Queens, New York
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A New York warehouse filled with an enormous amount of goods saved from the landfills and donated for creative use.
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Queens, New York
A New York warehouse filled with an enormous amount of goods saved from the landfills and donated for creative use.
Queens, New York
The oldest pastificio in Queens offers visitors fresh noodles and a peek inside the macaroni-making magic.
Queens, New York
A hidey-hole sandwiched between cellphone, DVD, and jewelry stores features Tibetan delights.
Queens, New York
The best B-movies filmed on a shoestring budget were born here.
Queens, New York
One of the oldest Jewish cemeteries in the city, it is now overgrown with an urban forest.
Queens, New York
Holding the most bodies of any cemetery in the United States.
Queens, New York
This abandoned seaside fortress is now simply an imposing ruin being taken back by nature.
Queens, New York
The remnants of two World's Fairs are here, complete with a 12-story globe, a mini-Manhattan, and a UFO-shaped pavilion.
Queens, New York
The final resting place of the great escape artist, where some still gather to wait for his escape from death.
Queens, New York
Nondescript elevator doors open to reveal a stunning, surreal world.
Queens, New York
Read between the lines of the subway map to find the hidden abandoned Civil War fort.
Bronx, New York
An activist who committed her life to peace and women's suffrage.
Bronx, New York
A basement pool hall is the front for some of the best Dominican food in New York City.
Bronx, New York
The famous author's cottage hideaway.
Bronx, New York
The loneliest island in New York.
New York, New York
There's a piece of New York City transportation history hidden in plain sight at a Manhattan subway stop.
New York, New York
A veritable variety of odds and ends.
New York, New York
Walk over a 150 year old manhole.
New York, New York
You must take the A train... to the last active cemetery in Manhattan.
New York, New York
A garment factory hides a small Dominican eatery in the hallway to its freight elevator.
New York, New York
This slender three-story building has also had several famous residents.
New York, New York
New York's unstoppable progress turned this cemetery into the smallest burial ground in the city.
New York, New York
Have a steam and some blini at this cafe in a century-old bathhouse.
New York, New York
Historical figures from New York City's Catholic community reside in Midtown.