A very classy 1920s-era bar right in Grand Central Station.

A bit of retro transportation flair preserved in the world's largest department store.

The highest rapid transit station in the world.

Micro-distillery in Brooklyn produces New York’s first homemade rum since Prohibition.

The return of something once considered a basic part of life.

Brooklyn vintners creating world-class wine in a city not known for its vineyards.

Take in a rare, face-to-face glimpse of Lady Liberty at this tucked away Red Hook park.

One of the largest public housing complexes in New York once visited by Eleanor Roosevelt.

One of the few Glatt kosher delis in the United States is a cornerstone of its Hasidic neighborhood.

An unconventional space for art and science housed in a massive old warehouse.

A Pythagorean funhouse that tries, successfully, to prove that math is the coolest thing ever.

Cryptic messages embedded in the New York City sidewalk.

A massive forgotten storehouse from 1913 on the Brooklyn Waterfront has a spectacular view of Brooklyn.

A decommissioned military complex that's now a modern industrial park.

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

Tucked in a nondescript downtown Brooklyn mall is a bar containing a remarkable turn of the century anatomical wax collection last seen in 1920s Berlin.

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

The notorious headquarters of a corrupt political machine.

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

The most confusing clock in New York.

The only subway station in the city that still makes use of gap fillers.

Lie in a hammock where George Washington stood.

Walk into the 19th century without leaving Brooklyn.

An aptly-named street near the birthplace of the modern LGBT rights movement.