For almost a century, this East Village newsstand has served egg creams to beats, hippies, punks, and everything in between.

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

Every dish is blessed in this basement eatery beneath a Hare Krishna temple.

Behind a grungy bodega facade, a Poblano family serves rich, home-cooked meals.

Outstanding taxidermy dioramas showcase the grandeur of the continent's wildlife with spooky realism.

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

Spiral-bound community recipes and antiquarian gems mingle at this small East Village shop.

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.

Michael Jackson got Bad and Crocodile Dundee walked on heads in this iconic Brooklyn subway station.

The only remaining building in New York to see the inauguration of a president is being slowly overtaken by a grocery store.

Lehigh Valley barge No. 79 still gets tugged along - but now it houses a museum and unusual performances.

A mass grave for victims of one of the city’s worst fires.

This micro-industry of Latino cuisine along Red Hook's Ball Fields represents a victory in a food fight with the city.

New York City's only radical feminist independent bookstore.

The first museum in the United States dedicated entirely to posters.

This enormous banquet-themed artwork honors over 1,000 notable women throughout history.

The famed amusement district marks the beginning of summer with a wild procession of nautical creatures.

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

A New York warehouse filled with an enormous amount of goods saved from the landfills and donated for creative use.

Oldest surviving example of a Dutch saltbox frame house in America.

A reminder to choose water over wine since 1888.

Obscure and obsolete publications are given new life as works of art.

A self-made museum in Queens, New York continues to display the work of a sculptor known for paving his own way.

A decommissioned military complex that's now a modern industrial park.