Staten Island has a museum of Tibetan art. There’s a sunken, abandoned rail line in the Bronx. You can go inside the Little Red Lighthouse, tucked under the George Washington Bridge. At Pratt University, find the oldest continuously-operating, privately-owned, steam-powered electrical generating plant in the country. The doors on the Our Lady of Lebanon church in Brooklyn Heights are from the sunken S.S. The Marine Park Salt Marsh has the remnants of a former grist mill and a man-made island. Hidden down a hallway between apartment buildings is the landmarked Amster Yard in Turtle Bay, a hidden gem only for people who know it exists. Under Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn is the oldest transit tunnel in the world. The Irish Hunger Memorial in Battery Park City will transport you to Ireland. New York City has several pieces of the Berlin Wall. Look up! Don’t miss the gorgeous sky bridges of NYC 51. The New York Public Library has remnants of the original Croton Reservoir, where NYC got its water, inside. The Elizabeth Street Garden is a hidden gem and oasis in Nolita (and is at risk of demolition) 49. In Vinegar Hill, you can get a glimpse of the fabulous former Commandant House in the Brooklyn Navy Yard. On Front Street in DUMBO is the oldest office building in NYC. An abandoned Boston trolley sits on the Red Hook waterfront. There are Native American caves in Inwood Park. There’s an abandoned train station by Cass Gilbert in the Bronx.
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One of the few things left of the early movie industry is a smokestack in Brooklyn. Hidden inside Grand Central, the former office of a business tycoon is now a bar. On top of a film studio in Greenpoint, are three lush green roofs. Old St Pat’s Cathedral in Nolita has a creepy crypt. 39. There are electricity-themed streets names in the Bronx. The Steinway Factory is still making pianos in Queens and has a piano vault only accessible by fingerprint. There’s a high school with airplanes in its parking lot. The Fulton Fish Market in the Bronx has the largest collection of seafood wholesellers in the United States. There is a set of historic gantries on the Bronx waterfront. You can hike along the route of the old Croton Aqueduct and a former rail line in the Bronx. Theres’ a garden designed for the visually impaired in Brooklyn Botanic Garden. A beautiful terra-cotta building sits below the Queensboro Bridge. There’s a historic Dutch Windmill in a Queens park. There’s a tiny Civil Rights monument on Trump Place. One of these townhouses is not like the other! Guess which one? 30. A fake townhouse in Brooklyn Heights hides a subway ventilation facility. The mantel in front of which Edgar Allan Poe wrote The Raven is in a Columbia Library (and we helped rediscover it!) 29.
There’s an Art Deco bathhouse in the Rockaways. Alexander Hamilton’s home is more well-known now thanks to Hamilton, but it’s still a lovely, bucolic find to come across in Upper Manhattan.
This is one of the locations in our book Secret Brooklyn. The last we heard, it was going to be transformed back into an entertainment venue. The basketball court of Long Island University is one of the fanciest out there, repurposed for a former Paramount theater. This spot is perhaps one of the quirkiest hidden gems of all. The Long Island University basketball is a former movie theater. A sidewalk sign denotes the center of NYC (but it’s wrong). There’s a forgotten and abandoned monumental arch like the Washington Square Park arch in Upper Manhattan. Addisleigh Park in Queens, the “African-American Gold Coast of New York” was home to talented figures like Ella Fitzgerald, Jackie Robinson, Lena Horne. Near South Street Seaport, you’ll find an office building that has a wild west candy store in front and a vintage airplane on roof.Ģ2. There’s a hidden sandy beach in Upper Manhattan. There are people buried in the wall of this Gothic church in Upper Manhattan, but the real gem is the fact that the space is repurposed for concerts and events. You can go to jazz concerts in the crypt of this Upper Manhattan church. There are many remnants of the World’s Fairs in Flushing-Meadows, including two underground time capsules. Behind a gate in Murray Hill sits Sniffen Court, one of the smallest historic districts in NYC. If you don’t look up, you might miss this hidden gem! 11. The iconic game Scrabble was created by a Jackson Heights resident and this street sign is a tribute to him. There’s a Scrabble Street sign in Queens. Test Pillars for the stones in Grand Central Terminal are hidden in Van Cortlandt Park (as are vaults that hid NYC’s records in the war) 10. The “ Oyster Pasty” is hidden in plain sigh. This hidden gem right in Lower Manhattan continues to surprise even the most jaded New Yorkers. Hidden in plain sight next to the Battery, this tiny cannon is the oldest European artifact in NYC. There’s an art gallery inside Creedmoor Psychiatric Center.
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