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A Playground Made of Scaffolding Comes to Brooklyn
A pesky part of the urban environment becomes a place of play at Brooklyn Children's Museum!
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Testify at NYC City Hall About Opening Parks Currently Inaccessible to the Public
Grand Army Plaza Arch Tomorrow, the New York City Council Parks Committee will hold a hearing about New York City
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5 Sites of “Dark Tourism” in NYC: Places Associated with Death, Suffering or Disaster
Photo by Chrysalis Architecture Every city has places that serve as a reminder to some of its darker points in
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Photos: Stepping onto Hart Island, NYC’s Mass Burial Ground
The ferry to Hart Island, visible in background across from City Island in the Bronx In a city where everything
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15 of NYC's Other, Lesser-Known Islands
1. U Thant Island U Thant Island First up was the 1/2 acre man-man island U Thant Island, situated
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The Top 10 Secrets of Hart Island, NYC's Mass Cemetery
10. Hart Island Is Just the Most Recent of NYC’s Mass Burial Grounds The location of New York City’
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NYC’s Cutest Lighthouse: The Stepping Stones Lighthouse
This is probably one of the most adorable lighthouses we’ve ever seen and we caught sight of it while
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The 10 Creepiest Places in NYC
From mass burial grounds to abandoned psychiatric hospitals to haunted townhouses, this is an “architectural” version of a most haunted
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Abandoned NYC: Interview with a 1972 Hart Island Resident
After our recent coverage of Hart Island when the news surfaced that the abandoned burial ground may be turned into
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Abandoned Hart Island in NYC May Be Turned Into a Park
Our story on the abandoned Hart Island in New York City, the largest tax-funded cemetery in the world, was our
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Abandoned NYC: Hart Island’s Crumbling Women’s Lunatic Asylum
When New York City purchased Hart Island––a small island at the western end of Long Island Sound––in early
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Abandoned Hart Island: New York City’s Mass Burial Ground
Last week we uncovered some of New York City’s former cemeteries that are now populated with park-goers and hotel
