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!
Fifth Avenue Coach Company’s double-decker bus Fifth Avenue has it all: opulent retail, national embassies, corporate headquarters–but
Our exclusive Untapped Cities Woolworth tour has been so popular, we’re offering more chances to check out the off-
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
Old-fashioned windmills, medieval half-timber architecture, horse-drawn trolleys, and sticky-sweet Nordic shops aren’t your typical Southern
The Urban Reviewer is an interactive map of NYC “master plans” (aka, urban renewal plans), where tenants were re-located
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
You see tile everywhere around you — from the walls of your subway station to the floor of your bathroom. But
The Central Park Arsenal, at 64th Street and Fifth Avenue, is one of the two buildings (the other being the
The Blockhouse was one of many fortifications built in New York City during the War of 1812 to protect against
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