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- The Long Way Home
Walking Sunset Through Echo Park: The Mile LA Tells You to Drive
The walkable mile of Sunset Boulevard that Angelenos swear doesn't exist, from Echo Park Lake to Silver Lake.
- The Long Way Home
Crossing Forest Park on Foot: Ridgewood to Richmond Hill
A 1.5-mile forest traverse through Queens on forgotten bridle paths, from Ridgewood to Richmond Hill.
- The Long Way Home
Riding the 7 to the End: The Elevated Crawl Out to Flushing
Take the 7 train to its terminus in Flushing for the city's most revealing elevated journey through Queens.
- The Odd Edit
The Bar Hidden Behind a West Village Flower Shop
A speakeasy accessed through a West Village florist's cooler door serves serious cocktails to those who know the weekly Instagram password.
- The Odd Edit
Drinks in a Preserved Apothecary: The Old Pharmacy Turned Bar
A landmarked Lower East Side apothecary where bitters are tinctured tableside and eight seats hide in the original compounding room.
- The Odd Edit
The Bar Behind the Comic Shop: Long Boxes Up Front, Beer in Back
A Brooklyn comic shop conceals a back-room bar where longboxes meet tap handles and trivia nights.
- The Odd Edit
The Bar in a Converted Firehouse, Brass Pole and All
A Brooklyn bar keeps the brass pole, arched doors, and hose tower from its days as Engine Company 209.
- The Odd Edit
Cocktails in a Former Public Bathhouse on the Lower East Side
A restored 1904 bathhouse serves cocktails where immigrant New Yorkers once scrubbed clean, tile intact.
- The Odd Edit
The Bar Through the Bodega: A Back Room Behind the Deli Cooler
A cocktail room hides behind a functioning bodega's cooler door, flipping from deli to bar at 7pm sharp.
- The Odd Edit
Drinking on the Water: The 79th Street Boat Basin's Floating Bar
Manhattan's most improbable bar floats on the Hudson, opens with the tide, and closes when the river says so.
