These twin wood-frame houses appear on maps of Hallett’s Point as early as 1903, and may date to the late 1890s.

This six-story tenement building is no longer standing and has since been replaced by an ad hoc single story souvenir shop.

The Schwab house is built on the site of a former British Revolutionary War fort.

The Granada Apartments were built by the Park National Corporation in the late 1920s.

This Dutch Colonial farmhouse is one of only a few surviving early 19th-century structures of this type.

George Bellows, the painter known for his realist depictions of boxing matches, NYC scenes, and portraiture purchased this Greek Revival townhouse in 1910.

After suffering from a serious fire in 1975, this house was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.

The Williamsburg Houses have been called “the best public housing project ever built in New York.”

Christie, a stonecutter, built this Federal style house in 1834. It retains many of its original features, including Flemish bond brickwork and wooden window frames.

Lockwood, a commission merchant who had previously lived in Manhattan and Brooklyn, purchased this Astoria mansion upon his retirement in 1864.

This Bushwick Avenue mansion was built for a female brewery owner, and later home to the discredited Arctic explorer who claimed to be the first man to reach the North Pole.

The Amsterdam Houses are a 13-building public housing complex that covers 61st Street to 64th Street between West End and Amsterdam Avenues. Many rowhouses were demolished in the process of construction!

The Lott House ended its status as the longest continual ownership of a property by a single family within the City with its purchase by the City in 2001.

This Dutch Colonial home that stood on the corner of Church Avenue and East 53rd Street was the home of John Schenck, a captain in the New Jersey Militia during the American Revolutionary War.

Most Americans and Canadians with the last name Wyckoff (with various spellings) can trace their linage to the family of Pieter Wyckoff who lived in this Brooklyn house.

The home was a large Dutch Colonial structure that was demolished in 1925.

The Joseph Steele house, built around 1850, is likely an extension of the smaller wing on its east side.

President George Washington lived between April, 1789 and February 1790, making it the First Presidential residence.

Constructed between 1959 and 1962, the complex is referred to as a "vest pocket" public housing because it takes up less than one full city block.

Constructed in 1856 in an Italianate-style, this mansion was originally built for James Winslow, a wealthy New York banker, but was later occupied by the well-known poet Emma Lazarus.

This Dutch Colonial home has had many great additions and alterations in its 300 plus years.

While Flushing is home to some of the oldest buildings in New York City, most of the housing stock from the 19th century has been demolished– like this one.

This house has survived over 100 years as many of its great neighbors where demolished to make way for large apartment buildings.

This two-story home is a remnant of a period when all of Brooklyn Heights was populated by Federal style buildings.

A wood-frame house no more! This home, since demolished, was once owned by one of the oldest Dutch families in Brooklyn: the Schencks.

The construction of the 2014 building on this lot took more than a decade with problems and delays, including the 2001 discovery of 19th century human remains.

Although the porch, clapboard and shingle facades have either been replaced or dismantled, the bones of this frame house still remains.

This pair of wood-frame houses are the oldest in Fort Greene.

This house — possibly the oldest surviving building in the Tribeca Historic District — was built in 1808-09 by Gideon Tucker, an alderman, school commissioner, and the New York City Commissioner of Estimates and Assessments.

This is the home of an early 20th century Brooklyn Parks Commissioner and three times Lieutenant Governor of NYS, Timothy Lester Woodruff, who advocated for bike paths long before they were the hotbed issue they are in Brooklyn today.

The Chateau Apartments were built in 1922 and designed by Andrew Thomas, a local Queens architect.

This "Captain's Row" mansion belonged to Stephen Barnes, a mariner and oyster merchant who operated a stall at Fulton Market.

This house is part of Bronx Community College today, but was previously part of New York University.

This private home became a library for neighborhood children that had no other options.

During the Great Depression, all across the country, shantytowns popped up, filled with homeless and unemployed Americans. These areas were nicknamed "Hoovervilles," calling attention to the name of the president under whom the Depression begun (Herbert Hoover) and his indifference to the plight of these citizens.

This wood-frame home, dating from some time in the middle of the 18th century, still stands on the corner of Clove Road and Richmond Terrace, now surrounded by a chain-link fence.

Once an impressive Italianate style home with a tiled mansard roof and classic porch, the home has been altered dramatically. These features can still be seen, but are somewhat obscured by 20th century siding and wrought iron banisters.

The home is one of the oldest on Staten Island. Its name references Adam Scott and Ogden Edwards, just a few of the home's long series of owners.

One of the cross-streets nearby this house was renamed from Hogan's Alley to Yetman Avenue in honor of the home's original owner Hubbard R. Yetman.

This highly embellished Italianate home was built circa 1855 and remains standing today. The flat roof, bracketed cornices, and wraparound porch have been maintained in perfect form.