Skip the lengthy jaunts upstate and camp at this former airport field. The wooded grounds offer around 40 six-person sites, each with a picnic table and a fire pit for roasting s’mores. Read more.
The cartoonlike figures, bold letters and vibrating lines in this large mural are characteristic of Haring’s punk graffiti aesthetic. Read more.
At the "Count Your Blessings" exhibit (opening Aug 2), you will find some of the strangest Tibetan prayer beads. One is made from the vertebrae of a snake. Another set is from a human skull. Read more.
Hidden behind the wall at the first bay near the rotunda is a ceramic tile mural done by Joan Miró. The work was commissioned by museum trustee Harry F. Guggenheim in 1963 to honor his late wife. Read more.
At 255 years old, this is the second-oldest house in the Bronx, and serves as the current Museum of Bronx History. The building was moved from Boston Post Road in 1965 with two giant cranes. Read more.
When you visit the oldest farmhouse in Manhattan, ask to see the still-visible board used for nine men’s morris, a strategic game dating back to the Roman Empire. Read more.
In 1776, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, and Edward Rutledge unsuccessfully negotiated with Lord Howe to end the Revolutionary War at Conference House. Read more.
Check out George Washington's pew at the oldest surviving church building in Manhattan. Read more.
The collection follows the NYC fire service from the time of New Amsterdam. Highlights include artifacts from Ground Zero, a 9/11 memorial and an educational interactive fire simulation room.
Located inside a former freight elevator, The Museum contains quirky pop culture memorabilia that tell a historical narrative. This collection transcends the limits of conventional museums. Read more.
The invention that made the high-rise building you may be sitting in now possible, the elevator is much celebrated. Check out elevator-related antiques the envy of even the manufacturers themselves. Read more.
The museum walks you through the history of organized crime from colonial America to the gang rivalries of the Roaring 20s. Highlights include an original speakeasy and Frank Hoffman’s safes. Read more.
This collection stands testament to the science of magic. Lull yourself into a trance by exploring books on hypnosis and display cases of memorabilia. Enjoy this collection by appointment. Read more.
Your request for a book used to be shot throughout the building via giant brass pneumatic tubes. Now obsolete, the pipes can still be viewed at the clerk’s desk in the third-floor catalog room. Read more.
During warmer months, a picnic on the Long Meadow can’t be beat, but until then, grab a cup of hot cider at the Grand Army Plaza Greenmarket (Sat 8am–4pm) and explore the secluded nooks in this park. Read more.
Originally called Jeffrey’s Hook Lighthouse, this landmark earned its nickname in 1942 with the publication of Hildegarde H. Swift’s The Little Red Lighthouse and the Great Gray Bridge. Read more.
Mysterious artifacts were found in the wall of a room where Poe’s young wife, Virginia, slept, and visitors can view the bed frame that she died on. Read more.
Among the miscellany kept in storage is a pair of fake eyelashes worn by Joan Crawford. The falsies were originally part of a group of more than 80 pairs, which were sold at auction after her death. Read more.
The 18th-century pub where sailors and patriots once got drunk is no longer—it was restored in the early 1900s—but this restaurant and museum is chock-full of history. Read more.
Before One Wall Street, this was the HQ of The Bank of New York. MoAF took over, opening on the ground-floor space in 2008 and becoming the second tenant in that spot in the building’s history. Read more.
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.
