A modern cabinet of curiosities hidden within a graffiti covered alley.

Meet the local activists trying to save Chinatown from the big developers. Learn how this cultural institution stands accused of selling out the Chinese American community it claims to serve.

View the imposing towers of the bridge from gritty Pike street. Here we'll discuss the local anarchist civic engineer who built it and the catastrophe of this next project.

Explore the neighborhood built by slumlords that was once the world's most densely populated areas. Delve in to the radical movements that we born out of that era.

Go inside a house that was purchased by a nurse to care for this community which was once a notorious red light district.

A used bookstore famous for it's unusual bartering system

Go inside an apartment building that was abandoned and claimed by squatters in the 90s. Still occupied by the radicals today.

Visit another reclaimed urban space in the East Village. Once a lot piled with rubble, now a lush volunteer run garden.

A famous mural inside a public bathroom that serves as a celebration of a practice that's widely shamed.

See the remains and creative redevelopment of a former industrial neighborhood once known for producing packaged meats. Now home to Manhattan's only beach.

Ride a portion of a bike trail that leads all the way to Canada.