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This is the oldest still-operating pharmacy in the United States (the store’s logo includes the quaint self-description ‘apothecaries’) and yet it’s not run as a museum piece or even all that conscious of its own history. First opened in 1838, when surrounding Greenwich Village still... more

This architecturally idiosyncratic curiosity was built between 1874 and 1877 as local courthouse by a team including Central Park architect Calvert Vaux, and stayed in-use through the end of the Second World War. Previously, the block had been the site of a local market, and the soaring northern... more

One of a very few recognizable NoLita landmarks -- and one that does its part to distinguish the neighborhood from busy, bustling nearby SoHo, the East Village, and the Lower East Side -- the Elizabeth Street Gallery and sculpture garden is more well-known as a kind of private park space, like... more

Built in 1864, The Broken Angel House has been transformed by its owner, artist Arthur Wood (a Brooklyn native), from an ordinary four story tenement building into a public work of art. The building was purchased by Wood in 1972, for a mere $2,000. Wood envisioned the building as a 100 foot... more

Founded in 1861, the first Brooklyn Academy of Music facility, at 176-194 Montague Street in Brooklyn Heights, was conceived as the home of the Philharmonic Society of Brooklyn. After the building burned to the ground on November 30, 1903, plans were made to relocate to a new facility in the then... more

This exceptional Greenwich Village mews is probably the city's first example of artist-driven gentrification. Built as a row of stable-houses for the fashionable townhomes that lined Washington Square North or Eighth Street, the alley was a no-frills staging ground for the New York society set... more