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NYC’s Forgotten ‘War on Christmas Trees’
Discover how an obscure holiday crackdown affects festive street vendors today!
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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!
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The SoHo Memory Project, A Mobile Historical Society for the Iconic NYC Neighborhood
SoHo native Yukie Ohta and founder of The SoHo Memory Project is hoping to create a mobile historical society to
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Hacking the NYC Subway One Helpful Sign at a Time
We’ve all experienced that moment of disorientation as we head out of the subway: are we facing east, north,
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Daily What? Twitter Account Tells You What Colors The Empire State Building Will Be and Why
Twitter can now tell you how The Empire State Building is honoring everything from the 4th of July to the
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“Sculpture in the Age of Donatello” Features Pieces That Have Rarely Left Italy: Donatello, Michelangelo, Brunelleschi & More
The Museum of Biblical Art (MOBIA) is celebrating their tenth anniversary season in grand style. They have brought us an
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History of Streets: The Albemarle-Kenmore Terraces in Flatbush
On January 10th, 1978, the New York Landmarks Preservation Commission held a public hearing where 27 people testified in favor
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Harlem’s Lafayette Theater Townhouses: Hiding in Plain Sight
What stands out about the Lafayette Theater Townhouses, middle-income affordable housing in Central Harlem, is that they, quite frankly, don’
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5 Lost Buildings and 5 Success Stories of Landmarks in NYC, by Co-Curator of Saving Place: 50 Years of NYC Landmarks
This month, we’ve been actively covering the wonderful preservation exhibition Saving Place: 50 Years of NYC Landmarks at the
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Beyond Postcard Row: 7 More Architectural Gems of San Francisco’s Alamo Square
The row of seven Victorian townhouses facing the east side of San Francisco’s Alamo Square, variously known as Postcard
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Today in NYC History: Historic Treaty Oak Re-Planted at Bartow-Pell Mansion, Bronx
On May 1, 1915, the Bartow-Pell Mansion in the Bronx’s Pelham Bay Park was the site of a tree
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The Reece School: A Colorful Architectural Surprise in East Harlem
This building in East Harlem is both a colorful architectural surprise in Harlem and a feel-good story. The Reece School
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The Best of the Untapped Cities Photo Pool: Pictures from the Roofs of NYC
Top of the Rock by elifrey This week, we’ve rounded up the great photos taken by readers from the
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Daily What?! The Miniature Brooklyn Bridge of Cobble Hill, Brooklyn
A wooden miniature Brooklyn Bridge is an unexpected addition to a Cobble Hill sidewalk, showing us once again that New
