Learn about the movement to make NYC's cultural institutions on parkland free for all New Yorkers!
Munch on snacks from a local vendor while learning about the history of street food!
Dance the night away at a former Brooklyn speakeasy!
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!
All photos by Andrew Brooks On Peter Street in Manchester sits the abandoned Albert Hall and Aston Institute, built in
On November 1st, when Lower Manhattan was out of power, comedian and Untapped New York contributor Jeff Seal rode his
You may remember the Untapped Paris article about Guerilla String Art on an Abandoned Bridge in Northeast Paris, which looked
On October 14, 2003, Mayor Bloomberg, H.R.H. Crown Prince Haakon of Norway, Deputy Prime Minister of Sweden, Ambassador
The architectural boat tour sponsored by the American Institute of Architects (AIA) New York chapter is arguably one of the
Image via Wikimedia Commons Towards the end of a warm March day, in 1888, snow started drifting, quite expectantly, into
When traveling through Istanbul, Turkey, one can easily be subjected to a heavy dose of sensory overload – the multitudes of
In Part I of this short series, The One-Armed Bandit: Slot Machines and Organized Crime in New York City, we
It’s easy to make simple planning and architectural generalizations about Los Angeles: that it was built only for the
Untapped New York is happy to introduce our newest column, the History of Streets. You might remember our coverage of
It is a rarefied experience in New York City to embark on a quest to find a long lost relic.
Urban planners call it “arrested deterioration:” the ironic preservation of a poorly designed zoo in a state of decay. Open
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