Neoclassical bank designed by NY architects Helmle & Huberty.

The factory that helped produce a dominant form of lighting before Thomas Edison.

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

The ballpark in "Pigtown" where the Brooklyn Dodgers made their name was replaced with a huge apartment complex.

Once a ferry dock, radio transmitter, and now a new Greenpoint park.

Once home to the country's most gargantuan ships, this graving dock now waits for people to buy furniture.

Queen Anne style apartment house built in 1886.

The return of something once considered a basic part of life.

A modern addition to the Greenpoint skyline.

A community farm in the midst of the Brooklyn concrete.

A strip of modern stores in historic buildings.

This giant monument of the RCA mascot is a beloved fixture in Albany, New York.

Once a flowing stream and where the USS Monitor, the world's first ironclad, was built and launched.

A drawbridge named for a potentially intersex Polish national who fought alongside George Washington during the American Revolution, and an example of "Pulaski Red".

Headquarters of the world's fourth largest Hasidic sect and the first of many "770s" around the world.

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

While it now takes more than a dime to open an account this historic Brooklyn bank still displays the opulence of the gilded age in which it was built.

Built just after the American Revolution, the oldest row house in New York City still stands in Chinatown.

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

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

Lehigh Valley barge No. 79 still gets tugged along - but now it houses a museum and unusual performances.

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

Reforestation in action is the main attraction in this abandoned quarry.

This impressive mansion in Vinegar Hill has some mysterious details in its architecture.