From the Westinghouse Time Capsules to one of the oldest known, these artifacts help us to understand what the city was like in the past.
Discover some of the amazing facts you can learn on an exclusive hard hat tour of the abandoned Ellis Island Hospital!
This lost mid-century resort destination is home to memories of a former respite from city life.
What’s better than a post about cats? That there’s a 5Pointz graffiti cat? That Untapped Cities writer Rachel Fawn Alban adopted him? And that he now has his own Instagram, @graffiticatbaxter? All of the above.
Rachel has mixed in latergrams of Baxter, which she’s dubbed #Baxtergrams, at 5Pointz with images of him happily in his new home.
Image via @graffiticatbaxter by @mevents and @meresone
Read about 5Pointz’s original past as a water meter company, see a photo essay before the whitewashing, and images of the fateful whitewashing. Get in touch with the author @untappedmich.
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