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 Untapped Cities, our community of contributors and readers are the most important thing to us. We began with one
In our roundup of nautically-influenced architecture in New York City, the O’Toole Medical Services Building of St. Vincent’
On December 5th 1876, at least 300 play-goers died due to a monster fire in the Brooklyn Theater, which
The Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in Upstate New York is home to the plot of 19th century author Washington Irving and
We’ve got a little soft spot for shopping malls, whether looking at their struggles in historical zones like South
Photograph via Wikipedia by 3am.nightly The Worth St station is a decommissioned subway station along the original IRT subway
The High Line in New York City is one of the most well-known elevated parks, but around the world
The TWA Flight Center in plant form at the Holiday Train Show It may surprise you, but the annual Holiday
This is a map of Broncks’ New York from 1639 by Cartographer Johannes Vingboons. Notice the spelling of “Staten Eylante.
Pan Am Worldport in October 2013 Recently, Untapped New York reader Rachel Potter submitted the following preservation query to our
In 1858, before Staten Island consolidated with the rest of New York City, the New York Marine Hospital housed around
For more than half its life, Lower Manhattan’s iconic Woolworth Building has been off-limits to all but the
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