Home to first responders to Greenpoint's devastating oil fires.

2 square block factory in Greenpoint erected in 1936.

Where the Monitor was launched and ushered in the age of the "ironclads."

The factory that helped produce a dominant form of lighting before Thomas Edison.

Neoclassical bank designed by NY architects Helmle & Huberty.

The ballpark in "Pigtown" where the Brooklyn Dodgers made their name was replaced with a huge apartment complex.

The pioneering photographer's prints are immortalized inside her childhood home.

Once a ferry dock, radio transmitter, and now a new Greenpoint park.

Red Hook's massive public pool, built by Robert Moses.

A 120-year oil leak slowly unleashes more gallons of oil than the Exxon/Mobil disaster.

Queen Anne style apartment house built in 1886.

The return of something once considered a basic part of life.

This sprawling woodland estate was the brainchild of iconic American industrial designer Russel Wright.

A 9-story, poured concrete structure which was used as a glue factory with an indelible smell.

The longest continuous underwater road in North America was built at the insistence of Franklin Roosevelt.

Where Greenpoint's first European settler—and troublemaker—made his home.

Once called Winthrop Park in 1889, home to a decidedly sexy tribute to the Monitor vs. Merrimac battle.

Church featuring "high Victorian gothic" architecture.

Once a flowing stream and where the USS Monitor, the world's first ironclad, was built and launched.

As telephones become more essential and less stylish one historic Brooklyn building remembers the days when they were a grand celebration of communication.

Headquarters of the world's fourth largest Hasidic sect and the first of many "770s" around the world.

A drawbridge named for a potentially intersex Polish national who fought alongside George Washington during the American Revolution, and an example of "Pulaski Red".

A 19th-century politician who died after walking home in a blizzard is honored with this Manhattan statue.

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