Places drsupherpen Wants to Go

This micro-industry of Latino cuisine along Red Hook's Ball Fields represents a victory in a food fight with the city.

Fabrication workshop where the encasement for One World Trade Center's beacon was constructed.

One of only two remaining Victorian-era greenhouses in New York.

A curious friendship between two inanimate ladies.

A big shiny gin and whiskey distillery in Sunset Park.

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

This innocent-looking townhome is actually a subway exit.

Volunteer-run library dedicated to exploring five decades of activism history.

A cargo of beautiful music.

In the middle of downtown Brooklyn lies a 165 year old secret hidden right below the surface (closed to the public indefinitely).

A charming "tea atelier" hidden away in Greenpoint, Brooklyn.

Known as the "Forgotten City" it was home to industry, riots, artists, squatters, and to one of the largest single disaster fires in New York City.

HBO series' stage tucked away in a Greenpoint lot is the largest theatrical set of its kind in the United States.

The famous author's cottage hideaway.

The factory for the popular Dumbo location, the Greenpoint shop is a quiet gem.

Once a dumping spot, now a park with a kayak launch.

Historic Greenpoint theater turned roller disco, then chain pharmacy, and now Sweetgreen.

A little lighthouse in New York City, surrounded by mysterious stories of insanity-driven construction.

Whale bones, scrimshaw, and sperm oil make up just a part of this comprehensive collection of whaling history.

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.

Constructed in the 1920s, this former pencil factory is now an office building.

This Queens hospital has stood abandoned for almost 20 years after its patients were secretly relocated in the dead of night.

Built as a home for the Union Porcelain magnate in 1867, now the Greenpoint Reformed Church and home to a ceramic mystery.

Where Greenpoint's first European settler—and troublemaker—made his home.