Brooklyn, New York
The Grundhauser Hero Lending Library
"Leave a He-Man, Take a Transformer" and share a story about your real-life superhero.
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Places I've been
Places this traveler has marked as been there.
New York, New York
Day & Meyer, Murray & Young
Storage warehouse of the rich and famous.
Brooklyn, New York
770 Eastern Parkway
Headquarters of the world's fourth largest Hasidic sect and the first of many "770s" around the world.
Brooklyn, New York
Greenpoint Manufacturing and Design Center
Enormous one time fiber mill now houses local artists and small businesses.
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.
New York, New York
The Statue of Roscoe Conkling
A 19th-century politician who died after walking home in a blizzard is honored with this Manhattan statue.
Brooklyn, New York
Smith-9 Street Station
The highest rapid transit station in the world.
Brooklyn, New York
Greenpoint Reformed Church and Mystery Tile
Built as a home for the Union Porcelain magnate in 1867, now the Greenpoint Reformed Church and home to a ceramic mystery.
New York, New York
Pier 26 Tide Deck
Amid skyscrapers and traffic exists this unique aquatic ecosystem.
Staten Island, New York
Shrine of the Immaculate Virgin
Devotional offerings and pleas for intercession are left at this Depression-era shrine inside a nature preserve.
New York, New York
The General Worth Monument
This monument to a veteran of the Mexican-American War is one of only two in Manhattan that serve as an actual mausoleum.
New York, New York
The "Irving House"
Nope, not Washington Irving's house.
Queens, New York
Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Cemetery
The graveyard holds the remains of Irish immigrants who arrived in Queens after fleeing the Great Famine.
Brooklyn, New York
Jalopy Theatre and School of Music
A community theatre in Brooklyn that brings Country to New York and New York to Country.
Brooklyn, New York
The New York and New Jersey Telephone Company Building
As telephones become more essential and less stylish one historic Brooklyn building remembers the days when they were a grand celebration of communication.
Brooklyn, New York
The Coignet Stone Company Building
New York's oldest concrete structure is being preserved thanks to the gentrification of Whole Foods.
Brooklyn, New York
Charles Feltman's Tomb
The inventor of the Coney Island hot dog rests in a grand mausoleum in Brooklyn.
Staten Island, New York
Sleight Family Graveyard
The final resting place of some of Staten Island's earliest settlers and their descendants.
New York, New York
The John Street Methodist Church
The oldest Methodist church in the United States has been spreading the good news for over two centuries.
Brooklyn, New York
The Red Hook Stores
A strip of modern stores in historic buildings.
Brooklyn, New York
Site of Joe Gallo's 1950s Headquarters
The site where Joe Gallo kept his guns, pet lion, and launched an all out mob war in 1960s Brooklyn.
New York, New York
7000 Oaks
Twenty-three trees, each paired with a basalt stone, line a street in Chelsea, continuing an urban project started by German Fluxus artist Joseph Beuys.
Brooklyn, New York
The Dime Savings Bank of Brooklyn
While it now takes more than a dime to open an account this historic Brooklyn bank still displays the opulence of the gilded age in which it was built.
New York, New York
Chester A. Arthur Inauguration and Death House
The only remaining building in New York to see the inauguration of a president is being slowly overtaken by a grocery store.
