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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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Explore NYC with Moses Gates and Rembert Browne with #MyNYC and Google Glass
With forty hours to go in our IndieGogo project, #MyNYC, to use Google Glass to tell the stories of New
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The Capuchin Crypt: A Monument of Human Bones and Corpses in Rome
Photo by Ellen Ryan Of all the places you might find the Capuchin crypt, the Via Veneto in Rome seems
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Queensbridge, NYC: Inside America’s Largest Public Housing Project
We recently took a Municipal Art Society tour of Queensbridge, America’s largest operating public housing project, located in West
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NYC Financial District’s Secret Plaza: The Elevated Acre at 55 Water Street
Tucked between two office buildings at 55 Water Street is a hard-to-find escalator which whisks you up to The Elevated
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Catacomb Exploration is Part of Initiation at the University L’Ecole des Mines in Paris
Painting by the class of 2007 and 2008 at L’Ecole des Mines in Paris in the catacombs. Source. L’
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Five Creepy Non-Human Graveyards in and around New York City
Dead Horse Beach is littered with glass, trash and bones. Courtesy of Diana Huang. Despite the scarcity of open space,
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Go Underground in the Paris Sewer Museum (Musée des Egouts)
Just beneath the surface of Paris lies an extensive network of tunnels and caves that compose the 2,400 kilometers
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Ringing the Bells of Preservation for St. Martin's Episcopal Church in Harlem
St. Martin’s Episcopal Church in Harlem on the corner of Lenox Avenue and 122nd Street, which has survived two
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Divine Intervention: NYC Churches Converted to Secular Spaces
New York’s churches are some of its oldest and most iconic buildings, and perhaps due to some divine intervention,
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Juba, the Capital of South Sudan, Birthed of Conflict
James W. Cousins is an Untapped Cities correspondent working in South Sudan. Please note that this piece is a retrospective
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Where Are the 22 Eagles of Original Penn Station?
An original Penn Station eagle at 7th Avenue and 31st Street When the original Pennsylvania Station was demolished in 1963,
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History of NYC Streets: Love Lane's Carriage Houses Carry Echoes of a Brooklyn Past
Brooklyn may be famous for its elegant brownstones, but its lesser-known brick carriage houses are just as charming. A vestige