Earning a spot in the Michelin Guide is a sure sign you've made it as a chef. 

For the second year in a row, the New York edition of the world-famous Michelin Guide is out a few days earlier than expected.

According to Eater, which obtained the 2017 edition after spotting a copy of the guide on sale at McNally Jackson Books in Soho, the list included 10 new restaurants in the one-star category. The full guide comes out on Thursday.

A one-star rating is considered "a very good restaurant in its category," two stars indicate "excellent cuisine" that is "worth a detour," and three stars represent a restaurant that offers "exceptional cuisine" that is "worth a special journey." 

The six three-star restaurants from last year maintained their status, and Aska has been named the city's best new restaurant.

Here are the rest of the results (* indicates a restaurant that is new to the list):

Three Stars: "Exceptional cuisine, worth a special journey"

Chef's Table at Brooklyn Fare

Eleven Madison Park

Jean-Georges

Le Bernardin

Masa

Per Se

Two Stars: "Excellent cuisine, worth a detour"

Aquavit

Aska*

atera

Blanca

Daniel

Jungsik

Ko

Marea

The Modern

Soto

One Star: "A very good restaurant in its category"

Agern*

Ai Fiori

Aldea

Andanada

Aureole

Babbo

Batard

Betony

Blue Hill

The Breslin

Cafe Boulud

Cafe China

Cagen

Carbone

Casa Enrique

Casa Mono

Caviar Russe

Contra*

Delaware & Hudson

Del Posto

Dovetail

Faro*

The Finch

Gabriel Kreuther

Gotham Bar & Grill

Gramercy Tavern

Gunter Seeger*

Hirohisa

Jewel Bako

Junoon

Kajitsu

Kanoyama

Kyo Ya

L'Appart*

La Sirena*

La Vara

Luksus at Torst

Meadowsweet

Minetta Tavern

The Musket Room

Nix*

The NoMad

Peter Luger

Piora

Public

Rebelle

The River Cafe

Semilla

Sushi Ginza Onodera*

Sushi Inoue*

Sushi of Gari

Sushi Yasuda

Sushi Zo*

Take Root

Tempura Matsui

Tori Shin

Tulsi

Uncle Boons

Ushiwakamaru

Wallse

ZZ's Clam Bar

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The Facebook event invite read:

"Fred Durst of Limp Bizkit fame will be performing all of his chart topping hits via a one man show at Rose's Department Store in Morganton, NC. Tickets are $3.50 in advance and $5.00 day of show. VIP passes are also available for $20.00 or free with any $10 purchase at participating Rose's Department Stores. Call now, tickets will sell out!"

The invite went out to 5,500 people, it said, and 2,200 people RSVP'd that they would be there. 

Famous tech photographer Eric Pickersgill was among them.

"I got a notification on Facebook that a friend was going to this fake event about an hour from Charlotte. The local news was covering it. No one knew if it was really happening," Pickersgill told Business Insider.

But when he arrived he confirmed his suspicions. The whole thing was a joke. The band was never scheduled to play and most of the people who RSVP'd knew it was a prank and stayed away.

Pickersgill was one of the folks that showed up and it set off a six month obsession with fake Facebook events and the people who show up to them.

He put together his experience in a funny, sad, insightful new photography project he calls "No Show" and shared some of the photos with Business Insider.

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Eric Pickersgill skyrocketed to fame after the surreal images of his project called "Removed" went viral. It shows just how weirdly focused people are on their devices instead of each other. Here's one with Pickersgill and his wife in bed, phones removed from the shot.

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His project "No Show" takes on fake Facebook events. These became the rage in the middle of 2016 and mostly involved 1990's bands that were supposed to be playing at odd places in small towns.

Read more: What’s With All Those Fake Facebook Events in Your Feed Of Late? 

Fred Durst never showed up to play at Rose's in Morganton, NC, but so many people showed up and asked about it that management posted a sign on the front door ...

Humans are wired to be on the lookout for the thing that wants to eat us next. 

But the audience at your next presentation is not, in fact, a bunch of razor-toothed animals. They generally want to see you do well.

