One of only two commuter aerial tramways in the United States.

The only remaining building in New York to see the inauguration of a president is being slowly overtaken by a grocery store.

Need to book a room at the Hotel Pennsylvania? Just dial up 6-5000.

Where the legendary Orson Welles got his theatrical start before "Citizen Kane."

Set sail on a small scale.

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

Amid the marketing blitz of modern Times Square is an elegant holdover from its showbiz glory days.

This nostalgic blast from the grooming past is also a working barbershop.

This slender three-story building has also had several famous residents.

Manhattan's deadly West Side railroad, which killed hundreds of New Yorkers, is remembered by this simple plaque.

Final resting place for the Triangle Shirtwaist fire’s unidentified victims.

The gilded vestiges of a sterling department store can still be found in a Brooklyn shopping center.

This memorial honors thousands of enslaved Africans and their descendants who died in colonial New York.

You must take the A train... to the last active cemetery in Manhattan.

The origins of midtown Manhattan's anachronistic wooden farmhouse remain a mystery.

The one-time epicenter of American songwriting is now a little remembered Manhattan commercial block.

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

Play heads or tails with thousands of different coins.

A famous songsmith's custom piano, dubbed "High Society," is hidden just out of sight in one of New York's finest hotels.

A plaque immortalizes the spot where the early American spy said his famous last words: "I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country."

Rat sculptures try to infiltrate the Graybar Building in an architectural tribute to New York City's nautical history.

A one-ton statue of Steve Rogers beautifies the entry to a Brooklyn Bed, Bath & Beyond.

A museum collection honoring the long history of the FDNY is held in a disused Manhattan fire house.

This Fifth Avenue church has long been the favored worshiping place of Broadway actors and vaudeville performers.