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!
Beautifully sited on the curving shore of the Indian Ocean in Tanzania, Dar es Salaam sits on ancient trade routes
In our recent post about plaques in New York City that are lost or just plain wrong, we revealed one
Image via the New York Fed Did you know that the Federal Reserve Bank of New York has a gold
Goussainville-Vieux Pays was once a farming village north of central Paris but it’s now a ghost town. It
With forty hours to go in our IndieGogo project, #MyNYC, to use Google Glass to tell the stories of New
Photo by Ellen Ryan Of all the places you might find the Capuchin crypt, the Via Veneto in Rome seems
We recently took a Municipal Art Society tour of Queensbridge, America’s largest operating public housing project, located in West
Tucked between two office buildings at 55 Water Street is a hard-to-find escalator which whisks you up to
Painting by the class of 2007 and 2008 at L’Ecole des Mines in Paris in the catacombs. Source. L’
Dead Horse Beach is littered with glass, trash and bones. Courtesy of Diana Huang. Despite the scarcity of open space,
Just beneath the surface of Paris lies an extensive network of tunnels and caves that compose the 2,400 kilometers
St. Martin’s Episcopal Church in Harlem on the corner of Lenox Avenue and 122nd Street, which has survived two
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