Places readayy Wants to Go

If you were standing here on October 5th, 1950, you'd be dead.

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

A modern addition to the Greenpoint skyline.

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

The flagship building of an early national restaurant chain is a superb example of terra cotta art.

2,000 barrels of aging beer hidden in a warehouse at the Brooklyn Navy Yard.

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

Sunset Park's Guatemalan community knows to head to the back of this bodega for a taste of home.

A Collegiate Gothic quadrangle that surrounds an 18th century secondary school whose financing came from the likes of Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr, among others.

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

This family-owned bakery is one of the last places in Brooklyn to sell the Nation of Islam–inspired bean pie.

Oldest surviving example of a Dutch saltbox frame house in America.

Spike Lee's provocative film is officially honored right where it was made, the first time a work of art was used as a secondary street name.

This seemingly unremarkable boulder is said to bear the hoofprint of the devil himself.

Two community gardens under the elevated subway lines on a very busy commercial strip in Bushwick.

A tree that grows parallel to the ground was declared Brooklyn's "crowning curio" by the poet who saved it.

A decommissioned military complex that's now a modern industrial park.

A hidden architectural treasure in New York's Brooklyn.

Waterway populated with abandoned projects, including a submarine.

I fought the law and the precinct caved in.

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

This small, hidden cove is home to abandoned boats.

Underground vaults of a former brewery beneath Brooklyn's Crown Heights are now used to ripen cheese.

Nature and beauty amidst pollution and industrial wreckage.