To help you trick your brain into calming down, we've put together a series of tips for overcoming stress, fear, and anxiety.

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What could be more terrifying than talking to someone you're attracted to? 

Luckily, social science has figured out what makes flirting work — or not.

Below, we've rounded up some of the most intriguing findings on the art of flirtation, so you can saunter over to the object of your affection with confidence.

This is an update of an article originally posted by Drake Baer.

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People flirt for six different reasons

In a 2004 review of the literature on flirting, Northern Illinois University professor David Dryden Henningsen identified six different motivations for the behavior: 

• Sex: trying to get in bed
• Fun: treating it like a sport
• Exploring: trying to see what it would be like to be in a relationship
• Relational: trying to increase the intimacy of a relationship
• Esteem: increasing one's own self esteem
• Instrumental: trying to get something from the other person

In that study, Henningsen asked 101 female and 99 male students to write out a hypothetical flirty conversation between a man and a woman, then identify the motivations for the things they said. 

The behaviors broke down along gender norms: Men were significantly more likely to have a sexual motivation, while women tended to have a relational one.

Couples need to flirt, too

Like Tinder, cats, and dying alone, flirting is usually associated with single people. 

But couples need to know how to flirt, too.

After studying 164 married people for a 2012 study, University of Kentucky researcher Brandi Frisby noted that most of them flirted — by playing "footsies" or whispering in their partner's ear, for example — as a means of maintaining and emphasizing intimacy. Oftentimes, she wrote in her paper, married couples flirted to "create a private world with the spouse." 

Some conversation starters are better than others

For a study in the journal Sex Roles, University of Alaska psychologist Chris L. Kleinke asked 600 respondents to rate the effectiveness of three varieties of opening lines in a flirtatious situation: 

• "Pick-up" lines like "You must be a librarian, because I saw you checking me out" 
• Open-ended, innocuous questions like "What do you think of this band?" or "What team are you rooting for?"
• Direct approaches like "You're cute — can I buy you a drink?" 

The responses were pretty evenly split along gender lines: While the men in the study tended to prefer the more direct approach, the women tended to prefer the open-ended, innocuous questions. Not surprisingly, very few people said they preferred the pick-up lines.

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The Denver Post is reporting that the nation's most pot-friendly city has passed Initiative 300, a measure that will allow businesses to apply for permits that grant marijuana "consumption areas" onsite.

The bill clears a path for people to smoke in Denver coffee shops, restaurants, bars, and even yoga studios with special permitting.

"This is a victory for cannabis consumers who, like alcohol consumers, simply want the option to enjoy cannabis in social settings," Kayvan Khalaatbari, co-owner of professional group Denver Relief Consulting and the initiative's lead advocate, said in a statement.

Recreational marijuana has been legal in Colorado since 2012.

A booming "canna-tourism" industry has taken hold since then, with tourists dropping an estimated $100 million at recreational marijuana stores in Colorado last year. Vacationing smokers accounted for nearly 17% of adult-use sales in the state, the Marijuana Business Daily reports.

Until now, public use of marijuana has been banned by state law. Initiative 300 lets any small business — separate from the private cannabis clubs that have cropped up across Colorado— create a designated weed zone, The Denver Post reports. The measure requires that the businessowner gets permission from a local neighborhood or business group.

The BYO-bud law creates more opportunities for consumption and could increase tax revenue from tourists and locals alike.

In October, State Representative Jonathan Singer, who endorsed the initiative, told The Denver Post the law may also curb citations issued to people who light up in public.

"Finally, law enforcement is going to have the opportunity to tell people: 'You know what, you can't smoke in the park, you can't smoke in a hotel, you can't smoke in any number of places — but here is where you can go,'" Singer said.

The bill remains in effect for four years. After that, city officials can decide whether or not to let the pilot program continue.

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Contrary to popular belief, there is a difference between a button-up shirt and a button-down shirt. Here's how to tell the difference. 

