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The former home of the reclusive "Weird Wendels" who dominated New York real estate a century before Donald Trump.

Dedicated to preserving the history of free Black communities in Brooklyn and beyond.

Once considered the height of medical modernity, this structure is now the oldest remaining component of Roosevelt Hospital.

This castle-like building in Manhattan helped destigmatize cancer in the 19th century.

A hidden bar inside an ad agency has a deliberately misleading name, so employees can stay late under pretext of paperwork.

A young woman's senseless murder led to the controversial psychological theory of the "bystander effect."

Walking around West Harlem reveals a scavenger hunt of beautiful bird murals.

A forgotten relic from New York's bygone trolley system hides in plain sight under a bridge.

Spike Lee's provocative film is officially honored right where it was made, the first time a work of art was used as a secondary street name.

You must take the A train... to the last active cemetery in Manhattan.

Con Edison’s exotic and heat-loving pests.

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

Brooklyn's Barkaloo Cemetery is the resting place of a scant two bodies.

Final resting place for the Triangle Shirtwaist fire’s unidentified victims.

This giant boulder is sandwiched between apartment complexes in upper Manhattan.

During the 19th century, you could pay for violence off a prix fixe menu on this Manhattan street.

A mysterious, abandoned building rotting on the Brooklyn waterfront.

The tiniest little stage in New York.

This mysterious marker puzzles pedestrians and infuriates geographers.

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

Twice a day one of these tragic bronze mariners drowns with the tide to remember all those the sea has taken.

Risk arrest while partying to fund art.

The origins of midtown Manhattan's anachronistic wooden farmhouse remain a mystery.

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.