Places flblom Wants to Go

The phone booths of New York City have all but disappeared, but their remains were once found in this "graveyard," sadly now removed as well.

A Brooklyn exhibit all about Nancy Kerrigan and Tonya Harding in 1994.

This tiny store is your one-stop shop for all sorts of rare and wonderful buttons.

A massive art collective tries a new take on Brooklyn's DIY music scene—by making it fully legal.

On the top floor of an upscale department store stands a lavish restaurant housed in a replica of a luxury French dining car.

The place where Dvořák composed some of his most famous works.

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

Seriously good slices of Sicilian pizza lurk at the back of the Bronx's oldest enclosed market.

A ruthless Soviet relocation campaign birthed a new cuisine, and this humble restaurant.

Some of New York's best tacos can be found in the back of an unassuming bodega in Queens.

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

This abandoned artificial island off the coast of New York City is now home to dozens of harbor seals.

A basement pool hall is the front for some of the best Dominican food in New York City.

A one-ton statue of Steve Rogers beautifies the entry to a Brooklyn Bed, Bath & Beyond.

An everyday Jackson Heights bodega conceals a Mexican seafood paradise.

A memorial marks the library lobby where Langston Hughes' ashes are buried.

For almost a century, this East Village newsstand has served egg creams to beats, hippies, punks, and everything in between.

You don't have to be an ambassador to dine like one.

This secluded ruin was once a home for exotic plants.

Behind a grungy bodega facade, a Poblano family serves rich, home-cooked meals.

Here, exhibits come with a side of edible history.

A Wisconsin kitsch palace from the 1930s lives its second life in 21st-century Brooklyn.

A Collegiate Gothic quadrangle that surrounds an 18th century secondary school whose financing came from the likes of Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr, among others.

Manhattan and the Bronx have been playing tug-of-war over this former island neighborhood for more than a century.