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Daily What?! New Museum Opens New Counter Surveillance Pop-Up “Privacy Shop”
From August 28th to September 22nd, the New Museum will be hosting a “Privacy Gift Shop” curated with counter-surveillance items
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In the Flatiron Building, The Whitney Has Recreated Edward Hopper’s Nighthawks in 3D
“Nighthawks” by Edward Hopper, 1942.Image via Wikimedia Commons. Edward Hopper’s Nighthawks via Art Institute of Chicago Through October
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Untapped Mailbag: Another Quirky House on top of an Apartment Building!
Untapped reader Matt Brothers submitted a house he found on top of an apartment building after reading our roundup yesterday
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The Original Hyperloop Carried a Cat Through the NYC Mail System (and subway sandwiches)
“N.Y. Post Office Pneumatic Tube” c. 1912. Photo via Library of Congress We’ve been so pleased with the
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10 Quirky Houses On Top of Apartment Buildings in NYC: Beach House, Lighthouse, Ski Chalet, Suburban Spread
Inspired by the news about the man in China who built a two-story fortress/mountain structure on the top of
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Cool Urban Website: Streetmix Makes Designing Streets Easy and Fun
For those that suffered through classes in planning school in order to hack Illustrator and Photoshop to show streetscapes, behold
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Daily What?! The Windows in Grand Central Have a Hidden Walkway
One of the things we learned on the Untapped Cities tour of the Secrets of Grand Central was that there
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Photos of the Dizzying Views from Inside the 1 WTC Construction Site
We’ve shown you the fun graffiti inside 1 WTC and a Google Glass video of our trip up to
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Photos Inside 1 WTC Construction Show Fun Graffiti by Construction Workers
Last week we went up to the 90th floor of 1 WTC and inside the Calatrava Transportation Hub with our
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Untapped Mailbag: Staircase to Nowhere in Riverside Park, Harlem
We got a tip in the Untapped Mailbag about a “staircase that leads to nowhere” in Riverside Park so we
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Jamaica Bay-Rockaway Parks Resilience Institute and Conservancy Formed for Restoration of Jamaica Bay, Queens
Jamaica Bay Today Mayor Bloomberg and US Secretary of the Interior, Sally Jewel, announced the creation of a Jamaica Bay
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Vintage Photos: NYC’s Meatpacking District in the 1990s
Atlas Meats was located across from what is now The Standard Hotel. It was demolished in 2011. Of the neighborhood