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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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Daily What?! A Former Shoe Store Hidden in Times Square Revealed
The building at the northeast corner of Broadway and 46th Street is one of those hidden gems that even most
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Daily What?! Meet the Falcons that Live Atop NYC’s Bridges
All photos from the MTA Photos Flickr, for the full album see here. If you thought New York was ruled
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Where in the World is Untapped Cities Today?
Take a guess where we shot this photograph from today? This skyline, which may be reminiscent of London perhaps or
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Fun Maps: Mmmm…New York and Other City Income Donuts
This map series by Bill Rankin tests the “donut” hypothesis: “the idea that a city will create concentric rings of
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On This Day in NYC History, January 3rd: First Day of Construction of the Brooklyn Bridge in 1870
Today marks the first day of construction of the engineering masterpiece, The Brooklyn Bridge. New Yorkers are mostly familiar with
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5 Street Art Hotspots in NYC Besides 5Pointz: Welling Court, East Harlem Graffiti Hall of Fame, Bushwick Collective, Hunts Point Murals, Williamsburg
With the whitewashing of 5Pointz in November, the curators are looking towards the future. While many hope that 5Pointz will
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City as Canvas: Graffiti Art Exhibition from Collection of Martin Wong Comes to Museum of City of New York
Martin Wong, an East Village artist and collector of graffiti art, amassed a significant body of street art which included
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Fun Maps: NYC From Union Square to Madison Square
Lynn Lieberman loves to paint maps. Her most recent will take you from Union Square Park to Madison Square Park
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Converting the 7-Story Wholey’s Cold Storage Building into Apartments in Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh still has a reputation as a smoggy, manufacturing-based city but the city has quietly matured into an entrepreneurial
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Daily What?! Pavilion of Thousands of Discarded Cups Coming to Governor’s Island for FIGMENT Festival
For the 2014 FIGMENT Festival on Governors Island, Inhabitat reports that the City of Dreams Pavilion, a visitors lounge, will
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On this Day in NYC History, December 27th: Opening of Radio City Music Hall in 1932
Radio City Music Hall opened on December 27th in 1932, the height of the Great Depression. The beautiful theater was
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The Top 10 Untapped Cities Posts of 2013
It’s been an amazing year for “untapped,” quirky news and we thought we’d take a look back at