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!
At the intersection of Court Street and the Brooklyn Queens Expressway/Gowanus Parkway in Carroll Gardens sits a little traffic
Street artist Joe Iurato has been downsizing his normal wooden stencil art into miniature pieces, placed in less notable places
From the recently demolished Pan Am Terminal at JFK to the current fight to save the storied Rizzoli Bookstore in
Walking out onto the roof of Winkler Partners Law Firm, arugula and strawberry plants frame the silhouette of buildings and
At 249-253 East 50th Street, sits the remains of a restaurant that keeps reappearing in pop culture. The Lutèce
The American Museum of Natural History was conceived by Albert S. Bickmore, a naturalist who won the backing of wealthy
This fun clip that’s being shared around social media lately is from the 1928 silent film Speedy, starring comedian
We have already Untapped the mystery of some public bathrooms in New York City, but we’re still curious about
From its grandiose Main Concourse with the mesmerizing astronomical ceiling, to the Beaux-Arts details of its granite exterior, Grand
Finding a public bathroom of any first-rate quality is a nightmare, and it’s especially tricky in NYC. If
Today we profile Untapped Cities intern Josy Jablons, who has written about the unique benches in New York City, remnants
Yoav Litvin, a New York City photographer and writer, has documented the competitive and thriving street art scene here in
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