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.
A modern sewage treatment plant: The Digester Eggs at Newtown Creek Until 1992, ocean dumping was permitted in the Atlantic
Last week, Untapped Cities reported that the 8th Annual Jazz Age Lawn Party would be returning to Governor’s Island
Introducing a new twist to our weekly Instagram “Pic” from our Photo Pool. We will be doing a string of
This is part of an ongoing series on ideas from Next New York, a project by the Forum for Urban
Photo by Rembert Browne Recently, we reported on the staircase to nowhere in Riverside Park. Today, we present to you
Since the late 1950s, the mayoral administrations of New York City, have tried, albeit unsuccessfully, to redevelop the Willets Point
This week, four quirky urban projects caught our attention, from photographing door numbers in London for each day of the
If you recall, we covered the Little Free Library located at 32 Prince Street (pictured above). We recently went to
If you ask Beijingers where to eat in summer nights, most of them would give the same answer: Guijie! Located
Google is celebrating the 151st birthday of French composer Claude Debussy with this fun, interactive doodle set to the tune
Source: Library of Congress “The Future of Trinity Church” is a wood engraving from 1907 by Albert Levering from Puck’
The routes we physically occupy determine our understanding of our city. We create mental maps, conforming our idea of the
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