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MTA locations not usually open to the public
Roughly $25 per event
All the small islands of NYC
now to find a boat.
++++++++++QUEENS++++++++++
Temple of Ganesh
South indian food in its basement: 8:30 AM to 9:00 PM
The Voelker Orth Museum
Hours: S-S 1-4pm : Transportation: 7 Train : Admission: $2
Vander Ende-Onderdonk House
Hours: Sat 1 - 5 pm : Admission: $3
Bingo @ American Martyrs Church
Every Tuesday 7:15pm
Louis Armstrong House Musuem
Hours: T – F 10 – 5 pm Sat – Sun 12 pm – 5 pm, tour only on the hour : Admission: $8
Kitty Genovese's home (82-70 Austin St)
The infamous murder in 1964 that highlighted NYC's alienation
Zum Stammtisch
Hours :12pm–10pm : Admission: price of beer!
SriPraPhai Thai Restaurant
Recommended by Tori & Aaron
Veggie Castle II
I do miss Veggie Castle.
The Bowne House Historical Society
closed for renovations :(
Queens Museum of Art
Hours: W - S noon - 6pm : Suggested donation : $5
King Manor Museum
Hours: Thurs & Fri, 12 - 2 pm, Sat & Sun, 1 - 5 pm, sugg $5
Steinway & Sons piano factory tours
book tour in advance; 718-721-2600
Kew Motor Inn
"fantasy-themed" rooms; call for prices
++++++++++BROOKLYN++++++++++
Info on the symbols on the Brooklyn Central Library concave portico facade with gold-leaf engravings
There are a few masonic style engravings I'm most curious about; anyone know of a tour guide that would know?!
Lubavicher Houses
No idea if one can go inside
Red Tin Shack in Red Hook
Hours: F-S 10-6
English Kills Gallery
Hours: S-S 1-7
Guided Tours of Greenwood Cemetary!
Hours: Varies : Cost ranges from $10 - 20
Big Fleishigs Express (formerly McFleishings) 5508 16th Ave
Hours: Daily 12pm-9pm
Pratt Library
open to the public?
1/2 day fishing trip (with my dad)
$35! don't have to have a fishing license!
oceanview cafe
located on Brighton 3 street, recommended by Lyuba
Bus tour of the Navy Yard
Tours start up again in March; $30
Cinema Kings Highway
711 Kings Highway; 718-339-180
Awesome NIGHT! kayak tour
$60 per person
Model of the Isle of Crete in Bay Ridge!
79th St between Ridge Blvd and Third Ave.
Christmas lights in Dyker Heights!
only in Dec, obvs. best time 7-9pm
Broad Channel footbridge
picked this out from a James Stevenson illustration from "Lost & Found New York"
Workingmen's cottages
21 Warren Place, Brooklyn
J & M Special Effects
must be a client (found through Unexpected New York)
++++++++++MANHATTAN++++++++++
Mount Vernon Hotel Museum
Hours: T - Sun 11AM- 4PM : Admission: $8
Glacial Pothole in Inwood Hill Park
Hours : dawn to sunset
Milligan Place
Most likely not open to the public
Gracie Mansion
Hours : Wed, RSVP : Admission: $7
Clippership ride!
Hours: May - Oct : Admission: $40
Merchant's House Museum
Hours: Th - M 1 - 5 pm : Admission: $5
Shopsins!
Hours: Variable, Admission: cost of some food
Theodore Roosevelt's birthplace
Hours: Tues-Sat, 9am-5pm, guided tours on the hour : Admission: free
Tour NY's Masonic Lodge (mtg room modeled after Titanic's ballroom!)
Hours: M-S 10:30am - 2:15pm , Admission: Free
Historic Masonic Bible of Saint John's Lodge @ Federal Hall
Hours: M-F 9-5pm, Admission: free
Financial District McDonalds (160 Broadway)
chandelier, doorman & tuxeded pianist?
Double Dutch Holiday Classic
Early Dec each year @ the Apollo
New York Public LIbrary's Map Room
Hours: Tues - Sat, 1-6pm, Admission: Free
All the weird statues in Battery Park
also, "White Man Outsmarts Indian Monument"
Gino's
Hours: noon-10:30pm : Admission: dinner tab
Nautical Ropes & Rats Sculpture
Graybar Building and Grand Central Station near the corner of 43rd St and Lexington Ave (from Unexpected New York)
The Berlin Wall
53rd Street between Madison & 5th
mummified remains of the first American saint, Frances Cabrini
Ft. Washington Avenue, at 190th St.
