Amid the marketing blitz of modern Times Square is an elegant holdover from its showbiz glory days.

This narrow shop in the East Village hosts a matchmaking service for the new millennium.

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

The 28-foot granite map plots the locations of 40 theaters in New York City.

Beautiful mosaics cover the first stations opened on New York City's newest subway line.

The iconic Manhattan corner that was once the site of the Beastie Boys' fake clothing store.

An annual extravaganza of Broadway theater memorabilia.

A staggering collection of photographs depicting medical, social, and historical change.

This historic address is home to the beloved ball and is an almost totally empty building among the most expensive real estate in the world.

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

A curious fountain that has no water and includes Satan, a crab, and 9 giraffes.

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

Cryptic messages embedded in the New York City sidewalk.

A Manhattan courthouse hides a small but scathing memorial to Holocaust injustice.

A living archive of urban activism and space reclaimed.

Love, knishes, and best wishes from this legendary Lower East Side bakery.

For over 30 years the walls of this Harlem schoolyard have been a gallery of street art by "Kings and better."

The "Seinfeld" diner.

A masterpiece of LGBT art has been restored in what may now be the most valuable restroom in America.

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

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

This whimsical group of statues is a favorite of children who love to climb all over Lewis Carroll's beloved characters.

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

A three-story copper skybridge connects two Manhattan buildings with Art Deco luxury.