Listen to Support it, WNYC and as you may have heard by now we're celebrating WNYC is 100 years on the air

but while the station is a hundred years old the building that housed the station

for its first 80 some odd years, one Center Street, the municipal building in Lower

Manhattan, is even older and there's so much history in the buildings all

over the city across all the burrows some well known like the municipal

building some less famous and a new book looks at the history of some of those lesser known

places it's called Hidden Landmarks of New York, a tour of the city's most overlooked

buildings. And so for the rest of this membership drive, we're going to end the show,

that's today through Friday, with the author of the book Tommy Silk who will guide us to some of these places we pass maybe without noticing as we make our way around town.

You might already know Tommy Silk from one of his tours or his

Instagram account which is very popular landmarks of New York. Welcome to WNYC.

Tommy, thanks so much for coming on. Thanks Brian thrilled to be here.

So today we're going to talk about private homes that you identify in the book

mostly preserved for the accomplishments of the people who live there.

So let's start in East Flatbush in Brooklyn. for the accomplishments of the people who live there.

So let's start an East Flatbush in Brooklyn

with a building preserved, however,

for its own accomplishment, Wyckoff House.

What was that?

Yeah, so the Wyckoff House is the oldest building. White archaeologists dated the oldest building in New York State and it was built in the

1650s so we're talking back when this was still the colony of New Netherlands the

the English aren't going to take over and turn it into New York until 1664.

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