Queen Anne style apartment house built in 1886.

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

This sprawling woodland estate was the brainchild of iconic American industrial designer Russel Wright.

A 9-story, poured concrete structure which was used as a glue factory with an indelible smell.

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

Where Greenpoint's first European settler—and troublemaker—made his home.

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

Church featuring "high Victorian gothic" architecture.

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

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

Headquarters of the world's fourth largest Hasidic sect and the first of many "770s" around the world.

A drawbridge named for a potentially intersex Polish national who fought alongside George Washington during the American Revolution, and an example of "Pulaski Red".

A 19th-century politician who died after walking home in a blizzard is honored with this Manhattan statue.

This metal eagle one of the final remnants of a newspaper that wanted to keep Brooklyn to Brooklyn.

Enormous one time fiber mill now houses local artists and small businesses.

A community theatre in Brooklyn that brings Country to New York and New York to Country.

This monument to a veteran of the Mexican-American War is one of only two in Manhattan that serve as an actual mausoleum.

One of the deadliest American air disasters is nearly forgotten in Brooklyn.

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

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

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

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.

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

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