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!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jov-HMaOPQ 39 years ago today, on August 7, 1974, street performer Philippe Petit
Ruelle Verte between 30th and 31st avenues, Bélanger street and Bellechasse street The lack of parks and greenery is a
“Where else in the world, except possibly Paris, could you get 16 of the best restaurants collected in such a
The following is an op-ed by Julia Vitullo-Martin, a senior fellow at Regional Plan Association and Untapped Cities
The Petite Ceinture or Little Belt railway is a 17-mile long abandoned rail line circling within Paris. Built between
Rendering for Seaport City, a new neighborhood in lower Manhattan that will protect against storm surge via NYC.gov The
“N.Y. Post Office Pneumatic Tube” c. 1912. Photo via Library of Congress Earlier this year, we looked into the
New York City has five hundred miles of coastline, yet we tend to forget that the shores along the Hudson
Rat Island is probably not the lush, beachy island that you’ve always dreamed of owning. In fact, this 2.
Untapped Cities has previously featured the innovative timelapse videos of filmmaker and photographer Luke Shepard, from the nighttime exploration of
Photo projects like “Humans of New York” tell some amazing stories that are often forgotten in the chaos of the
We don’t profess this to be a professional video of the Domino Sugar Refinery in Williamsburg. It’s a
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