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

One of the first major shipyards in Brooklyn.

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.

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

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

Ornate "Renaissance Revival" style building.

Queen Anne style apartment house built in 1886.

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

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

A drawbridge named for a potentially intersex Polish national who fought alongside George Washington during the American Revolution, and an example of "Pulaski Red".

If you were standing here on October 5th, 1950, you'd be dead.

The greatest real estate coup of all time.

New York City's only radical feminist independent bookstore.

Salute the leader of the proletariat.

One of the few remaining American elm trees in New York’s Tompkins Square Park was the birthplace of a new religion.

Monument to a forgotten NYC disaster that claimed the lives of 1,000.

A reminder to choose water over wine since 1888.

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

Nondescript elevator doors open to reveal a stunning, surreal world.

This cemetery has graves dating back to the 17th century, including the city's oldest carved tombstone and an ominous cryptogram.

Unrepaired walls from a 1920 anarchist bomb attack.

Possible relics of the ancient Roman city are hidden in this restaurant's façade.

Where now stands a 42-story condominium tower of marble, glass and steel was once the central market of New York’s slave trade.

Amid the bustle and noise of the Financial District hides a secluded garden oasis above the city streets.