Places AF Wants to Go

These century-old townhouses contain some of the first car garages built in the United States.

One of the largest public housing complexes in New York once visited by Eleanor Roosevelt.

The unassuming structure was part of a Major League Baseball stadium.

2 square block factory in Greenpoint erected in 1936.

Where there’s manufacturing, there’s fire!

Where the Monitor was launched and ushered in the age of the "ironclads."

The factory that helped produce a dominant form of lighting before Thomas Edison.

The flagship building of an early national restaurant chain is a superb example of terra cotta art.

Neoclassical bank designed by NY architects Helmle & Huberty.

Ornate "Renaissance Revival" style building.

A 120-year oil leak slowly unleashes more gallons of oil than the Exxon/Mobil disaster.

Queen Anne style apartment house built in 1886.

The childhood home of one of America's greatest unsung troubadours still stands in a much changed Brooklyn neighborhood.

Where one of Greenpoint's "five black arts" was practiced.

Once a ferry dock, radio transmitter, and now a new Greenpoint park.

For 20 years, local pumpkins have met their fate on the iron fence surrounding this Cobble Hill home.

Compensation for the destruction of a historic shipyard.

The return of something once considered a basic part of life.

If you were standing here on October 5th, 1950, you'd be dead.

A modern addition to the Greenpoint skyline.

Headquarters of the world's fourth largest Hasidic sect and the first of many "770s" around the world.

As telephones become more essential and less stylish one historic Brooklyn building remembers the days when they were a grand celebration of communication.

A 9-story, poured concrete structure which was used as a glue factory with an indelible smell.

This recently uncovered ad for Lindsay's run at Mayor in 1965 had been hiding for decades underneath a billboard.