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Helene Stapinski

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Entertainment
6 Aug 2024
NEW YORK — On a warm spring day, nine people were gathered inside a cold crypt beneath the Basilica of St. Patrick’s Old Cathedral on Mulberry Street. “This is the size of a standard New York apartment,” the tour guide, Brandon Duncan, said to the Texas and Austrian tourists standing in the spacious room — the final resting place of a long-forgotten Civil War general.
The Secrets of a Sacred Underground
World
27 Jan 2019
NEW YORK — They come two by two, sometimes solo, or in fours, key card in hand, to the small room on the 10th floor of Hotel 3232. Some know what to expect, but others are in for a surprise.
A Hotel Room With a Sushi Bar Instead of a Bed