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!
Last week, we included The Wooden House Project as one of the most fun urban initiatives we came across recently.
ArchPaper and New York Yimby have reported that the 25-story Art Deco building which has been the headquarters for
“New Chelsea Piers on the Hudson,” 1912 . Photo from Library of Congress. Chelsea Piers today might be known for its
It’s been nearly fifty years since a freighter docked at the Red Hook Grain Terminal; now black mold overspreads
If you happen to look down while at the intersection of Maiden Lane and Broadway, you’ll notice that there
While the iconic Jefferson Market Library in the West Village is the most well known to preservationists, many former and
A modern sewage treatment plant: The Digester Eggs at Newtown Creek Until 1992, ocean dumping was permitted in the Atlantic
This is part of an ongoing series on ideas from Next New York, a project by the Forum for Urban
Photo by Rembert Browne Recently, we reported on the staircase to nowhere in Riverside Park. Today, we present to you
Since the late 1950s, the mayoral administrations of New York City, have tried, albeit unsuccessfully, to redevelop the Willets Point
This week, four quirky urban projects caught our attention, from photographing door numbers in London for each day of the
Source: Library of Congress “The Future of Trinity Church” is a wood engraving from 1907 by Albert Levering from Puck’
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