This vacant church in the Financial District was once the heart of New York's first Syrian immigrant community.

Spiral-bound community recipes and antiquarian gems mingle at this small East Village shop.

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

This Upper East Side apartment co-op was designed as a tuberculosis sanitarium.

The site where Joe Gallo kept his guns, pet lion, and launched an all out mob war in 1960s Brooklyn.

New York's southernmost subway station is whimsically wavy.

Legendary private island in the Bronx...devoid of rats.

Retribution for death of infamous mob boss Franie Yale was a case of mistaken identity.

The oldest Methodist church in the United States has been spreading the good news for over two centuries.

On this island, you suck away your garbage via an elaborate pneumatic tube system.

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

Enormous one time fiber mill now houses local artists and small businesses.

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

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

Love is in the air along the small street in Brooklyn.

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

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

Queen Anne style apartment house built in 1886.

The one-time office of the architectural firm that ushered in the Gilded Age is now a Club Monaco.

Before online banking and smartphone apps, there was "commuter banking" in the subway in Downtown Brooklyn.

Headquarters of the world's fourth largest Hasidic sect and the first of many "770s" around the world.

The inventor of the Coney Island hot dog rests in a grand mausoleum in Brooklyn.

Behind a bodega is a small museum of relics and ephemera showcasing the history of New York.

An unassuming stone building houses New York City's oldest seismic station almost 30 feet below the Bronx.