The oldest continuously operating farm in New York State.

Two New York rooftops are home to the largest rooftop soil farms in the world.

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

This small and serene place for quiet reflection on Staten Island was built in China based on the gardens of the Ming Dynasty.

Once a dumping spot, now a park with a kayak launch.

Two community gardens under the elevated subway lines on a very busy commercial strip in Bushwick.

This city park was once a lookout point for George Washington’s army during the Battle of Brooklyn in 1776.

A community farm in the midst of the Brooklyn concrete.

Guerilla gardeners reclaimed this abandoned railroad land literally putting down roots.

Every year model trains zip through a miniature New York City that's now 150 landmarks strong.

Sniff the Titan Arum's rotting flesh.

The oldest living organism in New York City. Maybe.

An abandoned horticulture institute gloomily presides over rows of derelict and vine-wrought greenhouses.

Nature and beauty amidst pollution and industrial wreckage.

Twenty-three trees, each paired with a basalt stone, line a street in Chelsea, continuing an urban project started by German Fluxus artist Joseph Beuys.

One of the few remaining American elm trees in New York’s Tompkins Square Park was the birthplace of a new religion.

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

Thriving meadows span a rooftop in one of Brooklyn's most heavily industrialized neighborhoods.

This plot of old-growth forest is the largest surviving remnant of New York City's original woodland.

A tree that grows parallel to the ground was declared Brooklyn's "crowning curio" by the poet who saved it.

The home of aviation trailblazers, in a remote corner of the big city.

The oldest surviving bridge in New York City, which reopened to pedestrians in 2015.

Read between the lines of the subway map to find the hidden abandoned Civil War fort.

Hidden in plain sight on the Hudson River is an abandoned train station where nature has taken over.