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

This Queens beer hall preserves a German culture and language that is all but lost.

Brooklyn vintners creating world-class wine in a city not known for its vineyards.

Recovered suit of a cannibalistic West African gang.

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

Sunset Park's Guatemalan community knows to head to the back of this bodega for a taste of home.

Spiral-bound community recipes and antiquarian gems mingle at this small East Village shop.

New York City's only wildlife rehabilitation center treats more than 3,000 feathered and furry patients each year.

This family-owned bakery is one of the last places in Brooklyn to sell the Nation of Islam–inspired bean pie.

The mosaic Star of David at the front of this store hints that it's no ordinary Italian grocer.

Once a month, an Indonesian feast appears inside an Elmhurst church hall.

A reminder to choose water over wine since 1888.

The former home of the reclusive "Weird Wendels" who dominated New York real estate a century before Donald Trump.

Once considered the height of medical modernity, this structure is now the oldest remaining component of Roosevelt Hospital.

An 1883 schoolhouse now home to collective of artists.

Amid the marketing blitz of modern Times Square is an elegant holdover from its showbiz glory days.

Head past the aisles of tropical fruit and imported candy at this bodega to discover a hidden, weekends-only taco stand.

This city park was once a lookout point for George Washington’s army during the Battle of Brooklyn in 1776.

This slender three-story building has also had several famous residents.

A young woman's senseless murder led to the controversial psychological theory of the "bystander effect."

“Wagon Jobber" turned smokehouse magnate's family-owned business is still going strong 100 years later.

An everyday Jackson Heights bodega conceals a Mexican seafood paradise.

Chefs from Tibet's Kham region offer steaming meat pies and noodle soups in this nook behind a jewelry store.

Shop while you wait for a table in this tiny Indonesian eatery within a mini-mart.