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!
Ever wonder about the more exotic street names in Southern Brooklyn? Oriental Boulevard is one of these handful of colorfully-
The East River has seen an unprecedented amount of growth and development over the course of the Bloomberg administration, and
As New York approaches the one-year anniversary of Hurricane Sandy, the word resilience has re-emerged in popularity as
As you pull into the Yonkers train station, you couldn’t feel farther from Grand Central Terminal. A few sleepy
Proposal for the Lower Manhattan Expressway (LOMEX) that would connect the East and Hudson River crossings. via Library of Congress.
Henderson Place Historic District on the Upper East Side You’re familiar with the famous historic districts in Manhattan: Greenwich
Get yourself downtown tomorrow night because the Tribute in Light begins at sunset on 9/11, ending at sunrise on
The artist Jerry Gretzinger is a man from Northern Michigan with a vision that most would consider obsessive, but it
It seems Fashion Week attendees are not the only ones with some extra height this week. According to a report
Map overlay 1836 to now from The Smithsonian Drawing on comparisons between an 1836 topographical New York City map done
With the anniversary of the horrific events of September 11th this week, we thought it would be appropriate to find
On the corner of 48th Street and 3rd Avenue is the “world’s largest chessboard” affixed to the wall of
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