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Step inside one of New York’s greatest secrets — the Gilded Age mansion on Fifth Avenue housing a world-class art collection most visitors walk right past — plus get weekly New York stories free in our newsletter.

The story of Weeksville — a thriving community of free Black New Yorkers built in 1838 Brooklyn and lost for nearly a century until rediscovered from the air in 1968 — plus get weekly New York stories free in our newsletter.

The history of the New York bagel — from immigrant pushcarts on the Lower East Side to the great machine war that split the bakers’ union in two — plus get weekly New York stories free in our newsletter.

How an abandoned Manhattan freight railroad fought off demolition and became one of New York’s most beloved — and most copied — public spaces. — plus get weekly New York stories free in our newsletter.

Discover the Brooklyn Botanic Garden — 52 acres of Japanese gardens, cherry blossoms, and rose collections that most NYC visitors never find — plus get weekly New York stories free in our newsletter.

The hidden medical check that greeted every immigrant at Ellis Island and determined their fate — plus get weekly New York stories free in our newsletter.

Staten Island hides botanical gardens, a Tibetan temple, and New York’s finest free harbor view — plus get weekly New York stories free in our newsletter.

Discover the Harlem rent party tradition — how 1920s New Yorkers turned Saturday night house parties into the birthplace of stride piano and jazz — plus get weekly New York stories free in our newsletter.