Places mcdermany Wants to Go

You don't have to be an ambassador to dine like one.

Staten Island's original central park is the former home of the city water supply as well as thousands of immigrant graves.

An experimental, community court opened in 2000 takes a new approach to youth offenders in south Brooklyn.

This preserved wilderness hides the remains of a colonial grain mill used to feed George Washington's troops.

This memorial honors thousands of enslaved Africans and their descendants who died in colonial New York.

During the American Revolution, this mansion hosted failed peace talks between the British and Americans.

This slender three-story building has also had several famous residents.

This neighborhood grocery houses a treasure trove of Eastern European delights.

These small stands sell Malian snacks to worshippers and passersby after Friday prayers in Harlem.

A ruthless Soviet relocation campaign birthed a new cuisine, and this humble restaurant.

Rare moles meet activism at this Oaxacan eatery.

In the middle of suburban Staten Island, a nearly 150-year-old bakery is preserving the art of a disappearing New York treat.

Deliciousness abounds at a Guatemalan restaurant masquerading as a pizzeria.

Crammed into several rooms of a Staten Island home, this museum is a vodka-soaked paean to the pleasures of drinking.

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

Snack on a partially gestated duck egg.

New York City's only radical feminist independent bookstore.

Serving Central Asian breads that range from cracker-crisp to warm and fluffy, this bakery brings Bukhara to Queens.

Guerilla gardeners reclaimed this abandoned railroad land literally putting down roots.

This enormous banquet-themed artwork honors over 1,000 notable women throughout history.

The famed amusement district marks the beginning of summer with a wild procession of nautical creatures.

This small, hidden cove is home to abandoned boats.

A young woman's senseless murder led to the controversial psychological theory of the "bystander effect."

This block in downtown Brooklyn was a hotbed of antislavery activism along the Underground Railroad.