The highest point on the island known for buildings that touch the sky.

Gang fights don't just happen on the streets, they happen under them too.

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

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

These historic buildings once housed the headquarters of one of the most infamous gangs of New York.

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

Surrounded by low rise buildings and partially converted into an auto body shop, this marble archway is the only vestige of a forgotten Manhattan estate.

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

This curved Manhattan building was built to house the opulence of John D. Rockefeller's oil empire.

Twice a day one of these tragic bronze mariners drowns with the tide to remember all those the sea has taken.

This study room in the New York Public Library saw the creation of one of contemporary America's greatest traitors.

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

Long the exclusive domain of birds and vagabonds, this little-known Central Park peninsula is open to the public once more.

The last remnants of what was once one of the world's grandest hotels can now be found in a Manhattan subway station.

Historic Greenpoint theater, turned roller disco, now housing a chain pharmacy store.

A crumbling staircase in upper Manhattan is all that remains of one of the most important sites in sports history.

Three stories above you, your salad is being grown.

Three-story slide through the New Museum.

The notorious headquarters of a corrupt political machine.

The rough and tumble president's childhood home displays the shirt he was once shot in and the speech that saved him.

In its day this historic fort held 100 cannons pointed in almost every direction to protect New York.

The site of the deadly Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire.

This was one of the first (and last) university-built and operated nuclear reactors.

A quiet and contemplative oasis in the middle of New York's bustle and riot.