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!
In our behind-the-scenes look inside the TWA Flight Center last year, we focused on the architecture and preservation
The Museum Without Walls app is sponsored by CultureNOW, an organization formed in 2002 which celebrates our surroundings as a
Last week we uncovered some of New York City’s former cemeteries that are now populated with park-goers and
The recent debate over what should become of the current Penn Station and Madison Square Garden might make it difficult
One block south of the busy Sixteenth Street Mall in downtown Denver, rehearsals are underway. From a small work van,
An e-waste collection event by Lower East Side Ecology Center Despite a series of electronic waste laws in New
New York City has been finding innovative ways to transform dead spaces, such as parking lots, into social public places.
New Yorkers are all too familiar with the city’s daily soundtrack of wailing sirens and rumbling subway cars, so
Hidden between modern skyscrapers and nineteenth century row houses are remnants of the City’s Dutch past. While the Bronx
Google has gotten tons of coverage over the past 48 hours for its release of Street View images of the
Bentham’s Panopticon. Image via Wikimedia Commons. Those that (still) watch True Blood, HBO’s vampire drama will be familiar
At the break of the 20th century, industrializing cities were growing voraciously and needed more room. A lot of cities
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