The one-time office of the architectural firm that ushered in the Gilded Age is now a Club Monaco.

Compensation for the destruction of a historic shipyard.

A community farm in the midst of the Brooklyn concrete.

A 19th-century politician who died after walking home in a blizzard is honored with this Manhattan statue.

This micro-industry of Latino cuisine along Red Hook's Ball Fields represents a victory in a food fight with the city.

Storage warehouse of the rich and famous.

Once a dumping spot, now a park with a kayak launch.

A community theatre in Brooklyn that brings Country to New York and New York to Country.

This impressive mansion in Vinegar Hill has some mysterious details in its architecture.

A Yiddish theater turned movie house turned rock and roll landmark turned gay disco turned bank.

Final resting place of Typhoid Mary.

Two monstrous warehouses. One now holds priceless works of art, the other stands abandoned and dilapidated.

A group dedicated to promoting boating, kayaking and environmental education programs.

A drawbridge named for a potentially intersex Polish national who fought alongside George Washington during the American Revolution, and an example of "Pulaski Red".

The former sign of this immortal music venue is just that--undying.

While it now takes more than a dime to open an account this historic Brooklyn bank still displays the opulence of the gilded age in which it was built.

This neo-Gothic former auto showroom is one of the few remaining reminders of Brooklyn's "Automobile Row."

Nope, not Washington Irving's house.

Lehigh Valley barge No. 79 still gets tugged along - but now it houses a museum and unusual performances.

This castle-like building in Manhattan helped destigmatize cancer in the 19th century.

One-time largest man-made structure in the world will be a park in 30 years.

A Collegiate Gothic quadrangle that surrounds an 18th century secondary school whose financing came from the likes of Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr, among others.

Constructed in the 1920s, this former pencil factory is now an office building.

Monument to a forgotten NYC disaster that claimed the lives of 1,000.