This list is a work in progress – feel free to leave recommendations in the comments!
You may also be interested in places I’ve been but not yet blogged about.
Brooklyn
- 58 Joralemon Street – subway emergency exit (I’m sure there are a bunch more of these around too…)
- Brooklyn Navy Yard abandoned hospital
- Gowanus Canal and Gowanus Canal flushing tunnel
- Grand Ferry Park
- New York Transit Museum – always!
- Newtown Creek wastewater treatment plant visitor center
- Streetcars behind Fairway
- Transmitter park
Bronx
- Hudson Gardens, 2728 Henry Hudson Parkway East (apartment complex)
- North and South Brother Islands
- More of Pelham Bay Park: Amtrak bridge…
- Woodlawn Cemetery
Manhattan
- Abandoned buildings on Governors Island
- Abandoned 69th Street Transfer Bridge
- Circumnavigate Manhattan
- FDR Drive: Fake left-exit ramp/median between 34th and 23rd Streets
- FDR Four Freedoms Park
- Gracie Mansion, though I don’t know much about it
- The Intrepid (and space shuttle Enterprise)
- Little skinny park next to FDR/East River
- Lower East Side Tenement Museum
- Train platform under the Waldorf-Astoria
Upper Manhattan
(Harlem and north)
- Following Amtrak tracks in Harlem on foot/Freedom Tunnel
- Highbridge
- Inwood Hill Park
- Marble hill: one way streets, Metro North station, another view of Broadway Bridge
- Riverbank State Park
- West Harlem Piers Park
Queens
- Cavalry Cemetery
- Floyd Bennett Field
- Flushing Meadows/Corona Park, particularly abandoned structures
- Gantry state park
- Jamaica Station (primarily because of this dance project)
- Lawrence Family Cemetery
- Walk the Triboro Bridge Randall’s Island to Queens
Staten Island
Westchester and points north
- Abandoned Glenwood Power Plant
- Bennett College (abandoned)
- Danbury Railway Museum
- Essex Steam Train
- Grossinger’s abandoned resort
- Hudson Valley Rail Trail
- Indian Point Energy Center
- Kensico Dam in Valhalla, maybe also Kensico Cemetery
- Old Croton Aqueduct trail
- Play next to the Bronx River Parkway
- Ride the Metro North Hudson line pretty far north
- Storm King Art Center
Long Island
New Jersey
- Paulinskill Viaduct aka Hainesburg Viaduct
- Volunteer Railroader’s Association (Hawthorne) event(s)
Outside of the tri-state
- Arkansas
- California
- Bodie State Historic Park
- Fort Point
- Golden Gate Bridge
- Treasure Island
- Western Railway Museum
- Maine
- Maryland
- New York
- Ohio
- Cedar Avenue Power Plant
- Ohio and Erie Canal (we went on a field trip in elementary school, if I’m thinking of the right thing)
- Ride the Cleveland Rapid
- Pennsylvania
- Washington
Outside of the country
- Berghain nightclub
- Buzludzha, Bulgaria
- Cherynobl (for real, they have tours)
- Panama Canal
- Wuppertal Schwebebahn
Non-place-specific things to do
- Nap in a park
- Dance to music from the car outdoors
- Play in warm summer rain
- Bring friends
- Watch Amtrak trains go by
- Take the/a car on a ferry
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