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.
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!
Since the 1980s, the MTA has installed hundreds of site-specific works of art throughout the subway system. These pieces
Anyone who has walked from Penn Station to Herald Square along 32nd Street will notice a few incongruous things: homeless
Photo by gigi_nyc via Flickr Since 2009, people have hailed the High Line as the savior of declining west
Our tour of the Remnants of Penn Station has been one of those unexpected hits. When we first launched it
When John D. Rockefeller, Jr., decided to finance the construction of Rockefeller Center in the 1930s, he intended his music
Photograph by David Heald © Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, New York. Few buildings in New York City strike a more iconic
Our acclaimed Untapped Cities behind-the-scenes tour of New York City’s Woolworth Building is returning for the fall
This weekend, the city’s art aficionados were treated to an unexpected visit from the past. The original facade of
For July 4th, we shared out Top 10 Secrets of the Statue of Liberty but there are so many fun
Recently we profiled ten pre-war apartment houses in Washington Heights. Now, we cross the Harlem River to the South
Photo by Steven Wu Photography Last night, 20,000 lumen projectors illuminated the south side of the Empire State Building
Churches all around the world bear the name ‘Trinity Church.’ The most unusual by far happens to be a small
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