Taste of Persia is a small café tucked away inside an unassuming pizzeria in the Flatiron District. Owner Saeed Pourkay used to own the printing shop across the street for 15 years, but when a few bad years left him without a business or a home, the neighborhood came together to help him establish Taste of Persia and get back on his feet. Now, you can find some of the best Persian Food in the City from his tiny shop. Check out this video from our friends at Food Insider to learn more about the restaurant.

Hidden away in a corner of a pizza shop, Taste of Persia NYC serves traditional Persian dishes to its customers from a counter at the front window. Owner Saeed Pourkay started the restaurant with the help of his neighbors after becoming homeless. Pourkay's meaty dishes require seven to eight hours of simmering and cooking. INSIDER producer Medha Imam visits the restaurant to try out the traditional cuisine, gets a behind-the-scenes look into the restaurant.

360° New York is a Viewing NYC series in which we explore the City using a 360° spherical video camera. In this video from the series, kick up your feet and relax on on the lawn of Bryant Park. Gaze upon the New York Public Library and enjoy a warm Spring day as the sun sets over the surrounding Midtown towers.

If you can't move the view around, you need to use the Google Chrome browser on desktop, or the YouTube App for iOS or Android to move around inside the video.

The music featured in the video is Joakim Karud — "Dreams"

Using publicly accessible data and information from the archives of the New York Public Library and the Library of Congress, the team at Angie's List recently created this short animated video and series which allow you to watch Manhattan grow over the past 400 years. Check out the accompanying article for more detail on all of the video's segments.

For the past four hundred years, the island that so many New Yorkers call home has been changed by the people who lived there. Manhattan is now a super metropolis with 8 million inhabitants, but take a look at the earliest known map of New Amsterdam, as it was then called, and you’ll see a very different island.