Brooklyn Navy Yard

1940s · WWII shipbuilding

Fulton Street, Bed-Stuy

1980s · Community & culture

Knickerbocker Ave, Bushwick

1977 · The Blackout

Eastern Parkway, Crown Heights

1920s · Great Migration

Coney Island Boardwalk

1950s · Golden era

DUMBO

1970s · Artists & warehouses

Red Hook Waterfront

1940s · Dockworkers

Brighton Beach

1980s · Soviet immigration

Prospect Park

1960s · Civil rights era

Bedford Ave, Williamsburg

1970s · Puerto Rican community

Brooklyn College

1930s · WPA campus

Fort Greene Park

1860s · Civil War prison

Brownsville, Pitkin Ave

1940s · Jewish community

Bay Ridge, Shore Road

1950s · Norwegian settlement

Harlem, 125th Street

1920s · Harlem Renaissance

Apollo Theater

1930s · Amateur Night legends

Lower East Side

1900s · Jewish immigration

Chinatown, Mott Street

1880s · First Chinatown

Little Italy, Mulberry Street

1900s · Sicilian immigration

Stonewall Inn, Greenwich Village

1969 · LGBTQ uprising

Tompkins Square Park

1988 · Riot & displacement

Hell's Kitchen, 9th Ave

1930s · Irish working class

Times Square, 42nd Street

1970s · Before the cleanup

Ellis Island

1900s · Immigration gateway

Triangle Shirtwaist Factory

1911 · Labor tragedy

Seneca Village, Central Park

1850s · Displaced community

Tin Pan Alley, 28th Street

1900s · American songwriting

Washington Heights, 181st St

1950s · Dominican roots

Grand Concourse, Bronx

1930s · Art Deco borough

Hunts Point, South Bronx

1970s · Community resilience

Yankee Stadium area

1920s · Baseball cathedral

Charlotte Street, South Bronx

1977 · Urban abandonment

Cross Bronx Expressway

1963 · Displacement by design

Pelham Parkway

1920s · Jewish middle class

Jerome Ave, South Bronx

1970s · Under the elevated

Flushing, Main Street

1980s · Asian immigration wave

Astoria, Steinway Street

1920s · Greek community

Jackson Heights

1970s · Latin American roots

Louis Armstrong House, Corona

1943 · Jazz legend's home

St. Albans, Linden Blvd

1950s · Jazz musicians' enclave

Rockaway Beach

1950s · Summer escape

Sunnyside Gardens

1924 · Planned garden community

St. George Ferry Terminal

1905 · Gateway to the island

Snug Harbor, Richmond Terrace

1833 · Sailors' retirement home

Tottenville, Main Street

1880s · Oyster industry