A very classy 1920s-era bar right in Grand Central Station.

Whisper secrets in a busy station only to be heard on the other side of this acoustic arch.

A community farm in the midst of the Brooklyn concrete.

This micro-industry of Latino cuisine along Red Hook's Ball Fields represents a victory in a food fight with the city.

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

The New York hotel where tragic visionary Nikola Tesla spent his final hours, destitute and alone but for the pigeons.

“Invented in Key West, Perfected in Brooklyn."

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

A community theatre in Brooklyn that brings Country to New York and New York to Country.

A modern zoetrope on the New York City subway.

An artist's cute bronze subway sculptures belie his violent artistic past.

Lie in a hammock where George Washington stood.

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

The most confusing clock in New York.

Great place to have a drink and a bite to eat in an atmosphere laden with New York's Bohemian past.

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

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

The site of the deadly Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire.

A dilapidated dock tells the story of Titanic's missed arrival.

The competition: breathe deeply as long as you can.

One kilometer of thick brass rod laid out before your eyes.

Discover the taste of mold.

Blighted Irish field and the ruins of a 19th-century cottage on the edge of urban Manhattan.

Avoid gangster interaction while window-shopping.