A Red Hook dive bar that is holding onto its roots.

Eccentric stone cairns built on a public New York City beach.

The saddest little diner in New York.

First a horse rendering plant, then a 19th century landfill, this beach is full of glass from thousands upon thousands of broken bottles.

A series of fish plaques that are embedded in the malls of Ocean Parkway.

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

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

These century-old townhouses contain some of the first car garages built in the United States.

Where one of Greenpoint's "five black arts" was practiced.

A 19th-century politician who died after walking home in a blizzard is honored with this Manhattan statue.

New York's oldest concrete structure is being preserved thanks to the gentrification of Whole Foods.

A large boulder marks the place where the island of Manhattan was purportedly "sold" to the Dutch.

Twenty-three trees, each paired with a basalt stone, line a street in Chelsea, continuing an urban project started by German Fluxus artist Joseph Beuys.

The flagship building of an early national restaurant chain is a superb example of terra cotta art.

This preserved wilderness hides the remains of a colonial grain mill used to feed George Washington's troops.

New York's southernmost subway station is whimsically wavy.

Love is in the air along the small street in Brooklyn.

Oldest surviving example of a Dutch saltbox frame house in America.

A mysterious, abandoned building rotting on the Brooklyn waterfront.

The gilded vestiges of a sterling department store can still be found in a Brooklyn shopping center.

Failed state-supported institution meant to rehabilitate students with intellectual disabilities.

One of the city’s oldest watering holes was originally the home of a famous James Brown (not that one).

A ruthless Soviet relocation campaign birthed a new cuisine, and this humble restaurant.

Obscure and obsolete publications are given new life as works of art.