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Snapchat's Spectacles are here, but they are not so easy to find. The new wearable device is only available in certain vending machines that are popping up randomly across the United States. It captures video and sends it automatically to your Snapchat app. Our friends at Cheddar loaned us a pair to try out. Here's what it's like.

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In 2015, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff stepped into the political spotlight big time.

It began in Indiana, where Mike Pence was governor. Salesforce is a major employer in the state. Pence signed a law that allowed businesses to cite religious beliefs when refusing to serve people, such as gay people. 

Benioff, flanked by other business leaders, went to war against the law and got the law changed. He then went on to fight against similar laws in other states, and to tackle other issues, such as equal pay for women, and to just plain encourage CEO social activism.

It's now been a week since the presidential election that will send Donald Trump to the White House, along with Benioff's former foe Pence as vice president. People who were put off by president-elect Donald Trump's divisive rhetoric, as well as his policies, remain worried about a Trump administration as he makes one controversialdecisionafteranother during this transition time. 

Positivity and action

Like many Silicon Valley executives, Benioff publicly backed Hillary Clinton and knew President Obama personally. He even hosted Obama at his home for fund raisers and discussions.

Benioff talked at length about his views on the new president to Recode's Kara Swisher on stage at the Code Enterprise event in San Francisco on Monday.

And it all comes down to this. Wait-and-see what Trump actually does, keep an open mind and remain positive. 

Benioff said (emphasis ours)

"We have to pull together. And we have to have an open mind. I listened to the President [Obama's] news conference and I agree with him. We have a new president elect, we need to give him our support and give him the benefit of the doubt and let’s see what can happen.

I’ve said this before, I believe in all things you have to have a beginner’s mind. ... I think we have to have a beginner’s mind, a reset. Let go of our fears and project positivity, project action.

On '60 Minutes' I heard we’re not going to have a wall, we’re going to have a fence now.

With the Affordable Care Act, I heard there are things that are good, including folks with pre-existing conditions will be able to get health care which is great.

I think there’s a narrative, a rhetoric of a campaign and now all of a sudden there’s an adjustment."

That pragmatic and cautiously optimistic attitude may owe to the fact that the CEO of a major corporation realizes there's no upside in picking a fight with the president of the country.

But Benioff may also be making another point: While it's reasonable and justified to maintain careful watch and to voice opinions as the new administration forms, there comes a time when fear, worry and anger, especially against a not-yet-arrived future, can be counter-productive.

For those who opposed Trump, taking the "beginner's mind" might be a better way. Instead of digging-in and wishing the past was different, you may be presented with new opportunities — to get involved with everything from volunteering for a civic organization, to learning how to get your congressman to listen to you to running for office yourself, or even to fighting against a specific law ... and winning.

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To mark 20 years since her tragic death, Kensington Palace is launching a special exhibition next year to celebrate the life and style of Princess Diana.

Titled Diana: Her Fashion Story, the exhibition, which opens February 24 at Princess Diana's former home of over 15 years, will display outfits from throughout her life in the public eye, from evening gowns in the 80s to Catherine Walker suits in the 90s, and will showcase original fashion sketches.

"Diana, Princess of Wales, was one of the most photographed women in the world, and every fashion choice she made was closely scrutinised," said exhibition curator Eleri Lynn in a press release Tuesday. "Our exhibition explores the story of a young woman who had to quickly learn the rules of royal and diplomatic dressing, who in the process put the spotlight on the British fashion industry and designers."

Whether it was her feminine and romantic looks in the 80s to her more glamorous and elegant gowns in later years, Princess Diana used fashion not only to set trends but also to call attention to causes she cared about.

From her memorable white wedding dress in 1981 to the iconic blue velvet Victor Edelstein gown she wore to dance with John Travolta at the White House in 1985, we've rounded up some of her most memorable looks below. 

July 29, 1981: Wearing a gown with a 25-foot train made of ivory silk taffeta and antique lace which is believed to have cost £9,000, Lady Diana Spencer married Prince Charles at Saint Paul's Cathedral on July 29, 1981.

The dress has since become one of the most famous in history.

