Architectural Oddities in Brooklyn

An interim housing alternative to FEMA trailers that is designed for densely populated areas during recovery and rebuilding following a natural disaster.

This unique house, the only one of its kind in Brooklyn, was built as part of a real estate developer's showcase.

This unusual apartment building may be Brooklyn's own version of the Leaning Tower of Pisa.

New York's southernmost subway station is whimsically wavy.

New York's oldest concrete structure is being preserved thanks to the gentrification of Whole Foods.

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.

As telephones become more essential and less stylish one historic Brooklyn building remembers the days when they were a grand celebration of communication.

Now the site of a high school, this was almost the location of the largest cathedral in the US.

One of only two remaining Victorian-era greenhouses in New York.

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

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.

A hidden architectural treasure in New York's Brooklyn.

This innocent-looking townhome is actually a subway exit.

Detailed facade of a brownstone in Boerum Hill.

Nature and beauty amidst pollution and industrial wreckage.

Oldest surviving example of a Dutch saltbox frame house in America.