From Brooklyn to the Bronx, we’ve rounded up the most exciting giant menorahs that will light up throughout the next eight evenings!
We’ve created a holiday gift guide with presents for the intrepid New Yorker that should arrive just in time—
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!
The Cooper Union Foundation Building at Astor Place stands today amongst modern monoliths, remnants of a day when the elevated
The New Yorker Hotel was designed in the Art Deco style by the architectural firm Sugarman & Berger. While the
We all have that one friend who’s nuts for public transport. Why don’t you show them some love?
Fifth Avenue Coach Company’s double-decker bus Fifth Avenue has it all: opulent retail, national embassies, corporate headquarters–but no
Our exclusive Untapped Cities Woolworth tour has been so popular, we’re offering more chances to check out the off-limits
With the seemingly countless proposed changes along the 125th Street corridor in Harlem, including the approved city rezoning plan, we
Not surprisingly, a lot has changed since the 70s — it’s hard to believe that “back in the day” there
Image via The Library of Congress When New Yorkers think “Holland Tunnel”, they picture bumper-to-bumper traffic and expensive tolls. However,
Old-fashioned windmills, medieval half-timber architecture, horse-drawn trolleys, and sticky-sweet Nordic shops aren’t your typical Southern Californian fare. But in
The Urban Reviewer is an interactive map of NYC “master plans” (aka, urban renewal plans), where tenants were re-located in
At the foot of the Sierra Nevada in the environs of Yosemite National Park rests the small city of Sonora,
Dakota Apartments, 1890. Image via The Library of Congress It is difficult to imagine a desolate Central Park West without
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