The World’s Smallest Museum Is Hidden in a Tribeca Freight Elevator — And It Might Change How You See Everything
Cortlandt Alley runs one block between Franklin Street and White Street in Tribeca, a narrow cobblestoned passage that film crews use whenever they need a shot of old New York. It looks like a movie set because it practically is one. Cast-iron facades. Loading dock doors. The smell of damp stone. You could walk past […]
The Greenwich Village Store That’s Basically a Natural History Museum You Can Buy: Inside The Evolution Store
Fossils, butterfly displays, articulated skeletons, meteorites — all for sale, all under one roof on Broadway. The Evolution Store has been NYC’s strangest little science museum since 1993, and you can take any of it home.
The SoHo Apartment Filled With 280,000 Pounds of Dirt: Inside Walter De Maria’s Earth Room, Free Since 1980
On the second floor of 141 Wooster Street, there is an apartment filled with 250 cubic yards of black topsoil. You can visit it for free, Wednesday through Sunday, and stare at it for as long as you like. It has been there since 1977.
Step Inside the Dream House: NYC’s Trippiest Art Installation Has Been Humming in TriBeCa Since 1993
Hidden on the third floor of a TriBeCa loft, the Dream House is a sound and light installation that has been humming continuously since 1993. Created by minimalist pioneer La Monte Young and artist Marian Zazeela, it’s one of the longest-running and most quietly mind-bending art experiences in New York City — and almost nobody knows it’s there.
The Museum That Started in a Brooklyn Window (And It’s Still the Best Thing in Williamsburg)
In 2002, a Williamsburg resident started arranging strange New York City artifacts in his apartment window. People kept stopping to look. Twenty years later, The City Reliquary is still there — still weird, still wonderful, and still the best /bin/bash museum you’ve never heard of.
New York’s Strangest Museum Costs $7 and Will Make You Fall in Love with the City All Over Again
The City Reliquary in Williamsburg is NYC’s most underrated museum — a $7 storefront cabinet of curiosities housing 9/11 relics, Jackie Robinson shrines, and the world’s largest collection of Statue of Liberty figurines.