Spike Lee's provocative film is officially honored right where it was made, the first time a work of art was used as a secondary street name.

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

This block in downtown Brooklyn was a hotbed of antislavery activism along the Underground Railroad.

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

An activist who committed her life to peace and women's suffrage.

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

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

One of the deadliest American air disasters is nearly forgotten in Brooklyn.

Final resting place of the immigrant who brought artificial seltzer water to America.

A mass grave for victims of one of the city’s worst fires.

A yoga studio and venue for "chill-out parties" in a former chicken slaughterhouse.

Constructed in the 1920s, this former pencil factory is now an office building.

A way to take your secrets to someone else's grave.

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

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

A Brooklyn exhibit all about Nancy Kerrigan and Tonya Harding in 1994.

Nature and beauty amidst pollution and industrial wreckage.

An abandoned subway tunnel that could have reinvigorated Staten Island still lies somewhere beneath this Brooklyn park.

A working metal shop and venue for outrageous art and music shows in a former cannonball factory.

Waterway populated with abandoned projects, including a submarine.

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

An oasis of calm amid the chaos of the boardwalk, the museum traces the heritage of this beloved beachside amusement park.

A Victorian cemetery in the heart of Brooklyn remains a popular mecca of morbid curiosity.

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