“Invented in Key West, Perfected in Brooklyn."

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

The humble fort that saved Washington.

The site where Joe Gallo kept his guns, pet lion, and launched an all out mob war in 1960s Brooklyn.

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

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

A cruise terminal that changes the atmosphere of Red Hook's industrial waterfront.

An unconventional space for art and science housed in a massive old warehouse.

Two monstrous warehouses. One now holds priceless works of art, the other stands abandoned and dilapidated.

A massive forgotten storehouse from 1913 on the Brooklyn Waterfront has a spectacular view of Brooklyn.

Where infamous mobster and leader of Murder Inc. Albert Anastasia made his home.

Where there’s manufacturing, there’s fire!

An experimental, community court opened in 2000 takes a new approach to youth offenders in south Brooklyn.

One of the largest public housing complexes in New York once visited by Eleanor Roosevelt.

Peek through the gates at this oasis from the city, full of Old English charm.

Tucked away amidst some of the most famous addresses in the world is New York’s only fraction of a street.

Long the exclusive domain of birds and vagabonds, this little-known Central Park peninsula is open to the public once more.

This impressive mansion in Vinegar Hill has some mysterious details in its architecture.

The Underground Railroad passed right through this historic Brooklyn Heights church.

19th century cemetery hidden in Brooklyn's Prospect Park.

A hidden architectural treasure in New York's Brooklyn.

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

Detailed facade of a brownstone in Boerum Hill.

The oldest operating apothecary in the US has treated everyone from Thomas Edison to Mark Twain.