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

Once the tallest building in the world and the site of “the highest dinner ever held in New York” this building now holds the most expensive penthouse in the city.

Join in a Seance at the Swedenborgian Church.

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

Rat sculptures try to infiltrate the Graybar Building in an architectural tribute to New York City's nautical history.

The home of the first American-born saint is one of the only curved buildings in New York.

This cemetery has graves dating back to the 17th century, including the city's oldest carved tombstone and an ominous cryptogram.

A trove of century-old litho stones from the Puck Building's printing days were discovered behind a cellar wall, and are now hanging in the store.

Plot your trip through the city on the sidewalk.

A dark, dank room in subterranean Manhattan was the site of a ghastly murder.

Walk over a 150 year old manhole.

The former sign of this immortal music venue is just that--undying.

From this desk Al Hirschfeld drew his influential caricatures of the 20th century's Broadway stars.

The name of this tiny pocket park tucked between two buildings on Manhattan's Upper West Side is Latin for its location: "seventy-one."

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

Read a book next to a Midtown waterfall.

Underground vaults of a former brewery beneath Brooklyn's Crown Heights are now used to ripen cheese.

Beautiful mosaics cover the first stations opened on New York City's newest subway line.

One of the deadliest American air disasters is nearly forgotten in Brooklyn.

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

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

This neo-Gothic former auto showroom is one of the few remaining reminders of Brooklyn's "Automobile Row."

One of the largest festivals of flowers in North America takes place, appropriately, in the Flower City.

During the holidays, a vintage subway train whisks New Yorkers back in time.