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A basement pool hall is the front for some of the best Dominican food in New York City.

Guerilla gardeners reclaimed this abandoned railroad land literally putting down roots.

This Bronx apartment building is officially recognized as the birthplace of hip-hop.

A well-worn marker in a forgotten alleyway is all that remains of what had been one of Manhattan's most beautiful buildings.

Residents of this Brooklyn neighborhood may be unaware their houses sit atop a buried trolley graveyard.

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

Twenty-three trees, each paired with a basalt stone, line a street in Chelsea, continuing an urban project started by German Fluxus artist Joseph Beuys.

A controversial magical figure is hidden within a diorama of the city.

This hidden oasis features a stunning view of the Hudson River and the Palisades from a castle-like museum.

This abandoned artificial island off the coast of New York City is now home to dozens of harbor seals.

Two monstrous warehouses. One now holds priceless works of art, the other stands abandoned and dilapidated.

This preserved wilderness hides the remains of a colonial grain mill used to feed George Washington's troops.

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

Church featuring "high Victorian gothic" architecture.

During the American Revolution, this mansion hosted failed peace talks between the British and Americans.

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

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.

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

This simple Manhattan salt house is artfully shaped... well, like a giant granule of salt.

A mysterious statue of a leather jacket-clad rebel leans coolly on an odd yellow clock.

This Upper East Side apartment co-op was designed as a tuberculosis sanitarium.

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

The oldest Methodist church in the United States has been spreading the good news for over two centuries.

Once thought to be the fabled Holy Grail, it is now known to be an oil lamp.