Compensation for the destruction of a historic shipyard.

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

This metal eagle one of the final remnants of a newspaper that wanted to keep Brooklyn to Brooklyn.

A strip of modern stores in historic buildings.

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

The one-stop shop for all of your superhero (or evil arch-nemesis) needs.

The "Seinfeld" diner.

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

A library and shop devoted to the body, mortality, and bringing to light forgotten or neglected histories

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

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

This castle-like building in Manhattan helped destigmatize cancer in the 19th century.

“Invented in Key West, Perfected in Brooklyn."

One of the largest public housing complexes in New York once visited by Eleanor Roosevelt.

An illegally built ramshackle mansion tucked in the middle of Brooklyn is now being turned into condominiums.

A Red Hook dive bar that is holding onto its roots.

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

Beautiful mosaics cover the first stations opened on New York City's newest subway line.

In its day this historic fort held 100 cannons pointed in almost every direction to protect New York.

Michael Jackson got Bad and Crocodile Dundee walked on heads in this iconic Brooklyn subway station.

Ride the subways of yesteryear.

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

A former insane asylum despised by Nelly Bly and Charles Dickens is now fashionable apartments.

Walk into the 19th century without leaving Brooklyn.