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.

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

The site of the deadly Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire.

New York's unstoppable progress turned this cemetery into the smallest burial ground in the city.

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

An artist's cute bronze subway sculptures belie his violent artistic past.

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

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

Blighted Irish field and the ruins of a 19th-century cottage on the edge of urban Manhattan.

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

On the Hudson resides one of the largest clocks in the world.

A bronze plaque at an intersection in Hoboken marks the place where the game of baseball first took shape.

This evocative New Jersey statue memoralizes the Polish victims of a Soviet massacre.