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!
On notorious Doyers Street in Chinatown, nicknamed “The Bloody Angle” because the curvilinear street enabled gangs to creep up on
It’s a cold November evening, and I’ve just valiantly fought my way through the sardine-packed Line 2
Paris is a city of superlatives. To continue in this train of thought, here are some places and spaces that
In the heart of what is now the Financial District runs a street with a curious name, and an even
This is the second part of the History of the Grands Magasins of Paris. Read Le Bon Marché, Printemps and
Untapped New York is proud to serve as the media sponsor for No Longer Empty’s latest exhibition, “How Much
How fabulous was Cincinnati in the old days? Winston Churchill, for one, thought it was sensational, and called it “the
I’ve been living on the Upper West Side since the early ’90s when the area was not quite the
At Untapped Cities, we love a great photograph. After all, it is with the help of pictures that we tell
This 1766 map shows the some of the earliest known slips in what was then New Amsterdam, including Peck’s
Along with the dizzying number of museums and monuments in Paris, a tour of the Grands Magasins (literally, big stores
It’s November, and while most of New York City seems to be gearing up for the next big festival
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