Secrets of NYC
A Never-Built World's Fair Sculpture by Noguchi
A new exhibit explores the unrealized, extant, and lost projects of this prolific NYC artist!
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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!
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New York City’s Presidential Haunts from Grant to Obama
Grant’s Tomb National Memorial Welcome back to Part II of NYC’s Presidential Haunts. Last week we looked at
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In Search of Edgar Allan Poe in NYC
Image via Wikimedia Commons Richmond, Baltimore, Philadelphia, and New York City all have museums dedicated to Edgar Allan Poe. However,
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stillspotting nyc with the Guggenheim Museum: Staten Island
The concept of peace and quiet, while living in any one of the five New York boroughs, can be pretty
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New York City’s Nautical Architecture: Part I
New York City would not be the empire city it is today without the water that surrounds it. Over four
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After the Final Curtain: Shore Theatre (Loew’s Coney Island Theatre)
Image from After The Final Curtain Welcome back to After the Final Curtain, featuring the photography and writing of Matt
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Architectural Spotlight: The Hibernia Bank Building
Imagine walking down the Champs-Élysées, or Fifth Avenue between 49th and 60th Streets, and when you hit the middle you
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18 of NYC’s Former Military Forts
Outside of the Revolutionary War, New York City is rarely viewed in terms of its military history. This is unfortunate
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Manhattan’s Privately Owned Public Spaces, A Photographic Investigation
E 53th St., between Park and Madison Avenues The always inquisitive urban planner, Charles-Antoine Perrault, most well-known for his Paris-NYC
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San Francisco’s “Broom Closet” Apartments
It’s a small world we live in. Urban dwellers in San Francisco may soon find that adage a reality
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Interactions in Istanbul at the Grand Bazaar and the Museum of Innocence
Istanbul’s rooftops are the baked red clay half-pipes that cup into one another, which you can find anywhere in
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Manhattan’s Newest Address: 6 ½ Avenue
In May, Untapped Cities writer Jake Schabas published an expose on midtown POPS (Privately Owned Public Space) on Streetsblog and
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Citi Bike: In Anticipation of the Biggest Bike Share in the US
With New York City’s traffic jams and unpredictable subway trains, it can be a hassle to get around the
