Verandah Place, a mews located in Brooklyn, is lined on one side by historic 19th century buildings and on the other by Cobble Hill Park, which opened in 1965
A list of mews in NYC from the pre-automobile era when horse-drawn carriages meant a need for stables. Remaining mews have mostly been converted into residences.
10 of NYC's one-block streets: Gay Street, Dennett Place, Henderson Place, MacDougal Alley, Pomander Walk, Sylvan Terrace, Jones Street, Mill Lane, Washington Mews
Bob Diamond stumbled upon the Atlantic Ave tunnel, dormant since 1861. From 1980, he gave tours of the half-mile span to interested gawkers.
Yesterday in a Cobble Hill tradition, Jane Greengold and friends impaled a few hundred pumpkins on a fence and will watch them decay over the next two months.
If you're looking to avoid the standard Halloween in NYC at all costs and up for a more "urbanist" experience, we've rounded up some events for city nerds.
Susan Gardner started sticking things to her house at 108 Wyckoff Street in 2001, and her house today is known as the Mosaic House of Brooklyn.
Jane Greengold's "Impalements" is an annual Halloween art project that sees gnarling, carved pumpkins stuck onto the rusty spikes of an iron fence of a house in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn.