The last living thing to come out of the rubble after 9/11 is now a symbol of hope and resilience.

An odd, ancient window that may have once been part of a brutal prison is embedded in the side of New York's Police Plaza.

This historic address is home to the beloved ball and is an almost totally empty building among the most expensive real estate in the world.

An artist's cute bronze subway sculptures belie his violent artistic past.

A bit of retro transportation flair preserved in the world's largest department store.

This mosaic dedicated to John Lennon was tended for years by a Beatles super-fan.

Lady Liberty's first beacon of enlightenment is now displayed in a museum near the statue.

Manhattan's lighthouse, erected at the insistence of the unsinkable Molly Brown.

Wall Street has a new heroine, a bronze statue of a small but fierce girl.

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

A semi-scholarly approach to sex.

Try not to get slimed in Tribeca.

The oldest family-run luncheonette in New York, last renovated in 1948, still serves food and drinks the old-fashioned way.