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Allure to the mysterious ways of Chinatown, a city within a city where spirituality meets beauty in an intriguing manner. A community so attached to its roots it allows you to travel to a different time and place, where gamblers and mobsters rule over opium dens and sweatshops. Battle your way through the open markets and take a whiff of the authenticity, taste their spices, drink their teas, feel their hard work and make sense of the helter skelter around you. Learn to be Chinese and virtually explore a life you never knew, a life far away from home, a life you could have had…

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Forever synonymous with courage, solidarity and resilience, Ground Zero is the nickname for the area formerly occupied by the Twin Towers. Voicemail messages, interviews, eyewitness accounts, live music, audio artifacts... this intense, not-to-be-missed memorial tour will take you through the lobby’s revolving doors to the piano bar at Windows on the World to St. Paul’s Chapel... Old and new stories from the World Trade Center and its neighborhood.

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Walk the streets with Coppola and Scorsese, be part of the family, be part of the mob, just for one day. The Mafia long controlled the neighborhood, and its influence is well preserved regardless of the trendy direction of neighboring NoLita. Smile at a supermodel strolling by an Old Italian couple sitting outside, basking in the sun. Have some food, have a steaming espresso, stay for a while. You’re a wise guy now.

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Wander through the downtown melting pot of New York. This historic Jewish neighborhood has welcomed all and more. It will welcome you too if you open your mind and accept difference. Can you hang at a hipster bar, eat a pastrami sandwich at Katz’s Deli, pray at a synagogue, and then go to the sex shop across the street? Can you shoot some hoops, listen to punk rock music, and dance salsa at an old time speakeasy? Try them all, come on, be part of the evolution.

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Don’t be fooled by the dark streets and smell of aged meat, this is where you want to be. Fashion-savvy young men and women circle you whether you enter the Soho House bar or the restaurant Pastis. Production companies, photo studios, nightclubs, hotels, designers… this lofty neighborhood has caught the hearts of many for fun and fashion. With a history of bondage clubs, dive bars, and old style diners, you will witness a clash of social lifestyles; so don’t be afraid if a transvestite approaches you. Feel the sweat of people dancing, the scent of dissipating perfume, an aftertaste of the night before.

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Relive Times Square’s golden era, stroll through the neon lights of Broadway with a backstage pass to West Side Story and the VIP rooms of the once glitzy restaurants and jazz clubs. Enchant your ears with music while feasting your eyes on billboards and marquees, feeling the cultural clash and fickle mood of this iconic landmark. Dare to venture in the sleazy world of peep shows and sex shops, but be careful, you might like it.

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Greed is good, or is it? Find out for yourself through the dark corridors of the world’s financial backbone. Learn what about money makes people itch and lead sleepless nights of constant power struggle. Walk by the trading floors, a free for all of the survival of the fittest, where money is the only object and emotions are not welcome. Sit in a cigar shop and enjoy the smoky setting where power magnates of the past and today ponder about dollars and sense. From fortunes being forged to deals going sour, you will explore and envy the glory of money and the lives it has made or destroyed. Learn and beware, for no one is safe from greed…