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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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Untapped Cities Architectural Guide to Flushing: RKO Keith Theater, Quaker Meeting House, World’s Fair Sites, Terrace on the Park
While “architecture” and Flushing are not two words that are normally associated, we hope you’ll be surprised to find
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Go on a Walking Tour of Pigeon-Related Landmarks in NYC with Colin Jerolmack, Author of The Global Pigeon
Next week, you can finally go on the tour you’ve been waiting for: A tour of pigeon-related landmarks in
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Cities 101: Why Are Some Street Signs Brown and Others Green in NYC?
Recently, a reader asked us “Why are some street signs brown?” Street signage in New York City today is an
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Don’t Forget to Look Up: Fifth Avenue in the Heart of Midtown, from 34th Street to 59th Street
This week we’re continuing from our last installment of Don’t Forget to Look Up, where we walked from
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Untapped Mailbag: An Urbanist’s Guide to New Orleans
This week, Untapped Cities reader @caseytweeted asked us “Any good suggestions for exploring New Orleans aside from the abandoned Six
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Fun Maps: Uncovering the African Burial Ground in NYC
African Burial Ground In 1991, construction began on the Federal Office Building on Duane Street. Almost immediately after breaking ground,
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History of NYC Streets: Oriental Boulevard, a Vestige of Brooklyn Glamour
Ever wonder about the more exotic street names in Southern Brooklyn? Oriental Boulevard is one of these handful of colorfully-named
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10 of NYC’s Important Architectural Sites on the East River
The East River has seen an unprecedented amount of growth and development over the course of the Bloomberg administration, and
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NYIT to host TEDxNYIT: Meta Resiliency on Learnings from Hurricane Sandy and Global Best Practices
As New York approaches the one-year anniversary of Hurricane Sandy, the word resilience has re-emerged in popularity as a reminder
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Yonkers Train Station Offers a Glimpse into the Grand Central that Might Have Been
As you pull into the Yonkers train station, you couldn’t feel farther from Grand Central Terminal. A few sleepy
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The NYC That Never Was: Robert Moses’ Lower Manhattan Expressway (LOMEX)
Proposal for the Lower Manhattan Expressway (LOMEX) that would connect the East and Hudson River crossings. via Library of Congress.
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8 Beautiful Historic Districts in Manhattan Smaller Than One Block
Henderson Place Historic District on the Upper East Side You’re familiar with the famous historic districts in Manhattan: Greenwich