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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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Abandoned Six Flags New Orleans Amusement Park
A theme park called Jazzland opened in New Orleans East in 2000, filling an “empty hole” in the city that
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The 2011 New Years Day Polar Bear Swim, as told by a swimmer
It was amazing. I woke up still a bit drunk of course from New Years Eve. To tell you the
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Forget Delta SkyLounge! iPads Arrive at JFK Airport
Delta Terminal 2 at JFK just got a badly needed makeover. A cafe called Croque Madame has wallpapered the walls
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The Last Days of the Lincoln Center Barnes & Noble [Photos]
A couple days before New Years, I went to say my goodbye to the Barnes & Noble at Lincoln Center,
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Snowstorm in Central Park!
It was a winter wonderland yesterday in Central Park during the snowstorm (and lightning! did anybody else catch that?). Untapped
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The MTA Holiday Nostalgia Train
On December 19th, Untapped correspondent and Columbia University urban planning student Alex Wallach went to check out the MTA Nostalgia
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First Snowboard Ride Down Montmartre in Paris
Snow may have “paralyzed” Paris in a “catastrophe” (CNN’s words, not mine) yesterday, but some lightheartedly took to the
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The Architecture of the Rodin Museum
Like a stereotypical architecture person, I visited the Rodin Museum in 2008 and remembered nothing except how beautiful the building
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My Time Inside the Rikers Island Prison
Over the past six weeks, I have been teaching the Bill of Rights to 16-18 year old incarcerated juveniles in
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Save these 170-Year Old East Village Townhouses from the Wrecking Ball
At stake in the East Village are two buildings with remarkably intact Greek Revival architectural details. But perhaps even more
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Inside Gracie Mansion, Home of New York City’s Mayors
Political activist and lawyer Janos Marton documents his movements through his upliftingly-named website, LivingtheDream.org. As a long-standing friend of
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The Arcades of Paris: The Passage du Grand Cerf
Another one of my favorite Parisian passages is the Passage du Grand Cerf in the 2nd arrondisement, mostly because of