Brooklyn Heights A time capsule. 19th Century America. Jackie Robinson. Rudolph Giuliani, prior to being Mayor. Art Deco and Rockefeller Center-to-be. The Ocean Liner, The Normandie. Tiffany windows. Pinkie and an auction. The Erie Canal. The Brooklyn Bridge. Thomas Wolfe. Walt Whitman.

The Financial District / Wall Street / Ground Zero Experience how New Amsterdam became New York, and then the world's financial capital. Feel the power of J.P. Morgan, the Rockefellers. The buttonwood tree and the Exchange. Zoning in the 1910s and the 1960s. See New York City's tallest building, circa 1846-1892. The world's tallest building, circa 1913-1930. Two architects' rivalry and the outcome.

Marilyn Monroe's New York City Imagine you are Marilyn Monroe in New York. You'll discover the places, where she lived, studied, filmed, and stayed, the stories, the people, including the Sigmund Freud connection.

Harlem The first female millionaire. The Croix de Guerre. Schomburg. The Harlems. Hotel Theresa. Blumstein Department Store. The Tree of Hope. Striver's Row. The Harlem Renaissance. The Delany Sisters. "Don't Buy Where You Can't Work." The Cotton Club. The Lindy Hop. The Susie Q. Marcus Garvey. The Abyssinian Baptist Church.

Gramercy Park Babe Ruth. Humphrey Bogart. Gold keys. Quality of life. New York City's only private park. Who played in Gramercy Park, when he was 8 years old? Robert Henri and the Ashcan School. George Bellows. Edward Hopper. Margaret Hamilton. Claudette Colbert. Whoopi Goldberg. James Cagney. John Ringling. Prohibition. The architects: Henry J. Hardenbergh, Warren & Wetmore, Stanford White. Peter Cooper.

Greenwich Village / The Village Mae West. Edgar Allen Poe. 1917 and the Independence of The Village. A marshland? The City's first suburb? See the work of Alexander Calder's father. Stanford White. Harry K. Thaw. The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing. John D. Rockefeller. A 1911 fire. An Art Deco Prison.

Humphrey Bogart's New York City A New York Boy. The first apartment. The clubs. His favorite Manhattan hotel. His childhood home. The school. His parents' post-Depression home. The first wedding. The various residences on the East and West Sides. The play and the theatre that put him on the map.

The Lafayette Historic Group and The East Village Laying out Manhattan's grid work street pattern. The City's "Gold Coast". Frank Lloyd Wright's teacher and his building. A Henry J. Hardenbergh building, prior to The Plaza Hotel. The French Second Empire Style. The residence of John Jacob Astor, Cornelius Vanderbilt, Washington Irving, Charles Dickens. Where "Hair" and "A Chorus Line" were first performed. Mark Twain and Abraham Lincoln lectured there. The burial ground for Governor Stuyvesant and Commodore Perry. Peter Stuyvesant's farm.

Chelsea Mary Pickford. "A Visit from St. Nicholas." Pre-Hollywood. 19th Century charm. The site of one of the nation's six Gutenberg Bibles. Cushman Row. Greek Revival architecture. Anthony Perkins' Townhouse. An early cooperative apartment house. A register that reads like an artistic and literary Who's Who. Edwardian charm. London "bobbies." Arthur Miller.

SoHo / Nolita Skyscrapers-to-be or wanna-bes? A red light district. Zoning and illegal living. Cast-Iron and its importance. Flipping through the catalog. Richard Morris Hunt. Furrier. Glass disks and triangles. John Gotti. Tenements. Houston Street is named after _______ (fill in the blank). An L-shaped building. Charlotte Astor.

Rockefeller Center / St. Patrick's Cathedral A business and entertainment complex far in advance of its day. Pasture land, "common lands", Botanic Gardens, The new Opera House. A city-within-a-city. A city-beneath-a-city. Urban design, par excellence. Samuel L. "Roxy" Rothafel, the Roxyettes. A Cathedral's journey from downtown to 5th Avenue. The windows. The Civil War. The design. The changing city as manifested by the Cathedral.

TriBeCa The juxtaposition of old and new gives TriBeCa a very New York feeling. Glass disks. Cast-iron. Mercantile structures. Full cycle from residential to cheese, butter, eggs, spices, to commercial and light manufacturing, and back to residential. Different architectural styles side-by-side: Federal, Queen Anne, Italianate, Romanesque, Art Deco.

DUMBO and Vinegar Hill The new TriBeCa? The new Village? Or deja passé? Eskimo Pie. An Elevated Train. Cobblestone streets. Two bridges. Olympia. Irish-Town. Greek Revival Houses. A Buddhist Temple. The Admiral's House. Chocolates. The Brooklyn Navy Yard.

Old Time New York Gangsters Discover the places where some Old Time New York Gangsters worked, lived, loved, and died - bullets or natural causes. The J.P. Morgan of the Underworld. The dapper and refined gangster. Sing Sing. A police lieutenant. Mayor Fiorella H. LaGuardia. District Attorney and then Governor Thomas E. Dewey. The World Series of 1919. Murder Incorporated. Cuba and Batista. Las Vegas.