Secrets of New York

The tiny cemetery on St. James Place in Manhattan's Chinatown is the oldest Jewish cemetery in the United States. 18 Jewish veterans of the Revolutionary War are buried here.

Built in 1893, the old Harlem Courthouse still functions as a justice center with an interior from Manhattan's Gilded Age. Kelly Choi discovers a hidden passageway that leads to the oldest district prison still standing in the City of New York.

In front of a quiet Church on Riverside Drive stands the bronze figure of the 12th Century monk who founded Shin Buddhism. But the statue itself survived the world’s first atomic bomb. Kelly Choi explores its story.

A tall red brick building on East Fourth Street is the only house in New York City that remains intact from 1832, both inside and out. Kelly Choi discovers a special secret way up in the attic.

Between Bedford-Stuyvesant and Crown Heights, Brooklyn, a group of old houses remain from one of the first free African American communities in America. Kelly Choi visits a cultural jewel from the 1830’s.

On the northern edge of Central Park, there’s a small fort left over from a war that New Yorkers never had to fight. Find out who might have invaded the City with Kelly Choi.

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?

Before Radio and phonograph there was sheet music and pianos, lots of pianos, with aggressive song pluggers pounding out the next big hit for the music publishers along west 28th Street. They made such a racket, it sounded like a hundred people banging on tin pans, so Tin Pan Alley was born, and with it a new way of selling pop music to America.

Kelly ventures to mysterious islands around New York to unearth the secrets that lie hidden in their past. On Hart Island, she meets with experts who enrich our understanding of the site’s rich history.