Brooklyn, New York
Red Hook Community Farm
A community farm in the midst of the Brooklyn concrete.
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Places I've been
Places this traveler has marked as been there.
Brooklyn, New York
Bushwick Inlet
Once a flowing stream and where the USS Monitor, the world's first ironclad, was built and launched.
Brooklyn, New York
Monsignor McGolrick Park
Once called Winthrop Park in 1889, home to a decidedly sexy tribute to the Monitor vs. Merrimac battle.
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Brooklyn, New York
Red Hook Bait and Tackle Shop
A Red Hook dive bar that is holding onto its roots.
Permanently Closed
New York, New York
Eight Mile Creek
Skewer up Kangaroo.
Permanently Closed
New York, New York
Maxilla & Mandible
A Natural History and Science Emporium.
New York, New York
New York's Adam and Eve Sculptures
Two large-scale sculptures of Adam and Eve greet visitors in the nude at the Time Warner Center in NYC.
Brooklyn, New York
Transmitter Park
Once a ferry dock, radio transmitter, and now a new Greenpoint park.
Brooklyn, New York
Digester Eggs
A modern addition to the Greenpoint skyline.
Queens, New York
Pulaski Bridge
A drawbridge named for a potentially intersex Polish national who fought alongside George Washington during the American Revolution, and an example of "Pulaski Red".
Brooklyn, New York
Brooklyn Clay Retort and Fire Bricks Works Storehouse
The factory that helped produce a dominant form of lighting before Thomas Edison.
Brooklyn, New York
The Red Hook Stores
A strip of modern stores in historic buildings.
Brooklyn, New York
New York Dock Co. buildings
Two monstrous warehouses. One now holds priceless works of art, the other stands abandoned and dilapidated.
New York, New York
Spring Street Salt Shed
This simple Manhattan salt house is artfully shaped... well, like a giant granule of salt.
Brooklyn, New York
Studebaker Building
This neo-Gothic former auto showroom is one of the few remaining reminders of Brooklyn's "Automobile Row."
New York, New York
Amiable Child Monument
One of the only single-person private gravesites in New York City.
Permanently Closed
New York, New York
Site of the Pan Am Helipad
This Manhattan skyscraper is a reminder of the brief but glorious age of urban air taxis.
New York, New York
The Village Gate Sign
The former sign of this immortal music venue is just that--undying.
Queens, New York
Jacob Riis Park Bathhouse
A former seaside jewel built for the everyman is now simply a neglected art deco fortress.
New York, New York
Second Cemetery of the Congregation Shearith Israel
New York's unstoppable progress turned this cemetery into the smallest burial ground in the city.
New York, New York
The Weathermen Townhouse Explosion
A strangely angled West Village home is the only monument to an explosion that took the lives of three American revolutionaries.
New York, New York
Queensboro Trolley Kiosk
A forgotten relic from New York's bygone trolley system hides in plain sight under a bridge.
New York, New York
Marble Hill
Manhattan and the Bronx have been playing tug-of-war over this former island neighborhood for more than a century.
Brooklyn, New York
Coney Art Walls
This outdoor gallery of graffiti-covered walls pays homage to the past, present, and possible future of street art.
