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NYC’s Forgotten ‘War on Christmas Trees’
Discover how an obscure holiday crackdown affects festive street vendors today!
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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!
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Downtown Doodler: Financial District Skyscraper at 17 State Street ArchiDoodle
The 42-story skyscraper at 17 State Street in the Financial District of New York City was designed by Emery Roth
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Documentary Coming About Abandoned Ruins of 1964 World’s Fair New York Pavilion in Queens
Filmmaker Matthew Silva is a middle/high school video production teacher hoping to make a documentary the abandoned ruins of
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Top 10 Subway Art Installations in NYC
Vito Acconci / Acconci Studio, Wall-Slide, 2002 at Yankee Stadium In 2012, we ventured through the entire subway system in New
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On This Day in NYC History, January 9th: The Opening of the Astor Library in 1849
The Astor Library was one of the first important public libraries in New York City. John Jacob Astor pledged $400,
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New Plans Unveiled for MoMA Expansion, Folk Art Museum To Be Demolished
In May 2013, architects and critics had a glimmer of hope regarding the fate of The Folk Art Museum building,
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New Visions for the Abandoned Gowanus Batcave by Syracuse University Architecture Students
In 2012, Untapped contributor Will Ellis (of Abandoned NYC) took us inside the Gowanus Batcave, an abandoned MTA powerhouse turned
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Fun Maps: The Cast Iron Buildings of NYC
Cast iron buildings are normally associated with Soho in New York City, and we recently learned to decode the signs
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Judge Rules City Illegally Gave Away Public Parkland for NYU Expansion Plan
If you’ve been following the debate over NYU’s expansion plans in Greenwich Village, you’d know that the
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TDR, IBZ, WTF?! The Center for Urban Pedagogy Spells Out Zoning Basics for the Uninitiated
Zoning is a city planning instrument that few of us know much about or care to pay attention to. But
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Abandoned Hart Island in NYC May Be Turned Into a Park
Our story on the abandoned Hart Island in New York City, the largest tax-funded cemetery in the world, was our
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Daily What?! FDR Drive is Made of Rubble from WWII Blitz
In the book Rubble: Unearthing the History of Demolition, the author reveals that a large portion of the landfill on
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Fresh Pond Crematory, Boardwalk Empire Film Location and the First Crematorium in NY
Middle Village, Queens is not known for tourist attractions, but if you make it to the Metropolitan Avenue stop on
