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!
New York City is home to numerous world-famous museums but if you need a break from classics like the
This is one of our favorites in the list of Top 10 Secrets of Grand Central Terminal. A little known
Image via Weylin Seymour Weylin Seymour has gorgeous photos of the restoration of the Williamsburgh Savings Bank that’s just
We found a curious thing on the New York Transit Museum Facebook page yesterday, a subway sign for an 11
In August, we showed you Alfred Speer’s proposal for a moving sidewalk high above Broadway in the 1870s. Though
Hudson Yards In a city, such as New York, a neighborhood name holds a lot of weight. Beyond geographical terminology,
The Grand Concourse is a major thoroughfare in the Bronx that spans more than four miles in the western part
During a seething summer evening in 1953, Lexington Avenue on the corner of 63rd Street received a sprinkling of clothing–
The Brooklyn Book Festival is the largest free literary event in New York. It features literary themed events taking place
The future Alamo Plaza at Astor Place. Rendering by WXY Architecture. Remember when there was a parking lot where this
The orange and white-striped vents that let out steam are a familiar sight in parts of Manhattan. But what
Pneumatic tube system discovered by an Untapped Cities reader on 86th and Lexington Avenue Untapped Cities Twitter follower, @justinr592, submitted
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