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!
“The original Battery Park City design was about as banal as could be imagined—bland modernist towers in a Corbusian
East of Staten Island’s South Beach, two artificial islands called Hoffman Island and Swinburne Island rest undisturbed in the
Everything’s pricier in Manhattan, including air. For the deteriorating Pier 40 on the Hudson River, air may just be
When we set out to explore Morningside Heights a few days ago, the last thing we expected to find was
With the first prefabricated apartment in NYC going and city-sponsored micro-apartment competitions, New York City is actively examining
Every other week The Downtown Doodler draws an architectural detail of a building in New York City, an an “archi-
When we checked out the Lowline preview last year, it was clear that the radical idea of an underground photosynthetic
For transit nerds, the NYC Google Office in Chelsea has a fun vintage train sitting in a common work space.
Rendering for a new Penn Station by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) Yesterday, the New York City Council voted 47-
Did you know that the Marine Air Terminal at LaGuardia Airport is the oldest active airport terminal from the first
In sharp contrast to the neatly manicured gardens like the Luxembourg Gardens and the Tuileries, 82 gardens in Paris are
While gigantic shopping complexes are taking over Beijing, some ancient shopping streets have stayed close to their historical roots. Located
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