The return of something once considered a basic part of life.

A community farm in the midst of the Brooklyn concrete.

Once a flowing stream and where the USS Monitor, the world's first ironclad, was built and launched.

Once called Winthrop Park in 1889, home to a decidedly sexy tribute to the Monitor vs. Merrimac battle.

A Red Hook dive bar that is holding onto its roots.

Skewer up Kangaroo.

A Natural History and Science Emporium.

Two large-scale sculptures of Adam and Eve greet visitors in the nude at the Time Warner Center in NYC.

Once a ferry dock, radio transmitter, and now a new Greenpoint park.

A modern addition to the Greenpoint skyline.

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 factory that helped produce a dominant form of lighting before Thomas Edison.

A strip of modern stores in historic buildings.

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

This simple Manhattan salt house is artfully shaped... well, like a giant granule of salt.

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

One of the only single-person private gravesites in New York City.

This Manhattan skyscraper is a reminder of the brief but glorious age of urban air taxis.

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

A former seaside jewel built for the everyman is now simply a neglected art deco fortress.

New York's unstoppable progress turned this cemetery into the smallest burial ground in the city.

A strangely angled West Village home is the only monument to an explosion that took the lives of three American revolutionaries.

A forgotten relic from New York's bygone trolley system hides in plain sight under a bridge.

Manhattan and the Bronx have been playing tug-of-war over this former island neighborhood for more than a century.