Intriguing Environs in New York State

The studio of influential composer Charles Ives is perfectly reconstructed, hidden in the back of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

The longest continuous underwater road in North America was built at the insistence of Franklin Roosevelt.

America's greatest forgotten garden and the former stomping grounds of Son of Sam.

Peek through the gates at this oasis from the city, full of Old English charm.

Beneath the mossy overgrowth covering this once-sprawling campus lies decades of history and the secrets that come with it.

Avoid gangster interaction while window-shopping.

Lie in a hammock where George Washington stood.

Walk into the 19th century without leaving Brooklyn.

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

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

The site where Joe Gallo kept his guns, pet lion, and launched an all out mob war in 1960s Brooklyn.

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

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

One of the largest public housing complexes in New York once visited by Eleanor Roosevelt.

Nature and beauty amidst pollution and industrial wreckage.

Unrepaired walls from a 1920 anarchist bomb attack.