“Wagon Jobber" turned smokehouse magnate's family-owned business is still going strong 100 years later.

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

One of the first major shipyards in Brooklyn.

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

Known as the "Forgotten City" it was home to industry, riots, artists, squatters, and to one of the largest single disaster fires in New York City.

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

Feral cats keeping the rodent population at bay all across Greenpoint waterfront.

Three stories above you, your salad is being grown.

HBO series' stage tucked away in a Greenpoint lot is the largest theatrical set of its kind in the United States.

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 group dedicated to promoting boating, kayaking and environmental education programs.

Enormous one time fiber mill now houses local artists and small businesses.

Once a dumping spot, now a park with a kayak launch.

The factory for the popular Dumbo location, the Greenpoint shop is a quiet gem.

Final resting place of the immigrant who brought artificial seltzer water to America.

A heartbreaking monument showing the last morning in the life of Jane Griffith.

The inventor of the Coney Island hot dog rests in a grand mausoleum in Brooklyn.

The real "father of baseball" rests in Brooklyn.

This controversial statue has migrated twice in its life.

A curious friendship between two inanimate ladies.

The Father of the Erie Canal has a magnificent grave marker that redefines the term "final resting place."

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

The world's largest piece of copyrighted artwork.

From economic backbone of a community to deadly diving hole, these former stone quarries are now a park for rock climbers and graffiti artists.