The Guastavino Vaults of St. John the Divine Tour
Explore the Guastavino tilework of NYC's largest Gothic cathedral from above and below!
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!
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
Monasteries may not be an institution synonymous with New York City, but as we’ve shown, they are certainly a
Just days after the New York Daily News proclaimed that “Staten Island wants to be the new Brooklyn,” 20 intrepid
South Ferry, Liberty Island, Brooklyn, and Staten Island, and Jersey City on a Soviet-era map dating back to 1982.
The National Lighthouse Museum, just a few minutes walk from the St. George Ferry Terminal on Staten Island will have
Danish architect Bjarke Ingels is most notable to New Yorkers these days as the designer of 2 World Trade Center,
The New York Subway system opened to the public for the first time on October 27th, 1904 and changed the
The Plaza Hotel is one of the oldest and most famous buildings in the city, now over a hundred years
By reading first-hand accounts of the opening day of the New York City subway, October 27, 1904, you get
“I prefer drawing to talking. Drawing is faster, and leaves room for less lies” – Le Corbusier “The desire to reach
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