Fabrication workshop where the encasement for One World Trade Center's beacon was constructed.

The highest rapid transit station in the world.

This elaborate tunnel is the first structure composed of cast concrete in the United States.

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

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

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.

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

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

For 20 years, local pumpkins have met their fate on the iron fence surrounding this Cobble Hill home.

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

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

Three stories above you, your salad is being grown.

This block in downtown Brooklyn was a hotbed of antislavery activism along the Underground Railroad.

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 mass grave of a heroic Revolutionary War regiment sits below an empty lot near the Gowanus Canal.

The cuisine at this Sheepshead Bay spot tells the story of a displaced Muslim Chinese community.

One of the few Glatt kosher delis in the United States is a cornerstone of its Hasidic neighborhood.

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

This secluded ruin was once a home for exotic plants.

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

A tree that grows parallel to the ground was declared Brooklyn's "crowning curio" by the poet who saved it.

19th century cemetery hidden in Brooklyn's Prospect Park.

A beautiful collection of architectural ornaments rescued from demolished New York City buildings.

Abandoned power station once home to a squatter community, now being developed into an arts center.