Wall Street has a new heroine, a bronze statue of a small but fierce girl.

Once the tallest building in the world and the site of "the highest dinner ever held in New York" this building now holds the most expensive penthouse in the city.

The greatest real estate coup of all time.

The oldest surviving synagogue in New York City is now a soaring art space.

Salute the leader of the proletariat.

Love, knishes, and best wishes from this legendary Lower East Side bakery.

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

A hidden "place of interment for gentlemen."

This former crime corner has been turned into an eclectic community center.

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

A Yiddish theater turned movie house turned rock and roll landmark turned gay disco turned bank.

New York City's only preserved family home from the 19th century.

For almost a century, this East Village newsstand has served egg creams to beats, hippies, punks, and everything in between.

This exemplar of modernist architecture is meant to captivate and inspire students of the Cooper Union.

The site of the deadly Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire.

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

The oldest living tree in Manhattan comes shrouded in sinister legend.

Jimi Hendrix's legendary recording studio in Greenwich Village.

The first piece of public art dedicated to LGBT rights.

The oldest operating apothecary in the US has treated everyone from Thomas Edison to Mark Twain.

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

Named the fifth most beautiful building in America in 1885, this former courthouse boasts the best view in the Village.

The most confusing clock in New York.

Nope, not Washington Irving's house.