Colonnade Row

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When visiting the Merchants House Museum in Manhattan, be sure and walk by Colonnade Row, the series of columned rowhouses located on the 400 block of Lafayette Street, around the corner from the Merchant’s House, near the Cooper Union.
The rowhouses are not open to the public, but they are eminently worth walking by.  Colonnade Row, once known as LaGrange Terrace, at one time housed, among other notable residents, the East End’s own Julia Gardiner Tyler, and more recently was the home of the performance art company Blue Man Group.

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Our Corn Planter Was Built By The Amish

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Our corn planter was built by Amish people in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania who do not use rubber-tired machinery, telephones, or a belt for their trousers. When we went down to Lancaster County to buy this corn planter, we found the Amish farmer spreading manure with a horse-drawn, steel-wheeled manure spreader, the old-fashioned way.
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56 Mott Street

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After one visits the Tenement Museum, the wonton restaurant at 56 Mott Street in Manhattan is the go-to place.

The address 56 Mott Street, just off Canal Street, was once the location of one of the most classic tenements that the tour guides mention in the Tenement Museum, although today there is not much evidence of what was once there.

The restaurant at this location has undergone several facelifts and remodelings and name changes over the years, including Wonton Garden, New Wonton Garden II, and Wonton Noodle Garden.  Whatever the place is called now, the food in this modest-sized Chinatown cafe has remained reliably good since at least the 1970s, and maybe earlier.  For scenery, there is the comedy of watching 26-foot box trucks turning down Mott Street and then realizing they can’t go forward, can’t turn, and can’t back up.
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Tenement Museum

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Wickham’s Fruit Farm recommends the Tenement Museum, located in the same general part of Manhattan where the Merchants House Museum and Colonnade Row are located.  The Tenement Museum gives one-of-a-kind tours of a building that has survived more or less unaltered into the present day from the era when European immigrants lived in dense quarters in that part of New York City.

The Tenement Museum offers several different tours by theme, some of which enable you to witness authentic peeling paint in the interior, which has become a rarer sight in Manhattan today than it used to be.  Budget sufficient time, as the tours take a while.  Photo by Keiko Niwa.

www.tenement.org

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