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!
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You can get this design as a print and stationary on Storenvy. Get in touch with the Downtown Doodler on
4:30 Awards The Yolanda Garcia Community Planner Award is presented to grassroots organizer and El Barrio activist Iris Morales.
We loved the audacity of this construction so much from our roundup of houses on top of apartments, that we
Apart from its beauty, the Ombla River near Dubrovnik, Croatia has a useful purpose or two. Until 1960, the water
The question of green space is not a contemporary one. New York has been struggling with it for more than
It may not have been the first time someone threw a party in an old subway station, but surely this
5:40 MAS Smart Talk: Completing the High Line: The Future of Manhattan’s Park in the Sky with Joshua
5 Pointz, the largest legal aerosol art exhibit in the US is a cultural gem slated to be destroyed – but
On a tour this week, the president of the Friends of the Roosevelt Island Steam Plant pointed out a funny
In August, we hung out with artist Greg Kloehn in his dumpster house which was set up outside Pioneer Works
We discovered this fun find at a recent meeting in the office of NYC’s Economic Development Corporation (EDC). They
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