A prohibition era watering hole for the police.

Beautiful mosaics cover the first stations opened on New York City's newest subway line.

Rare moles meet activism at this Oaxacan eatery.

A collaborative art project that transformed a neighborhood in NYC's Queens.

Captain America, Sub-Mariner, and the Human Torch were all born in this art deco Manhattan masterpiece.

The last remnants of what was once one of the world's grandest hotels can now be found in a Manhattan subway station.

What happens here stays here – unless it affects the whole world.

Obscure and obsolete publications are given new life as works of art.

A one-ton statue of Steve Rogers beautifies the entry to a Brooklyn Bed, Bath & Beyond.

The 28-foot granite map plots the locations of 40 theaters in New York City.

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

This exemplar of modernist architecture is meant to captivate and inspire students of the Cooper Union.

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

I fought the law and the precinct caved in.

Piano-making empire filled with 200-year-old steam machines still churning out 1,000 instruments a year.

The first piece of public art dedicated to LGBT rights.

Take in a rare, face-to-face glimpse of Lady Liberty at this tucked away Red Hook park.

A dark patch of the ceiling at Grand Central Terminal which was not restored is still stained brown by tobacco.

The most confusing clock in New York.

A notorious punk house turned co-op.

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

Where now stands a 42-story condominium tower of marble, glass and steel was once the central market of New York’s slave trade.

This speakeasy continues the Prohibition-era legacy of Harlem's jazzy Swing Street.

The world's largest collection of materials relating to lesbian history is housed in a Brooklyn townhouse.