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!
These photos of Lands End on the tip of Sands Point, Long Island, New York, were taken by photographer Roberta
This week in the Untapped Cities mailbag, an Untapped reader asked, via Twitter, after reading Ben Huff’s post The
The name “Ideas City” sounds just vague enough that it could be either a booth in a science fair or
This vintage photograph from 1982 is a reminder not only for what has been lost, but also that urban geography
Did you know that the encyclopedists wanted to open up the gardens and galleries of the Louvre Palace to the
As part of a Municipal Art Society Jane’s Walk with the Brooklyn Greenway Initiative, we had a chance to
On May 4th and 5th the Municipal Art Society hosted its annual Jane’s Walks NYC, a series of 100+
Shortly after John and Jackie Kennedy moved into the White House in 1961, Jackie made it her mission to restore
Today’s Daily What?! is the Little Free Library in Nolita on Prince Street between Mott and Mulberry Streets. 10
(Lewis) Rodman Wanamaker was the son of John Wanamaker, the founder of Wanamaker’s Department Store. In addition to being
We recently learned the distressing news that The Players Club, Gramercy Park’s members-only theater club, might be shut
To contextualize the characters of a F. Scott Fitzgerald novel, you have to first understand their relation to their surroundings.
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