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Nature and beauty amidst pollution and industrial wreckage.

Manhattan's deadly West Side railroad, which killed hundreds of New Yorkers, is remembered by this simple plaque.

Once a dumping spot, now a park with a kayak launch.

New York's oldest magic store.

The factory for the popular Dumbo location, the Greenpoint shop is a quiet gem.

I fought the law and the precinct caved in.

A massive art collective tries a new take on Brooklyn's DIY music scene—by making it fully legal.

Join in a Seance at the Swedenborgian Church.

Once called Winthrop Park in 1889, home to a decidedly sexy tribute to the Monitor vs. Merrimac battle.

A three-story copper skybridge connects two Manhattan buildings with Art Deco luxury.

Church in Manhattan holds the bloody sock of Padre Pio, among with many other unusual relics.

A replica of a 7th-century church hides in plain sight in the middle of the concrete jungle.

2 square block factory in Greenpoint erected in 1936.

The remains of a 19th century spring, and the site of an infamous unsolved murder.

A heartbreaking monument showing the last morning in the life of Jane Griffith.

Home to first responders to Greenpoint's devastating oil fires.

A legendary speakeasy bookstore returns from the brink.

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

HBO series' stage tucked away in a Greenpoint lot is the largest theatrical set of its kind in the United States.

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

The ballpark in "Pigtown" where the Brooklyn Dodgers made their name was replaced with a huge apartment complex.

If you were standing here on October 5th, 1950, you'd be dead.

A tree that grows parallel to the ground was declared Brooklyn's "crowning curio" by the poet who saved it.

Unlock the secrets of the conjuring arts.