Articles Tagged with #newyorksroadsideattractions
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New York's Roadside Attractions
Prison Ship Martyrs Monument
I’d first heard about the site on my outing to St. Paul’s Church in the Bronx. Frank, the lecturer at St. Paul’s that day,...
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New York's Roadside Attractions
Fraunces Tavern Museum
Today the site is still very much a functioning tavern, as I discovered upon arriving last Thursday and being hustled through one dining hall and a whiskey bar by a...
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New York's Roadside Attractions
Floyd Bennett Field
During his freshman year at Kansas State in 1972, he joined the Air Force ROTC and took the Air Force Officers Qualifying Test, which he nearly aced. Then during a physical...
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New York's Roadside Attractions
Flushing Meadows-Corona Park
My friends Bex and Todd had shown interest in going to the park, so we decided to meet up there in the afternoon. It was a lovely day fit for...
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New York's Roadside Attractions
Edgar Allan Poe Cottage
Two Sundays ago I trekked out to the Bronx to visit the Edgar Allen Poe Cottage. (Although Poe was better known for bouncing between Richmond and Baltimore, he spent several...
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New York's Roadside Attractions
Wyckoff Farmhouse and Queens County Farm Museums
When I was in the fifth grade my class took a trip to a historical farm museum in Tifton, Ga., called Agrirama, a fully functioning re-creation of a Reconstruction-era sugar...
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New York's Roadside Attractions
Van Cortlandt House Museum
I got in touch with a couple of friends, Meghan (who accompanied me to Historic Richmond Town) and Christine, a Roadside Attractions newbie. I told them about my plans to...
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New York's Roadside Attractions
Society of Friends Meeting House
My trips to view historic sites, then, have taken me deep into Staten Island, just north of the Bronx, and this past weekend to Flushing in northeasternmost Queens, where the...
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New York's Roadside Attractions
Historic Richmond Town
There’s a little Dutch colonial village at the center of Staten Island called Historic Richmond Town. It was established in the 1690s following a wave of Dutch settlements...
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New York's Roadside Attractions
Merchant House Museum
While researching my historic destinations, one place that came up in every conversation was the Merchant House Museum in Manhattan’s East Village. The home was built in 1832 and...
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New York's Roadside Attractions
St. Paul’s Church
I decided to visit the site last weekend because of an event commemorating the Battle of Pell’s Point, fought about a mile from the church on Oct. 18, 1776. It...
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New York's Roadside Attractions
Hamilton Grange
The weekend of Sept. 17 the Hamilton Grange was being rededicated to coincide with Constitution Day. I won’t condescend to tell you who Alexander Hamilton was or why he...