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A mosaic made of materials gathered from this Brooklyn community adorns the walls of this tunnel.

Built as a home for the Union Porcelain magnate in 1867, now the Greenpoint Reformed Church and home to a ceramic mystery.

This recently uncovered ad for Lindsay's run at Mayor in 1965 had been hiding for decades underneath a billboard.

Nearly four centuries after its founding, remnants of one of the oldest planned communities in North America are still visible in southern Brooklyn.

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

Two monstrous warehouses. One now holds priceless works of art, the other stands abandoned and dilapidated.

The site where Joe Gallo kept his guns, pet lion, and launched an all out mob war in 1960s Brooklyn.

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.

Residents of this Brooklyn neighborhood may be unaware their houses sit atop a buried trolley graveyard.

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

The humble fort that saved Washington.

Three stories above you, your salad is being grown.

A working monastery hidden away in Brooklyn once abutted the location of a former inebriate's home.

Constructed in the 1920s, this former pencil factory is now an office building.

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

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

Final resting place of the immigrant who brought artificial seltzer water to America.

Brooklyn's Barkaloo Cemetery is the resting place of a scant two bodies.

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

The final resting place of the great escape artist, where some still gather to wait for his escape from death.

This former water source for the City of Brooklyn is now a thriving natural wetland.

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

Brooklyn's most iconic restaurant, resurrected.

This recipe is set in stone.