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!
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
In 2015, almost 70 years after the dawn of commercial air travel following World War II, airports are still the
The book Art Deco Mailboxes by Karen Greene and Lynne Lavelle is a wonderful survey of the iconic mailboxes installed
All photos by Jinwoo Chong for Untapped Cities In an example of the perennial struggle of small businesses and traditions
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