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!
Washington Square Park in Greenwich Village is a wonderful respite from the city with is magnificent arch and public spaces.
The 1964 World’s Fair pavilion in Flushing Meadows Corona Park by Philip Johnson is viewed by some as a
Photo via NYCEDC Opened in 1967, Hunts Point Terminal Produce Market is the largest produce market in the country. It
In honor of Memorial Day, today we’re looking back at the history of the white marble Soldiers’ and Sailors’
The 135,000 square foot green roof atop Brooklyn’s Barclays Center is taking shape (despite an extensive delay) and
Rome was not built in a day, they say. And neither was New York City or its 24/7 subway
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Earlier this year we watched as the scaffolding went up on the only surviving watchtower in Manhattan. The Harlem Fire
In October 2012, Hurricane Sandy forced us to reconsider how we view the many billions of gallons of water that
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After the brouhaha over the opening that never was of FIRST SHOW / LAST SHOW at 190 Bowery, we snagged entry
The landmarked Jefferson Market Library that sits between Sixth Avenue, Greenwich Avenue and Tenth Street had a fascinating prior life.
Dan Kiley is the most eminent landscape architect you’ve never heard of—a “seminal landscape architect,” said the New
SoHo native Yukie Ohta and founder of The SoHo Memory Project is hoping to create a mobile historical society to
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