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The Empire State Building, the Statue of Liberty, Central Park — these iconic sights of New York City are well worth a visit for any traveler; however, if you want to go a bit deeper, see a little more, then there’s some pretty great places that most tourists know about only because they’ve stumbled across them.  How many people have booked hotels in New York without knowing about the casinos nearby (some places even have the casinos in them).  Who needs Atlantic City or Las Vegas, when you really can have it all in the Big Apple?  Since gambling doesn’t take up a full day or night, there’s plenty of other sights in the city.  Here’s a sampling:

There’s Joe, the Art of Coffee .  With two locations, this independent coffee shop is a terrific place to sit and contemplate the city, and some people insist its the best coffee in New York.  If you prefer tea to coffee, try Lady Mendl’s Tea Salon over at 56 Irving Place.  You can reserve a place at the salon and have a luxurious five-course afternoon tea.   At 108 Orchard Street, you’ll find the Lower East Side Tenement Museum, where you can take a guided tour that examines the history of immigration in the United States.  You may find the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum also interesting.  It’s over on Pier 86 on West 46th Street and 12th Avenue.

Be sure to check out, too, Scott’s Pizza Tour.  Scott Wiener, who runs the tours, is a well traveled young man who is constantly on the search for the world’s great pizzas.  He kept note of the best and worst pies in his Pizza Journals, and his obsession turned into this tour, where he tells you fun facts about New York Pizza as well as provides a goodie bag.  He’ll take you to pizzerias in Manhattan and then on to another borough (maybe Brooklyn or Bronx or Queens), to have your taste buds tested at at least two more pizzerias.  The tours are on Sundays from eleven in the morning to three thirty in the afternoon.  In order to keep giving pizza tours on the weekends, during the week he offers walking tours, perhaps to offset the calories.