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.
The question of green space is not a contemporary one. New York has been struggling with it for more than
It may not have been the first time someone threw a party in an old subway station, but surely this
The US Navy blimp spotted on the Untapped Cities Instagram account. Next time you look up in the sky and
Today’s Banksy in Bed-Study uses an architectural detail from an existing building to double as a bridge, the
Breakdown of city noise sources in the Roaring Twenties interactive site by Emily Thompson. We came across this interesting study
5:40 MAS Smart Talk: Completing the High Line: The Future of Manhattan’s Park in the Sky with Joshua
5 Pointz, the largest legal aerosol art exhibit in the US is a cultural gem slated to be destroyed – but
On a tour this week, the president of the Friends of the Roosevelt Island Steam Plant pointed out a funny
Original piece photographed by Bob Cooley (@bobcooley), before it was partially defaced Leave it to the city’s construction workers
Last year, we published a popular article on the architectural secrets of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. This fall, we’
In August, we hung out with artist Greg Kloehn in his dumpster house which was set up outside Pioneer Works
If you only saw the sleek office of architect Alain Dominique Gallizia in Boulogne Billancourt just outside Paris, it wouldn’
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