Here are the oldest buildings in every borough including several favorites of George Washington

New York has always had the hottest real estate.Buildings dating back to the earliest days of the Big Apple are sprinkled across the five boroughs — standing as living reminders of nearly four centuries of city history.These ancient edifices include stately manors, humble farmhouses and one of New York’s earliest nightlife spots — each of which survived the Revolutionary War and lasted to see America’s 250th birthday.Here’s a list of the oldest structures still standing in every borough:Brooklyn boasts the oldest building in the five boroughs — the Wyckoff House, built circa 1652.The farmhouse on Clarendon Road was constructed by Pieter Claesen Wyckoff, who became a successful farmer and magistrate after serving an indenture for the van Rensselaer family.Wyckoff was influential in establishing the still-standing Flatlands Dutch Reformed Church at the juncture of Flatbush Avenue and Kings Highway.Generations of Wyckoffs enlarged and altered the House and continued to farm the land until 1901, and the property became the first structure to be designated a New York City Landmark in 1965.“Its history exemplifies the diversity of Brooklyn’s colonial farms, where Dutch-American landowners, enslaved and freed Africans, and later European immigrants labored on some of the country’s most fertile land,” according to the Parks Department, which owns the property.Today, the building it open to the public as the Wyckoff House Museum.The Bowne House played a pivotal role in establishing religious tolerance in the US.Standing on its eponymous street in Flushing since 1661 — the humble home built by John Bowne, who emigrated from England while New York was under Dutch rule.Bowne hosted Quaker meetings in his house — and was arrested by Peter Stuyvesant, Dutch Director-General of New Netherland, for knowingly defying the state religion of the Dutch Reformed Church.The farmer successfully appealed the arrest to the Dutch West India Company — laying the pre...