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!
Four years after New Yorkers and Dutch citizens came together to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Henry Hudson’s arrival
What is now possibly the worst kept secret at Columbia’s Morningside campus, an intricate network of tunnels connects many
The Architecture & Design Film Festival is the nation’s largest film festival dedicated to exploring and celebrating the creative
An advertisement on the corner of Reade Street and West Broadway. All images from Paul Tran. It is uncommon to
The eerie mast of the Quester I peeks out of the creek’s still waters even at high tide. The
What’s your “day job”? I sell mushrooms for Madura Farms at Greenmarkets, nanny, and write Emoji Major for Co.
While “architecture” and Flushing are not two words that are normally associated, we hope you’ll be surprised to find
Next week, you can finally go on the tour you’ve been waiting for: A tour of pigeon-related landmarks
Recently, a reader asked us “Why are some street signs brown?” Street signage in New York City today is an
This week we’re continuing from our last installment of Don’t Forget to Look Up, where we walked from
This week, Untapped Cities reader @caseytweeted asked us “Any good suggestions for exploring New Orleans aside from the abandoned Six
African Burial Ground In 1991, construction began on the Federal Office Building on Duane Street. Almost immediately after breaking ground,
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