New York City's only radical feminist independent bookstore.

A Ukrainian church canteen doles out hearty fare in an East Village basement.

Built just after the American Revolution, the oldest row house in New York City still stands in Chinatown.

For almost a century, this East Village newsstand has served egg creams to beats, hippies, punks, and everything in between.

Home to some of the last true noodle artisans in New York.

This narrow shop in the East Village hosts a matchmaking service for the new millennium.

Have a steam and some blini at this cafe in a century-old bathhouse.

A trove of century-old litho stones from the Puck Building's printing days were discovered behind a cellar wall, and are now hanging in the store.

A notorious punk house turned co-op.

A living archive of urban activism and space reclaimed.

A Yiddish theater turned movie house turned rock and roll landmark turned gay disco turned bank.

The artist and New York City icon lived, worked and died in this converted carriage house owned by another iconic artist, Andy Warhol.

This little museum is built on a theater that was once a wildly elaborate speakeasy.

Monument to a forgotten NYC disaster that claimed the lives of 1,000.

A hip bar decorated with walls of golden skulls.

This former crime corner has been turned into an eclectic community center.

A veritable variety of odds and ends.

Skewer up Kangaroo.

The East Village tenement from the cover of Led Zeppelin’s 1975 album has a tea shop on the ground floor.

Historical figures from New York City's Catholic community reside in Midtown.

A reminder to choose water over wine since 1888.

This wall on a street corner in Lower Manhattan has been a blank canvas for a rotation of renowned artists since the 1980s.

One of the few remaining American elm trees in New York’s Tompkins Square Park was the birthplace of a new religion.

A hidden "place of interment for gentlemen."