Graffiti wall of fame
106th & park ave
Monument to the Father of Gynecology and Experimenter on Slave Women
5th & E 103rd
NYU's ITP show
nerdy mc nerd fun stuff - twice a year
Hotel Pennsylvania lobby on the day of the Westminster Dog Show!!
free, i guess?
Cosby Show house; exterior shot
10 Leroy St
Fancy Japanese tea ceremony!
$30+
Macy's thanksgiving day parade balloon inflation
free; 3-10pm day before the parade
Tom Otterness‘ gigantic sculpture and slide combo
this is reserved for Kyle
Shooting Range in NYC!
$65+
Cleopatra's Needle
in Central Park
Scavenger Hunt Walking Tour!
prices range
Atomic Buddist Statue
Riverside Drive
Mahayana Buddhist Temple
8am - 6pm; daily; $1 for fortune
New York Earth Room
Wednesday-Sunday, 12-6pm (closed from 3-3:30); free
++++++++++STATEN ISLAND++++++++++
Staten Island's South Shore
near Mt. Loretto Unique Area
Boat Graveyard
"Not open to the public"
Staten Island Burger King Peacock Statue
I wonder if it's still there...
Farm Colony
"Not open to the public"
Vanderbilt's Tomb
(have to sneak in through a nearby park)
The Jeweled Gates of Staten Island
36 Amity Place in Rosebank: Open 24/7 (From New York Curiosities published 2008)
The last LGBT bookstore in NYC
Hours : Th & Fri 5PM - 8PM Sat. noon - 8PM
Philip's Candy Store
previously in Coney Island
++++++++++BRONX++++++++++
Bronx Ipod self-guided awesome tour!!
This looks so great. really. mp3 = $10
Woodlawn Cemetery
photography permit required; closes at 5pm
City Island Nautical Museum
Hours: S-S 1-5pm : Admission: By donations
Mr. Borzacchini's Trees (Fulton Ave Drawbridge before Eastchester Barge Canal)
from James Stevenson's "Lost & Found New York"; no online reference
Fonthill Castle
Admissions office is housed inside
Fulton Fish Market
Hours : M-F 1-7pm, Sat 1-8 : Transportation : Car
Williamsbridge neighborhood in the Bronx (E 222nd Street)
from James Stevenson's "Lost & Found New York"
Floating Swimming Pool!!
Hours: S-S 11-7, Admission: free?
++++++++++NEW YORK STATE++++++++++
George Eastman House - International Museum of Photography & Film
$10; Tue, Wed, Fri, Sat : 10am - 5pm · Thu 10am - 8pm · Sun : 1pm - 5pm
West Point Cadet Chapel
largest working organ! open daily 8am-4pm (see events for public performances)
Pratt Rocks of Prattsville
open to the public every day, no admission fee
Croton Hudson Aquaduct
Transporation : MetroNorth
New Paltz, NY
Transporation : MetroNorth or Car
Woodstock, NY
Transporation : MetroNorth or Car
GARLIC FESTIVALS!!
SIX, that's right! 6 different garlic festivals in NYS (Aug - Oct)
Lily Dale
town with the most mediums ever!
Long Island's "Gold Coast"
Transporation : Car
Apple Pond Farm
Hours: ? : Transportation: Car : Admission: $6
Pizza at Pollywogg Holler
also has B&B options
World's Largest Kaleidoscope
$5: Sun - Thurs 10 - 5pm & Fri - Sat10-6 pm :on Route 28 in Mount Tremper
Three Corner Farm
Hours: ?
Hawthorne Valley Farm
Hours : ? : Transportation : Car
Blue Island Oyster Company
Anyone know of businesses who would let me tag along on a tour for wholesale customers?
Secret Caverns (for the signs!)
can't figure out admission prices
American Cutlery Museum
Thurs- Sun1pm - 4pm; free
Cutco Ka-Bar (cutlery factory/museum!)
Mon- Fri 9 - 5 . Sat 10 - 4 (Memorial Day through Christmas)
Jumpin' Jack's Drive-In and Water Ski Show in Schenectady
free! Tuesdays @ 7pm July & Aug
Watershed Agricultural Council Events
See link for events & locations
Camp Hero State Park
Montauk Project!
