In the middle of suburban Staten Island, a nearly 150-year-old bakery is preserving the art of a disappearing New York treat.

Staten Island's original central park is the former home of the city water supply as well as thousands of immigrant graves.

Despite not growing anywhere near New York City, bananas are ripened in a pressurized room in the Bronx using precise banana science.

An activist who committed her life to peace and women's suffrage.

A monument stands to the famous suffragist who penned the declaration for women's equal rights, including the right to vote.

The end of the 4 Line is also the end of the line for 300,000 souls in one of NYC's most illustrious cemeteries.

Small monoliths of several varieties of stone sit alongside a wooded path in the Bronx.

This Bronx apartment building is officially recognized as the birthplace of hip-hop.

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

A working monastery hidden away in Brooklyn once abutted the location of a former inebriate's home.

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

One of the oldest Jewish cemeteries in the city, it is now overgrown with an urban forest.

A mysterious statue of a leather jacket-clad rebel leans coolly on an odd yellow clock.

Residents of this Brooklyn neighborhood may be unaware their houses sit atop a buried trolley graveyard.

Compensation for the destruction of a historic shipyard.

The humble fort that saved Washington.

School named after its beloved principal, killed in the cross-fire of a drug related shooting.

What’s a sure fire way to end up in jail in New York in the 1920s? Peddling bad moonshine.

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

The childhood home of one of America's greatest unsung troubadours still stands in a much changed Brooklyn neighborhood.

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.

This 19th century brick building in Brooklyn stands out like the anachronistic landmark that it is.

Retribution for death of infamous mob boss Franie Yale was a case of mistaken identity.

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