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• October 31, 2011 A Facebook user liked Friends Quaker Cemetery
  

  Friends Quaker Cemetery

  19th century cemetery hidden in Brooklyn's Prospect Park

  Concealed from the sprawled picnickers, dogs catching frisbees, and endless rotations of bicyclists in Prospect Park is a 19th century Quaker cemetery. The Friends Cemetery was established on what... »

  Catacombs, Crypts, & Cemeteries | Edited by allison

• October 31, 2011 A Facebook user liked Broken Angel
  

  Broken Angel

  An illegally built ramshackle mansion tucked in the middle of Brooklyn

  Described as "a moonshine distillery gone crazy" and a "Rubik's Cube of a spaceship," Broken Angel is an ever growing piece of outsider architecture in Brooklyn's Clinton Hill neighborhood. Begun... »

  Outsider Architecture | Edited by Josh and Dylan

• October 31, 2011 A Facebook user liked The Morbid Anatomy Library
  

  The Morbid Anatomy Library

  A macabre oasis in the sprawl of New York City: The Morbid Anatomy private collection and research library.

  The Morbid Anatomy Library is a research library and private collection available to the interested public. The library makes available a collection of books, photographs, ephemera, and artifacts... »

  Museums and Collections, Wonder Cabinets, Medical Museums, Unique Collections, Repositories of Knowledge | Edited by Morbid Anatomy, Dylan and 2 others

• October 31, 2011 A Facebook user has been to Park Slope Plane Crash
  

  Park Slope Plane Crash

  One of the deadliest American air disasters is nearly forgotten in Brooklyn

  No memorial at the intersection of Seventh Avenue and Sterling Place in Park Slope, Brooklyn, marks the site of the one of the worst aviation disasters in American history. On December 16,... »

  Disaster Areas | Edited by allison and Dylan

• October 31, 2011 A Facebook user liked Wyckoff Street Mosaic
  

  Wyckoff Street Mosaic

  Detailed facade of a brownstone in Boerum Hill

  In 2001, Susan Gardner began attaching things to the facade of her three-story brownstone in Boerum Hill. Incorporating anything from shells and buttons to broken cups and old CDs, Gardner's... »

  Museums and Collections, Outsider Art, Microminiature art, Architectural Oddities | Edited by aboychuk, atimian and others

• October 31, 2011 A Facebook user has been to Atlantic Avenue Tunnel
  

  Atlantic Avenue Tunnel

  In the middle of downtown Brooklyn lies a 165 year old secret hidden right below the surface (closed to the public indefinitely)

  UPDATE: Closed by New York department of transportation until 2018 Unbeknownst to the thousands of people who walk and drive along the busy streets of downtown Brooklyn every day, they are... »

  Subterranean Sites | Edited by Dylan