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!
This map series by Bill Rankin tests the “donut” hypothesis: “the idea that a city will create concentric rings of
Today marks the first day of construction of the engineering masterpiece, The Brooklyn Bridge. New Yorkers are mostly familiar with
With the whitewashing of 5Pointz in November, the curators are looking towards the future. While many hope that 5Pointz will
Martin Wong, an East Village artist and collector of graffiti art, amassed a significant body of street art which included
Lynn Lieberman loves to paint maps. Her most recent will take you from Union Square Park to Madison Square Park
Pittsburgh still has a reputation as a smoggy, manufacturing-based city but the city has quietly matured into an entrepreneurial
For the 2014 FIGMENT Festival on Governors Island, Inhabitat reports that the City of Dreams Pavilion, a visitors lounge, will
Radio City Music Hall opened on December 27th in 1932, the height of the Great Depression. The beautiful theater was
It’s been an amazing year for “untapped,” quirky news and we thought we’d take a look back at
The Waldorf-Astoria Hotel has historically epitomized New York City glamour with much ease, but beneath the surface of this
On December 23rd, 1970, the last bit of steel was placed on top of the North Tower of One World
‘Twas the day before Christmas and a grand NYC-style tree you were looking to see. Rockefeller Center was too
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