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!
In May 2013, architects and critics had a glimmer of hope regarding the fate of The Folk Art Museum building,
In 2012, Untapped contributor Will Ellis (of Abandoned NYC) took us inside the Gowanus Batcave, an abandoned MTA powerhouse turned
Cast iron buildings are normally associated with Soho in New York City, and we recently learned to decode the signs
If you’ve been following the debate over NYU’s expansion plans in Greenwich Village, you’d know that the
Zoning is a city planning instrument that few of us know much about or care to pay attention to. But
Our story on the abandoned Hart Island in New York City, the largest tax-funded cemetery in the world, was
In the book Rubble: Unearthing the History of Demolition, the author reveals that a large portion of the landfill on
Middle Village, Queens is not known for tourist attractions, but if you make it to the Metropolitan Avenue stop on
All photos by Allison Siegel Allison Siegel is the Resident Historian for BoweryBoogie.com, for which she earned the moniker
The building at the northeast corner of Broadway and 46th Street is one of those hidden gems that even most
All photos from the MTA Photos Flickr, for the full album see here. If you thought New York was ruled
Take a guess where we shot this photograph from today? This skyline, which may be reminiscent of London perhaps or
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