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The only remaining Jewish congregation in Greenpoint.

These small stands sell Malian snacks to worshippers and passersby after Friday prayers in Harlem.

Amid the clacking of snooker balls, diners tuck into fiery Bhutanese fare.

This beautiful Brooklyn monument over a crypt memorializes a grim and largely unknown story from the American Revolution.

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

Enter the deli, walk until you hit the taxidermy, then order some hot, homey guisado.

The longest continuous underwater road in North America was built at the insistence of Franklin Roosevelt.

Once a month, an Indonesian feast appears inside an Elmhurst church hall.

Chefs from Tibet's Kham region offer steaming meat pies and noodle soups in this nook behind a jewelry store.

The mosaic Star of David at the front of this store hints that it's no ordinary Italian grocer.

Sunset Park's Guatemalan community knows to head to the back of this bodega for a taste of home.

The humble fort that saved Washington.

Shop while you wait for a table in this tiny Indonesian eatery within a mini-mart.

A one-ton statue of Steve Rogers beautifies the entry to a Brooklyn Bed, Bath & Beyond.

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

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

Seriously good slices of Sicilian pizza lurk at the back of the Bronx's oldest enclosed market.

Deliciousness abounds at a Guatemalan restaurant masquerading as a pizzeria.

Here, exhibits come with a side of edible history.

Behind a grungy bodega facade, a Poblano family serves rich, home-cooked meals.

Serving Central Asian breads that range from cracker-crisp to warm and fluffy, this bakery brings Bukhara to Queens.

This subterranean oyster house has been the pearl of Grand Central Station since 1913.

Crammed into several rooms of a Staten Island home, this museum is a vodka-soaked paean to the pleasures of drinking.

A Jewish deli run by Yemeni Muslims in an Afro-Caribbean neighborhood is quintessential Brooklyn.