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!
Imagine completely redesigning your apartment with the coolest, latest gadgets, no matter the expense. Well the staff over at Gizmodo
Last week, we recorded a segment for Cityscape on WFUV Public Radio, an NPR affiliate in New York City. In
Last month’s reopening of the New York State Pavilion, hosted by the Parks Department, gave the public a rare
As you know we love maps so much, we have a column dedicated to it. And this one is particularly
The 9/11 Museum, thirteen years in the making, is opening today ceremonially with President Obama and becomes publicly accessible
The Creedmoor Psychiatric Center is an enormous facility on the edge of Eastern Queens that has been abandoned since the
Located down one of the most picturesque blocks in New York City stands a building with a notoriously dark history.
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
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