 armored cars guarding the securities.", "lot": "856-24 M", "photo": "nynyma_rec0040_1_00856_0024" }, { "bin": "3338887", "name": "Brooklyn Paramount", "addr": "385 Flatbush Ave Extension", "year": 1931, "title": "Duke Ellington plays the Paramount", "text": "Better known for movies and early rock and roll, the theater also brought jazz to Brooklyn, from Dizzy Gillespie to Ella Fitzgerald and Miles Davis.", "pic": { "src": "https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/af/Brooklyn_Paramount_%2855268324816%29.jpg/960px-Brooklyn_Paramount_%2855268324816%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail", "page": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Brooklyn_Paramount_(55268324816).jpg", "credit": "ajay_suresh", "license": "CC BY 4.0" } }, { "bin": "4441109", "name": "Astoria Park Pool", "addr": "24-02 19th Street", "year": 1936, "title": "The Olympic swim trials open a new pool", "text": "20,000 people came on July 2, 1936. At 54,450 square feet it was the city's largest pool, and it chose swimmers and divers for the Berlin Games.", "lot": "898-1 Q", "pic": { "src": "https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/62/Astoria_Pool_jeh.jpg/960px-Astoria_Pool_jeh.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail", "page": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Astoria_Pool_jeh.jpg", "credit": "Jim.henderson", "license": "CC0" } }, { "bin": "1008748", "name": "Cafe Wha?", "addr": "115 MacDougal Street", "year": 1966, "title": "Jimi Hendrix is discovered", "text": "Playing as Jimmy James and the Blue Flames, he caught the eye of the Animals' Chas Chandler, who took him to London.", "lot": "543-23 M", "photo": "nynyma_rec0040_1_00543_0023" }, { "bin": "1078981", "name": "New York Stock Exchange", "addr": "18 Broad Street", "year": 1967, "title": "Dollar bills rain on the trading floor", "text": "Abbie Hoffman and friends threw money from the visitors' gallery. The exchange later enclosed the gallery in bulletproof glass.", "lot": "23-19 M", "photo": "nynyma_rec0040_1_00023_0019" }, { "bin": "1082221", "name": "Stonewall Inn", "addr": "53 Christopher Street", "year": 1969, "title": "A police raid sparks the Stonewall uprising", "text": "Patrons and neighbors fought back when police raided the bar on June 28, 1969. A year later, the first pride marches marked the night.", "lot": "610-1 M", "photo": "nynyma_rec0040_1_00610_0001", "photo80": "https://80snyc.bdon.org/photos/1/00610/0001.jpg" }, { "bin": "2009171", "name": "1520 Sedgwick Avenue", "addr": "1520 Sedgwick Avenue", "year": 1973, "title": "DJ Kool Herc spins at a back-to-school party", "text": "In the recreation room he played the breaks of a record back to back on two turntables while Coke La Rock rapped. Girls paid 25 cents, boys 50.", "lot": "2880-17 X", "pic": { "src": "https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6c/1520_Sedwick_Ave.%2C_Bronx%2C_New_York1.JPG/960px-1520_Sedwick_Ave.%2C_Bronx%2C_New_York1.JPG?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail", "page": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1520_Sedwick_Ave.,_Bronx,_New_York1.JPG", "credit": "Bigtimepeace", "license": "Public domain" } }, { "bin": "3000369", "name": "Junior's", "addr": "33 Dekalb Avenue", "year": 1981, "title": "The crowd chants \"Save the Cheesecake!\"", "text": "When the restaurant caught fire, the onlookers watching the firefighters made their priorities clear.", "lot": "149-60 B", "photo80": "https://80snyc.bdon.org/photos/3/00149/0060.jpg" }, { "bin": "1002150", "name": "Hook & Ladder 8", "addr": "14 North Moore Street", "year": 1984, "title": "The firehouse becomes Ghostbusters headquarters", "text": "An early draft of the script imagined the team as a public service like the fire department, so the film set up in a real firehouse.", "lot": "189-35 M", "photo": "nynyma_rec0040_1_00189_0035", "photo80": "https://80snyc.bdon.org/photos/1/00189/0035.jpg" }, { "bin": "2114529", "name": "Crotona Play Center", "addr": "1700 Fulton Avenue", "year": 1984, "title": "Mayor Koch reopens the pool in his swim trunks", "text": "After a $6 million restoration he called it proof the Bronx was coming back, then stripped to his trunks and went in with nearly 200 children.", "lot": "2941-1 X", "pic": { "src": "https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c7/Crotona_Park_Crotona_Play_Center_IMG_2796_HLG.jpg/960px-Crotona_Park_Crotona_Play_Center_IMG_2796_HLG.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail", "page": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Crotona_Park_Crotona_Play_Center_IMG_2796_HLG.jpg", "credit": "Hugo L. González", "license": "CC BY-SA 4.0" } }, { "bin": "5110428", "name": "St. George Theatre", "addr": "19 Hyatt Street", "year": 2003, "title": "School of Rock films its finale here", "text": "The 1929 movie palace has been a set ever since, for Gossip Girl and Steven Spielberg's Smash.", "lot": "8-99 R", "pic": { "src": "https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5e/St_George_Theater_Ext.jpg/960px-St_George_Theater_Ext.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail", "page": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St_George_Theater_Ext.jpg", "credit": "StatenIslandLover", "license": "CC BY-SA 4.0" } }, { "bin": "4536844", "name": "Citi Field", "addr": "41 Seaver Way", "year": 2009, "title": "Paul McCartney plays the first concert at Citi Field", "text": "He had played Shea Stadium with the Beatles in 1965. All 180,000 tickets sold out within hours, and Billy Joel joined him onstage.", "lot": "1787-20 Q", "pic": { "src": "https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/11/Citi_FIeld_Night.jpg/960px-Citi_FIeld_Night.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail", "page": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Citi_FIeld_Night.jpg", "credit": "Sam Smith", "license": "Public domain" } } ]