Places rowemattk Wants to Go

Home to first responders to Greenpoint's devastating oil fires.

The final resting place of a former Dodgers and Mets player can be found in central Brooklyn, in the first diocesan cemetery for Catholics in the borough.

A hidden Brooklyn basement gallery where two biologists nurture one of the Northeast’s rarest and most vibrant reptile collections.

Once a flowing stream and where the USS Monitor, the world's first ironclad, was built and launched.

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

Built as a home for the Union Porcelain magnate in 1867, now the Greenpoint Reformed Church and home to a ceramic mystery.

The highest rapid transit station in the world.

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

This unusual apartment building may be Brooklyn's own version of the Leaning Tower of Pisa.

A community farm in the midst of the Brooklyn concrete.

This unusual subway stop was originally a real estate office.

Where infamous mobster and leader of Murder Inc. Albert Anastasia made his home.

Known as the "Forgotten City" it was home to industry, riots, artists, squatters, and to one of the largest single disaster fires in New York City.

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

This nondescript coffee shop conceals one of the wildest patisseries in New York City.

Enter the deli, walk until you hit the taxidermy, then order some hot, homey guisado.

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

Dine on old-school red sauce fare at a former mob hang out and film set for The Sopranos.

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

This museum dedicated to the history of the medical bone trade and human osteology.

A one-ton statue of Steve Rogers beautifies the entry to a Brooklyn Bed, Bath & Beyond.

Every dish is blessed in this basement eatery beneath a Hare Krishna temple.

A Wisconsin kitsch palace from the 1930s lives its second life in 21st-century Brooklyn.

This otherwise innocuous bodega was once the headquarters of the most feared assassin's guild in American history.