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

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

This speakeasy continues the Prohibition-era legacy of Harlem's jazzy Swing Street.

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

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.

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 home of aviation trailblazers, in a remote corner of the big city.

Constructed in the 1920s, this former pencil factory is now an office building.

An unconventional space for art and science housed in a massive old warehouse.

The greatest real estate coup of all time.

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

Once a popular watering hole among longshoremen and shipyard workers, this neighborhood treasure spans more than 100 years of Red Hook history.

A little lighthouse in New York City, surrounded by mysterious stories of insanity-driven construction.

This exemplar of modernist architecture is meant to captivate and inspire students of the Cooper Union.

The most confusing clock in New York.

There must be a pun in this haystack somewhere...

Little Red Lighthouse under the George Washington Bridge.

A Victorian cemetery in the heart of Brooklyn remains a popular mecca of morbid curiosity.

This abandoned seaside fortress is now simply an imposing ruin being taken back by nature.

One of the most enjoyable bits of history at Coney Island and “the most romantic ride in the world.”

“Invented in Key West, Perfected in Brooklyn."

The New York hotel where tragic visionary Nikola Tesla spent his final hours, destitute and alone but for the pigeons.

An artist's cute bronze subway sculptures belie his violent artistic past.

Blighted Irish field and the ruins of a 19th-century cottage on the edge of urban Manhattan.