During the 19th century, you could pay for violence off a prix fixe menu on this Manhattan street.

Order scoops of pandan, lychee, and black sesame at this family-run institution.

Avoid gangster interaction while window-shopping.

Revolutionary War casualties fill the only 17th century structure remaining in Manhattan.

This humble historic facade hides a history of boozing and the gentlemanly sport of rat-fighting.

An odd, ancient window that may have once been part of a brutal prison is embedded in the side of New York's Police Plaza.

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

Where there’s manufacturing, there’s fire!

What’s a sure fire way to end up in jail in New York in the 1920s? Peddling bad moonshine.

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

School named after its beloved principal, killed in the cross-fire of a drug related shooting.

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

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

A strip of modern stores in historic buildings.

Red Hook's massive public pool, built by Robert Moses.

A cruise terminal that changes the atmosphere of Red Hook's industrial waterfront.

An experimental, community court opened in 2000 takes a new approach to youth offenders in south Brooklyn.

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

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

A community farm in the midst of the Brooklyn concrete.

Compensation for the destruction of a historic shipyard.

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

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

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