Last-Minute NYC Holiday Gift Guide 🎁
We’ve created a holiday gift guide with presents for the intrepid New Yorker that should arrive just in time—
Untapped New York was started in 2010 by a then student at Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (GSAPP), where she is now a professor. We love architecture and believe there is no better place to celebrate it than NYC!
Here at Untapped Cities, we have had the good fortune of documenting the construction of the Second Avenue Subway annually
In recent years, Long Island City has evolved significantly. Forlorn factories, warehouses and small tenements have been rapidly replaced with
Golf courses, luxury hotels and commercial properties comprise just a small portion of the Trump Organization’s extensive Real Estate
The original plans for Grand Central Terminal called for the terminal to be surmounted by residential or office space in
Washington D.C is typically the burial ground of America’s historic figures and great generals. Countless figures have been
If you’ve ever wondered why Brooklyn allowed itself to be swallowed up by New York City, a trip to
Within a New York City Housing Authority complex, a historic building remains inaccessible to the public and the surrounding community.
Aerial photo of Brooklyn Navy Yard. Photo courtesy Brooklyn Navy Yard Development Corporation. During the height of its industrial growth,
Yesterday, we witnessed the installation of the first pieces of the New York Wheel, to be the world’s largest
With so many buildings in the New York City skyline demanding our attention, we rarely train our eyes to the
The central kitchen at Sea View Hospital is connected by above ground tunnels to the other buildings The historic Sea
A while back, Untapped Cities reader Cathleen Mayrose sent us a photograph of the Second Empire facade of the 59th
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