Places marasta215 Wants to Go

A 120-year oil leak slowly unleashes more gallons of oil than the Exxon/Mobil disaster.

Queen Anne style apartment house built in 1886.

Headquarters of the world's fourth largest Hasidic sect and the first of many "770s" around the world.

Enormous one time fiber mill now houses local artists and small businesses.

A century-old magnolia tree is the only living landmark tree in New York City.

A retired oil tanker now offering amazing views of New York City.

Before online banking and smartphone apps, there was "commuter banking" in the subway in Downtown Brooklyn.

Now the site of a high school, this was almost the location of the largest cathedral in the US.

A community farm in the midst of the Brooklyn concrete.

New York's oldest concrete structure is being preserved thanks to the gentrification of Whole Foods.

The inventor of the Coney Island hot dog rests in a grand mausoleum in Brooklyn.

Two monstrous warehouses. One now holds priceless works of art, the other stands abandoned and dilapidated.

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

The longest continuous underwater road in North America was built at the insistence of Franklin Roosevelt.

Church featuring "high Victorian gothic" architecture.

This beautiful Brooklyn monument over a crypt memorializes a grim and largely unknown story from the American Revolution.

A strip of modern stores in historic buildings.

The site where Joe Gallo kept his guns, pet lion, and launched an all out mob war in 1960s Brooklyn.

Residents of this Brooklyn neighborhood may be unaware their houses sit atop a buried trolley graveyard.

A mass grave for victims of one of the city’s worst fires.

Retribution for death of infamous mob boss Franie Yale was a case of mistaken identity.

This neo-Gothic former auto showroom is one of the few remaining reminders of Brooklyn's "Automobile Row."

For 20 years, local pumpkins have met their fate on the iron fence surrounding this Cobble Hill home.

The only surviving sidewalk clock in Brooklyn.