This Fifth Avenue church has long been the favored worshiping place of Broadway actors and vaudeville performers.

This small New York museum examines Chinese history from its origins right up to its arrival in the city.

This abandoned caretaker's apartment is one of 13 left in the New York Public Library system.

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

One of the few remaining American elm trees in New York’s Tompkins Square Park was the birthplace of a new religion.

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

This New York holdover was built to provide housing for shopgirls and still does not allow men above the lobby.

Possible relics of the ancient Roman city are hidden in this restaurant's façade.

Down a stairway in the East Village, you could once read a plaque describing an alternate history of a fictional version of Manhattan.

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

A dark patch of the ceiling at Grand Central Terminal which was not restored is still stained brown by tobacco.

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

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

A prohibition era watering hole for the police.

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

A famous songsmith's custom piano, dubbed "High Society," is hidden just out of sight in one of New York's finest hotels.

This former crime corner has been turned into an eclectic community center.

Check your calendars; you might be attending a drive-in movie or sitting next to a fashion runway.

Built hundreds of years ago this downtown iron barrier once protected a much despised king.

A partially hidden wall graffitied by spectators of the 1976 Bicentennial, recently rediscovered.

The greatest real estate coup of all time.

During the holidays, a vintage subway train whisks New Yorkers back in time.

A Manhattan Episcopal church with an eerie underground crypt.

The world’s oldest and biggest bookstore stocking only mystery, crime fiction, espionage, and thrillers.