During the 19th century, you could pay for violence off a prix fixe menu on this Manhattan street.

The best place in New York to pick up the controversial, notoriously foul-smelling Asian "king of fruits."

Need to book a room at the Hotel Pennsylvania? Just dial up 6-5000.

The greatest real estate coup of all time.

This Dutch Colonial home is the oldest remaining farmhouse in Manhattan.

The fanciest public restroom in New York City boasts fresh flowers, art, and a classical music soundtrack.

A strangely angled West Village home is the only monument to an explosion that took the lives of three American revolutionaries.

Possible relics of the ancient Roman city are hidden in this restaurant's façade.

A little lighthouse in New York City, surrounded by mysterious stories of insanity-driven construction.

This Fifth Avenue church has long been the favored worshiping place of Broadway actors and vaudeville performers.

A museum collection honoring the long history of the FDNY is held in a disused Manhattan fire house.

The 28-foot granite map plots the locations of 40 theaters in New York City.

Where now stands a 42-story condominium tower of marble, glass and steel was once the central market of New York’s slave trade.

This small New York museum examines Chinese history from its origins right up to its arrival in the city.

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

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 dark patch of the ceiling at Grand Central Terminal which was not restored is still stained brown by tobacco.

There must be a pun in this haystack somewhere...

The most confusing clock in New York.

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

Built hundreds of years ago this downtown iron barrier once protected a much despised king.

This exemplar of modernist architecture is meant to captivate and inspire students of the Cooper Union.

A posh members-only club with a literally dramatic history.