November 9, 1985: This image of Princess Diana dancing at the White House with John Travolta has become one of her most memorable, partly due to the ink-blue Victor Edelstein gown she wore.

The dress sold for £100,000 in 1997 at a charity auction held in New York two months before she died, and was one of 10 dresses to raise money for AIDS and cancer charities in Britain and the US. In 2013 it was sold again for £240,000 to a British collector.

February 12, 1986: The Princess of Wales wore this off the shoulder gown to a banquet at Ajuda Palace in Lisbon where she met Portuguese President Mario Soares.

French fries, cheeseburgers, pizza, and Tex-Mex burritos have come to define American cuisine.

And the eateries that serve up these classics, from the Golden Arches to Chipotle, have come to define American culture. 

But with so many choices, one wonders: Where is the best burger? Where are the finest fries? Who has the choicest chicken nuggets? And where can you get the best breakfast, fast?

In honor of National Fast Food Day, we diligently tested America's finest fast food options to see how they all stack up. Here are the results. 

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First up, the cheeseburgers. Between Burger King, McDonald's, and Wendy's 1/4 lb equivalents ...

McDonald's Quarter Pounder looks the best, and it's a classic and safe bet.

But if you're looking for pure beefy burger taste, Wendy's might actually be best. The patty is thick and flavorful — always freshly grilled. Plus, red onions add sharpness and tang.

Fifteen years after the terrorist attacks of 9/11, downtown New York City is making a serious comeback.

With One World Trade Center as the construction epicenter, development in the neighborhood has soared. Among the projects is the Brookfield Place shopping center, with high-end retail offerings like Burberry and Michael Kors, an Equinox gym, and restaurants like Amada and the stalls of Hudson Eats. The $4 billion World Trade Center Transportation Hub— more commonly known as the Oculus — also doubles as a Westfield shopping center.

Reaching high above them is 30 Park Place, a luxury condo development built by Silverstein Properties and Robert A.M. Stern Architects to contribute to the revival of the area. It's attached to the new Four Seasons Hotel New York Downtown, which occupies the bottom third of the building.

"All around us, downtown has become a model of what is best and most exciting about New York," Larry Silverstein, chairman of Silverstein Properties, said to Business Insider. "Since 2001, the population has tripled, and we are now one of the city's most desirable places to live and raise a family."

Business Insider had the chance to explore a 78th-floor duplex penthouse that was staged by interior designer Robert Couturier. The nearly 6,000-square-foot unit is on the market for $29.5 million, but that doesn't include the furnishings you'll see here.

Let's take a look.

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From the moment you walk in the private resident's entrance, you feel the elegance of the building. It's connected to the Four Seasons Hotel New York Downtown, which just opened in September.

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The unit we toured was 78B, a five-bedroom duplex penthouse on the building's 78th floor. The receiving hall is bright and inviting, with deep blue walls and metallic mirrors that are somehow not overwhelming.

Floor-to-ceiling windows and crisp ivory walls greet residents in the formal living room. Rich fabrics and metallic accents complement the room and make it inviting for lounging or entertaining.

Finland is an innovative country when it comes to education, and its innovation yields results.

It's consistently one of the highest performing developed countries on the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA), an important tool for measuring education systems worldwide.

While Finland's ranking dropped to 12 in the most recent PISA ranking, it's still a lot higher than the US ranking of 36.

Here are some things Finland does differently — and arguably better — than the US when it comes to education:

1. Better standardized tests

Finnish students only take one standardized test during their entire primary and secondary schooling.

By contrast, the US, driven by No Child Left Behind and Common Core mandates, requires students in third through eighth grade to take annual standardized tests to track their performance. Critics claim constant testing doesn't make students any smarter but instead creates a "teaching to the test" environment in schools.

Karen Magee, the president of the largest teachers union in New York, went so far as to urge parents to boycott standardized tests recently.

The Finnish test, called the National Matriculation Examination, is taken at the end of high school and graded by teachers, not computers, as Pasi Sahlberg a professor and former director general at the Finland Ministry of Education, explained to the Washington Post in 2014. The test also doesn't shy away from controversial or complex topics.

