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"The East Village Then & Now" Photo Book Launch with Daniel Root
See how this Manhattan neighborhood has changed over the past 40 years!
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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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NYC That Never Was: A Central Vacuum System Was Proposed to Handle Waste Problems
It’s hard to imagine NYC without its current sewer systems, but before the advent of remotely monitored sewer systems,
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Fun Maps: What if the Manhattan Grid Was Extended Across the Entire Earth?
This fun website, ExtendNY, extends the Manhattan grid ACROSS THE WHOLE WORLD. Moving the cursor moves the little green street
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Daily What?! Van Cortlandt Park Vaults From 1776 Hid NYC’s Important Records During the Revolution
Our very own history editor, Benjamin Waldman, happened across these mysterious vaults in Van Cortlandt Park dating from New York
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An Elevated Park is Coming to the World Trade Center As Bridge to Battery Park City
The World Trade Center is getting a new elevated park, something which The New York Times announced today as the
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A History of Tudor City: A Peaceful Enclave in the Middle of NYC
Tudor City is a city of opposites: skyscrapers with 16th-century revival architecture, a quiet elevated quarter neighboring the United Nations
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Inside Rikers Island with the Jail-to-Street GreenHouse Program by the Horticultural Society of New York
The Rikers Island GreenHouse garden, run as a collaboration between The Horticulture Society and the NYC Department of Correction, provides
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A Secret Christmas Tree in Central Park Dedicated to Pets
It had been rumored, but we couldn’t find anyone to tell us for sure, if this memorial tree to
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Daily What?! This Little Farmhouse Was Moved from the Upper East Side to Greenwich Village in NYC
Walking through Greenwich Village, you might mistakenly think this adorable clapboard farmhouse at 121 Charles Street is simply a remnant
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NYC v. Paris: Hector Guimard Art Nouveau Subway Entrances
This might make you do a double take. It looks like an entrance to the Paris Metro, but it’s
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Untapped Mailbag: This Vintage Photo of Columbus Circle is Misattributed in LIFE Magazine
Our article on vintage photos of Columbus Circle was super popular, but we got a good number of comments saying
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The Safety Deposit Graveyard and Bank Vault in The Woolworth Building
On our last Untapped Cities event that toured the Woolworth Building, we got to see some parts of the landmark
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Los Angeles Metro Expansion Spurs Luxury High-Rises
Although the thought of walking the streets of Downtown Los Angeles may seem foreign to most Angelenos, the expanding metro
