Finally, you don't have to be a pious Swedish seaman to relax like one.

This neighborhood grocery houses a treasure trove of Eastern European delights.

Serving Central Asian breads that range from cracker-crisp to warm and fluffy, this bakery brings Bukhara to Queens.

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

The oldest pastificio in Queens offers visitors fresh noodles and a peek inside the macaroni-making magic.

Imagine having a street run right through your home, or better yet, a historic bridge three stories high.

In the middle of suburban Staten Island, a nearly 150-year-old bakery is preserving the art of a disappearing New York treat.

The first piece of public art dedicated to LGBT rights.

A collaborative art project that transformed a neighborhood in NYC's Queens.

Micro-distillery in Brooklyn produces New York’s first homemade rum since Prohibition.

A uniquely lettered street sign marks the corner where the iconic word game was invented.

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

Some of the best Persian food in New York comes from the front window of an unassuming pizza shop.

The world's largest collection of materials relating to lesbian history is housed in a Brooklyn townhouse.

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

The highest point on the island known for buildings that touch the sky.

A sculptural commentary on capitalism pokes up from the East River.

A no-frills cinephile haven known for showing offbeat, underseen films.

Come for the pastrami, stay for the million-dollar art.

Phil Mortillaro uses keys to bring art back to the Village.

America's oldest Eastern European synagogue provided the immigrants of crowded Lower East Side tenements a space of sanctuary.

A curious friendship between two inanimate ladies.

Come for the sustainable organic chocolate, stay for the sustainable organic booze.

An easy to overlook storefront hides some of the most authentic and regionally diverse Chinese food in New York.