Once America's longest-manned military fort, now an abandoned hulk.

A riverfront park that both remediated and preserved its industrial past.

Final resting place of Typhoid Mary.

Out of a labyrinth of abandoned tunnels and stops, this Queens subway station is arguably the most mysterious—if it exists at all.

The preserved house of a jazz legend still echoes with his music.

Where there’s manufacturing, there’s fire!

A series of fish plaques that are embedded in the malls of Ocean Parkway.

A miniature version of a legendary Dutch boulder.

Home to first responders to Greenpoint's devastating oil fires.

Ornate "Renaissance Revival" style building.

An experimental, community court opened in 2000 takes a new approach to youth offenders in south Brooklyn.

This suburban enclave is home to a very unique art exhibit.

A community farm in the midst of the Brooklyn concrete.

What’s a sure fire way to end up in jail in New York in the 1920s? Peddling bad moonshine.

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

Queen Anne style apartment house built in 1886.

A working monastery hidden away in Brooklyn once abutted the location of a former inebriate's home.

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

Compensation for the destruction of a historic shipyard.

A modern addition to the Greenpoint skyline.

The most unloved grain elevator in Brooklyn was a “Magnificent Mistake.”

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

The flagship building of an early national restaurant chain is a superb example of terra cotta art.

On the hills of Bay Ridge stands a house straight out of a fairy tale.