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Brooklyn's most iconic restaurant, resurrected.

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

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

Seriously good slices of Sicilian pizza lurk at the back of the Bronx's oldest enclosed market.

Dine on dumplings at the oldest dim sum restaurant in New York.

The most confusing clock in New York.

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

One of the city’s oldest watering holes was originally the home of a famous James Brown (not that one).

One of the few Glatt kosher delis in the United States is a cornerstone of its Hasidic neighborhood.

Every year model trains zip through a miniature New York City that's now 150 landmarks strong.

Some of New York's best tacos can be found in the back of an unassuming bodega in Queens.

A Ukrainian church canteen doles out hearty fare in an East Village basement.

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

A Wisconsin kitsch palace from the 1930s lives its second life in 21st-century Brooklyn.

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

A notorious punk house turned co-op.

In its day this historic fort held 100 cannons pointed in almost every direction to protect New York.

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

Crammed into several rooms of a Staten Island home, this museum is a vodka-soaked paean to the pleasures of drinking.

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

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

A B.Y.O.B. Mexican cantina lives inside one of the last tortilla factories in Brooklyn.

Behind a grungy bodega facade, a Poblano family serves rich, home-cooked meals.

A former insane asylum despised by Nelly Bly and Charles Dickens is now fashionable apartments.