Site of a famous 19th-century transcendentalist utopian community, now abandoned.

The site of one of the strangest disasters in history—a wave of deadly molasses traveling at 35 mph.

The often-overlooked ruins of one of the first buildings designed by famous landscape architect Frederick Olmsted.

A beautiful Victorian-era cemetery, complete with a miniature village.

An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.

As telephones become more essential and less stylish one historic Brooklyn building remembers the days when they were a grand celebration of communication.

Compensation for the destruction of a historic shipyard.

A 9-story, poured concrete structure which was used as a glue factory with an indelible smell.

A modern addition to the Greenpoint skyline.

Once a dumping spot, now a park with a kayak launch.

This recently uncovered ad for Lindsay's run at Mayor in 1965 had been hiding for decades underneath a billboard.

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

Two monstrous warehouses. One now holds priceless works of art, the other stands abandoned and dilapidated.

The only surviving sidewalk clock in Brooklyn.

Michael Jackson got Bad and Crocodile Dundee walked on heads in this iconic Brooklyn subway station.

This 19th century brick building in Brooklyn stands out like the anachronistic landmark that it is.

Known as the "Forgotten City" it was home to industry, riots, artists, squatters, and to one of the largest single disaster fires in New York City.

Brooklyn's Barkaloo Cemetery is the resting place of a scant two bodies.

Nature and beauty amidst pollution and industrial wreckage.

Two community gardens under the elevated subway lines on a very busy commercial strip in Bushwick.

Feral cats keeping the rodent population at bay all across Greenpoint waterfront.

A tree that grows parallel to the ground was declared Brooklyn's "crowning curio" by the poet who saved it.

Thriving meadows span a rooftop in one of Brooklyn's most heavily industrialized neighborhoods.

One of only two remaining Victorian-era greenhouses in New York.