Here are some typical questions, according to Sahlberg:

"In what sense are happiness, good life and well-being ethical concepts?"

"Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels predicted that a socialist revolution would first happen in countries like Great Britain. What made Marx and Engels claim that and why did a socialist revolution happen in Russia?"

Sahlberg added, in the Washington Post, "Students are regularly asked to show their ability to cope with issues related to evolution, losing a job, dieting, political issues, violence, war, ethics in sports, junk food, sex, drugs, and popular music. Such issues span across subject areas and often require multi-disciplinary knowledge and skills."

2. More time for play

Students in Finland spend relatively little time on homework, according to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). A 2014 study of 15-year-olds around the world by the OECD said that on average, Finnish students spend 2.8 hours a week on homework. This contrasts noticeably from the 6.1 hours American students spend per week.

Finns place a lot of value on free time and play. By law, teachers must give students a 15-minute break for every 45 minutes of instruction.

It's a different story in the US where kids typically get less than half an hour of recess every day.

This "deficit of play" for US students may lead to additional anxiety and other mental health issues, the psychologist and research professor Peter Gray has written.

3. College is free

In Finland, not only are bachelor degree programs completely free of tuition fees, so are master and doctoral programs. Students pursue higher education goals without the mountains of student loan debt that many American students face. And the same goes for foreign students. Tuition is free for any student accepted into a college or graduate program in Finland.

This contrasts greatly with the US, where the average student loan debt now approaches $30,000, according to the Institute for College Access and Success's 2014 report.

4. Elevated teaching profession

In Finland, teaching is one of the most revered professions with a relatively high barrier to entry.

Only one in 10 students who apply to teacher education programs are admitted, according to the Center on International Education Benchmarking (CIEB).

Teachers in Finland are treated like professors at universities, and they teach fewer hours during the day than US teachers, with more time devoted to lesson planning.

They also get paid slightly more in Finland. The average teacher in the US makes about $41,000 a year, compared to $43,000 in Finland, according to OECD data.

And while teachers in the US make less money than many other countries, the OECD found that they work the longest hours of all.

It's easy to understand why America's teachers — who are overworked and get relatively little respect — might not be as effective as teachers in Finland.

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Ever notice those tiny copper buttons all over your jeans and wonder what they are for? Turns out, they might be more necessary than you think.

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A rare 943 Patek Philippe ref. 1518 perpetual calendar chronograph has set a new record for the highest-selling wristwatch at auction for approx. $11 million.

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Recreational marijuana is now legal in California, where patients and enthusiasts alike can light up without a doctor's note.

Once the market gets up and running, it could generate more in annual retail sales than the $3.5 to $4.3 billion that the entire marijuana industry is expected to post in 2016, according to the Marijuana Business Daily.

We visited Caliva, named the best dispensary in America by Business Insider, to see what shopping for pot could be like as the industry grows up.

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I stopped by Caliva, located in San Jose, California, on a sunny weekday morning.

A receptionist greeted me at the front desk and checked my medical marijuana ID card.

While I waited, I flipped through a book by Leafly, a marijuana dispensary and strain review site, that explained the different effects that strains of pot might produce.

There is nothing more important than great WiFi to a lot of people who travel regularly for their jobs, according to a fun survey done by a company called iPass, a company that sells global WiFi services.

iPass asked 1,700 road warrior professionals to rank the importance of various items on a daily basis.

40% rated WiFi as their top daily essential.

This compares to 37% who said sex was their most important daily essential, 14% who named chocolate and 9% that chose alcohol. 

These folks make their travel plans based on WiFi, too. 72% choose their hotel based on the quality of WiFi, 35% consider WiFi when booking their flights.

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It's one of the most exclusive clubs in the world, and it's growing.

In 2015, the global billionaire population grew by 6.4% to reach a record 2,473. Although billionaires make up only a small part of the total population — there is only one billionaire for every 2.95 million people on the planet — their influence on the global economy is significant because of their sheer spending power.

