If New Orleans is the birthplace of the "cocktail," why does their own museum of cocktail memorabilia beg to differ?

A 200-year-old bar in the historic French Quarter refuses to give up its place in history, nor its role in securing ours.

The oldest continuously operating fish market in the United States.

When it opened during the final years of the embargo, all the drinks and cigars were free.

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

Two large-scale sculptures of Adam and Eve greet visitors in the nude at the Time Warner Center in NYC.

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

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

Home to first responders to Greenpoint's devastating oil fires.

Nondescript building owned by ExxonMobil working on siphoning Greenpoint Oil Spill out of the ground.

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

2 square block factory in Greenpoint erected in 1936.

This Manhattan museum houses one of the largest collections of Spanish art and manuscripts outside of Spain.

One of the first major shipyards in Brooklyn.

Where the Monitor was launched and ushered in the age of the "ironclads."

The graveyard holds the remains of Irish immigrants who arrived in Queens after fleeing the Great Famine.

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.

New York's southernmost subway station is whimsically wavy.

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

Where there’s manufacturing, there’s fire!

Neoclassical bank designed by NY architects Helmle & Huberty.

This landmark building is now a vibrant performing arts space with musical acts from around the world.

A 120-year oil leak slowly unleashes more gallons of oil than the Exxon/Mobil disaster.