Secret New York Guide

T.M. Rives was born and educated in California. During studies in Los Angeles, he was struck by a need to widen his experience through travel; after completing studies in France, he spent the next twelve years in different countries in Europe, publishing translations and fiction. Eventually landing in New York City, where he has lived for the last ten years, T.M. Rives continues to write and photograph, as well as make documentary film on travel and the arts.

Sugar House Prison Window
City Seals of the Surrogate's Court
Ghost Stops on the 6 Train
The Liberty Pole
The Crown on St Paul's Pulpit
The Obelisk of William Macneven
Harbors of the World
Irish Hunger Memorial
Sidewalk Clock on Maiden Lane
Vaults of the Federal Reserve Bank
Scale Model at the American International Building
Museum of American Finance
A cornerstone left over from the Original Bank of New York
Trinity's tombstone Riddle
Blast marks on the Morgan Bank
The Buttonwood Tree
Foundations of Lovelace Tavern
Elevated Acre
George Washington's tooth
The fence at Bowling Green
Belgium on the Customs House
Netherlands Monument Flagpole
American Merchant Mariners' Memorial
Graffiti columns on Ellis Island
The lost water of Manhattan
Broad Street
The Collect Pond
Minetta Brook
Croton Aqueduct Manhole Covers
The New York Earth Room
The Floating Map on Greene Street
The Haughwout Building
Kehila Kenosha Janina Synagogue
Hua-Mei Bird Men of Sara D. Roosevelt Park
The Slave Galleries at St Augustine's
39-41 Henry Street
Green Man
Doyers Street Tunnel
Shearith Israel Cemetery
Broadway Clock Tower
StoryCorps
Cortlandt Alley
Hollow Sidewalks
Wampum
Dream House
Criminal Court
Audrey Munson
Face of St Ann's Roman Catholic Church
A.T. Stewart's Broken Vault
Stuyvesant Street
The Reward Poster for John Wilkes Booth
Museum of the American Gangster
The Hare Krishna Tree
Other notable trees in New York
Kymaerica Plaque
Lenin on Houston
Roof Houses
New York Marble Cemetery
Merchant's House and the Ghost of Gertrude Tredwell
Sylvette
Time Landscape
De Forest House
Angel in Adoration at Judson Memorial Church
Washington's motto on the Memorial Arch
18 West 11th Street
The Last Gaslight Lamppost
Palazzo Ghupi
Westbeth Residence at the Old Bell Laboratories
"Moneybags"
Marie's Crisis
The Old Nabisco Factory
7000 Oaks
The Players
Grand Lodge of the Freemasons
The Eagles of Old Penn Station
Herald Square Clock
Appellate Court Holocaust Memorial
The Roscoe Conkling Monument
Metropolitan Life Tower
Winnie-the-Pooh at the Library
Daily News building lobby
Superman's newspaper
Manhattan Solstice
Actors' Chapel, St Malachy's
The Brill Building
Big Apple Corner
Austrian Cultural Forum
Section of the Berlin Wall
Lever House Plaza
The Citigroup Center's hidden flaw
The Pig of Saint Patrick's
Marilyn Monroe subway gate
Theosophical Society library
Greenacre Park
Paley Park
The Cole Porter piano
The Graybar Building Rats
The Whispering Gallery in Grand Hotel
U Thant Island
Ford Foundation Atrium
The Fred F. French Building
The Rare Bible Collection
33 West 63rd
San Juan Hill
Tribute Quilt
The Pythian
Septuagesimo Uno Park
Lord Cornbury
ID Day at the Museum of Natural History
Millstones of the Collegiate Reformed Protestant Dutch Church
Joan of Arc Island
Other fragments of the bombed Reims Cathedral
The Lotus Garden
Shin ran
Nicholas Roerich Museum
Street Deaths
Glacial Erratics
Phrenology in Central Park
The Elm Trees of Central Park
The Witch of Bethesda Terrace
Kentucky Coffee Trees
Equestrian Statue of King Jagiello
Granite Statue of Alexander Hamilton
Seneca
Andrew Haswell Green Memorial Bench
Paintings in the Stettheimer Dollhouse
Squadron A Armoury
Islamic Cultural Center
The Ziegfeld Head
The Murals of Bemelmans Bar
Dwellings on Madison Avenue
Veterans Room in the Seventh Regiment Armory
Mount Vernon Hotel Museum
The Portals of Paradise
Blessings of the Bicycles
The Peace Foundation
Church of Notre Dame
Harlem Fire Watchtower
The Wishing Tree
Bear and Faun
The hidden Owl of Alma Mater
Rutherfurd Observatory
Splitting the First Atom
Riverside Church Carillon
Riverside Labyrinth
Butterfield Statue
Amiable Child Monument
Freedom Tunnel
Our Lady of Lourdes Church
Hamilton Grange
Audubon's Grave Marker
Birds of America
Portolan Chart
Brush Stairway and Old Polo Grounds
The Little Red Lighthouse
Loews 175th Move Palace
Top of the High Bridge tower
Bennett Park
America's first woman soldier
Mother Cabrini Shrine
The Lavaudieu Torso of Christ
Dyckman Farmhouse
Milestone No. 12
Indian Caves of Inwood Hill
West 230th Street
Marble Hill
The Garabedian House
Superman Portrait at Lehman College
Stars Gravesite
Poe cottage
The Mystery of Marie Roget
The Hall of Fame
Primeval Forest
Lorillard Snuff Mill
Monkey House, Bronx Zoo
Lorelei Fountain
Hell Gate
Steinway Piano Factory
Secret Marks
Marine Air Terminal
Louis Armstrong House
Quaker Meeting hOUse
George Fox Stone and the Flushing remonstrance
The Ganesh Temple
The Grave Marker of the Matinecoc Indians
Living Museum
Triumph of civic virtue
5pointz
Troma headquarters
The Panorama
The City Reliquary
Prison Ship Martyrs Monument
Masstransiscope
Plymouth Rock at Plymouth Church
Another Plymouth Rock Fragment
58 Joralemon Street
The Doors of our Lady of Lebanon
Warren Place
Fliers' and Explorers' Globe
Lost Columbus of Cadman Plaza
Mosaic House
Canoeing the Gowns Canal
Stephen Baltz Memorial
Quaker Cemetery
770 Eastern Parkway
Fatih Mosque
Ervin
The New Utrecht Liberty Pole
Topsy Memorial
HARP at Floyd Bennett Field
Breezy Point
Chinese Scholar's Garden
The Watering Place Stone
The Boneyard of Arthur Kill