Here are a few insights the Wealth-X Billionaire Census 2016 provides regarding the global billionaire population.

They keep wealth liquid.

Economic uncertainty has billionaire investments waning across several categories, including public and private holdings, but liquid assets have actually grown. The report found that most billionaires keep 22.2% of their wealth liquid, an all-time high since 2012.

Liquidity is projected to peak in 2017 at 23.3%, before trending downward. If equity valuations return to attractive levels, we may see the global billionaire class putting liquidity back into all types of deals. Even before that eventuality, tightened discretionary spending will barely affect the real noteworthy areas where billionaires spend, such as luxury goods and services, and philanthropic contributions. 

They travel for business and pleasure.

According to the report, 775 cities around the world are home to at least one billionaire — an increase of 21 new cities in one year. Travel is also the second-most favored billionaire leisure activity, behind philanthropy. The top billionaire city is New York, with 97, followed by Hong Kong (79), and Moscow (74). 

The report includes the 2016 Billionaire Social Calendar, a list of 43 exclusive sporting, social, art, and business events that attract ultra wealthy attendees from around the world. These exclusive events, ranging from the Venice International Film Festival to the Monaco Yacht Show to the Singapore Grand Prix, provide an opportunity for billionaires to network with their peers.

They make luxury purchases.

Global billionaires are passionately about acquiring luxury items such as art, wine and spirits, automobiles, and all kinds of collectible items. Beyond the investment value of these purchases — particularly in art — billionaires enjoy the cultural influence and the ability to prize, protect, and conserve items and collections of great significance or sentimental value.

In November 2015, Chinese billionaire Liu Yiqian paid a record-breaking $170 million for a painting of a nude woman by Amedeo Modigliani at an auction in New York. Liu, a former taxi driver, caused controversy last year when he sipped tea from an antique porcelain cup that he purchased for $36 million.

They invest in political campaigns.

Billionaires can play a major role in funding political campaigns, largely through super PACs in the US that are not obligated to reveal their contributors’ identities. According to the report, 22% of the global billionaire population consider themselves passionate about politics. Some are passive observers, but billionaire participation commonly involves dynamic support for preferred political candidates, such as Sheldon Adelson’s legal, considerable donation to the Republican Party, or billionaire Donald Trump’s presidential bid.

They focus on soccer.

Soccer is the most popular sport among billionaires, above golf and skiing. Recent expansion in television rights boosted accessibility, reaching previously untapped soccer fan bases in North America and Asia. The rising value of television rights to screen live games has also meant that many clubs are becoming wealthier, and are therefore sounder investment opportunities.

Many billionaire investors have identified the potential of investing in the sport and have acquired stakes in their favorite teams. For example, Wang Jianlin, China’s richest man, purchased a 20% stake in Atletico Madrid in January 2015, while Roman Abramovich has owned Chelsea Football Club since 2003.

Read more from the 2016 Billionaire Census. 

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A team in China has injected a person with cells containing genes edited with CRISPR technology. This is the first time this technology has been tested on a human patient. 

Business Insider interviewed New York Times columnist and science writer Carl Zimmer in November 2015. In this video he explains how the revolutionary genome-editing tool CRISPR works.

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On Tuesday, President-elect Donald Trump snuck out of Trump Tower for dinner at the historic 21 Club.

The visit, first reported on Twitter by a reporter who happened to be dining at the same spot, surprised practically everyone. That's because Trump broke protocol by leaving his headquarters without alerting the pool of reporters meant to travel alongside him at all times. 

The 21 Club is a prestigious bar and restaurant just a few blocks from Trump Tower. It has hosted almost every president since Franklin D. Roosevelt, as well as Hollywood stars, since it opened in 1930 as a speakeasy. Take look inside the famous eatery.

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The 21 Club is located in Midtown Manhattan, on 52nd St. near 5th Ave.

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The jockey statues that greet guests outside the restaurant date back to the 1930s. The first one was donated by patron Jay Van Urk, who had an affinity for horses.

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During the Prohibition Era, the 21 Club was a speakeasy.

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