The gilded vestiges of a sterling department store can still be found in a Brooklyn shopping center.

Before online banking and smartphone apps, there was "commuter banking" in the subway in Downtown Brooklyn.

While it now takes more than a dime to open an account this historic Brooklyn bank still displays the opulence of the gilded age in which it was built.

A three-story copper skybridge connects two Manhattan buildings with Art Deco luxury.

New York City's smallest piece of private property.

Manhattan's lighthouse, erected at the insistence of the unsinkable Molly Brown.

A group dedicated to promoting boating, kayaking and environmental education programs.

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

A cargo of beautiful music.

Love is in the air along the small street in Brooklyn.

This anonymous businessman sculpted in bronze became an enduring memorial after 9/11, and had been mistaken by rescue workers for a survivor in the rubble.

The last remnants of what was once one of the world's grandest hotels can now be found in a Manhattan subway station.

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

This innocent-looking townhome is actually a subway exit.

Wall Street has a new heroine, a bronze statue of a small but fierce girl.

Amid the bustle and noise of the Financial District hides a secluded garden oasis above the city streets.

New York's oldest concrete structure is being preserved thanks to the gentrification of Whole Foods.

The unassuming structure was part of a Major League Baseball stadium.

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

A pair of slides and a tree-lined stair corridor have been an urban oasis for nearly 40 years.

Over a century old, this restored Victorian building is surrounded by a lush garden filled with rare palms.

A sharp bend in a dramatic river canyon cut through red rocks.

When it was built in 1929, this historic bridge was the only place to cross the Colorado River for 600 miles.

This unmarked and unloved Manhattan subway grate created one of the most iconic images in American cinema.