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NYC’s Forgotten ‘War on Christmas Trees’
Discover how an obscure holiday crackdown affects festive street vendors today!
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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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Daily What?: Columbia’s Human Resources Building was the Studebaker Car Factory
If you’ve ever worked for Columbia University, you probably hate this square, brown building with a weird tower on
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Sunset Park, Brooklyn’s Industry City Property Gets Development Deal
New York State’s largest privately-held manufacturing property, Industry City in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, has recently gotten a big boost
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Fun Maps: What Manhattan Sewers Smelled Like in 1910
New Yorkers complain about a lot of stuff. A little while back we showed a 311 map by the Furman
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Cities 101: Where and How are NYC Subway Cars Made?
This video came out a few years ago on National Geographic when the R160 subway cars were introduced in New
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The Wooden House Project in Brooklyn: Photography of Past and Present Neighborhood Houses
Last week, we included The Wooden House Project as one of the most fun urban initiatives we came across recently.
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Historic Building on Trinity Place near World Trade Center to be Demolished
ArchPaper and New York Yimby have reported that the 25-story Art Deco building which has been the headquarters for Trinity
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Vintage Photos: Chelsea Piers as a Neoclassical Shipping Terminal
“New Chelsea Piers on the Hudson,” 1912 . Photo from Library of Congress. Chelsea Piers today might be known for its
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Inside the Red Hook Grain Terminal with AbandonedNYC
It’s been nearly fifty years since a freighter docked at the Red Hook Grain Terminal; now black mold overspreads
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Daily What?! There’s a Clock In the Sidewalk of Maiden Lane Over a Century Old
If you happen to look down while at the intersection of Maiden Lane and Broadway, you’ll notice that there
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5 Historic East Village Libraries in NYC: Mulberry Branch, Bond Branch, Ottendorfer Branch and Original Astor Library
While the iconic Jefferson Market Library in the West Village is the most well known to preservationists, many former and
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Cities 101: What was the “Poo-Poo Choo-Choo”? An Overview on Sewage Treatment in NYC
A modern sewage treatment plant: The Digester Eggs at Newtown Creek Until 1992, ocean dumping was permitted in the Atlantic
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Reforming Zoning and Development for the Next New York from the Forum for Urban Design
This is part of an ongoing series on ideas from Next New York, a project by the Forum for Urban
