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!
If you have been following the New York Times’ contributions to the Highrise project, you may have already seen our
This 3D panorama of Manhattan by Sergey Semonov was featured earlier this year in Atlantic Cities but was worth a
Gourmet specialty shops in Greenwich Village are par for the course, but few are this specific. The Meadow, an entire
Jackie O’s Upper East Side apartment. Video via vanityfair.com. As the former first lady, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis was
.As bees are becoming the latest species moving toward extinction, many beekeepers in Paris are finding urban rooftops to be
Yesterday, we looked at part one, “Mud”, of the New York Times’ documentary collaboration with the Highrise project. This four-
Images via BanksyNY.com A shift from yesterday’s epic horses with night vision goggles piece on Ludlow and Stanton,
Starting where Don’t Forget to Look Up left off last time, the final stretch of Fifth Avenue takes us
Empire State Building donning tie dye colors for the Grateful Dead tribute The Empire State Building is a beacon in
9 am: TedX host and NYIT associate dean, Frank Mruk introduces TedXNYIT “Meta-Resiliency” and talks about how we can
Lovely eminent domain. It’s been practiced on land large (Manhattanville for Columbia University, for example) and small. This tiny
One of two safes with unlaundered liquor money left over from Prohibition in the basement of William Barnacle Tavern Prohibition
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