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.
We’ve been pretty obsessed with rats recently, from our look into the history of the inflatable union rat, to
An artist’s rendering of the proposed Brooklyn Bridge Beach. There’s literally “something in the water” these days, with
The Cotton Club might be Harlem’s most famous surviving jazz venue, but during the Harlem Renaissance that started after
Every week, we highlight one of our 300+ Untapped Cities contributors worldwide. This week, we’re featuring Julia Vitullo-Martin,
School of Visual Arts student Randy Gregory has been posting improvement ideas for the NYC subway almost daily on his
Our fascination with road signs will never end. Last month, we showed you French artist Clet Abraham’s street sign
From “The Ruins of the Borscht Belt” exhibit. Photo by Marisa Scheinfeld On August 11th, the Lower East Side Jewish
When Michael Bloomberg was elected mayor of New York in 2001, no one predicted he would become a revolutionary, reshaping
The park will contain pedestrian walkways along with absorptive plants. Source: dlandstudio. Brooklyn’s notoriously dirty Gowanus Canal is getting
Like a less skeevy Beetlejuice Midtown, land of high-rise office buildings and terrible food, is not generally known for
This week’s #untappedcities Instagram “Pic” of the Week goes to @newyorkcityhistory for this detailed shot (reminiscent of a giant
We’ve been on a kick lately tracking down re-purposed buildings in NYC, finding out the new uses for
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