A discreet little stairway on St. Nicholas Avenue leads to a quaint and unexpected cobblestone street of 19th century wooden rowhouses.

Harlem park dedicated to compulsive hoarders killed by their own junk.

Offbeat arts organization that hosts exhibitions, events, and explorations.

The factory for the popular Dumbo location, the Greenpoint shop is a quiet gem.

A graffiti Mecca welcoming artists from around the world.

Piano-making empire filled with 200-year-old steam machines still churning out 1,000 instruments a year.

First a horse rendering plant, then a 19th century landfill, this beach is full of glass from thousands upon thousands of broken bottles.

Neoclassical bank designed by NY architects Helmle & Huberty.

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

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

Take in a rare, face-to-face glimpse of Lady Liberty at this tucked away Red Hook park.

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

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

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

One of the largest public housing complexes in New York once visited by Eleanor Roosevelt.

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

A curious friendship between two inanimate ladies.

Salute the leader of the proletariat.

The most confusing clock in New York.

Touching mementoes from those who didn't make it back from World War I still hang in one of New York's oldest bars.

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.

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

Thousands of well-dressed mummies below a monastery.