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

The feral felines of Roosevelt Island have a small army of allies and an abandoned hospital all to themselves.

A semi-scholarly approach to sex.

The world’s oldest and biggest bookstore stocking only mystery, crime fiction, espionage, and thrillers.

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

Try not to get slimed in Tribeca.

The oldest family-run luncheonette in New York, last renovated in 1948, still serves food and drinks the old-fashioned way.

A tiny museum housed in a New York freight elevator specializes in the "overlooked, dismissed, or ignored."

A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.

A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.

Slyly buy a shake in the Parker Meridien lobby.

La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela's "Dream House" will immerse you in an ever changing world of sound and light.

One kilometer of thick brass rod laid out before your eyes.

Ride the subways of yesteryear.