Brian Laird on WNYC, and as you may have heard by now, we're celebrating WNYC's 100 years on the air,

but while the station is 100 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

boroughs, 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. I'm 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 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 remaining in the five boroughs and potentially depending on how the 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 Netherland. The English

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

Weikhoff family lived in this farm, this homestead. It was expanded a little bit upon in the

1800s, and then they sold it to eventually to the city of New York to make a farmhouse in a museum,

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