Secrets of NYC
✉️ The Lost Pneumatic Tube System at the NYSE
Long before fiber optics and wireless networks, bursts of compressed air kept Wall Street moving.
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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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HERE NOW!: How Foursquare and Facebook Measure Voting With Your Feet in New York
Foursquare Check-Ins in the Boroughs By Category The Spatial Information Lab at Columbia University has a new project which measures
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Improv Everywhere: No pants subway rides, Best Buy takeovers and freezing Grand Central
At Untapped, we’ve always prided ourselves on digging up some of the quirkiest things about New York. From Napoleon’
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Vintage New York: The South Street Seaport
It’s well known that South Street Seaport was one of the most important maritime hubs of New York. Ships
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Les Cimetières de Paris | The treasures of the Passy Cemetery
Exploring Paris’s cemeteries–(Montmartre, Montparnasse, Passy, Père Lachaise, and Picpus)–can be a rewarding task. Artists, statesmen, and industrialists
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Brand Singapore and its Influence on the Past and Future
Last week at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business campus in Singapore, Untapped Cities listened to a presentation
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Architecture Spotlight: A Victorian Conservatory for a Modern Time
This octagonal building is called Sunnyside Conservatory. It is named after the San Francisco district in which it is located-an
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IN PICTURES: Old Bethpage Village Restoration
Looking for a glimpse of Colonial America this Thanksgiving? In Old Bethpage, Long Island, one need not go far to
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BitCity Conference: Transportation, Data and Technology in Cities
“City streets are the original social network”–Rachel Sterne The BitCity Conference, which took place on November 9th at Columbia
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Architecture Spotlight: Bell Telephone Building-A Monument to Talk
The building that stands at 140 New Montgomery was built in 1925 for the Pacific Telephone Company, part of the
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The New York City that Never Was: Part IV A Visionary Dream of the 1916 Zoning Resolution
This is the fourth installment of the series, the New York City that Never Was (Part I: Buildings, Part II:
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Architecture Spotlight: Islais Creek-Man Trumps Nature
It is known as Third and Army by skateboarders. Longshoreman call it Pier 84. Locals just think of it as
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Cité Bergère
Tucked just off busy Grand Boulevard nearby other famous arcades in Paris–the Passage Juoffroy and Passage des Panoramas–is