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

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

The site of a fallen tree that protected Americans from British forces during the American Revolution.

A century-old magnolia tree is the only living landmark tree in New York City.

A cruise terminal that changes the atmosphere of Red Hook's industrial waterfront.

The engineering feat of the Panama Canal was possible in small part thanks to materials developed in this humble Red Hook foundry.

Neoclassical bank designed by NY architects Helmle & Huberty.

A group dedicated to promoting boating, kayaking and environmental education programs.

Once a flowing stream and where the USS Monitor, the world's first ironclad, was built and launched.

The childhood home of one of America's greatest unsung troubadours still stands in a much changed Brooklyn neighborhood.

Headquarters of the world's fourth largest Hasidic sect and the first of many "770s" around the world.

The inventor of the Coney Island hot dog rests in a grand mausoleum in Brooklyn.

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

Before online banking and smartphone apps, there was "commuter banking" in the subway in Downtown Brooklyn.

A modern addition to the Greenpoint skyline.

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

The flagship building of an early national restaurant chain is a superb example of terra cotta art.

2,000 barrels of aging beer hidden in a warehouse at the Brooklyn Navy Yard.

A mass grave for victims of one of the city’s worst fires.

Sunset Park's Guatemalan community knows to head to the back of this bodega for a taste of home.

A Collegiate Gothic quadrangle that surrounds an 18th century secondary school whose financing came from the likes of Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr, among others.

This block in downtown Brooklyn was a hotbed of antislavery activism along the Underground Railroad.

This family-owned bakery is one of the last places in Brooklyn to sell the Nation of Islam–inspired bean pie.

Oldest surviving example of a Dutch saltbox frame house in America.