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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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Sky Pod Elevators to 1 WTC Observatory Show Timelapse of NYC Skyline 1500s to Today [Video]
The New York Times has a video of what you’ll see when you take the elevators to the observatory
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The Top 10 Tallest 100+ Floor Skyscrapers in the World Today
The subject of the tallest building in the world has always been ripe with architectural controversy. From the last minute
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Untapped Cities Founder to Give Book Talk and Signing On New Book Broadway (with Free Beer!)
We’ll be hosting a talk and book signing on May 26th to celebrate the launch of the new book
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NYC’s Gilded Age Architecture Depicted in Lively Illustrations by Eric Rosner
You might recognize Eric Rosner‘s illustrated work from his street art on the walls of New York City. Using
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Fun Maps: Mapping NYC’s Street Trees from the Tree Census
First off, who knew there was a census for trees? The tree census takes place every ten years, with the
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Vitagraph Studios, An Early Pioneer of the Film Industry, Is Being Demolished in Midwood Brooklyn
Yet another piece of cultural history is being demolished in New York City. The old Vitagraph studio of Midwood, in
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Today in NYC History: Williamsburgh Becomes a Village (1827)
Before Williamsburg was a hipster paradise, before it was a Puerto-Rican/Italian enclave, before it was a Jewish refuge from
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5 Architectural Holdout Houses Around the World That Stood in the Way of Development
This week, the famous holdout bungalow in Seattle, likened to the home in the film Up, returned to the news,
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New Exhibit–Saving Place: Fifty Years of NYC Landmarks at MCNY: Interview with the Curators
Photo by Iwan Baan for the Museum of the City of New York Saving Place: Fifty Years of New York
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Photo Exhibit at Bowling Green Tracks Progress of Second Avenue Subway, East Side Access, 7 Line Extension
It’s not the first time the MTA has installed a great photography exhibit at the Bowling Green subway station,
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The Historic Hotels of Broadway, in Vintage Photos from the Book Broadway
Yesterday, we put together an article for our friends at Curbed NY, walking through the grand hotels along Broadway, adapting
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The NYC that Never Was: New York City’s High Speed Monorail
City Island Railroad Car, c. 1910. Photo from Library Congress via Wikimedia Commons. Imagine if New Yorkers could commute by
