Brooklyn, New York
The First Home in Greenpoint
Where Greenpoint's first European settler—and troublemaker—made his home.
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Brooklyn, New York
Brooklyn Botanic Garden
Sniff the Titan Arum's rotting flesh.
Brooklyn, New York
Webster Place
A hidden architectural treasure in New York's Brooklyn.
Jersey City, New Jersey
The Katyń Massacre Memorial
This evocative New Jersey statue memoralizes the Polish victims of a Soviet massacre.
New York, New York
Tammany Hall
The notorious headquarters of a corrupt political machine.
New York, New York
The "Irving House"
Nope, not Washington Irving's house.
Brooklyn, New York
Site of Continental Iron Works
Where the Monitor was launched and ushered in the age of the "ironclads."
New York, New York
Relics of the IRT 14th Street-Union Square Subway Local Platform
Red frames showcase remnants of one of New York's original subway stations.
Brooklyn, New York
Acme Smoked Fish
“Wagon Jobber" turned smokehouse magnate's family-owned business is still going strong 100 years later.
New York, New York
Second Cemetery of the Congregation Shearith Israel
New York's unstoppable progress turned this cemetery into the smallest burial ground in the city.
Brooklyn, New York
Yankee Ferry
A world of whimsy and wonder aboard a one of a kind historic landmark vessel.
Jersey City, New Jersey
The Colgate Clock
On the Hudson resides one of the largest clocks in the world.
New York, New York
Jefferson Market Library
Named the fifth most beautiful building in America in 1885, this former courthouse boasts the best view in the Village.
Brooklyn, New York
Steinberg Sculpture Garden
A beautiful collection of architectural ornaments rescued from demolished New York City buildings.
New York, New York
The Gardens at St. Luke in the Fields
A quiet and contemplative oasis in the middle of New York's bustle and riot.
New York, New York
Hess Triangle
New York City's smallest piece of private property.
New York, New York
Gay Liberation
The first piece of public art dedicated to LGBT rights.
Jersey City, New Jersey
Central Railroad of New Jersey Terminal
Hidden in plain sight on the Hudson River is an abandoned train station where nature has taken over.
New York, New York
Union Square Metronome
The most confusing clock in New York.
New York, New York
C. O. Bigelow Apothecary
The oldest operating apothecary in the US has treated everyone from Thomas Edison to Mark Twain.
Brooklyn, New York
Breuckelen Distilling Co.
A big shiny gin and whiskey distillery in Sunset Park.
New York, New York
The Weathermen Townhouse Explosion
A strangely angled West Village home is the only monument to an explosion that took the lives of three American revolutionaries.
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St. Petersburg, Florida
Brooklyn Art Library
Leaf through over 30,000 artists' sketchbooks in what may be the world's largest collection of doodles
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Brooklyn, New York
Crown Finish Caves
Underground vaults of a former brewery beneath Brooklyn's Crown Heights are now used to ripen cheese.
