Brooklyn, New York
Smith-9 Street Station
The highest rapid transit station in the world.
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Brooklyn, New York
The highest rapid transit station in the world.
Brooklyn, New York
This micro-industry of Latino cuisine along Red Hook's Ball Fields represents a victory in a food fight with the city.
Brooklyn, New York
While it now takes more than a dime to open an account this historic Brooklyn bank still displays the opulence of the gilded age in which it was built.
Brooklyn, New York
Michael Jackson got Bad and Crocodile Dundee walked on heads in this iconic Brooklyn subway station.
Brooklyn, New York
This beautiful Brooklyn monument over a crypt memorializes a grim and largely unknown story from the American Revolution.
New York, New York
A popular European tradition makes its way to the states on one of America's most famous bridges.
Brooklyn, New York
A decommissioned military complex that's now a modern industrial park.
Queens, New York
How a century-old glass factory in Queens became a concert venue and arts center.
Queens, New York
The crown jewel of the Queens Museum is a nearly 10,000-square-foot architectural model of the city originally built for the 1964 World's Fair.
Queens, New York
The remnants of two World's Fairs are here, complete with a 12-story globe, a mini-Manhattan, and a UFO-shaped pavilion.
Bronx, New York
The mosaic Star of David at the front of this store hints that it's no ordinary Italian grocer.
South Salem, New York
Protecting the future of some of the rarest and most misunderstood mammals of North America.
New Windsor, New York
100 massive sculptures in the Hudson River Valley.
New Paltz, New York
This stone gatehouse was once the entrance to a historic mountain resort, and it had a cameo in a cheesy cult horror movie.
Saugerties, New York
One man's swirling six-acre monument of stone.
Cooperstown, New York
A gigantic 10-foot tall stone man.
Rome, New York
An interesting look into 18th-century American history.
Palmyra, New York
Golden plates containing what would become the Book of Mormon were believed to be buried on this New York hillside.
Rochester, New York
The largest guitar store in the world has been visited by some of music's all-time greats passing through upstate New York.
Rochester, New York
Rochester's signature culinary delicacy.
Rochester, New York
One of the largest festivals of flowers in North America takes place, appropriately, in the Flower City.
Rochester, New York
The home, museum, and death site of Kodak's influential founder.
Rochester, New York
Where the Millerites gathered to watch the end of the world in 1844—and left disappointed.
East Rochester, New York
Called the “General Motors of the piano industry,” these buildings once produced as many as 700 pianos a week.