A cargo of beautiful music.

Unrepaired walls from a 1920 anarchist bomb attack.

Nondescript building owned by ExxonMobil working on siphoning Greenpoint Oil Spill out of the ground.

Set sail on a small scale.

A modern addition to the Greenpoint skyline.

This lower Manhattan bar is set up in an old bank vault that rests beneath a skyscraper that hides even more historic splendor.

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

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

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

The return of something once considered a basic part of life.

Once the tallest building in the world and the site of “the highest dinner ever held in New York” this building now holds the most expensive penthouse in the city.

Blighted Irish field and the ruins of a 19th-century cottage on the edge of urban Manhattan.

During the 19th century, you could pay for violence off a prix fixe menu on this Manhattan street.

Order scoops of pandan, lychee, and black sesame at this family-run institution.

Spinning silently in the lobby of an Art Deco masterwork is a massive vintage model of the Earth.

A very classy 1920s-era bar right in Grand Central Station.

Whisper secrets in a busy station only to be heard on the other side of this acoustic arch.

A pedestrian island in the middle of world-famous Times Square emits a strange (and purposeful) humming noise.

A dark patch of the ceiling at Grand Central Terminal which was not restored is still stained brown by tobacco.

An unassuming secret door once led to a legendary watering hole.

Salute the leader of the proletariat.

Try not to get slimed in Tribeca.

The greatest real estate coup of all time.