Secrets of New York

This train terminal is filled with secrets, but there’s one that over 750,000 people pass every day that’s worth ten to ... Read more

Before Radio and phonograph there was sheet music and pianos, lots of pianos, with aggressive song pluggers pounding out... Read more

A tall red brick building on East Fourth Street is the only house in New York City that remains intact from 1832, both i... Read more

Secrets turn up in the strangest places in New York City, like the Wyckoff farm house, built in 1652.

Why would a church on East 29th Street have stained glass windows of Broadway actors?

On the northern edge of Central Park, there’s a small fort left over from a war that New Yorkers never had to fight. Fin... Read more

In front of a quiet Church on Riverside Drive stands the bronze figure of the 12th Century monk who founded Shin Buddhis... Read more

Between Bedford-Stuyvesant and Crown Heights, Brooklyn, a group of old houses remain from one of the first free African ... Read more

Kelly ventures to mysterious islands around New York to unearth the secrets that lie hidden in their past. On Hart Islan... Read more

New Yorkers have passed by a wide open space for 65 years riding the J train past Essex Street on the lower East side, w... Read more

In the mid 1800s New York was a dangerous, chaotic city teaming with newly arrived immigrants. Ruthless crooks and bruta... Read more

Few places in the world possess a history as rich, colorful or dramatic as that of New York City. Scattered throughout t... Read more

Kelly Choi explores the South Street Seaport and climbs aboard the tall ships that made New York an international trade ... Read more

Kelly traces New York City's cinematic history, all the way back to 1897 and Brooklyn's Vitagraph Studios, the oldest mo... Read more

How did New York City once end up with two police forces that spent more time battling each other than fighting crime? ... Read more