Underpenny Plane and Cast Iron Museum
Skip·Long Island City, Queens
Not sure if it’s a pawn shop. The owner has thousands of 19th-century PA cast-iron trivets and a lot of hand planes. Trivets are for sale only because his wife won’t let him keep that many. Total passion project.
What it is
Eccentric Long Island City collection of antique tools, planes, and cast iron objects.
Pair it with
Worth a detour or better, within a 15-minute walk. Numbers match the map.
- 1MoMA PS10.4 mi · Free
Old school building, weird vibe, by design.
- 2The Room0.6 mi · Free
- 3Smallpox Memorial Hospital0.7 mi · Free
Also on the block, if you have time
Museum of Urban Arts (0.4 mi, free).
Skip Pulaski Bridge (0.2 mi), even if you’re passing: “A nothing of a bridge.”