Underground 14th Armory Tour Hosted by Untapped Cities
credit: Augustin Pasquet / Untapped Cities
The Park Slope Armory, on Eighth Avenue in Brooklyn, was built in 1895, decades after the civil war, but it still holds a lot of history for our group, and we have our annual meetings there every January and February. 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.
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.
The tour was led by Tom Miskel, a Park Slope resident and veteran of the Vietnam War who has been working on the multi-room museum, and our own Matt Dellinger, in uniform.
credit: Augustin Pasquet / Untapped Cities