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!
It’s a small world we live in. Urban dwellers in San Francisco may soon find that adage a reality
Istanbul’s rooftops are the baked red clay half-pipes that cup into one another, which you can find anywhere
In May, Untapped Cities writer Jake Schabas published an expose on midtown POPS (Privately Owned Public Space) on Streetsblog and
With New York City’s traffic jams and unpredictable subway trains, it can be a hassle to get around the
Today, July 31, 2012, marks the closing of The Ritz for major renovations. The grand hotel closed in stages, starting
Pondicherry might sound like an exotic dessert, but it’s actually one of my favorite destinations in India. Situated along
Can you believe this is in Paris? For all the city dwellers who can’t make it out of town
Architectural Record‘s recent news of plans to restore San Francisco’s Coit Tower made me ponder the value a
The 43-acre Vanderbilt compound, also called Eagle’s Nest, is nestled in a quiet neighborhood on Little Neck Road
While New York City residents escape to cooler spots outside of the city, the summer’s heat waves have only
If Central Park provides the lungs for Manhattan, then the community gardens of the East Village are like inhalers for
What may become the Queens High Line, the city’s next elevated, 3.5-mile long pedestrian and bike path,
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