Nondescript building owned by ExxonMobil working on siphoning Greenpoint Oil Spill out of the ground.

The engineering feat of the Panama Canal was possible in small part thanks to materials developed in this humble Red Hook foundry.

Where there’s manufacturing, there’s fire!

The ballpark in "Pigtown" where the Brooklyn Dodgers made their name was replaced with a huge apartment complex.

One of the first major shipyards in Brooklyn.

2,000 barrels of aging beer hidden in a warehouse at the Brooklyn Navy Yard.

A strip of modern stores in historic buildings.

Queen Anne style apartment house built in 1886.

2 square block factory in Greenpoint erected in 1936.

Red Hook's massive public pool, built by Robert Moses.

A cruise terminal that changes the atmosphere of Red Hook's industrial waterfront.

What’s a sure fire way to end up in jail in New York in the 1920s? Peddling bad moonshine.

Where the Monitor was launched and ushered in the age of the "ironclads."

Ornate "Renaissance Revival" style building.

The world's largest collection of materials relating to lesbian history is housed in a Brooklyn townhouse.

If you were standing here on October 5th, 1950, you'd be dead.

An experimental, community court opened in 2000 takes a new approach to youth offenders in south Brooklyn.

This block in downtown Brooklyn was a hotbed of antislavery activism along the Underground Railroad.

Final resting place of the immigrant who brought artificial seltzer water to America.

The only remaining Jewish congregation in Greenpoint.

The childhood home of one of America's greatest unsung troubadours still stands in a much changed Brooklyn neighborhood.

Once home to the country's most gargantuan ships, this graving dock now waits for people to buy furniture.

A 120-year oil leak slowly unleashes more gallons of oil than the Exxon/Mobil disaster.

This recently uncovered ad for Lindsay's run at Mayor in 1965 had been hiding for decades underneath a billboard.