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Yonkers, New York

Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research

An abandoned horticulture institute gloomily presides over rows of derelict and vine-wrought greenhouses.
Bellerose, New York

Queens County Farm Museum

The oldest continuously operating farm in New York State.
Bronx, New York

Hart Island

The loneliest island in New York.
Staten Island, New York

Historic Richmond Town

A town trapped in time - 1958 to be exact.
Brooklyn, New York

Dead Horse Bay

First a horse rendering plant, then a 19th century landfill, this beach is full of glass from thousands upon thousands of broken bottles.
New York, New York

P.S. 186

From scholastic to sepulchral - now under reconstruction.
Bronx, New York

North Brother Island

Home to the infamous "Typhoid Mary" and the worst loss of life in New York's history prior to September 11, 2001.
Brooklyn, New York

Wyckoff House

Oldest surviving example of a Dutch saltbox frame house in America.
Brooklyn, New York

Weeksville Heritage Center

Dedicated to preserving the history of free Black communities in Brooklyn and beyond.
Brooklyn, New York

Sunset Park's 68th Precinct

I fought the law and the precinct caved in.