See the stunningly restored rooms of a former Gilded Age tycoon's mansion, now home to one of NYC's most illustrious art museums!
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Join an exclusive curator-led tour at NYC's Noguchi Museum!
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!
Located down one of the most picturesque blocks in New York City stands a building with a notoriously dark history.
Every month, we take Untapped Cities readers on an exclusive one hour tour of the Woolworth Building led by the
Looking up, we noticed a preponderance of owls around New York City. Given the owl’s mythological and symbolic connection
Here’s what the Untapped staff is reading today: New York City * Inside the Unsellable Home of NYC’s Ubiquitous
We’ve been wondering about this phenomenon for a while: the prevalence of barber shops, locksmiths, bodegas, and shoe repair
New York City is chock full of superlatives. “Best” pizza and tallest building (in the United States) are just some
In 1926, William Randolph Hearst commissioned Joseph Urban, one of the most important theater designers of the time, to create
A peculiar building sits in Greenwich Village, a beacon to a bygone era of New York. Wandering the neighborhood, you
Over the past four years we have steadily documented the progress of the Second Avenue Subway. On our annual pilgrimage
New York City is home to multiple stunning and architecturally unique college campuses from Columbia’s Neo-Classical acropolis to City
Clearly visible but fenced off from the rest of Central Park, the Hallett Nature Sanctuary is a 4-acre piece of
Countless short streets, spanning just tens of feet, exist throughout NYC. However, how does one define a street? When does
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