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

The saddest little diner in New York.

Compensation for the destruction of a historic shipyard.

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

Four cars from the old system were once on display, but were removed in 2014.

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

This city park was once a lookout point for George Washington’s army during the Battle of Brooklyn in 1776.

The oldest living tree in Manhattan comes shrouded in sinister legend.

A strip of modern stores in historic buildings.

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

These ornate manhole covers were used for a now-forgotten purpose.

This metal eagle one of the final remnants of a newspaper that wanted to keep Brooklyn to Brooklyn.

Brooklyn vintners creating world-class wine in a city not known for its vineyards.

Once a popular watering hole among longshoremen and shipyard workers, this neighborhood treasure spans more than 100 years of Red Hook history.

A community farm in the midst of the Brooklyn concrete.

The most unloved grain elevator in Brooklyn was a “Magnificent Mistake.”

“Invented in Key West, Perfected in Brooklyn."

The humble fort that saved Washington.

A hands-on traveling collection of the innovative devices of yesteryear.

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

The site of the deadly Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire.

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

This simple Manhattan salt house is artfully shaped... well, like a giant granule of salt.

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