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✉️ 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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Progress on the New Fulton Street Transit Center
From the always discerning eye of Ink Lake, we have some photographs of the progress inside the new Fulton Street
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The Windows that Saved a Building: Henri Bendel on 5th Avenue
Rene Jules Lalique was a renowned French glass designer in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He is best
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Budapest’s House of Terror: A Testament to the Hungarian Spirit
Andrássy Út 60. In 1944, this Neo-Renaissance corner address along one of Budapest’s main thoroughfares became the headquarters of
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Vertical Urban Factories at the Skyscraper Museum
If modernism is often defined by means of mass-production, then the archetype of modern architecture is the factory. Not usually
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What do Anthony Weiner, Spiderman and the King of Queens have in common?
A strange thing about all the Anthony Weiner mishigas, is seeing so much of Forest Hills in the news. Here
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Point Ephémère, Canal Saint-Martin
So if you’re asking yourself where do all the cool kids hang out in Paris, away from all the
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Rosa Bonheur Bar, Parc des Buttes-Chaumont
First of all, this park is straight out of a painting in the English Romantic Period melded with the grand
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The New York City that Never Was: Part II Bridges
A turn of the century postcard depicting the benefits bridges could provide to the city and within the fabric Part
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Giant Cupcake goes to Socrates Sculpture Park
Socrates Sculpture Park in Long Island City, Queens is the only park in New York dedicated to sculpture–specifically large-scale
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Guerrilla String Art on an Abandoned Bridge in Northeast Paris
Mary-Jane Lee and her husband took a tour of northeastern Paris earlier this year. They climbed up onto abandoned train
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E-Waste Special Report: Rechargeable Battery Law Goes into Effect
Today, a New York State law goes into fact mandating all retailers to take back up to ten rechargeable batteries
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Sequence Art: Joe Zucker’s Glass Panels at the Huntington LIRR Train Station
The 130-foot sequence of glass panels at the Huntington Long Island Railroad station by Joe Zucker does exactly what it