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"A nine-foot shark was removed that someone left one night on Park Avenue..."

Complete with historic quotes and modern context, making it easy to uncover the "Ghost Town" underneath all this metropolis.

The tour includes Rothko rebelling against The Four Seasons, beat poets scribbling furiously on Waverly Place, and a Macy's sale of original Rembrandt paintings in 1942.

Even the city's most tourist-trodden places hide fascinating secrets, and now some of the rarest and strangest bits have been collected into one brilliant map.

"This is the shit that falls between the cracks, descriptions of the city that would never make it into official histories."

The MTA's debt is greater than that of at least 30 of the world's nations, according to a report from Straphanger's Campaign.

Fancy yourself a member of the patrimonial middle class, do you?