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".
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Places I've been
Places this traveler has marked as been there.
New York, New York
Grand Central Terminal Whispering Gallery
Whisper secrets in a busy station only to be heard on the other side of this acoustic arch.
New York, New York
Nikola Tesla Street Corner
Commemorating the spot where the famous scientist fed his pigeons.
New York, New York
Giant Needle and Button
There must be a pun in this haystack somewhere...
New York, New York
New Yorker Hotel
The New York hotel where tragic visionary Nikola Tesla spent his final hours, destitute and alone but for the pigeons.
New York, New York
Museum of Sex
A semi-scholarly approach to sex.
Brooklyn, New York
Masstransiscope
A modern zoetrope on the New York City subway.
Brooklyn, New York
Atlantic Avenue Tunnel
In the middle of downtown Brooklyn lies a 165 year old secret hidden right below the surface (closed to the public indefinitely).
New York, New York
Governors Island
Lie in a hammock where George Washington stood.
New York, New York
'Life Underground' Sculptures
An artist's cute bronze subway sculptures belie his violent artistic past.
New York, New York
The High Line
Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.
New York, New York
Union Square Metronome
The most confusing clock in New York.
New York, New York
Please Don't Tell
Dodge prohibitionists and slide through the telephone booth in Crif Dogs.
New York, New York
Lenin Statue at Red Square
Salute the leader of the proletariat.
Brooklyn, New York
Vinegar Hill
Walk into the 19th century without leaving Brooklyn.
New York, New York
Chinatown Ice Cream Factory
Order scoops of pandan, lychee, and black sesame at this family-run institution.
New York, New York
Irish Hunger Memorial
Blighted Irish field and the ruins of a 19th-century cottage on the edge of urban Manhattan.
