Loving the 1950's ambiance. Fully expecting Biff Tanner to walk through the door and offer me a knuckle sandwich. Recommend the bourbon old fashioned - served proper with one giant ice cube.
Opened in 1837 as America's 1st fine dining restaurant. Operated by the Delmonico family during the 19th & early 20th century, it was subsequently reopened by other restaurateurs under the same name.
It used to host luminaries such as William Burroughs and Alan Ginsberg. And punks. And drunks and junkies and college kids and down on their luck drinkers who came for 50 cent beers.
Modeled after the Calais-Mediterranée Express, a luxury train famous for transporting wealthy passengers to the French Riviera in the ’20s and ’30s, the narrow space replicates a refined dining car.
If you're able to get the phone number to this place, you're in for a treat. Tucked away in an old building previously owned by Andy Warhol, Bohemian triggers "look-what-I've-found" goosebumps. Read more.
On Beach Channel Drive in the Rockaways, across from where we recently started our jet ski tour around New York City, sits an abandoned court house being taken over by the elements. Read more.
Hart Island was a center for removed citizens, often taking drug rehabilitation as an alternative for hard jail time. Read more.
In 1844 when the Atlantic Avenue Tunnel was built, the City of Brooklyn was not one of the five boroughs...the Cobble Hill Tunnel was meant to reduce the congestion caused by a street-level train. Read more.
On Court Street in Brooklyn in the middle of 3rd and 4th Place in Carroll Gardens, is an abandoned storefront where you can still see the remnants of a shoe-shine shop from the dusty windows. Read more.
Designed to accommodate the 50 million visitors of the 1964 World’s Fair, the three levels of observatories can be accessed through a stairway rising up the central column of the superstructure. Read more.
Did you know when Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt got married they moved into a brownstone at 125 east 36th Street. Read more.
The outline of Fort Washington, which was located in the park, is marked off in the park. Read more.
Keller’s was once a hotel for sailors and later an SRO. Today all that's left is its sad state of vacancy and a retro HOTEL sign still attached. See more: Read more.
Did you know that George Washington had his headquarters in the same house later owned by Aaron Burr's wife. Read more.
The 1,853 seat Apollo Theatre opened on December 15, 1913 is most known for its Amateur Night, at which Ella Fitzgerald, Stevie Wonder, Michael Jackson, James Brown and Lauryn Hill all performed. Read more.
Most famous for its scene with Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks in You’ve Got Mail, Cafe Lalo offers a wide variety of desserts, pastries, cocktails/spirits and breakfast items served all day. Read more.
These Yoshino Cherry trees along the east side of the Reservoir may be the original trees presented as a gift to the United States by Japan in 1912. Read more.
Try to find a bolt in a Central Park rock that is believed to be one of the original survey bolts from when the city grid was first planned in 1811! The exact location is kept secret. Read more.
Walking through the Frick Collection affords visitors the opportunity to go back in time and truly experience what Fifth Avenue was like in the Gilded Age. Check it out! Read more.
One must be sponsored by two Members to join The Explorers Club but educational lectures are open to the general public and can be fascinating.
Once dubbed the “Crown Jewel” of the New York City subway station, lucky members of the MTA museum can visit this gilded age decommissioned station filled with stained glass and tiled vaults.
Open since 1937, this old school candy shop is packed to the brim with chocolate, gummies, fruits and nuts, and all manner of other sweets, vintage and new.
I want to visit this place! Abandoned island in middle of NY: Mother nature reclaimed her land. Open spaces like roads and tennis courts were mostly overgrown. It's a good place to take great pics! Read more.
Equal parts museum, library, and educational touchpoint, the 150-year-old history hub hosts highbrow artist talks, quirky hot dog history tours, and everything in between.
It survived Prohibition by becoming a speakeasy under the name Craig’s Restaurant. During this stage in the bar’s history, patrons could hide their alcohol in a compartment underneath their seats. Read more.
This piano bar has come a long way since Thomas Paine died here. Showtunes are sung late into the night, with the pianist claiming to hold fifteen thousand songs in his memory!
Wow there is just something great about going to a place from the 1920s that hasn't been touched, sit up at a counter and have one of the best pastrami Rubens ever with a lime Ricky to wash it down.
Historic indoor marketplace with great meat, cheese, fish, sweets, and some of our favorite food stalls in town.
During Prohibition, the townhouse was turned into a speakeasy with the upstairs apartment used as a boarding house, smuggler’s den and brothel. Read more.
This place has history and character. You really feel like you've stepped back in time.
Cool historic theatre - order your drink before the show and it will be waiting on the bar for you at intermission.
Expertly crafted cocktails from the mixologists of Milk and Honey still reign supreme at Attaboy. There's no set menu; simply have your preferences on hand for the bartender.
"This Staten Island place is only open from Wednesday-Sunday, and each night they’ve got a different Italian Grandmother in the kitchen cooking up what she does best -this is unquestionably amazing." Read more.
Beautiful place to work but restrooms are only for children & their caregivers so it's good to be here for a few hours then head nearby for lunch & a restroom
The museum opened on the ground floor of C-Squat, a seminotorious punk house that’s sheltered bands (Leftöver Crack, Star Fucking Hipsters), skaters, Occupiers and artists throughout the years. Read more.
This place is low-key, authentic and seemingly unchanged by time. Think nautical, but more long-shoreman than stripes and boat shoes.
