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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Shakespeare & Co. in Paris–Not Your Average Bookstore
Along the Seine, a stones throw away from Notre Dame lies one of the oldest and most humble English book
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The Original Swing Street in Harlem
David Freeland is the author of Automats, Taxi Dances, and Vaudeville: Excavating Manhattan’s Lost Places of Leisure, a must
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The Crabby Cabbie: NYers Report on Tipping Etiquette
To me, New York cab drivers have become increasingly crabby over the last few years. It began with the installation
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The Fox Theatre, Detroit
Update: The Theatre was featured last night in the Eminem/Chrysler Superbowl Ad. The Fox Theatre was financed by film
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Untapped Paris ♥ Dead Drops
Last Sunday, we decided to go to the very first Dead Drop in Paris. For those unfamiliar with the Dead
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A Proposal in the New York Botanical Gardens
Tom knew that I liked flowers. And he figured that the New York Botanical Gardens would have flowers. So on
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The New Philippe Starck Hotel in Paris: Le Royal Monceau-Raffles
“I never make architecture for architecture. I am not interested in stone, aluminium, glass, and concrete. I am interested in
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Attack of the Chain Gang: Forget Wal-Mart, New York Is Chain-Ridden Already
The January 11th storm that wasn’t postponed some highly anticipated local political theater: The New York City Council’s
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A Tour Inside the Eldridge Street Synagogue in NYC
The New York Times has Eldridge Street Synagogue as “gasp-inducing,” and after visiting, we have to agree. The synagogue contains
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The Paradox of Geolocation: The Jeu de Paume in Paris Tracks Mr. Potato
Artists tasked to develop the virtual space of the Jeu de Paume, a museum of contemporary art in Paris, have
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IN PHOTOS: The Staten Island Boat Graveyard
Perhaps you’ve heard of an elephant graveyard, but what about a boat graveyard? Does such a thing exist? Turns
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Find the Great Outdoors Without Leaving Manhattan: Fort Tryon Park & Inwood Park
Manhattan is a bigger island than people think when they’re compressed like sardines in subway cars or on midtown