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!
The Bowery Boys recently took us into Gimbel’s traverse, a gorgeous skybridge located on West 32nd Street in Herald
Heard enough of the mystical allure of City Island? The Chimney Sweep Islands and High Island, formations far more foreboding
In the book New York City in the Gilded Age, Esther Crain, founder of the website Ephemeral New York, supported
Built between 1891 and 1893, the Harlem Courthouse has several gables and two exterior clocks. Mentioned in our History of
All you need is a Metrocard and a pair of eyes to realize that things in NYC are changing, fast.
From mass burial grounds to abandoned psychiatric hospitals to haunted townhouses, this is an “architectural” version of a most haunted
Although most New Yorkers know Lexington Avenue, which runs from East 20th Street to East 131st Street, you might be
You don’t need a ferry to get to City Island, the small island east of the Bronx mainland, but
Scientifically proven (sort of) to be the happiest place in New York City, it’s no surprise that somebody would
CDR Studio, an architectural and design studio based in NYC is showcasing a site-specific installation featuring more plastic cups
Co-written by Samantha Sokol The Southern tip of New York City wasn’t always as wide as it currently
One of our favorite things about the Chelsea Music Festival every year is the great variety of venues where the
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