This anonymous businessman sculpted in bronze became an enduring memorial after 9/11, and had been mistaken by rescue workers for a survivor in the rubble.

A hidden architectural treasure in New York's Brooklyn.

This curved Manhattan building was built to house the opulence of John D. Rockefeller's oil empire.

Wall Street has a new heroine, a bronze statue of a small but fierce girl.

Currently housing a corporate bank branch this building at the southern tip of Manhattan was once the gateway to luxury vacationing.

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

A massive forgotten storehouse from 1913 on the Brooklyn Waterfront has a spectacular view of Brooklyn.

This micro-industry of Latino cuisine along Red Hook's Ball Fields represents a victory in a food fight with the city.

This evocative New Jersey statue memoralizes the Polish victims of a Soviet massacre.

Compensation for the destruction of a historic shipyard.

Take in a rare, face-to-face glimpse of Lady Liberty at this tucked away Red Hook park.

Once home to the country's most gargantuan ships, this graving dock now waits for people to buy furniture.

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

A strip of modern stores in historic buildings.

“Invented in Key West, Perfected in Brooklyn."

Lehigh Valley barge No. 79 still gets tugged along - but now it houses a museum and unusual performances.

Four cars from the old system were once on display, but were removed in 2014.

Empty, but not abandoned, this cavernous Brooklyn loading dock was once considered the largest individual building in the world.

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

Once America's longest-manned military fort, now an abandoned hulk.

This small and serene place for quiet reflection on Staten Island was built in China based on the gardens of the Ming Dynasty.

A town trapped in time - 1958 to be exact.

One-time largest man-made structure in the world will be a park in 30 years.

This park contains a number of standing stones meant to heal and inspire.