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

This unusual subway stop was originally a real estate office.

A miniature version of a legendary Dutch boulder.

In Little Caribbean, an ice-cream shop serves up regional flavors, including soursop, Irish moss, and "greatnut."

Dedicated to preserving the history of free Black communities in Brooklyn and beyond.

An arcade packed with a rotating collection of unique independent video games.

Two community gardens under the elevated subway lines on a very busy commercial strip in Bushwick.

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

I fought the law and the precinct caved in.

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

A mysterious, abandoned building rotting on the Brooklyn waterfront.

The mass grave of a heroic Revolutionary War regiment sits below an empty lot near the Gowanus Canal.

Abandoned power station once home to a squatter community, now being developed into an arts center.

New York's oldest concrete structure is being preserved thanks to the gentrification of Whole Foods.

The unassuming structure was part of a Major League Baseball stadium.

A huge resale shop for the cast-offs of the film & television industry.

This unusual apartment building may be Brooklyn's own version of the Leaning Tower of Pisa.

This Peruvian-Chinese institution has perfected the art of rotisserie chicken—alongside plantains and lo mein.

One of the deadliest American air disasters is nearly forgotten in Brooklyn.

Every dish is blessed in this basement eatery beneath a Hare Krishna temple.

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

An interim housing alternative to FEMA trailers that is designed for densely populated areas during recovery and rebuilding following a natural disaster.

As telephones become more essential and less stylish one historic Brooklyn building remembers the days when they were a grand celebration of communication.

The gilded vestiges of a sterling department store can still be found in a Brooklyn shopping center.