Compensation for the destruction of a historic shipyard.

Once home to the country's most gargantuan ships, this graving dock now waits for people to buy furniture.

A strip of modern stores in historic buildings.

Lehigh Valley barge No. 79 still gets tugged along - but now it houses a museum and unusual performances.

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

Once a popular watering hole among longshoremen and shipyard workers, this neighborhood treasure spans more than 100 years of Red Hook history.

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

“Invented in Key West, Perfected in Brooklyn."

A big shiny gin and whiskey distillery in Sunset Park.

The humble fort that saved Washington.

A community farm in the midst of the Brooklyn concrete.

The factory that helped produce a dominant form of lighting before Thomas Edison.

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

A hidden architectural treasure in New York's Brooklyn.

A simple plaque remembers an act of WWI terrorism that obliterated an island and forever scarred the Statue of Liberty.

The world's largest collection of materials relating to lesbian history is housed in a Brooklyn townhouse.

Come for the sustainable organic chocolate, stay for the sustainable organic booze.

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

The most unloved grain elevator in Brooklyn was a “Magnificent Mistake.”

A tree that grows parallel to the ground was declared Brooklyn's "crowning curio" by the poet who saved it.

The engineering feat of the Panama Canal was possible in small part thanks to materials developed in this humble Red Hook foundry.

A bronze plaque at an intersection in Hoboken marks the place where the game of baseball first took shape.

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

Hidden in plain sight on the Hudson River is an abandoned train station where nature has taken over.