An unconventional space for art and science housed in a massive old warehouse.

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

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

A museum devoted to bringing to light forgotten or neglected histories through exhibitions, education and public programming.

The one-stop shop for all of your superhero (or evil arch-nemesis) needs.

This innocent-looking townhome is actually a subway exit.

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

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

Brooklyn's most iconic restaurant, resurrected.

A modern zoetrope on the New York City subway.

Tucked in a nondescript downtown Brooklyn mall is a bar containing a remarkable turn of the century anatomical wax collection last seen in 1920s Berlin.

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.

The gilded vestiges of a sterling department store can still be found in a Brooklyn shopping center.

Ride the subways of yesteryear.

Michael Jackson got Bad and Crocodile Dundee walked on heads in this iconic Brooklyn subway station.

Detailed facade of a brownstone in Boerum Hill.