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.
Architecture
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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Exploring Fort Tilden, A Formerly Nuclear-Armed Beach in NYC
With over 600 miles of coastline in New York City, it’s little wonder that some of those miles would
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Response to Public Space in Amman
In July of 2011, architects and students from 5 universities – Columbia University, American University of Beirut, Bilgi University, German Jordanian
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The most powerful block in NYC that you’ve never heard of
It’s the most powerful address in New York City you’ve never heard of. One false move and the
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Remembering and Re-imagining Coney Island: A Personal Memoir
Coney Island, 1910s, as it looked in my great-grandparent’s time. Photo from Library of Congress. A few weeks ago,
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Chopin’s First House in Paris on Boulevard Poissonnière
Frédéric Chopin was of both French and Polish background but grew up in Warsaw. After the 1830 November Uprising in
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Le Carreau du Temple – archeological dig in the heart of Paris
We would like to announce a new exciting partnership with Feels Like Home In Paris, a website for great vacation
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Passage Jouffroy
There are a number of passages in the Grand Boulevard neighborhood and the fun part is that they all seem
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Brazenhead Books: A Secret Speakeasy Bookstore on Manhattan’s Upper East Side
A brazen head is said to be a head cast in bronze or brass capable of answering any question. For
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2nd Avenue Subway Sinatra Singer
We heard about this from Untapped reader mariejoelle and think it’s quintessentially New York. The sign behind him says,
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The Sunken Bronx Barge
On the eastern side of the Shore Haven section of the Bronx, most of the waterfront is parkland. However, between
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Airport Gothic
This is the airport. Feel it: Slick, breezy, international; a place that wakes you up, gets the blood pumping. A
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Paterson’s Great Falls
Niagara may get most of the attention, but when it comes to New York-area waterfalls, it’s not alone. About