One of the most enjoyable bits of history at Coney Island and “the most romantic ride in the world.”

The feral felines of Roosevelt Island have a small army of allies and an abandoned hospital all to themselves.

A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.

Lie in a hammock where George Washington stood.

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

Wall Street has a new heroine, a bronze statue of a small but fierce girl.

The most confusing clock in New York.

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

A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.

This exemplar of modernist architecture is meant to captivate and inspire students of the Cooper Union.

The longest continuous underwater road in North America was built at the insistence of Franklin Roosevelt.

This wall on a street corner in Lower Manhattan has been a blank canvas for a rotation of renowned artists since the 1980s.

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

The name of this famed hospital was once a byword for the horrors of medical and psychiatric care.

Make a tough dinner decision: Octopus wasabi roulette or bull penis?

For almost a century, this East Village newsstand has served egg creams to beats, hippies, punks, and everything in between.

The greatest real estate coup of all time.

Avoid gangster interaction while window-shopping.

An everyday Jackson Heights bodega conceals a Mexican seafood paradise.

This little museum is built on a theater that was once a wildly elaborate speakeasy.

Two New York rooftops are home to the largest rooftop soil farms in the world.

The competition: breathe deeply as long as you can.

Tucked in the back of this amazing antique store is an important piece of medical history.

New York City's only radical feminist independent bookstore.