A modern addition to the Greenpoint skyline.

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

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

As telephones become more essential and less stylish one historic Brooklyn building remembers the days when they were a grand celebration of communication.

A strip of modern stores in historic buildings.

Church featuring "high Victorian gothic" architecture.

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

A community theatre in Brooklyn that brings Country to New York and New York to Country.

New York's oldest concrete structure is being preserved thanks to the gentrification of Whole Foods.

One of the deadliest American air disasters is nearly forgotten in Brooklyn.

While it now takes more than a dime to open an account this historic Brooklyn bank still displays the opulence of the gilded age in which it was built.

A prized globe signed by Amelia Earhart and Charles Lindbergh sits in the Brooklyn office of the American Geographical Society.

Now the site of a high school, this was almost the location of the largest cathedral in the US.

The humble fort that saved Washington.

Two monstrous warehouses. One now holds priceless works of art, the other stands abandoned and dilapidated.

A world of whimsy and wonder aboard a one of a kind historic landmark vessel.

The only surviving sidewalk clock in Brooklyn.

Where infamous mobster and leader of Murder Inc. Albert Anastasia made his home.

Final resting place of the immigrant who brought artificial seltzer water to America.

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

This neo-Gothic former auto showroom is one of the few remaining reminders of Brooklyn's "Automobile Row."

This seemingly unremarkable boulder is said to bear the hoofprint of the devil himself.

This 19th century brick building in Brooklyn stands out like the anachronistic landmark that it is.

Final resting place for the Triangle Shirtwaist fire’s unidentified victims.