Tour : Park Slope Armory

The 14th Brooklyn Park Slope Armory, on Eighth Avenue, was built in 1895, decades after the Civil War, but it still holds a lot of history as a gathering place for the Grand Army veterans. This week, a lucky twenty people who are “Insiders” with the group Untapped Cities went on an underground tour of the Armory to explore seldom-seen nooks and crannies. The tour was led by Tom Miskel, a Park Slope resident and veteran of the Vietnam War who has been working on a multi-room museum, and Matt, in uniform, who described the 14t Brooklyn regiment’s actions during the Civil War.

Hidden inside the historic Park Slope Armory are two mythic locations: an abandoned shooting range underground once used by the 14th Regiment of the New York State militia, nicknamed as the ”Red Legged Devils” during the Civil War and a hidden Veterans Museum that Untapped Cities featured in the book Secret Brooklyn.