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Is that Considered an Upgrade? Checkpoint 1 is a
building created by a French designer in which some blokes
did serious publishing work for a long time. Then they left.
Now paisan from across the pond sell clothes out of Checkpoint
1.
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Scribner & Sons Building
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2
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Armageddon? Checkpoint 2 is at ____ West 47th. To
find out the street address, find out more about Ida and Dactyl
in the cosmos. Get your photo with some signage out front
at that address cuz it's Checkpoint 2.
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Barrymore Theater
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3
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That Wacky Dude! This pub lost its lease when CBS
decided it needed to go "yupscale" near the Ed Sullivan Theater.
Its current location is Checkpoint 3.
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McGee's Pub
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Woof! Woof! In Central Park, find the statue that
shares its name with an animated feature by Spielberg. It's
Checkpoint 4.
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Balto Statue
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You scream, I scream... Checkpoint 5 is an ice cream
sign attached to a building luring customers to a little shop
nearby that shares its name with the grill a couple doors
away. Find it within a half mile of the spot where John Lennon
was shot for Checkpoint 5.
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Ice Cream Sign
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Under the Sea? Checkpoint 6 is an establishment that
shares its name with an island said to have been engulfed
by the ocean as the result of an earthquake more than a couple
of years ago. Any signage from its Fulton Mall area location
will do.
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Atlantis
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7
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Plaque Attack! Locate the Promenade. Travel the promenade
until you can get your photo with the New York skyline as
it existed in 1880. Snap away!
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Plaque at Brooklyn Promenade
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Feeling punchy? In the financial district, get your
photo with golden gloves hanging at least a story off the
ground. They are Checkpoint 8.
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Waterfront Boxing
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Fuhgeddabouddit! Unscramble the letters below to learn
the name of Checkpoint 9, the oldest continuous family-operated
business in Little Italy.
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2 a's1 c1 e1 i1 m1 o2 r's
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Mare Chiaro
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A natty spot! Checkpoint 10 is a Greenwich area establishment
that shares its name with a painting. The creator of the painting,
born in Tuscany, served as court painter to the King and later
lived in Rome under the patronage of the Pope. By the way,
the artist seems to have had a special affection for the painting,
because he took it everywhere with him after he painted it.
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Mona Lisa Cafe
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Did he use crayons? Within one half mile of Union
Square find the bust of a long-dead member of the New York
bar who, thank goodness, went bankrupt in business and decided
to pursue a career for which he is fondly remembered. Get
a photo with the bust cuz it is Checkpoint 11.
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Washington Irving Bust
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12
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An Urban Challenge First! We are busting out the first
wacky equation of the tour. And here it is:
Type of blood that contains an antibody directed
against the substance A times 2
plus
Elvis Presley
equals
Name of Checkpoint 12 found northwest of Herald Square.
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B.B. King's
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Click number for photo.
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