The ballpark in "Pigtown" where the Brooklyn Dodgers made their name was replaced with a huge apartment complex.

Once a ferry dock, radio transmitter, and now a new Greenpoint park.

This beautiful Brooklyn monument over a crypt memorializes a grim and largely unknown story from the American Revolution.

A drawbridge named for a potentially intersex Polish national who fought alongside George Washington during the American Revolution, and an example of "Pulaski Red".

New York's southernmost subway station is whimsically wavy.

The longest continuous underwater road in North America was built at the insistence of Franklin Roosevelt.

Outstanding taxidermy dioramas showcase the grandeur of the continent's wildlife with spooky realism.

New York's oldest concrete structure is being preserved thanks to the gentrification of Whole Foods.

This secluded ruin was once a home for exotic plants.

Spike Lee's provocative film is officially honored right where it was made, the first time a work of art was used as a secondary street name.

Michael Jackson got Bad and Crocodile Dundee walked on heads in this iconic Brooklyn subway station.

This neo-Gothic former auto showroom is one of the few remaining reminders of Brooklyn's "Automobile Row."

One of the city’s oldest watering holes was originally the home of a famous James Brown (not that one).

This micro-industry of Latino cuisine along Red Hook's Ball Fields represents a victory in a food fight with the city.

This enormous banquet-themed artwork honors over 1,000 notable women throughout history.

Dedicated to preserving the history of free Black communities in Brooklyn and beyond.

Red frames showcase remnants of one of New York's original subway stations.

A remnant from the golden age of aviation still in use today, Pan Am's Clipper service took off from this Art Deco gem.

During the 19th century, you could pay for violence off a prix fixe menu on this Manhattan street.

This historic building housed the surviving crew members of the Titanic, who were left destitute after the wreck.

Beautiful mosaics cover the first stations opened on New York City's newest subway line.

19th century cemetery hidden in Brooklyn's Prospect Park.

The mummified relics of an American missionary.

Little Red Lighthouse under the George Washington Bridge.