Big Duck
now a visitor's center; 9 a.m.-5 p.m
Catskill Ginseng/Medicinal Herb Festival
call mid-summer to find out when: 1 800 355 CATS
Great Sacandaga Lake
can you see the flooded town while boating?
Wings' Castle
admission fee not listed online
Singer Castle
$14; summer - fall open weekends
Kazoo Museum
Ideal W-F 10-5pm (free!)
Ithaca, NY
Transporation : Car
House of Frankenstein Wax Museum
see website for erratic hours; $9
Mycological Society Walk
Hours: June - Oct : Cost varies
Great Gatsby Boat Tour!
Hours: May - Sept : Cost: ?
opus 40
Hours: 11:30 a.m. - 5 p.m. Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays; Admission: $10
Castle Gould (Nassau County)
$5 per car and $2 per "walk-in" Monday - Tuesday and Thursday - Sunday; Wednesday free.
++++++++++NEW JERSEY++++++++++
Lucy the Elephant
Hours: M-F 11-4pm, Sat-Sun 10 - 5pm : Transportation : Car : Admission : $6
Bayway Refinery
school, other groups can tour by prior arrangement; (908) 523-5000
Nutley Museum (Annie Oakley's home!)
Open 4 times a year to public
Swamp!
$15 for boat trips! Lyndhurst, NJ Call HMDC for boat trips (201) 460-1700
Another Swamp!
7500 acres! park closes at 4:30
Telephone Pole Farm! (aka Highlands Ridge Park)
Chester Township
Raptor Trust! (bird rehabilitation)
$2 donation
Midgetville, Totowa, NJ
It's really just tiny houses
Underground Zinc Mine tour!
$10
World's Biggest Pickle Bar!
I do love pickles.
New Jersey Cockroach Derby
call Cook College early July for date (732) 9
Lakota Wolf Preserve
No idea if costs
Circus Drive In, Wall NJ
DRIVE IN!! (fast food, not movie)
Oldest Log Cabin in US
call first: (856) 423-0916
Museum of American Glass; World's Largest Bottle
$10; coupon on website
The Fluorescent Mineral Capital of the World
$12 for museum tour and rock collecting
Ripley's Believe It Or Not in Atlantic City
$16; coupon on website
New Jersey Sand Castle Contest
July 13, 2011
Discovery Seashell Museum
Giant shell store/museum
Single Action Shooting Society!
Wild West shootouts; have to figure out locations/events
Grassy Sound! (isolated community)
Can't even find a good website.
Menz Restaurant (One-legged Giant statue)
Lots of curiosities inside as well
Insectropolis - NJ Bug Museum!
$7
Mummers on the Boardwalk!
every early Sept
++++++++++OTHER STATES++++++++++
George Washington Masonic Stamp Club meeting
I think it's always in Baltimore?
Doylestown PA Castle
Hours: Monday-Sat 10 am - 5 pm & Sun noon - 5 pm: Transportation: Rent a car : Admission: $14
Lancaster, PA (again)
Transporation : Bus
Braddock, PA
Transporation : Car
St. Brigid's Farm
Hours : ?
Toynbee Tiles in Philly
mystery of mysteries! there are 60 in philly
++++++++++OTHER COUNTRIES++++++++++
++++++++++COMPLETED ADVENTURES!!++++++++++
Key to the City!!!
I've got a key already, so planning on everything on the list by Sept 1!
Theatre Alley
May have some interesting angles
Queens County Farm Museum
Hours: M—F 9 am—5 pm (outdoor visiting only) and Sat/Sun 10 am—5 pm : Admission - free : Transport - LIRR & car service OR E train & Q 46bus
Forest Park
Has horse bridle paths!
Dani's House of Pizza
Hours : 11am - 3am
Houdini's Gravesite
Hours: ?
Socrates Sculpture Garden (again)
Hours: 10am to sunset
Tallest tree in NYC
"probably the oldest living thing in the City"
Staten Island Sept 11 Memorial
Hours : dawn to sunset
Lemon Ice King of Corona
Snowcones start at $1.50
Brighton Beach Bungalows
charming series of alleys
Kodak store (41st st)
Hours : M - F 8-5pm "Admission" : buying Super 8 Film
Whispering Gallery in Grand Central
free; outside the Oyster Bar
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Fraunces Tavern Museum
Washington's dentures! $10; M - Sat noon - 5pm
African Burial Ground
Mon - Sun 9- 5; free
