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Detail or Rachel Whiteread’s “Place (Village)”

London, England

V&A Museum of Childhood

A museum wholly devoted to juvenescence.

Weavers Field

London, England

Weaver's Field

This lush area was the site of extensive enemy bombing during WWII.

Working Men's Club

London, England

Bethnal Green Working Men's Club

Where's a guy to go after a long, hard day at work?

12 Dead From Bad Moonshine

Brooklyn, New York

12 Dead From Bad Moonshine

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

Erie Basin Park

Brooklyn, New York

Erie Basin

Compensation for the destruction of a historic shipyard.

Red Hook Firehouse

Brooklyn, New York

Van Brunt St Fire House (H & L Engine Co 101, Engine 202)

Where there’s manufacturing, there’s fire!

Van Brunt Street

Brooklyn, New York

The Red Hook Stores

A strip of modern stores in historic buildings.

Lidgerwood Manufacturing Company

Brooklyn, New York

Lidgerwood Manufacturing Company

The engineering feat of the Panama Canal was possible in small part thanks to materials developed in this humble Red Hook foundry.

New York Dock Co

Brooklyn, New York

New York Dock Co. buildings

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

Brooklyn Clay Retort and Fire Bricks Works Storehouse

Brooklyn, New York

Brooklyn Clay Retort and Fire Bricks Works Storehouse

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

The Red Hook Graving Dock

Brooklyn, New York

Red Hook Graving Docks

Once home to the country's most gargantuan ships, this graving dock now waits for people to buy furniture.

Jalopy

Brooklyn, New York

Jalopy Theatre and School of Music

A community theatre in Brooklyn that brings Country to New York and New York to Country.

Secretary of labor Hilda S. Solis visiting the winery

Brooklyn, New York

Red Hook Winery

Brooklyn vintners creating world-class wine in a city not known for its vineyards.

Steve's Authentic Key Lime Pie

Brooklyn, New York

Steve's Authentic Key Lime Pies

“Invented in Key West, Perfected in Brooklyn."

Dialogue in the Dark

Frankfurt, Germany

DIALOGMUSEUM

This unique exhibit "Dialogue in the Dark" reverses roles as the visionless become guides and the sighted become ‘blind.’

George Town: beautiful and serene

George Town, Cayman Islands

George Town

The capital of the Cayman Islands is a center of offshore banking, but gets battered by blistering hurricanes.

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