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

Ride the subways of yesteryear.

This block in downtown Brooklyn was a hotbed of antislavery activism along the Underground Railroad.

As telephones become more essential and less stylish one historic Brooklyn building remembers the days when they were a grand celebration of communication.

This impressive mansion in Vinegar Hill has some mysterious details in its architecture.

Walk into the 19th century without leaving Brooklyn.

A popular European tradition makes its way to the states on one of America's most famous bridges.

One of New York's best collections of pinball is hidden in a secret bar in the back of this laundromat.

2 square block factory in Greenpoint erected in 1936.

Where one of Greenpoint's "five black arts" was practiced.

Church featuring "high Victorian gothic" architecture.

Historic Greenpoint theater, turned roller disco, now housing a chain pharmacy store.

The only surviving sidewalk clock in Brooklyn.

Neoclassical bank designed by NY architects Helmle & Huberty.

Where Greenpoint's first European settler—and troublemaker—made his home.

Once a flowing stream and where the USS Monitor, the world's first ironclad, was built and launched.

Where the Monitor was launched and ushered in the age of the "ironclads."

One of the first major shipyards in Brooklyn.

Known as the "Forgotten City" it was home to industry, riots, artists, squatters, and to one of the largest single disaster fires in New York City.

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

Constructed in the 1920s, this former pencil factory is now an office building.

Ornate "Renaissance Revival" style building.

Queen Anne style apartment house built in 1886.

Feral cats keeping the rodent population at bay all across Greenpoint waterfront.