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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 Mailbag: Where Can I Find Remnants of the Pneumatic Tubes in NYC?
“N.Y. Post Office Pneumatic Tube” c. 1912. Photo via Library of Congress Earlier this year, we looked into the
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13 of NYC’s Most Important Architectural Sites on the Hudson River
New York City has five hundred miles of coastline, yet we tend to forget that the shores along the Hudson
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Daily What?! NYC’s Rat Island Is Owned by a Former Port Authority Engineer
Rat Island is probably not the lush, beachy island that you’ve always dreamed of owning. In fact, this 2.
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Nightvision: A Beautiful Timelapse Video of Europe’s Monuments by Luke Shepard
Untapped Cities has previously featured the innovative timelapse videos of filmmaker and photographer Luke Shepard, from the nighttime exploration of
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7 Amazing Documentary Photography Projects in NYC
Photo projects like “Humans of New York” tell some amazing stories that are often forgotten in the chaos of the
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Video Inside Williamsburg’s Abandoned Domino Sugar Refinery
We don’t profess this to be a professional video of the Domino Sugar Refinery in Williamsburg. It’s a
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Volunteer Puppetry and Costume Workshops for the 2013 Beaux Arts Ball
The 1931 Beaux Arts Ball From left to right: A. Stewart as the Fuller Building, Leonard Schultze as the Waldorf-Astoria,
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Daily What?! Sculpted Rats on the Graybar Building at Grand Central
We’ve been pretty obsessed with rats recently, from our look into the history of the inflatable union rat, to
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Reclaiming Our Waterways: Four Proposed Projects Using NYC’s Canals, Rivers, and Creeks
An artist’s rendering of the proposed Brooklyn Bridge Beach. There’s literally “something in the water” these days, with
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Canada’s Quirky Road Sign Project and Japan’s Whimsical Construction Barriers
Our fascination with road signs will never end. Last month, we showed you French artist Clet Abraham’s street sign
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Photography of Abandoned Resorts of the Catskills’ Borscht Belt at the LES Jewish Conservancy
From “The Ruins of the Borscht Belt” exhibit. Photo by Marisa Scheinfeld On August 11th, the Lower East Side Jewish
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Next New York: 40 Ideas That Could Transform New York from the Forum of Urban Design
When Michael Bloomberg was elected mayor of New York in 2001, no one predicted he would become a revolutionary, reshaping
