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✨You Can Touch the Times Square New Year's Eve Ball!
Find out how you can take home a piece of the old New Year's Eve ball!
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Architecture
How A 19th Century Mob Of Arsonists Burned Down Staten Island’s Quarantine Hospital
In 1858, before Staten Island consolidated with the rest of New York City, the New York Marine Hospital housed around
Guides
Sponsored: Make New York Lottery’s Holiday Instant Scratch-Off Games One of Your Traditions
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Arts & Culture
MTA Hosts Vintage Subway Swing Party With Nostalgia Holiday Trains
Photos Alex Wallach for Untapped Cities A tradition in New York City returns as the MTA brings back 1930s-1970s trains
Arts & Culture
Inside “The Last Bookstore” in Downtown Los Angeles
The Last Bookstore. Thankfully this is not a true statement, but the provocative name and lettering on the sign are
Food & Drink
On This Day in NYC History, December 2: 1657 Legislation Banned Household Goods as a Method of Payment for Liquor
On December 2nd 1657, The Nieuw Amsterdam City Council ruled that Tavernkeepers could not sell liquor in exchange for household
Arts & Culture
Photos from Fuerza Bruta: Catch the Show Before it Closes on January 5th
If you haven’t seen the interactive spectacle Fuerza Bruta in action yet, it can be hard to describe. It’
Arts & Culture
Lost and Forgotten Historical “Graffiti” in the US: Revolutionary War Blood Painting, Walt Disney Autographed Door
The National Trust for Historic Preservation has been cataloging some of the oldest graffiti in American history. Sometimes eerie, these
Architecture
Exclusive Untapped Cities Tour of the Woolworth Building: January 22, 2014
For more than half its life, Lower Manhattan’s iconic Woolworth Building has been off-limits to all but the lucky
Arts & Culture
Daily What?! Bronx Schoolkids Discover Indian and African Slave Grave in Joseph Rodman Drake Park
Fourth and fifth graders in Bronx Public School 48 have uncovered a long forgotten chapter of Bronx history: a slave
Architecture
Vintage Photos: Smithsonian Museum of the American Indian is on the Site of Fort Amsterdam in NYC
In a fitting twist of fate, the site currently occupied by the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian was
Arts & Culture
Thanksgiving Sale at the Untapped Cities Shop! Get 15% off With Code TGIVING
In celebration of Thanksgiving, Small Business Saturday, Black Friday, Cyber Monday and all that goodness, we’re offering 15% off
Architecture
The Best of the Untapped Cities Photo Pool: Abandoned 5 Beekman Street, 5Pointz, Met Life Tower, Chicago Reflections
Here are our picks for the Best of the Untapped Cities Photo Pool for this week. Remember, to submit your
