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!
One of New York City’s most unique pieces of property was Hess Triangle, only 500 square inches and the
It’s been a fun year for “untapped” quirky news, and our readers proved to us the range of their
New York City’s prison population is the lowest it has been in 10 years–10,923 inmates as of
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In 2010, the Ridgewood Intermodal Terminal opened at Myrtle-Wyckoff station on the border of Brooklyn and Queens, line facilitating
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Remember that colossal landfill on Staten Island that held millions of tons of New York’s garbage? That once stinking,
Map makers Constantine Valhouli and Cat Callaghan have been behind some of the Fun Maps we’ve featured on Untapped
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