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!
Waist-high grasses choke back the yawning entrances of the Jennie G. Hotel, whose toppled fence serves more as an
Photo from Wikimedia Commons by Richard Munckton In honor of the 200th anniversary of the publication of Jane Austen’s
At Untapped Cities, we show you the unique “untapped” places that are off-the-beaten path. But we also like
After visiting the Morbid Anatomy Library, part of Brooklyn’s interdisciplinary Proteus Gowanus Gallery, you are likely to feel haunted.
The Maison de Verre (Glass House) is one of the most precious architectural wonders in all of Paris, but it
There have been a multitude of things for designers to panic about this fashion week — the weather, the unintentional photobombs,
In celebration of the 100th anniversary of Grand Central Terminal, we will be exploring all aspects of the terminal, from
There are certain things every city needs; a hospital, a fire station, a local government, and a place to bury
A look at The Bellagio Center at Villa Serbellino, a center operated by the Rockefeller Foundation in Bellagio, Italy on
Video produced by Don Downey. I had the honor of organizing and participating in the Jane Jacobs Revisited: A Bellagio
The Sixties and Seventies were an interesting period of time for Montreal. In the race to become a modern metropolis,
This 1827 oil painting by George Carlin depicts the chaos and debauchery that largely characterized the state of the Five
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