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The largest private residence ever built in New York City history once sat at West 57th Street and Fifth Avenue, on the site of today’s Bergdorf Goodman department store, and right next to the Plaza Hotel. It was the home of Cornelius Vanderbilt — not the Commodore and captain of industry Cornelius Vanderbilt, but his grandson Cornelius Vanderbilt II. It was so big that the current department store might have fit inside it! For more information on the Gilded Age, follow the Bowery Boys podcast a

Houston Bowery Wall: The full history of the iconic Street Art Wall!

Did you know there’s a graffiti-covered alley in New York City that looks like a movie set and there’s a hidden restaurant at the end? Welcome to Freeman Alley! Once just a service lane in the early 1900s, later part of the Bowery Mission’s breadline, and today it’s covered with layers of graffiti, murals, and street‐art pieces. It’s like an open-air gallery of urban expression. Walk all the way to the back and you’ll find this blue door, the entrance to Freemans Restaurant, a hidden colonial-st