Places gdm584 Wants to Go

During the 19th century, you could pay for violence off a prix fixe menu on this Manhattan street.

The greatest real estate coup of all time.

This Wall Street bar was once a hub of revolutionary activity where Washington famously bid farewell to his troops.

Come for the waffles, stay for more waffles.

Spiral-bound community recipes and antiquarian gems mingle at this small East Village shop.

A Yiddish theater turned movie house turned rock and roll landmark turned gay disco turned bank.

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

A miniature rainforest is growing inside of a Midtown Manhattan office building.

Micro-distillery in Brooklyn produces New York’s first homemade rum since Prohibition.

What’s a sure fire way to end up in jail in New York in the 1920s? Peddling bad moonshine.

The humble fort that saved Washington.

Every dish is blessed in this basement eatery beneath a Hare Krishna temple.

A working metal shop and venue for outrageous art and music shows in a former cannonball factory.

A modern zoetrope on the New York City subway.

A Manhattan office building is home to the world’s largest chess board.

A small peaceful park and waterfall tucked amid the urban grind of Midtown Manhattan.

From this desk Al Hirschfeld drew his influential caricatures of the 20th century's Broadway stars.

Compensation for the destruction of a historic shipyard.

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

Come for the sustainable organic chocolate, stay for the sustainable organic booze.

Nearly four centuries after its founding, remnants of one of the oldest planned communities in North America are still visible in southern Brooklyn.

This unassuming retro burger joint was billed as “diner of the future” at the 1939 World's Fair.

Once a popular watering hole among longshoremen and shipyard workers, this neighborhood treasure spans more than 100 years of Red Hook history.

A strip of modern stores in historic buildings.