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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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NYC Urban Explorers Illicitly Photograph Second Avenue Subway Construction
We recently received a “Christmas gift” of photographs from an anonymous group of urban explorers who had recently made it
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Fun Maps: NYC’s “Awkwardly Shaped” Tax Lots Equal Over 5+ Million Sq Ft of Land
One of New York City’s most unique pieces of property was Hess Triangle, only 500 square inches and the
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The Top 10 Untapped Cities Articles of 2014
It’s been a fun year for “untapped” quirky news, and our readers proved to us the range of their
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16 of NYC’s Former Prisons: Jefferson Market, Bellevue, Essex Market, City Hall
New York City’s prison population is the lowest it has been in 10 years–10,923 inmates as of
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The Best of the Untapped Cities Photo Pool: NYC Views from Distance
New York City is after all, a city on the water. This week, we’ve rounded up the Instagram photos
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Visit the Newly Renovated Van Alen Institute for Architecture and Design in NYC
The great thing about New York City is it would take several lifetimes (and some serious planning) to really take
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Does NYC’s One World Trade Center Suck? [HuffPost Live Video]
Earlier this hour, Untapped Cities founder Michelle Young joined Paul Goldberger and Aaron Betsky on the HuffPostLive segment “The Missed
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Ridgewood Intermodal Terminal Dispatcher Booth is Pretty Adorable at Myrtle-Wyckoff Station
In 2010, the Ridgewood Intermodal Terminal opened at Myrtle-Wyckoff station on the border of Brooklyn and Queens, line facilitating subway
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History of Streets: The Forgotten Past of Red Hook Lane in Brooklyn
Did you know that Brooklyn used to have a diagonal street that ran through downtown through Fulton and Pearl to
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From Trash to Trails: A Boat Tour to Freshkills Park on Staten Island [Photos]
Remember that colossal landfill on Staten Island that held millions of tons of New York’s garbage? That once stinking,
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Fun Maps: Mapping the Great Divide in Real Estate Prices in NYC
Map makers Constantine Valhouli and Cat Callaghan have been behind some of the Fun Maps we’ve featured on Untapped
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Fun Maps: Manhattan’s Disappearing Gas Stations
As we all know, real estate prices just keep on rising in Manhattan. And to whom are developers turning to
