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!
New York’s churches are some of its oldest and most iconic buildings, and perhaps due to some divine intervention,
James W. Cousins is an Untapped Cities correspondent working in South Sudan. Please note that this piece is a retrospective
An original Penn Station eagle at 7th Avenue and 31st Street When the original Pennsylvania Station was demolished in 1963,
Brooklyn may be famous for its elegant brownstones, but its lesser-known brick carriage houses are just as charming. A
A set of aerial maps, comprised of 127 images, together form a complete map of New York City in 1924.
Retail Concourse connecting to the Transit Hub designed by Santiago Calatrava at the World Trade Center On June 20th, a
Looking north towards Midtown Manhattan from the 90th floor of One World Trade Center Continued from our behind-the-scenes
The Sutro Baths opened to the public in 1896, when the west side of San Francisco was a vast region
Delta Airlines has a new rooftop lounge at JFK, but there could have been an entire rooftop airport in midtown
After our exclusive photo shoot inside the TWA Flight Center at JFK Airport last year, we’ve gotten a lot
Terminal Island’s Southwest Marine complex still holds reminders of the island’s shipbuilding and Japanese immigrant histories. One of
A new show at one of our favorite spaces in the city–the Storefront for Art and Architecture–opened last
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